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Chapter Three: Lunch on the Roof

Sunday's have always been a scared day for Naruto and his friends. Simply because that was the day they hung out. It was when they could vent to each other without being mocked or they could knock each other's guts onto the floor and never get into any real fights. It was Naruto's favorite day of the week. They even had a secret hang out!

Okay... so the clubhouse was built when they were five...and it was lopsided. But it was still the coolest damn hangout ever!

Of course, if they were to win a giant mansion equip with pool and flat screens in every room, that wouldn't be bad either. Though they knew that wasn't going to happen so it was better not to dream.

Anyway, their ritual was to meet every week in front of Shikamaru's house, because it was the closest to the woods where the tree house was, and then they'd walk and/or race to the giant oak that held their sanctuary in it.

Today they chose to walk peacefully until they got within a 20 ft. radius and then ditch Kiba and run full speed so they could pull up the rope before he got there.

Naruto had a field day with that one.

"Come on, dog boy! You can jump higher than that!" The blonde was sitting on the edge of the "porch" and tossing the rope up and down, just testing his friend's limits.

"Naruto, let him up here already. I've heard enough of his barking to last a lifetime." Shikamaru groaned. "You're all so troublesome."

"Yeah, that's why you've stuck with us this long right?" Naruto asked. Lee was behind them both laughing his ass off. In fact, he was laughing so hard he fell out of the tree house. Both his friends made a grab at him but it did no good. He was a goner.

Well, that's what everyone thought anyway. Until he landed on someone.

"Thank you for catching me, friend!" Said Lee, obviously thinking he'd landed on Kiba.

But the dog boy was standing five feet away from the people on the ground.

"I didn't catch you, you fell on me." Lee looked down - because he was sitting on the poor guy - and saw... well...someone he'd never seen before.

"Who are you?"

"Isn't it rude to question someone after you crush their internal organs?" The Mystery Man said.

"Hey, he's sorry man! Lee's just..." Kiba paused, searching for a good word to describe Lee. "Lee. He's just Lee." The brunette went to pull his friend off of the stranger because bushy brow seemed to be having trouble standing up. He just kept staring at the guy.

"Are you guys okay down there? Who's that guy Lee killed?"

"He didn't kill him! He just... squashed him a bit."

"Hello! Still have a heavy green blob sitting on me."

"Oh! Right." Kiba pulled Lee off of the guy and brushed him off. He then leaned down to offer the guy a hand up, but he just waved him off and stood on his own. "What's your name anyway?"

The newcomer rolled his eyes and straightened out his jacket, ignoring Kiba's question completely.

"He asked you a question. Or do you not have a name?" Lee asked, speaking for the first time in five minutes. Which doesn't seem like a lot to normal people but Lee was Lee and talked a lot.

"I have a name." He glared at lee. "It's Neji."

Lee stuck out his hand, seemingly oblivious to the look being sent his way. Then again, it was hard to tell what the guy was glaring out with that funky color in his eyes. It was almost completely white. Kiba had seen those eyes before...he'd been sure he'd drooled over them twice or twelve times too. But surely it wasn't this guy he'd been looking at, right?

No...he didn't swing that way. So where had he seen them?

"Hinata!" Kiba screamed, pointing at Neji. Both he and Lee looked at dog boy.

"What?" They asked.

"Are you related to Hinata Hyuuga?"

Neji glanced at Lee, as if asking if it was okay to answer. Lee shrugged looking back at him.

"Er...she's my cousin?" It came out as a question because Neji was asking himself how the hell a walk through the woods turned into this. First a flying green blob also known as Lee pummeled him. Then he was glared at by said green blob for no reason. Now some stranger was interrogating him about his cousin. (1)

Oh yeah, it was definitely going to be the park next time. Or he could stay in his house for the rest of his life and avoid all people, they scared him anyway.

"I knew it! She told me about you! You're Neji, right?"

"I did introduce myself... Right?" Was he going crazy?

"Oh yeah, sorry. But she told me you were transferring from a Public School. Why would you do that?"

"Well if you are so chatty with my cousin, why not go ask her? I'm leaving." And the stranger left. Lee practically fainted.

He was so mysterious, so suave! He was smooth and...hip and cool!! Lee's eyes trailed after his savior. And he has a tremendous bottom.

Kiba looked at his friend, whose head was slightly tilted as he followed their newest acquaintance. A devilish smirk then graced his face.

"Lee! You are checking him out!" That snapped Lee out of his trance.

"Was not!"

"Hey, if everything okay down there?" Kiba laughed.

"Lee's perfectly fine, if that's what you're asking." He laughed again as his friend tried to shut him up. "He's checking out Neji's ass!"

"I WAS NOT!"

"Me thinks thou dust protest to much." Meanwhile, all those feet away, Neji was smirking. Not even in Konoha for twenty-four hours and he already met someone who wanted him? Maybe was going to like this place more than he thought. He swung his hips a little more for good measure.

"You're doing it again!"

"Shut up Kiba!" Oh yeah, he'd definitely like it here.

Back up in the clubhouse, Naruto and Shikamaru were playing cards.

"Well, that was random and poorly carried out." Naruto commented. The other shook his head as they listened to Kiba and Lee fighting outside.

Sunday's were sacred. Most of the time anyway.


That afternoon, around two o'clock, Sasuke got out of bed. Yeah so it seems kind of late! But like any normal teenager if he doesn't get his much-needed twelve hours of sleep he is more than a little cranky.

"Morning." He mumbled when he saw Kakashi in the kitchen.

"You mean afternoon, sunshine. It's almost two thirty." Okay, so it was later than two. But seriously, does anyone care? Sasuke doesn't.

"Hn." He started to make his breakfast...er... lunch...break-brunch! No. Whatever the meal is, he started to make it. "Hey, did that chicken last night seem..."

"Familiar? Yep."

"Where have we had it before?"

"Sesame Inn."

"Really? I didn't like it when we had it there." Kakashi smirked.

"You weren't sitting next to your precious Naruto when we went there, now where you?" Sasuke glared at his guardian and sat down with the Lucky Charms.

"Shut up." But this just further motivated Kakashi.

"How come you didn't tell me you actually liked him? It's totally obvious." His son started killing all of the marshmallows in his cereal, refusing to respond. "You don't have to do the bet you know. Tell them you lied or were caught or something."

"That's stupid. I don't like that dobe, I'm only in it for the money." Kakashi sighed and picked up his book off the counter.

"Well, whatever you do leave me out of it. I really liked Iruka yesterday and I hope to see him again." He paused before leaving the kitchen. "And not sitting across from lawyers filing a restraining order against you, okay?"

"Hn." And Sasuke was left to his thoughts, which surprisingly were consumed, by blonde hair and blue eyes...


"But Iruka! I don't understand it!" Naruto whined.

"For the last time! I don't help the other students, I will not help you."

"What kind of a teacher doesn't help their students?" Iruka glared at his son and grabbed the paper out of his hands, looking it over.

"Are you kidding? This is a review from last year! How could you not get this?"

Naruto blushed and grinned sheepishly.

"Because this was the unit that you did for me when I was in the hospital with... well you know, that stuff. (2)" His guardian groaned as Naruto brought up the one thing he definitely regretted above most other things in his life.

"I knew it would come back to bite me in the ass." He took another glance at Naruto and sighed. "Fine, give me a pen."

"Ya! You're awesome Iruka!"

"I know." They smiled and then teacher helped student learn more than have of last year's curriculum. That had been one long hospital trip, after all.


"Okay class! Now, don't forget that page 623 is due tomorrow. Have a great day everyone." The waaaaaay to overly cheerful I-know-what-I'm-teaching-an-you-don't-so-ha-ha math teacher said, waving everyone out the door to lunch.

"Wow, I never thought it was possible." Kiba said sounding flabbergasted.

"What?" Naruto was looking around as if expecting something amazing to pop out of a wall somewhere.

"Lee has checked one guy out more in one day than I have Hinata in the entire school year!" Naruto laughed as they saw said friend drooling very obviously after Neji who - true to what Kiba had said yesterday - had transferred to their school.

And, also true to what Kiba had said, Lee's jaw was on the floor.

"Trying to catch flies again are we?" Shikamaru walked up to join them.

"Sadly yes." Naruto sighed and shook his head, thinking about why his friend would be pining over that guy. Sure Neji was attractive, but he was nothing like-

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, startling all three of his friends who jumped and looked at him.

"What?"

"I was supposed to meet Sasuke for lunch! Sorry, I'll catch you guys later!" And he ran off, leaving the other two to pull Lee back out of his trance.

One minute and Forty-six seconds later, Sasuke Uchiha was met with an out of breath Naruto.

"You're late." Sasuke said. In all honesty, it didn't bug him much that Naruto was a couple minutes late. What really bugged him was that he'd been leaning against the wall, thinking he was safe next to the guy's bathroom, and all the of the girls that had passed stared at him until they walked into the glass doors which were conveniently placed just a few feet away from the bathroom.

No, really, there was a pile of bodies now next to the doors staring at him with their eyes wide open, not blinking. He was scared.

"I know, sorry! It's actually a funny story-"

"I'm not interested in funny stories right now." He snapped, temporarily forgetting that he was talking to his ticket to a thousand dollars.

"Oh, sorry." There was an awkward silence as they stood there. Naruto, not being one for awkward silences, broke it by whistling an old tune he knew.

"Is that..." No way, though Sasuke. No one would sing that song in high school. "Is that the Barney theme song?"

Naruto stopped whistling immediately.

"What? No, I don't know what you're talking about. Hey speaking about talking weren't we supposed to be talking about something right now?"

"Don't act suspicious or anything, that would lead me to believe that you really were whistling the Barney theme song right now..." Sasuke said, obviously being sarcastic.

"Well it was your fault for being all quiet!"

"My fault?"

"Yes." Naruto said. He nodded confidently too. If Sasuke weren't such an Ice King, he wouldn't have had to go to such drastic measures to ensure his own sanity.

"Right. And people think I'm insane." Inside Naruto fell down comically. Hadn't he just thought he was sane? What the hell did Sasuke want anyway?

"How are we going to get Kakashi and Iruka together?" Asked Naruto. Sasuke pushed himself off the wall and started to walk away. "Hey! What are you walking away for?"

"You're supposed to follow me." Sasuke called over his shoulder. Naruto jogged to catch up to his friend and realized he didn't know what was down this way.

"Where are we going?" He asked.

"You'll see."

They walked along in silence for a few minutes, and then something caught Naruto's attention. It wasn't anything physical or something like that. But just something that was nagging at his mind.

"You've been here all of a week, I've been here three years. How do you know something about the building that I don't know?"

"You've heard about my reputation, right?" He led the blonde down a very narrow hallway that Naruto wouldn't have ever suspected to exist in his school.

"Of course. They give you a pretty bad rap around here." He smirked. "But the chicks totally dig that."

"Hn. I could care less about what the "chicks dig"." Naruto laughed. Something about that coming from Sasuke's mouth amused him. "But anyway, I got a map of the school from the Internet and studied it."

"Why, incase one of those Mafia members finally finds you?" He laughed. At least until he bumped into Sasuke, who stopped and turned around.

"I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." He whispered. It really surprised Naruto because he'd stopped so abruptly that it caught the blonde off guard. They were now so close Naruto could feel the other's breath on his face.

"Oh." They stayed there, looking into each other's eyes for what seemed like eternity. Sasuke was the first to do anything when he turned back around and led the way to a door.

Then he stopped, but Naruto was prepared this time. He only slightly brushed his ass.

"We've got to work out some kind of signal. Although, a 'Hey Naruto I'm stopping now' wou-" But he didn't get to finish his sentence because a hand was put over his mouth.

"The Principal's office is right below us and this is one of the only places where there isn't a vent imbetween the floors so if we aren't careful he'll hear us." Sasuke said, though his voice was barely above a whisper. He removed his hand from Naruto's mouth and took his friend's hand in his. Then he led them through the door and up a lot of stairs. Pretty soon Naruto was wondering how they were doing this all in one period.

But they did stop walking soon enough. And Sasuke let go of Naruto's hand to hold the ladder.

"Climb up." Naruto raised an eyebrow at the taller boy. Then he looked the ladder up and down. It was rusty, obviously hadn't been used in years, and he was pretty sure one of the bolts on the top was older than the school itself.

"You must be joking." Sasuke sighed. Okay, let's make up for lost time here.

"Do you trust me?" He asked, still holding on to the ladder, but he turned his head so he could get a better look at Naruto.

"What?"

"Do you trust me?" He repeated. Naruto looked hesitant at first, but after a moment to think he nodded. "Then go ahead up the ladder. I'll catch you if you fall."

Naruto's eyes widened a little when Sasuke said that. Wouldn't that be something a friend would say? Or...

A lover would say that too, wouldn't they?

Why was Naruto thinking of Sasuke as a lover? Maybe he should ask Iruka, he usually knew those kinds of answers.

"Naruto?" The blonde sighed and moved towards the ladder. He grabbed on and started to climb. It wasn't as bad as it looked, actually. He definitely had this down.

Or not.

His foot missed the next bar and Naruto fell. It was the last bar on the ladder, so just as it seemed he'd made it up he began to fall to his death.

Or so he thought.

"Told you I'd catch you." Naruto opened his tightly clenched eyes to see Sasuke who had stayed true to his promise and caught Naruto.

"Thank you!" He let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding and looked up at the Uchiha's eyes.

Sure he'd seen the eyes before. They were the weirdest color he'd ever seen in an eye. Almost a navy blue but so dark they seemed black in this light. Especially with the sun behind his head, it made Sasuke seem like some kind of black angel.

Okay, that was sill, Naruto told himself. Only love struck girls say that about their boyfriends.

But just because he shouldn't be saying it didn't make it any less true.

Sasuke, on the other hand, was studying Naruto's eyes for the very first time. He'd seen the fact that they were blue of course he knew that. But he'd never seen that look in them before. They looked like Naruto was staring up at someone precious to him. Someone who he would want to spend time with.

No one ever looked at Sasuke like that before. He decided he liked that shine in the ocean blue eyes.

But just as he realized what he was thinking that look vanished. And he was reminded that he was still holding Naruto in his arms.

"Oh! Right, s-sorry." Gently he placed the blonde's feet on the ground. Naruto straightened out his clothes and grinned up at his friend.

"So what were we coming out here for anyway?" Sasuke's eyes widened and he grabbed Naruto's hand again and began running.

"Hurry up! We might have missed it!" He ran over and under anything that got in their path, forcing Naruto to do the same. Eventually he slowed, but only a little bit. "Come on, Naruto! Come see!"

They ran around a wall and up a ramp, until they were standing in a room that was almost completely dark, save for the little bit of sunlight shining through a crack in the wall.

"Sasuke! What are we doing in here?" The blond was trying to catch his breath and interrogate his friend at the same time, which wasn't turning out so well.

"Just watch. We didn't miss it. You have to see." This had been Sasuke's hiding place almost all of last week. He'd avoided people as often as he could and anytime he had lunch or a free period he snuck out here. That's how he'd found both ways to get here. But since Naruto was afraid of the ladder he'd had to bring them the long way around.

He told Naruto all of this as the Sun started to move directly above the roof, temporarily throwing the place into utter darkness.

"Sasuke..." Naruto trailed off, tightening his hold on the other's hand. Sasuke squeezed back.

"Just a moment more. You're going to love this." And then they saw it.

Above their heads, directly in the center of the ceiling in the small room, was a little stain glass window. In the window was the most peculiar design filled with the almost completely opposite colors of orange and the darkest of blues.

"Wow." Naruto gasped. That one window illuminated the whole room, revealing old notebooks and pews. There was a crucifix in a corner too.

"I read about this place online. Apparently, this school used to be an old folks home, and this was their chapel. It's been abandoned ever since the school was started. I guess they never tore it down. They forgot about it."

"This is amazing." Sasuke smiled a little at the sound of Naruto's voice. He didn't know why but he liked hearing it filled with such awe at a little light and some pretty colors.

Needless to say, neither talked at all about the Iruka and Kakashi predicament. And when the bell rang for sixth period they didn't leave. In fact, they didn't leave that room until close to three o'clock in the afternoon. Because the Sun didn't leave till then. They'd been so caught up in each other...er... in the colors of course, that they didn't leave until they knew almost everything about the other one.

If they liked each other that would have been the perfect first date.


(1) I know Neji is kind of randomly thrown in there, but I tried to make it not so corny. And the rope thing is from the movie Without a Paddle, which is very funny and highly recommended.

(2) This will be explained later on, I promise! Please review!