At lunch, Naruto swiftly went to the cafeteria and bought a bottle of water. He never really ate. He wasn't ever really hungry. He proceeded across the large plaza and past the huge building where everyone ate, except for a handful of people who ate out at the table in front of the cafe. He finally stopped in front of a large square planter that were near enough to the building where Naruto could eat and not get yelled at by a teacher but far enough were the noise went with the wind in the opposite direction. There, he ate in peace and quiet and was able to think. This was his favorite time of the school day. He leaned against the tree to begin his meditative part of the day.
But then something came up.
"Hey, Naruto," Sasuke's voice made Naruto jump.
"My God!" Naruto put pressure on his heart, surprise making it run fast. But was it really the surprise? It could be Sasuke himself, a sly little voice in his heart said. Naruto pressed harder against the annoyance. "What the hell do you want?" he asked with a bit of a snarl.
"Where are you eating?"
Naruto looked at Sasuke like "You know I thought you were at least not a nitwit. I have lost all respect for you."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, smiling. "Over here? Not today." He grabbed the blonde's elbow and pulled him towards the tables, the blonde flailing about and yelling, "What the fuck? Let me go!"
To Naruto's amazement, there were not a multitude of people hanging around where Sasuke was taking him. Instead, there were only two people there: a short pink haired girl who Naruto wasn't sure the name of, Sakura maybe, and a boy with large bushy eyebrows and a bowl hair cut. Naruto had no idea who this kid was. He'd never seen him and if he had, he would have remembered those black caterpillars eating the guy's face as if it were a leaf.
"Hello there, good sir!" the bushy eyebrowed one said, well, more screamed. The energy practically knocked Naruto back.
"Hey," pink hair said politely.
Naruto gave them a half salute half wave and told them his name.
"We know who you are!" bowl cut said excitedly, "Sasuke talks about you all the time! Ow!" Sakura had slapped the back of his head. "But he does! Like all the tim-!"
Sakura hissed at dogbrows to shut up, stupid, putting her hand over his mouth. Naruto looked over at Sasuke to see how he reacted. Sasuke was glaring murderously at bowl cut.
"….Excuse me?" Naruto hesitantly said.
"Nothing!" Sakura said. Bowl cut looked like his head was getting crushed by her grip. Naruto felt sorry for bowl cut and wanted to help him, but wasn't quite sure how. He decided to at least try, not wanting to see any death besides his own.
"Um…Sakura?" He prayed that was the right name. "You should be gently with him…You look like you're about to..." the last of his sentence was drowned by Sakura's screech.
"YOU LICKED ME!" she screamed. Bowl cut winked at her and she exploded with fury.
"Sakura," Sasuke said calmly to her, deciding to step in, "I have to get some books from my locker. Come with me."
"But!"
"Now," he said quite coolly. Sakura quieted and nodded. With a final icy glace towards bowl cut, they left, leaving Naruto with the annoying kid, who was grinning from ear to ear. It was as if that whole fiasco never happened. Naruto, on the other hand, was absolutely horrified. Is this how friends behave with each other? It's pretty violent. If it was, he wouldn't have any friends. He was too scared now.
"That was…kind of mean of Sakura to explode like that…" and he wasn't even going to mention that look Sasuke kept giving eyebrows. It solidified that Sasuke could actually…No. He wouldn't. He couldn't. Naruto scratched at his right arm, specifically at his cuts. Maybe he should go and relax himself...
"I'm Lee, if you didn't know. Rock Lee," Eyebrows said. "I kinda deserved what happened back there. Sasuke likes to keep his true feelings under wraps."
"What do you mean?" Naruto began to feel intrigued even more so.
"Well, he does talk about you a lot, for about a few months or so."
"What does he say?"
Lee grinned really big. "Nice stuff. But I don't know, are you into that sort of stuff?"
"What sort of stuff?" Naruto said slowly, half knowing what Lee meant.
"You know…" he bumped two pointed index fingers together, "as opposed to" he joined one of his index fingers with its thumb and put the other index through the circle he made.
Naruto coughed with embarrassment. "Why would you think I would like that?" he said a little too defensively. Lee grinned. "Whatever!" Naruto stormed away to the bathroom and, making sure he was the only kid there, he locked the bathroom door. He sat next to the door and reached for his razor.
Nice stuff, Lee had said. Sasuke says nice stuff about him. And that gesture Lee had made…he was talking about being gay. Did he like it? Naruto didn't want to deal with that. He slashed his scar covered wrist three times.
The door rattled next to Naruto, who immediately jumped to his feet and stared at the door waiting to hear the clank of keys and the janitor coming in and seeing the blood.
Fuck Fuck FUCK!
