Y'all good? I surely hope so! Here's the next instalment of awkward.
Part Four
Uchiha Sasuke, please report to the school counselor's office.
"Nice to meet you Sasuke! I'm Mitarashi Anko."
"Likewise." I replied staring at the ditzy looking woman in front of me, my words as far away from the truth as possible. The only reason I sat in the uncomfortable chair across the woman in first place, was because my parents threatened me by taking away both my phone and computer. If it were up to me, I would be as far away from the weird lady as possible.
"You wanna tell me why you're here or should I just cut to the point." The woman said, her eyes twinkling in what I could only comprehend as something purely sadistic. I felt like a criminal brought in for questioning under her apprehending eyes. In the past I had never took well on feeling cornered really. My mom would call me troublesome because it often landed me in fights. But I still don't like it.
I stared at her a long moment. Seriously, the woman was weird I didn't feel like talking to her at all. My mouth remained firmly pressed in to a thin line. A surprisingly short time passed before Anko eventually accepted my silence and continued talking, seemingly unfazed by my glare. "Not quite the talker then I take it." She leered seemingly excited by my defiance. "According to my files you had quite the 'accident' this summer Sasuke. You know, the-" She said and feigned to strangle herself, emitting a choking noise that she then chuckled at.
Anger arose within me as she dared to mock me and I was quick to correct her. Like hell I'd let her get away with it. "It was an accident."
Her eyes lit up in strange excitement and she winked at me. "Oh, of course it was! An accident." The way she smiled at me made it seem as if I had just let her in on a big secret and that only annoyed me more. Why would no one believe me?
"You know, I got a copy from your mom of the letter you received. It wasn't very nice, was it?"
"Not really." I grunted, intensifying my glare. "Confrontations rarely are."
"That's a nifty way of seeing things!" Anko chuckled.
Not that nifty to get stupid woman. "Hn"
"Very nifty." She repeated, showing off strange canine teeth in the process. "And how did the letter make you feel?"
"…" Of course it made me feel crappy but like hell I were about to tell her that. I didn't trust her at all.
"I see. It's that bad you don't even feel like talking about it. Sorry." She apologized and started scribbling down notes on a piece of paper.
"I didn't say that!" I objected, aggravated by her assumptions. She stopped the pen for a second and looked up from the paper, her brow creased.
"It's okay Sasuke, there's no need to be embarrassed but because of your outburst I need to check through your bag I don't want you leaving me and causing another 'accident'."
Once again I stared at her, bewildered by her idiocy. "Seriously?" I heard myself question as she pulled the bag from where I had hung it on the side of the chair.
"Sasuke, I do not kid, as you young people like to call it. It's only precautions." She said as if it were the most obvious reason in the world and then began emptying out my bag.
I watched her with little interest but when she pulled out my box of breath mints my eyes widened. "Those are just breath mints." I explained, already knowing she would assume it to be something else.
As predicted she scrutinized me under doubting eyes. "Are you really sure of that?" She opened the box and consumed one without even asking. She sucked on it long until her face adopted an almost disappointed look.
I smirked at her satisfied. As if I'd ever be stupid enough to bring drugs with me to my student councilor even if I did have them, of which I of course didn't. I knew drugs were bad.
"You have to understand what I'm trying to do here Sasuke." She said and put another two of my breath mints into her mouth. "I'm not here to be your enemy. I want just want you to have a happy school life. Let me tell you, when I was your age I got into some really deep shit and I could've really needed someone to talk to. And that's why I want to help you but for that to be possible you have to start sharing what's on your mind, okay?" She stuffed herself with three more pills but as fast as they entered they came right out. "Too many!" She made a sour face and spit them back into the small box and closed the lid putting them back in my bag.
I watched horrified, making a mental note to burn the box and its content as soon as I got out of her office.
"Do you have any questions at all?"
I had about hundreds of them but none of them were appropriate and at that point I just wanted out of there and so I stayed quiet.
"Okay. I'll see you next week, same time don't be late! And remember, staying alive is cool!"
It was official. My life was a total nightmare.
Xx
Walking through the school court, I was once again reminded of my current status in school. Some tried to hide their stares but most people were bashfully pointing my way, their laughs deafening. My stomach made a growling sound as if to encourage me to walk on. We had decided to eat outside today, since the weather was nice and the school offered a nice enough school court.
"We could eat in the dining hall if you'd like Sasuke. Since the weather's nice most people will probably eat outside…" Hinata whispered, her eyes constantly shifting worriedly between me and the ogling people. Like a curtain a scowl fell over my face. Sometimes Hinata's observing nature surprised me. That girl could see things no one else saw and she was very good at reading my expressions. I often find myself pondering why that is, but never come up with a good enough answer. Perhaps it was because she preferred to observe rather than to delta. But who knew really?
"It's fine." I told her and rolled my eyes. My time in junior high had thought me one thing; to ignore the nasty comments of others. And that's what I would do. It was understandable, right?
"That's the right spirit Sasuke!" Sakura cried out and hit my back encouragingly. I winced at the slight pain feeling my back tense. Hey, the woman possessed an incredible amount of strength, okay! It didn't make me any less of a man.
We found a spot on the grass and I pulled out my lunch bag. Today mom had made me club sammies. I was just about to take a bit out of one of them when I spotted Naruto across the yard. He stood leaning against a tree, looking like a cut out from some fashion magazine, talking to two girls. I felt a bit jealous watching them, as I still hadn't had a real conversation with him since camp. I had tried to confront him many times, but every time I came within a ten feet radius I would just lose all my confidence and freeze up like a total loser. It was very infuriating.
"Watch out Sasuke, you're drooling." I heard Sakura say, causing me to look away slightly embarrassed. Why the hell should I care about Naruto when he clearly didn't care about me.
"All right! Hey hey hey, listen up all students of Kings West High! Who's ready to rally?" The spirited voice made us all look the way where a small stage was set up and a guy stood with a mike screaming at the top of his lungs enthusiastically. I recognized him as being one of the school team's football players and rolled my eyes.
"Great my school spirit isn't exactly at the top right now." I mumbled, earning a soft chuckle from Sakura and Hinata.
"We're having our very first game today and there is no other way to get pumped up than with the wheel of pep! Now we need two guys and two girls. Do I see Temari raising her hand, Temari come on right up!"
"Looks like Temari's about to hit six stones though I wouldn't be surprised if it were seven stones." Sakura snorted next to me as we all watched the cheer squad leader get up on the small platform.
"Maybe she eats to fill a void." Hinata said her voice as timid as always.
"Please, the only void she has is the one in her personality. That fucking bitch is just fat." I replied, my eyes busy glaring at the source of my bullying in junior high.
"And who else but my best mate, Naruto get your ass up here! Does anyone else feel up to the challenge of school pep?"
"Hell I do." I grunted, having never cared about anything close to school spirit. But not a second later I felt my hand sway in the air. I looked at it bewildered and saw Sakura's hand clasped tightly around my wrist, forcing it into an upright position.
"HERE!" Sakura's voice echoed loudly over the crowd of people around us. "Pick us!"
Eyes wide in horrify I was pulled to my feet and dragged over to the stage, a hushed good luck coming from Hinata. It was so humiliating. Being this close to Naruto I knew I'd freeze up again!
"C'mon Sasuke, if everyone's gonna stare, they might as well do it when you stand on a stage. Who knows, maybe this will change people's minds about you!"
As much as it annoyed me, Sakura was right. Even if my wish was to just blend in my current status as 'That Guy' would never let me. Perhaps if I acted more like an average student people would start to forget? And suddenly my mind was set. I could play along… Just you watch.
"Hey it's Sasuke right?" The guy with the mike asked his face strangely close as he spoke.
"Un." I nodded.
"Okay Sasuke, spin that wheel!"
I couldn't help the sickening feeling as cheerful cries and clapping hands urged me on but I did as ordered and spun the wheel, my mouth twitching into a nervous smile while wishing for the moment to just end already.
"Okay guys we need to get pumped! We got an important game tonight and we all wanna win! Let's hear it for the football team!"
The wheel eventually came to a stop, the thin arrow landing on the category; sex change.
"Alright! Sex exchange! The instructions are as followed; the four will now team up into a team of two of which they will swap clothes and the team that gets dressed first, wins! Simple as that! Good luck contestants you may begin… NOW!"
Sakura pulled me behind already prepared dressing rooms and ordered me to undress as quick as possible. My pants came off easy but the shirt was trickier. From the sudden increase of cheers, I knew someone was already done from the opposite team and the knowledge made my heart pump faster. It definitely was a strange feeling and it felt ridicules to get so worked up by a mere pep rally but the challenge kept me going. My shirt eventually came off and I tossed it over to Sakura. I dressed as quick as I physically could with my left arm practically crippled and ran out the changing room as soon I was done.
I didn't care about the fact I was standing in front a large crowd of people dressed in a pink mini skirt and a tube top when the cheers once again increased by a double.
"And the winner is Sakura and Sasuke!"
Sakura raised our hands in the air and started calling out my name, the crowd adopting her way and then they all called my name. Perhaps, this kind of fame, wasn't so bad?
My gaze swayed over to Naruto and our eyes met. He, as the rest of the people, laughed and clapped his hands excitedly. Though I knew my heart shouldn't, it skipped a beat and I sent him a gentle smile. However as I did realization hit me. Hard. I was still just as madly in love with Naruto as ever.
Fucking hell…
Next day when I logged on to blabberzone my friend requests were plenty. I stared at the number, confused over what to do as I began reading the many comments the people sent along with their requests.
"You rock!"
"Will you be my boyfriend?"
"Saw you today. You were cool."
Normally, I would press ignore without a second thought. Hell, I didn't know these people why would I bother? But lately I found myself acting very strange. My newfound attention felt actually, dare I say, rather nice. No matter how hard I tried to deny it.
Against my nature I accepted the many requests but hesitated as soon I saw someone I never thought would be on my friends list; Kiba, the guy with the mike from the other day. The mouse hovered above the Ignore button, my mind doubting the reason he added me. After the rally, Kiba had pulled me over and he congratulated me on my win. It was hard to finger point but there was definitely something about him that held my interest. With a quick decision I accepted his invite.
"Uzumaki Naruto: Thinking about you… "
The moment my brain registered the words, my heart began pounding. No effing way Naruto befriended me. Me, Uchiha Sasuke! Did that mean he had changed his mind? I couldn't help feeling hopeful as I quickly accepted his invite. In aftermath of it all I realized just how silly it was for me to get that excited by another guys invite but it was Naruto… he was special… right?
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