Heyz everyone :) Chapter 2 is here and ready to read! Enjoy! I listened to two albums while writing this: the Across the Universe Soundtrack and Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. Yea lol I like all kinds of music. And for the very end of the chapter, I had Dirt Off Your Shoulders (Bittersweet Symphony Remix) on repeat. If you find any mistakes like grammatical errors, please let me know.
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CHAPTER TWO:
Scarface, Tayuya, and Ganja
In all honesty, I wish I was psychic. You see, that way I'd be able to tell whether Sasuke likes me or not. I've got this theory, see. I think he only tolerates me because I know his secret. He knows that if he isn't nice to me, there's a good chance I could get him put in jail. I could talk, I could tell the Resident Director. Actually I'm being overdramatic… or am I? But even that doesn't explain the last two hugs.
Well call me crazy, but actually, I am. While he hugged me he rubbed my back… possibly the best feeling in the world and I must confess, feeling him do it made me want to purr. I'd be his sex kitten, I really would. Well that was a bit much and I wish I could recant that statement, but I should be honest with myself, shouldn't I? I'd give him my virginity.
Anyways, the whole him rubbing my back thing? A-freaking-mazing! It makes me feel special, like I belong to him. But I know it's not true. But at the same time, I ask myself: Why does he do it? He holds me longer than I expect to… and then he rubs my back. I can't figure out why he does it and it bothers me. So I've been coming up with theories instead of working on my research project. I'm a fucking mess. Actually I'm done with theories… I've picked up Shika's habit of daydreaming…
It was the end of September and Naruto was proud of himself. He had assimilated into college life quite easily. He had never missed a class (or an appointment with his advisor again) and he always handed his work in on time. He had gotten care packages from Ero-sennin, Tsunade-baachan, and Iruka. And the blonde had made many good friends: Shikamaru, Kiba, Hinata, Ino, Kiba's roommate Choji, and of course, Sasuke. He knew other people from his classes and upperclassmen like Neji and Tenten, but he wasn't really good friends with them yet. And luckily, with help from Lee, Tenten, and Hinata, Kiba and Naruto managed to convince Neji to let Akamaru stay in the dorm.
The boy was sitting at his desk, staring at his laptop. He was debating with himself. He had been doing this a lot lately. He had an essay in Spanish due tomorrow… and he didn't understand the instructions because they were all written in Spanish. Shikamaru was rapidly typing away at his computer, munching on chips.
"This sucks!!" The blonde groaned loudly. He would've went up to Hinata's room, but the poor girl was buried under six tons of bio homework.
"Just go to Sasuke's room and ask him." Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"But I can't!" Naruto squealed and tugged on his spiky locks. A few days ago, Naruto had told Shikamaru about his crush on the raven-haired boy. Shikamaru surprisingly didn't care about Naruto's homosexuality. "Well… that explains a lot." Had been the boy's response. But at least the lazy teen was a good listener… or he pretended to listen while Naruto babbled on and on about Sasuke.
"Troublesome… it's in your best interests to seek help from someone in a higher level Spanish class." The brunette was annoyed... why did he have to think for the blonde?
"Well… when you put it that way…" Naruto grinned widely and stood up, holding a piece of paper. "I'm off! Thanks Shikamaru!!"
"No problem." Naruto's roommate snorted in disbelief as the boy dashed out of the door. "I never thought that when I wished for a guy to be gay, I'd be wishing it for someone else…" Because if Sasuke and Naruto got together, then the blonde would be spending more time in his room which would mean peace and quiet. Then the boy could sleep all day and not have to worry about Naruto reminding him to go to class or do his homework. It was troublesome, really.
Naruto ran up the stairs and down the hall, stopping at Sasuke's door. Can I do this? I can do this… The blonde stared at the numbers 263 and the numbers stared back at him. He could chicken out and just go next door to Hinata's room and she would gladly help him. But the door was slightly ajar, which meant he was inside.
Naruto gulped and slowly pushed the door open, leaning half his body in the room to see if anyone was inside. What he saw almost shocked him. Sasuke was standing in front of his desk… without a shirt on… looking right at him.
"Aaah! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The blonde blushed instantly. Oh my God he was getting undressed! I'm so stupid! Stupid! "I… I was just coming to visit."
"No, no, it's ok." Sasuke smiled. "Don't be sorry for visiting." The boy was wearing faded jeans that were low on his hips and Naruto almost started drooling. The blonde walked in and Sasuke sat down at his desk. There was an extra chair in the room near the wall and he happily took a seat. Naruto wasn't sure he'd be able to stand up any longer.
"Well… um actually, I needed some help with this." Naruto shoved the infamous sheet of paper at Sasuke. The dark-haired beauty took it and looked it over. "I don't know what all the words mean…"
"Well you're pretty much writing an autobiography. You have to write about where you were born, where you live, your family, your friends, the school you went to…" Sasuke trailed off as his dark eyes continued to read the paper.
"Can I have something to write with? Cuz I don't wanna forget what you said." Naruto asked timidly. I wonder who his roommate is… While Sasuke's side of the room was slightly messy, his roommate's side was immaculate. The bed was made and all of the boy's books had been neatly stacked on the floor. The only thing that seemed to be out of place was the ocarina lying on top of the boy's pillow.
"I'll do it." Sasuke took a pencil out of a drawer and began writing on the paper. Naruto took the time to really study Sasuke's side of the room. There was a poster on the wall above the foot of his bed of a gnome standing by a sparkling mushroom in a lush, green forest and a whiteboard on the wall next to his desk and it was covered in messy writing. "Okay, here you go." The boy handed it back to Naruto.
"Thanks!" The blonde grinned widely. Yes, now I can start it! Sasuke stood up and took a white poster out from behind his laundry basket.
"Where do you think I should put this?" Sasuke asked Naruto.
"Well… the wall by your bed is pretty bare. It should go in the middle of the wall." Naruto pointed to the approximate spot. Sasuke nodded and got up on top of his bed. He really needs to put a shirt on… Naruto bit his lip as he stared at Sasuke's back. I think I need to leave soon… He almost burst out laughing as he finally saw what was on the poster. It was a black and white picture of Scarface.
"How is it?" Sasuke turned back to look at Naruto.
"It's good." Naruto nodded his head, smiling. Sasuke jumped off his bed and sat down at his desk again. "Anyways, I gotta go work on this essay."
"Ok… good luck." Sasuke smirked and shook his head. Just as Naruto was about to open the door and leave, it burst open and two people burst in. The first was a skinny boy with pale, blonde hair and the second was a girl with long, red hair. The blonde boy sat down on the other bed in the room and the redhead sat down next to him.
"Sasuke's who's he?" The blonde boy, Sasuke's roommate looked at Naruto.
"Oh. Menma, this is Naruto." Sasuke smiled at Naruto. "Naruto, this is my roommate, Menma."
"Nice to meet you." Menma grinned widely at Naruto, his dark gray eyes sparkling.
"Hey! Aren't you fucking going to introduce me?" Naruto almost jumped at the angry tone in the redhead's voice.
"Oh… sorry. Naruto, this is Tayuya." Sasuke didn't seem too sorry.
"Yea and Menma's mine, so don't get any fucking ideas faggot!" Tayuya snapped out, glaring daggers at Naruto.
What the hell?!? Naruto blushed and found that he couldn't say anything in response. "Tayuya!" Sasuke and Menma shouted at the same time.
"What? I'm just letting him fucking know how things are gonna be!" Tayuya didn't seem to find anything wrong with what she had said.
"I'm really sorry, Naruto." Menma stood up, smiling sadly.
"Um yea… it's fine. I'm gonna go now." Naruto practically ran out of the room and straight next door into Hinata's room. The blue-haired girl whirled around in shock as Naruto tore into her room. She had been typing up her bio lab and then Hurricane Naruto had arrived. "HINATA!!" The blonde wailed and leapt onto her comfy bed.
"Naruto-kun, what's wrong?" Hinata stood up.
"I'm never going back there again. Never!" Naruto groaned loudly and proceeded to punch Hinata's big, fluffy pillow. "I'm so stupid! Stupid!"
"No, you're not." Hinata sat down next to Naruto. "What happened?"
"I… I don't know." Naruto sighed and rolled over so that he was lying on his back. "Do you know Menma?"
"Umm… yes I do. He plays the ocarina. He's nice." Hinata blinked her pale eyes.
"Well his girlfriend's a bitch!" Naruto screamed, not caring that she was in the next room. "I can't go back there! I can't! Not if she's gonna be there."
"Oh… you mean, Tayuya? Yeah… she's mean. She has an attitude problem." Hinata shook her head. "But don't let that keep you from Sasuke."
"Hinata, I CAN'T go back there." Naruto didn't think Hinata understood the gravity of the situation.
"Yes you can! You just have to make sure that she's not there when you go to see Sasuke." Hinata pointed out.
"And how did she know I was gay anyways? I've never met her before! I'll never be able to look at Sasuke the same way again. She's probably talking about me right now." Naruto was absolutely miserable. "And Sasuke's going to listen to her and then he won't like me at all…"
"Ok, fine. Next time you go to see him, I'll come with you." Hinata sighed.
"Really?" Naruto sat up and stared at the shy girl. "You'd do that for me?"
"Yes… I'll do it." Hinata smiled as Naruto's face lit up.
"Hinata, you're the best!" Naruto jumped off of her bed and did a little dance. Man… she hasn't stuttered at all yet. Wonder why? But the blonde knew better than to ask her. Hinata blushed brightly at Naruto's praise and turned away. "I promise whenever you need help with a guy, I'll be there!"
"T-thanks, Naruto-kun." Hinata gulped and stood up quickly.
Balls! I jinxed it… Naruto shook his head as the girl went back to her desk. "Where's Ino?"
"She's at the gym." Hinata replied easily. "She should be back soon."
"In that case, I'm going to take my leave." Naruto let out a laugh. "Naw, I'm just kidding. I'm gonna get my laptop and bring it up here and work on my essay."
"You can use the Bible if you want." Hinata leaned over to grab her notes.
"Haha yes!" Naruto shot a fist in the air and danced out of the door, his misery forgotten. (The "Bible" was what Naruto had christened Hinata's giganmous Spanish-English dictionary.) The blonde happily sauntered back downstairs to his room.
In all honesty, Tayuya doesn't scare me as much as she used to back then. She's still a bitch with an attitude problem and she still disrespects me, but I don't let it get to me. There was a time when I cared about what she thought of me, but now I don't care.
I remember… if I knew Tayuya was in their room, I wouldn't go in. I let her come in between Sasuke and me. But I couldn't help it, she unnerved me. But eventually, I got over my fear of the dragon. And clearly, if she ever did talk about me while I wasn't there, it didn't affect Sasuke's opinion of me. I used to daydream that if Sasuke and I went out, then we'd all hang out and be friends. I've given up on that long ago.
However, I've got enough problems on my plate and I can't please everyone so she'll just have to deal. I can see it in her brown eyes every time I walk into their room, always full of disgust. Well, at least I get along with Menma. I still don't understand what he sees in her, but you can't control who you love, no matter how vulgar they are. In my opinion, the only thing they have in common is their love of music. They do sound beautiful when they play together: Tayuya on her flute and Menma on his ocarina.
It's scary when I think back to the first half of my freshman year. Sasuke had such an impact on me. I remember when I had to see Pan's Labyrinth for the first time. What Sasuke said to me that day, it made me realize that he really wasn't an ordinary boy.
Naruto was storming around Hinata's room impatiently. A whole bunch of Spanish classes had to get together in the auditorium and watch Pan's Labyrinth. Now Naruto had heard of the movie, but he wasn't all that excited about it. Naruto and Hinata had to leave soon, because if they didn't, they wouldn't get good seats. And Naruto actually had to pay attention during the movie because Gai-sensei was making them write an essay on it.
Hinata was talking on her cell phone with her father and Naruto was ready to bang his head against the wall. He just wanted to get this all over with. The blonde rolled his eyes and walked out of her room and straight into Sasuke's room. Score! He's alone. Naruto observed. He didn't mind Menma, but being alone with Sasuke was always better.
"Hey." Sasuke turned to Naruto and smiled. "What's up?"
"Nothing… we have to go watch this movie for Spanish class. Pan's Labyrinth." Naruto sighed and plopped down into the extra chair.
"Oh really? That's a good movie." Sasuke remarked.
"Ugh… everyone's saying that!" The blonde groaned out loud.
"Well… you just have to go into it with an open mind." Sasuke said carefully and Naruto stared at Sasuke, his blue eyes widening as if seeing the boy for the first time.
"O-okay." Naruto found his voice again. "Oh crap we have to go watch it now!" The blonde jumped up, shouted his goodbyes over his shoulder, and ran out.
"There you are!" Hinata shook her head at Naruto, walking towards him. "We have to go." She grabbed onto his arm and proceeded to drag him down the hallway.
"Yeah… okay." Naruto smiled thoughtfully as he was tugged along. He was replaying Sasuke's words in his head, over and over again.
Now I still don't know why those certain words resonated with me, but they did. I guess I wasn't expecting something so insightful to come out of his mouth and he impressed me. He's been doing that lately, the whole impressing me thing. And I ended up loving that movie, Pan's Labyrinth. I'd see it again.
But the thing is, as much as I idolize Sasuke, he isn't perfect. He's got his secrets, too. And I'm proud to say he's trusted me to keep them. I've always been smart, I've always been a good guesser, and my instincts are better than anyone I know. I observe and I see things and no matter what others may think, I actually do pay attention to what's going on around me.
Not many people would want to deal with what Sasuke's into. Unfortunately, I've always been a flexible person. I say unfortunate because by the time I discovered it, it was too late. Nothing Sasuke does can bother me, I love him too much. I see straight past his actions and into his heart. And it should bother me, any other person would back away and leave. How much am I risking by being in his life? Other people have morals and standards and they live by them and follow them meticulously. But I'm not like other people. I'm tolerant and I don't judge… but I do fall in love.
Naruto happily knocked on Sasuke's door and sauntered in as Sasuke opened it. There were two unfamiliar boys in the room already. The blonde studied them closely. The first boy had short, black hair and an emotionless face. He looked slightly similar to Sasuke, but something was just off about him. The second boy had brown hair held up with a blue headband, causing his hair to rise in spikes and dark shades obscured his eyes. They were both sitting on Sasuke's bed watching TV, which left the familiar chair for Naruto.
"Hey. Naruto. This is Shino and this is Sai." Sasuke gestured to the other boys.
"Hi. Nice to meet you both." Naruto smiled lightly as he took his seat.
"Nice to meet you, Naruto." Shino replied politely.
"Mmm…" Sai turned away and returned his attention to the television.
"So, how was your weekend?" Sasuke looked at Naruto.
"Umm… it was pretty good. My friend Choji has a car so he took all of us out to eat at this really nice restaurant." Naruto licked his lips, thinking back to that delicious meal. "What about you?"
"Me? I had an okay weekend." Sasuke answered, but then frowned. "Actually, wait. It was going well, but then…"
"What happened?" Naruto cocked his head to one side.
"Someone stole something from me." Sasuke scowled darkly.
"Oh… I'm sorry." Naruto smiled sadly. "I hope you get it back."
"Yeah, like someone's gonna give a bag of-" Sai broke off at Shino cleared his throat. Naruto's eyes widened as his brain finished the sentence for him: weed.
And you know, we all just went on talking as if that part of the conversation had never happened. But I knew. And they knew I knew. They were probably worried back then that I would tell on them. But I was foolish, I wanted Sasuke to like me and I didn't want those drugs to stand in the way. So what did I do? I set out to show Sasuke that his drug usage didn't bother me in the least.
After hearing one of my classmates in Spanish talking about the show Weeds, I downloaded the first two seasons and watched them on my computer. Shika even watched some of them with me. I gave Sasuke a website Ero-sennin showed me so he could watch season 3 on his computer. The three of them absolutely love that show and now it's something we can mutually talk about. Not gonna lie, I enjoyed watching Weeds and I fully plan on watching the next season. Another day, I downloaded two songs on Sasuke's computer and played them for him: Addicted by Amy Winehouse and Because I got high by Weird Al Yankovic. He liked both of them; I still remember the way he laughed.
All the while asking myself, why did I have to fall for a pothead? Of all boys to fall for, why one that rejoices in seeing a tiny plastic bag full of ganja? All the while knowing that I can never make him that happy. And of course, it gets better. It always gets better…
That's it for now. If some of you were wondering why I put Menma in this fic, it's because last year when I watched episodes 213-215, I cried at the end. Needless to say, Menma impacted me just as much as he impacted Naruto and I thought he deserved a second chance. I hope you liked this chapter and the next one should be up next week!