Disclaimer:
I'm not cool enough to own all those ninjas…
Summery:
Sasuke needs an attitude adjustment. Gaara is overprotective. So is Zabuza. Haku has gender issues. Ino and Sai are two peas in a pod. Lee is full of youth. Kiba is sick of just being friends. Sakura is a tad skitzo. And Poor Naruto is stuck watching it all unfold.
Warnings:
Boy Love. Cross-dressing. Swearing. Adult situations. Self harm.
And general life expected asshat-ry.
Inside Outside Upside Down
Chapter 4:An Invite via Finger Painting
The talk began the moment he flung, "TEME' at none other than Uchiha Sasuke but when Uzamaki Naruto sat this scrawny ass down next to Sabaku Gaara, it because a full blown uproar.
Within the day everyone in his grade knew his name.
Within a week everyone in his school knew.
Within two weeks he was infamous.
Known as the only kid brave enough -or foolish enough- to hang with Gaara and pick fights with Sasuke.
However the boy had no idea that this was all going one behind his back. Quite content with how his life was going he had no interest in what the others were whispering behind their hands.
Naruto found that he very much liked having a friend. Especially Gaara.
The two balanced each other out nicely.
Naruto was loud and talkative.
Gaara was quiet and liked to listen.
Yet they were very much alike.
Over the past few weeks they'd quickly become close and Naruto found himself telling him things that he'd never told anyone but Iruka-niisan.
Sasuke, however, was a completely different story.
Naruto consistently found himself around the raven-haired male and it was nothing but unpleasant.
Sometimes the elder boy would be nice, help him if he fell down or correct something he had wrong in a math problem, but he was such an asshole it made Naruto want to spoon out his eyes with a spork.
He'd ruin the nicest moment with a snide comment and called him 'Dobe' or "usuradonkachi' every chance he got.
The boy pissed him off to no end, but somehow he felt lonely when he wasn't around….
And so thus it brings us to Naruto's last class of the day: Art.
The only class that Gaara or Sasuke wasn't with him.
The teacher had handed him a large sheet of paper and a bin of paints, telling him to experiment.
He glanced around and wrinkled his nose lifting up a can of 'moss green' paint.
Suddenly an idea hit him and he unscrewed the can and dipped his finger into the paint.
Slowly Naruto dragged his moss green index finger across his paper.
'AHA A FLOWER!
The boy grinned to himself.
Happily he contained to dip his finger in the paint and doodle,
'Needs some more colour….'
Naruto dug through the colours picking out a particularly lovely shade of orange.
Just as he was about to dip his finger into the orange substance a hand shot out and grabbed his wrist, the force or it causing the small tin of orange paint to fly through the air and smack the wall with a nice profound 'splat'.
Naruto's eyes widened at the vice like grip around his wrist and began to panic like and animal in a trap.
"Let go! Let me go!"
He yelled in a strangled voice, wide eyes staring at the stranger.
The arm belonged to a pale black haired male, who gave Naruto a confused frown but let go of the smaller boy's arm none the less. Naruto pulled his hands against himself and tried to calm down, the boy looked at him oddly.
"I take it you don't like to be touched?"
Naruto nodded and glanced back up at the male, He was thin and feminine with Asian eyes and a sly smile. Sitting gracefully with his legs crossed and this chin propped up by his hand, he spoke to Naruto again.
" Look, I meant no harm…I was just trying to keep you from mixing that green on your fingers with the orange, it's a waste of paint. But not that that matters now…." He said smoothly gesturing to the wall, and the orange paint oozing it's way to the floor.
Naruto frowned and groaned when he looked down at his painting.
"Ruined!"
"What were you doing?"
"Finger painting" Naruto mumbled hotly, plucking at his now flaming orange sheet of paper.
The odd boy chuckled, "I see. I'm Sai by the way. Nice to meet you."
Naruto wrinkled his nose and looked at Sai. "Naruto."
At that Sai's eyes seemed to light up.
"Uzumaki Naruto?" He questioned.
"Un. That's me."
"Interesting," He said grinning to himself when suddenly, someone yelled out and planted themself ever so gracefully onto Sai's lap.
"Ne! Ne! Saiiiiii what are you doing over-"
The girl who had sat herself atop of Sai turned to Naruto and squealed in delight.
"Aren't you precious!" She grinned grabbing Naruto's face.
"Oh just look at you! Just like a little fox! Sai don't you think he looks like a little fox spirit?" He giggled turning to Sai, still holding Naruto's face.
"Indeed he does, but Ino, I do say…I think you may be scaring the little fox."
The girl Named Ino, quickly let go of Naruto's face and lent back, still smiling.
Ino had long pale blonde hair pulled back and clipped with a lily pin. She wore an apron over her tight purple shirt and jeans. Her bright blue eyes sparkled at Naruto.
'Why is this school so full of pretty people?' Naruto groaned to himself.
"This my dear Ino, is Uzumaki Naruto, I just saved him from the horrors that is mixing paint," He said gesturing once again to the oozing paint. Ino's eyes seemed to light up even more.
"THE Naruto? Sabaku's and Uchiha's Naruto? This little fox?"
"So he says…." Sai grinned.
Naruto moaned again, picking up a can of blue paint and fresh piece of paper. He could hear Ino and Sai whispering to themselves, and to be honest it made him a tad nervous.
"NARUTO UZUMAKI!!" Yelled Ino once again, latching her perfectly manicured hands onto the Naruto's face, with such force it not only caused the whiskered boy to scream but drop the can of blue paint he'd been battling with all over himself.
"Aww Ino, you scared it." Sai smiled.
Ino pouted but still did not let go of Naruto's face.
"I, Yamanaka Ino, and Sir Hino Sai, would like to invite little old you on group date!" She grinned and Naruto gulped.
"A... g-group DATE?"
"It's not really a date, it's just a get together with some of our friends. You in Na-ru-channnn?" Ino said in a singsong voice, still holding onto Naruto's face.
The boy stared at Ino, who at current, was only a mere 3 inches from him, and he could hear Sai chuckling to himself in the background.
" You really want me to come?" Naruto asked hope filling him.
Ino finally let go of the poor boy and leaned back into Sai.
"Well of course we do. We are very selective about who we bring Naruto. So you had better come! This is a rare, rare thing! Right Sai? Right?!"
Sai just laughed.
Naruto picked at his paint splatter shirt, at Sai grinning away, and at Ino nuzzling his Sai's neck.
"Where do I meet you?" Ino and Sai high fived each other.
Sai turned to Naruto.
"Meet us outside the school gate at 4. It will be a grand time we promise. Now, you better go clean yourself off, you're clashing horridly right now…."
Ino nodded in agreement, as Naruto stared down at his bright orange hoodie soaked in blue paint.
As he stood up to shuffle off to the bathroom Ino giggled and waved to him.
"Don't forget Naru-chan. If you do, well fiiiiind you!"
Naruto shuttered and as he left the room, he decided it best not to cross Ino.
( that's all for now folks. Next chapter is part Naruto Sasuke bathroom showdown and part Ino & Sai's magical get together….what wonders are in store….lol)