…Okii…Thankies and begging for forgiveness at the end…
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (if I did…Sasuke would've been dead by now after these past few chapters)
It was the start of the day, what time was it though? The blonde still lye in bed, seeing light flow from his slightly open door, disturbing him to bits. He wanted to escape back to dreamland but instead focused his attention to the hallway, still in the same position he first awoke in. The words were all a blur to me until he heard his dad enter the room, letting more light shine on his supposed sleeping figure.
"Goodbye, Naruto." He said, about to depart for his flight.
"Bye Bye, Daddy. I love you." Naruto stated, realizing that he still actually was in his dreams, only his body was feeling the outside.
"I love you too." He left the room, door still slightly open, making the Uzumaki feel exposed, anxiety pushing to escape his skin, causing goose bumps to form on what little skin he had revealed.
He fell into another sleep, dreaming about a Disney Appreciation Club meeting being held at his house. There was a guy he hated with all his heart there, only the year previous had he tortured him at the dance by trying to get the teen to dance with him by sticking his butt in the blonde's face and humping the air.
Disgusting.
But he (literally) kicked his ass and only after repeating the process a few times did he get the message and finally started to leave, going to try to get lucky with some other poor person. Anyways, He apologized to Naruto for being stupid and said that he wanted to try to be nicer and he actually started to as well.
Naruto woke up into the previous dream. His parents were still downstairs. He wondered: 'What are they still doing here?' Only to hear the door slam shut.
Now they were really gone.
Naruto found himself regretting not hugging his dad. He was to be gone a week for business in Des Moines, Iowa. Or at least, that's what they told him, they hadn't mentioned that he'd never see them again. No, they let that news come to him years later from the murderer himself.
Now he finally woke, turning towards the clock, it read 4:50. 'I should get up and do my homework.' But there he still lye, too lazy to do anything. The darkness of sleep consumed his mind. No dream this time, just darkness.
Naruto finally did start his joining with the living as Oro-sama called his name. After years of punishment and just entering high school this year, he had started to become less of a heavy sleeper.
"Wake up, Naruto." In unison, both the blonde and the Snake resembling man looked at the digital clock, the only digital one out of the many in his room. It read 6:05. "I have to be at school by 6:30." He warned and turned out of the room, straight to the bathroom to dry and straighten his hair. The blonde installed a new rule in his head: Go to the bathroom before waking me up! Of course he would never state this new rule to Orochimaru, or even try to apply it to any situation but as long as he thought it true, he'd feel fine.
Naruto reached up to his tall lamp beside his bed and flipped it two times until the light turned on, flinching as the room filled with light. "Since when has this lamp been so bright?" He pondered aloud. It normally only filled the room with a dim glow of white, not this much.
Reaching over his bed to the huge pile of clean clothes on the floor, switching through two, no, three different outfits before finally deciding on a white tank with a gray jacket and jeans, he got up. He went into the (finally) un-occupied bathroom and, well, did his business and washed his hands, doing normal bathroom stuff.
A warning from Orochimaru.
Walking out now in his contacts, the right one bothering him as it wouldn't stick and he fiddled with it about two minutes until it finally became comfortable in his eye. Another warning of how Oro-sama would leave without him and that he would be here all day with extra punishment. As good as that sounded (except for the punishment part), he didn't want to make him angry and changed his shirt one last time to a long, green shirt with a huge (kinda army looking with the style) vest/hoodie thingy.
"Leaving! Hurry up!" The door slammed, signifying that he left to go start the car.
"Oro-sama!" Naruto whined and yelled in frustration he grabbed his book bag and art project (which he got some ideas for), ran downstairs, put on his Mickey Mouse crocs, and ran outside into the 6 degree weather. Running through the 8 inch tall snow, his feet automatically began to freeze as he traveled to the end of the driveway. This was not March weather!
Climbing in, he greeted Orochimaru with an apologetic grin and a hand rubbing his neck. The science teacher scolded him as they drove, smirking at Naruto's girly pout when he looked over.
They soon arrived at school. Naruto bowed, thanked him, and breathed in the fresher, brighter air, walking with his "master" until they reached the cafeteria where the foxish boy asked to go hang out with his new friends. With his permission,
His stomach started to grumble off of lack of food and he informed the group that he was going to get breakfast. They agreed to let him eat and he and Sai, who gratefully imposed himself to go along, walked across the room to the cafeteria where he got a chocolate, chocolate chip muffin with chocolate milk.
"I really can't see how you're so skinny if you eat these kinds of things." Sai noted as they returned, Sakura giving Naruto a random hug.
Sai joined the conversation of the rest of group of friends and Hinata walked over to Naruto with a little craft basket and a cute little ducky, informing him that she was to give it to Tenten. No sooner than that came about did said Tenten enter and Hinata ran to give her the gift.
He walked to Ino and Sakura, intending to talk but instead started to do his homework that was due third period, starting to write a poem in Shakespearean form of ABABCDCDEFEFGG adding his own little HIHI thing at the end. The bell rang and Sai, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Kiba all waited for him.
"Hey Naruto what were you writing about?" Sai asked, intending to bring up intelligent conversation to gauge his level but automatically got interrupted by Kiba who stole the notebook away.
"'Love is…
Happy Tears
Joyful Sorrow
Glass Mirrors
Yesterday's Tomorrow
Odysseus' truth
Akiles' heel
A photo booth
An undercooked meal
Alcoholic wine
An understanding confusion
A skinny swine
The same evolution
A Piercing needle jabbing like a pen
And an un-beating heart striving to mend
A Loving lust
A brilliant betrayal
All just a big bust
Love is a sail…'
AWW NARUTO THAT WAS SO CUTE!" Sakura yelled and started squeezing the boy with her deathening grip.
"Oi, Noob! You tryin' to steal my girl!?" Kiba started giving him a noogie.
"Itai, Itai!"
-50 minutes later-
Oh yes, it was to be a hilarious day, Naruto found, recalling all that happened in the class previous. Even though it was Spanish, the main topics consisted of if Barbie was to skinny, thus being a bad influence, a girl's Elvis outfit, killing people who hated/ peed on manatees (and whether a manatee was a cow of the sea or an elephant of the sea), and how the teacher was beat up by someone who thought she was Bionic Woman in first grade. Apparently because she thought he was picking on her friend.
Friends…Only a month ago did he first start here and now he'd made friends with the whole popular group and gothic group, although he had to meet the Goths in secret, although he wished he didn't. But even so they were everywhere, making his days seemingly better and better and that, he loved.
"Sakura-chan!" The blonde yelled out at her and started laughing about the funnies that happened in first period with the Kiba and Sai as Shikamaru just stated about how the whole thing was troublesome.
Naruto and Sai barely made it to the classroom and in their seats before the bell rang, and then all the stressed was washed away by seeing Tenten's beaming expression as she continued on with her project.
As he was starting to draw another optical illusion (he couldn't think of anything to do for his word), Sai interrupted with a question.
"Naruto-kun, can I have your poem you wrote earlier for inspiration for my project?"
"Of course, Sai!" Said Naruto started rummaging through his already disorganized bag, pulling out the somewhat crumpled paper.
"You should laminate this or something… Do you want me to do it for you?"
"REALLY!?" The blonde's golden skin lit up and he was radiating happiness across the room to where the "Goth triplets" and Sasuke were sitting.
"He seems to be hyper today, wonder if he got some pills," Kankuro joked and turned towards the small group.
"Nah, it seems as if he's just always an optimistic little twerp," Temari disagreed.
'Am I the only one who can see it?' Sasuke found himself wondering. 'That he isn't all what he's displaying?' He saw the boy stand and start to head out the door after talking to Deidara.
He got up.
Naruto walked into the bathroom and entered a stall, he hated going in urinals, they made him feel as if he was displaying himself for anyone to have a look. Tears started to form in his crystal eyes and he automatically started wiping them away.
'Oro-kisama! Why does he do this to me! Kuso!' He felt sick. 'My face is probably all red, and my eyes…my fuckin' pleading eyes!' he couldn't wipe them away fast enough and one escaped down his cheek. He knew he was being a dumb ass and wasn't denying it. Grabbing some toilet paper, he grabbed some more until his eyes burned from accidentally wiping the whites of his eyes against the paper.
Footsteps.
Someone else was in the bathroom with him, and he, quite actually being very shy of people, sat motionless in the stall, feet lifted off the ground even though he knew the person was aware of my presence in the stall. After the sound of rushing fluids stopped at the urinal, the person washed his hands and appeared to have walked out, so Naruto (being the gullible person he was), flushed the toilet and peeked his head out, noticing that the guy was still there at the mirror, but wasn't able to see who it was.
'Kuso! No use fighting it now, covers blown and I look like an idiot!' He thought as he tried to casually walk to the sinks and started washing his hands, looking into the mirrors. His face was red, eyes still watery and pleading and he felt so afraid that the guy who was fixing himself in the mirror would notice him.
But it's only the real tragedies that don't come true when visioned and he couldn't vision this at all since he hadn't even seen who the guy was.
The blonde splashed water on his face. 'As if that's not obvious enough you blockhead!' he yelled at himself, taking a paper towel, wiping the water off of his face, and throwing it away.
As he started to walk out, he suddenly felt arms spread evenly across his body, one traveling across his belly, clutching onto his hip and the other around his mouth.
A whisper in his ear. "An angel such as yourself should not be toiling his life away crying over little things. What happened?"
Naruto looked down, not caring to, not even able to at this time; explain things to the stranger who was holding him hostage. The blonde flipped in his grasp but the other's hand movements were too quick, one shielding his eyes, the other covering his mouth as he pinned the "angel" to the sink.
"Angel, why do you believe we're so ignorant to this all? I hate you for that you know…" He spoke in a hushed but normal voice.
The blonde didn't wish to be bothered by this guy and his confusing ass questions in which he didn't even know whether they were actually directed at him or not.
"Just let me go back to class..." Naruto muffled through his hand. "I won't look at who you are, I swear." The stranger had already uncovered Naruto's mouth and now clamped onto his wrist.
"You're way too easy of a victim dobe." A fist lightly tapped the top of his head. He could now clearly recognize the voice that owned to his friend. "If I was some rapist you'd be fucked, literally."
Naruto just looked away from the raven, wondering if Sasuke could ever know how true that was. "I knew it was you all along Teme! Don't flatter yourself!" He pushed Sasuke away from his body and turned around with his tongue sticking out as he always did since the first day he attended. "Hope you liked the show!" They exited into the hallway and started back towards class.
Silence.
"So Naru-chan…" A complaint was heard from behind the Uchiha about not being a girl. He continued. "Winter Formal's coming soon. Be my date." He heard the other's footsteps stop and he (slowly) stopped as well, turning around to see the shocked boy's face. Again with that emotion on the boy's face he couldn't place. "Naru-chan?"
Naruto woke from his little trance and grinned. "Well I wasn't planning on going but I'll ask Oro-sensei if I can go or not." He walked up beside Sasuke. 'Good Excuse! You've been getting better at them Naruto!'
"Hn, What ever dobe."
"…Uh…but um, Sasuke…when you said date?"
"I meant as friends…" A smirk. "Don't flatter yourself."
Thank you's to all the fanfic's I've read recently that lowered the amount of un-read stories from 98 to 21 unread (all in a day too!)
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