Okay okay, same excuse as always. I'm kinda super busy so I'm sorry! I'll get up irregualr updates. AT LEAST I TRY! TT ^ TT
Needless to say Sasuke and I were NOT getting along well after that night. He yelled at me a few times because his parents questioned him about the fangirl situation. My parents had pulled me aside away from Tyler and spoke to me about 'The youngest Uchiha'. Apparently they wanted me on his good side because it would make my fathers' job easier. I didn't say no, but I wasn't thrilled about it. Neither was Naruto. I had to blow him off a few times for more 'dinners' with the Uchihas. I sat in math class with Naruto next to me. We were exchanging notes in our textbooks. Write. Giggle. Erase. Write. Scoff. Erase. It went on similar to that for a good ten minutes before Naruto just stared at his book. He looked to me and awkwardly smiled, before turning to write again.
'Theres a dance Friday. Can you go? Please? For me? With, me?' I was a bit surprised, but I wouldn't miss our first dance as a REAL item. We had gone to hang out with each other and others, but it kind of stank that we couldn't slow dance because we never actually had a date. I hadn't danced with Naruto before, but I imagined it would be magic.
'ABSOLOUTELY! I wouldn't miss it for the WORLD!' Naruto smiled after reading that. I quickly erased it and looked up to check that I wasn't being watched. I scribbled something else down. Naruto scribbled something down at the same time.
'luv you!'
'Luv You!'
I had Phys. Ed. And normally it wouldn't be so bad. Although, it just happened to show up that I had Mr. Popular in my class. We had been really competitive toward each other since the incident and he won some, I won others. I smirked as I laced up my cleats, today, we had my forte, soccer. I walked up, dressed up in my cleats, shin guards and socks. There was no way I would let him trample me in this. We were captains and I picked out my team, he picked out his. We were lined up and both of us were center forwards. Guy Sensei came out and stood between us.
"Alright, now I want a nice, clean, youthful, match."
"Good luck," Sasuke glared right through me. "With Jay around, things are never clean." There was a chorus of "OH!"s and "O-wch!".
"I feel bad for all your fangirls. They don't know about your potty mouth. That's enough smack talk Uchiha, and you'll be eating it when you lose." I just turned on my heel and walked back to my position. The match started, and most of it was played on the center line. We would occasionally break into their half, they would occasionally break into ours. No one scored, and Sasuke and I were only overly aggressive toward each other. We fought hard and almost scored, but it was useless. It started to rain, but I was far too involved in the match to notice. Sasuke and I both pulled the same thing. We ran back to help on our defense. There was a clap of thunder, and most of the girls ran off the field shrieking. The guys followed covering their faces to see in the quickly blinding rain. Sasuke and I just stood on the field and glared at each other. I start to run and Sasuke starts to run as well. We reach the center line and grab each other by the collar.
"THIS ISN'T OVER!"
"THIS ISN'T OVER!" I let go and so does he. I glare, he glares back. The prince of ice walks past me and I walk past him. I wasn't about to take his disrespect. I would dry off and the real war would commence. Sasuke was in for it, that much I knew. I just had to find out how.
The days passed by quickly and before I knew, it was Friday night. I stood in front of the full length mirror, examining my white dress. I sigh in contentment and do a quick spin around. It was a formal dance, with meant only couples. Which meant Sasuke likely wouldn't be there. I walked back to the bed and sat on it a second before flopping back and groaning. I was nervous. Tyler opens the door just a crack and pears in seeing his baby sis so frustrated, walks in and sits next to me.
"You going or not?" I sit up and look at him.
"Yeah, I'm just a bit, butterfly-ish."
"Should we take the raven?" Tyler addresses his black car as the raven and jingles the keys in front of my face. His smile grows on his face until it's almost creepy looking.
"Knock it off, you dork." I shove him slightly and smile a little too.
"Hey, you're MY dork." He stands up and holds out a hand for me. "Come on." I take his hand and the two of us climb into the car to drive down to the school. I step out of the car and wave as Tyler speeds off. With a final sigh a begin up to the doors. Leaning against the bricks is a familiar blonde with dress pants, a tie and a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. He keeps his head down, but as I walk closer, he looks up a little, but not enough to let his bangs fall out of their place over his left eye.
"Hi Jay, I was wondering when you'd get here."
"Hey. Why are keeping your head down?"
"N-No reason." He looks away and I reach up to brush the hair away and watch him wince as I move over the lower part of his eye. It's a deep purple and I gasp as he just stands there.
"What, happened?"
"I ran into some guys from Suna, and they roughed me up. It's nothing, alright. I didn't start it, they were looking for trouble." Naruto starts to sound defensive and all I can't stop sighing.
"Come on." I grab his wrist and walk inside, looking for any friends who may have something to cover up the bruise. I notice Sakura and stand Naruto by the bathrooms. "Sakura!" She turns around and looks right at me.
"Jay! I have the BEST news!"
"Can it wait? I need to know if you have any concealer."
"Ah, finally deciding to use a bit of makeup are we? You don't really need it Jay, you're complexion is fine looking."
"Do you or don't you have any?"
"I do, but I'll only give it to you if you promise to come back so I can tell you the best thing ever."
"Deal." Sakura walks over to her small purse laying on a table in a corner and hands me the tiny bottle. I thank her and leave to find Naruto.
"Why did you have me stand here?"
"Just come on." I grab his wrist and pull him into the boys bathroom and lock the door so no one would walk in. I knew it would be a bad idea for someone who seriously had to go, but it was only for a few seconds and there was another bathroom around the corner. I carefully work to hide the bruise without pressing too hard and within about thirty seconds I finish. It isn't very obvious even in this bright light, so it should be fine in the dimly lit cafeteria. I walk back out to hand the concealer to Sakura, who looks at the two of us as if it's the cutest thing ever.
"You two are so good together."
"I thought you didn't like Naruto like that."
"I don't. He's not my type, but he's perfect for you."
"So what was this big news?"
"Oh yeah! He asked ME!"
"Who?"
"Sasuke of course! Ino was so jealous. I started talking about the dance yesterday and mentioned all the friends I knew were going and this afternoon he asked me to go with him! I immediately said yes, of course!"
"He what..?" I probably would have acted a bit more enthused if it hadn't been for the fact that he probably heard I was going to be here, so he thought it'd be a good chance to get some revenge.
"Well, you don't have to sound so excited." Sasuke walks up behind me and I immediately jump to the right into Naruto who just stood a little stunned. Sasuke gave both Naruto and I a playful glare and took Sakura, who was practically melting, onto the dance floor. I let out a sigh of relief and Naruto grabs my hand to start walking toward the dance floor too.
Well, I had definitely learned one thing. Naruto wasn't good at dancing, but he wasn't terrible. The two of us were walking back to his house and just chatting. His mother answered the door and after letting Naruto inside, she smiles to me.
"Mrs. Uzumaki…" I stare at my feet and she turns back to me.
"Yes, Jay?"
"Wash your sons face. It was, uh, really warm in the cafeteria and he'll probably forget." I give a little smile and walk down to walk back to my house.
Within a week, Naruto's black eye had healed and his parents had almost gotten over the fact that he got into a scuffle. The two of us were walking down the halls to our lockers. I had P.E. again and I had been hearing all about 'the wolf princess' all day. I simply grabbed my things and walked off giving Naruto a one armed hug. We were having another soccer match because the last one was interrupted. Once I was ready I walked out and stood amongst a group of chattering girls who paid me no mind.
"Did you hear about her!"
"I heard her parents abandoned her in the woods for a week and a pack of wolves took care of her."
"That's ridiculous, it was definitely longer than a week."
"I haven't even caught her name!"
"It's like, Lunar, or something."
"Does anyone know what period she has right now?"
"No, but I feel bad for the people in it." It was about that time that a few gasps were heard and all talking stopped. I couldn't see what happened, but I heard light footsteps. The group of girls dispersed and a girl slightly smaller than me with shoulder length black hair and an evident smirk playing on her features walked over and leaned on the wall beside me.
"This should be fun." She was clad in shin guards and cleats as well and I wondered what was so intimidating about her.
"Alright youthful students, we'll be having another soccer match today. Captains will be Jay, and our new addition, Luna." The girl next to me stood straight and walked forward, I couldn't help but follow her.
"James, my team." She called the name cool like, and her facial expression read that she wanted to get this over with. We each called names, but the one name I was shocked didn't come up, was Sasuke's. "Shikamaru."
"Sasuke." I growled, neither of us had called his name, and he ended up on my team anyway. I couldn't help but look over to Luna, and I could have sworn she wore an entertained smirk.
"Looks like you two haters have to work together." She maliciously smiled and walked off. I sighed and looked to Sasuke, whose expression immediately changed into one of disgust.
Our team was getting creamed. Either Luna was scoring goals or she was protecting the midfield. Almost like a, wolf, guarding its territory. The match was mainly on our half, but sometimes on the circle. Occasionally Luna would call out snide remarks to Sasuke and me, or yell to her team about where they should be. Sasuke and I worked together (believe it or not) and mostly resisted urges to yell, trip or shove each other. Surprisingly, I found Sasuke's anger hilarious.
Once the game was over, the score was seven to one. Luna cornered Sasuke and I and smiled, almost congenially.
"That was awesome!" She replied in a singsong voice. She held her hand up for a high five. "But, it would have been better if we were on the same team." She turned to Sasuke. "we have next period together, wanna walk with me?"
"sure…" Sasuke replied carefully, not exactly sure.
"Sweet! But, no fangirls, I'll only tear them apart." She grinned and walked away to the locker rooms where Sasuke's fangirls were likely changing fast hoping to catch him on his way to the next class.
"Strange girl, huh Sasuke?" I have a rather blank expression as I think about what had just happened.
"Yeah…" He had a distant look on his face, like he was thinking hard. Plotting. Then he shook his head and looked at me. "Why am I talking to you?" He glared at me once again, and I simply shrugged.
"'Cause you secretly enjoy my company." He glares and stalks off to the locker room. I had never seen him so ticked.
I simply walked to the locker room and was removing my cleats when Luna walks over and sits at the end of the bench. I glance over and give a smile to acknowledge her presence, but went back to my cleats.
"That was entertaining."
"I'll say," I looked up to her and leaned back on my arm on the bench. "Did you see Uchiha's face?"
"Priceless, no doubt." She smiled slightly and rolled her eyes. I laughed a little.
"He was red as a tomato!"
"I saw! You're not upset you lost?"
"Nuh-uh, seeing Sasuke all flustered and upset was more than enough to make up for it." I shove all my things into my bag and run my fingers through my hair.
"It was pretty funny, wasn't it? What is it between the two of you?"
"There was a dinner between my family and his, and I may or may not have exposed that he was popular with the girls to his parents."
"Oh, that was pretty cruel. I like it." Luna's smile suddenly made me trust her. It was apparent we'd become good friends.
