Naruto smiled throughout the rest of his classes. He had to. It was the only thing that was stopping the tears that he knew were building up behind his eyes from falling. He couldn't let them know how much their words affected him. If they knew then they would continue to say horrible things about his mother. He hated when they said things like that when they didn't know anything about his mother. They didn't know that she was dead. The only thing that they knew was that they had never seen her before. They didn't know her so they couldn't know any better, but he still didn't want them talking about her like that. Hopefully they would forget about it and move on to some other topic to make fun of him about soon.


With the smile still intact, Naruto ran straight for the bleachers after school. He didn't want to have to deal with anyone and, even without Sasuke practicing out on the football field, the bleachers were his safe haven. No one ever looked down there for him. Probably because they were all afraid of all the bugs that made their home under the bleachers. Naruto didn't mind them. As long as the bugs didn't touch him, which they generally didn't because he made sure to stay away from any of their homes, they didn't bother him. There were plenty of bugs that made residence in his run-down home after all.

Today was another practice day for Sasuke. The actual games were about to start so pretty much every day was. Naruto took a seat in one of the less crowded areas of the bleachers. Apparently a lot of girls had heard about what had happened the day before and they wanted to be the one that Sasuke was in love with so they came to sit in the bleachers where his supposed lover was and they all just so happened to want to sit in the first rows so that Naruto couldn't see. Naruto didn't even get a good look at the benches, let alone the actual field, but he remained where he was just in case he could see Sasuke.

Naruto closed his eyes and listened to Sasuke's voice rise above everyone nearby so that his team members could hear him. Naruto didn't understand a word of it, which he supposed was good because the defense isn't supposed to know what the offense is saying, but he liked to hear Sasuke's voice. It was smooth and, even though he spent a lot of time yelling, it seemed to be completely undamaged by any sort of risen voice. Naruto loved to listen to Sasuke as though it were his favorite song.

A ten-minute break was called and Naruto opened his eyes to hopefully catch a glimpse of Sasuke near the benches. At first he had no luck, but, as Sasuke scanned the crowd for his special someone, Naruto thought there eyes met. For a moment Naruto thought that Sasuke's eyes looked somewhat worried, but there was no way that was possible. Sasuke was the first to look away because Kiba came up to him.

"Is your perfect girl here?" Kiba asked as he ran up next to Sasuke to scan the crowd as well. Naruto retreated slightly into the bleachers so that he wouldn't be seen. There was no way anyone could see him from the benches, but he would rather be safe then sorry. He didn't want Sasuke to find out that he had been spying on him from under the bleachers. He would think Naruto was a complete freak that was stalking him.

"That's none of your business," Sasuke growled.

"That means yes," Kiba responded. "Come on man. Tell me who it is."

"No," Sasuke growled.

"Then I will just have to start guessing. Does she have black hair?"

"No," Sasuke rubbed his forehead to try to get the stress that was taking over his body from the last few days to subside.

"What about red hair?" Kiba asked.

"No."

"Brown?"

"No."

"Blonde?"

"Just shut up Kiba," Sasuke hissed.

"Sasuke's mystery woman has blonde hair," Kiba yelled to the audience resting on the bleachers. Many girls hissed and some bragged about their blonde locks. It got so bad that some of the girls began to try to take the blonde hair from the others and Naruto was forced to retreat away from the bleachers again.