Here's chapter four:) And thanks to everybody who reviewed!
Chapter 4: A new outfit
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Arriving at school Friday morning, Sasuke felt very self conscious. He had managed to persuade Itachi not to dress him up so that the fan girls would go into frenzy mode, but he still looked better than usual. He was wearing tight dark grey jeans and a thin dark blue hoodie over a black T-shirt that showed off his slim figure, nothing special but it looked 'casually stylish' as Itachi had stated the night before. He had even had to exchange his pair of favorite black converse for a pair of soft black boots. The main reason seemed to have been that Itachi worried about him freezing his feet off during fall. And it wasn't even particularly cold yet! Lost in thought, he barely noticed the looks he got from the rest of the school's population. The girls stared because they couldn't believe what good deeds they had done the past week to be rewarded with such a super good looking Sasuke, and the guys stared while crying about how their last hopes of ever getting girlfriends that didn't like Sasuke more than themselves crumbled underneath their feet. The silent staring continued for most of the time before lunch, seeing as none of the girls dared to approach him because they felt like they would probably faint on the spot thus totally embarrassing themselves in front of him. They seemed to have come to the conclusion that it was best to just enjoy the view for now. Even the female teachers seemed to think he looked good, the way they ignored him during class only to steal sneak peeks when they thought he wasn't looking. But Sasuke couldn't care less about all that. There was one person's opinion he did care about though, and the time seemed to rush by faster the more nervous he felt about meeting him. And suddenly it was already time for lunch.
~Line breaker~
Naruto was walking towards the school cafeteria with Sakura by his side, only half listening to her constant nagging about how 'absolutely gorgeous' Sasuke appeared to look today. He didn't really think that there was something special about today; because Sakura thought Sasuke looked like that all the time and also told him about it all the time.
"Naruto I'm serious here, Sasuke looks totally different today! So you HAVE to let me hang out with you when you do the assignment!"
"What's so special with today? And no you can't! I'm serious too, we have to finish it and your presence isn't going to help."
"You'll find out when you see him! But remember that he's mine! No drooling over my Sasuke's sexy body!"
I should be the one saying that… Naruto thought to himself, but since he wasn't ready for a war against the fangirls he kept quiet and tried to come up with a good enough reason for Sakura to leave them alone. But sadly none of the ones he tried seemed to have any effect. Just as he was about to give up and let Sakura join them after all, he stopped dead in his tracks. There, leaning against the wall a couple meters to the right of the cafeteria entrance, stood Sasuke. And Naruto could only silently agree with Sakura. Yes, he did look absolutely gorgeous today just like every day, but he also looked stylish. And stylish definitely suited him.
Sasuke tried his best to look at Naruto without actually looking at him. He really wanted to see his reaction, but didn't want to be obvious about it and he was definitely not going to let the idiot know he dressed up because of him. Naruto seemed unable to move, which Sasuke took as a good sign. When he couldn't stand more of the intense staring, he turned his head and raised one eye brow at the little idiot. This seemed to snap said idiot back to reality, and trying to pretend like he hadn't just been checking out Sasuke with a gaping mouth he quickly closed the distance between them.
"Is today the official 'how-many-fan-girls can-you-make-faint-day' or did you just accidentally dress up?"
"I don't know what you're talking about and of course it's an accident." That didn't sound nearly as indifferent as Sasuke wanted it to.
"I bet your confession high score multiplied a couple times." That didn't sound nearly as much as simple teasing as Naruto wanted it to. Damn it, isn't he aware of the torture he's putting all of us through?
"Huh? Nobody confessed to me today."
Ok that's it! How often is this guy confessed to really if a day without one is unusual?! Naruto just stared at Sasuke as if he were from another planet. A very sexy planet by the looks of it.
Sasuke started to feel a little worried. Maybe this hadn't been such a good idea after all. Because with the way Naruto kept checking him out he wished that they had been somewhere more private. If that had been the case he would have totally teased Naruto about it with some serious suggesting as a follow up, and this day could have taken an interesting turn. But since they weren't, he decided to try and save some of the blonde's dignity and punched him lightly on one arm. Which wasn't a good decision since touching felt really good and almost made him blush.
"Quit the fangirl act, we'd better get going if we want to finish that assignment."
Naruto forced himself to laugh as if he really had been pretending to look like a fangirl instead of being one. He followed Sasuke into the cafeteria for a quick lunch, completely forgetting about Sakura. Unfortunately, she hadn't forgotten about them.
"Wow I can't believe you two are actually almost finished with the assignment, but I suppose that's because you're so smart right?" The last part of the sentence was directed at Sasuke accompanied by a supposedly seductive voice and a lot of batting with eye lashes. She had somehow snuck up between them and latched herself onto one arm on each side of her.
"Sakura I told you we don't have time to chat with you, we need to actually work on the assignment, even if we're as smart as you say." Naruto had tried to keep his voice light and humorous but ended up sounding a bit too irritated for someone just wanting to study. Sakura gave him a glare that clearly said mess-this-up-and-you'll-get-punished, but Naruto answered with I-already-told-you-so-just-do-as-I-say, which didn't get him anywhere at all. Nothing could intimidate a fan girl this close to her prey. Except maybe…
The look Sasuke gave Sakura once she turned back to him was more than irritated. Irritated didn't come close to what he felt about the stupid pink-haired thing. He usually put up with his fan girls' company during lunch because he had found out that it eased a lot of their aggressiveness and made them stop stalking him on his way home (most of the time anyway), but this was enough to make him lose his patience. Before he had time to say something very mean to her however he remembered that she was in fact Naruto's friend, and he didn't want Naruto to get mad at him. So he softened his glare to the no longer effective I-hate-fan-girls and tried to keep his voice level. He really thought he did a good job on that.
"Sakura, you heard what he said, we need to study. We'll have lunch next week okay?" Not bothering to wait for an answer he shrugged out of her clinging arm and headed for the food. It took a second for Naruto to catch up, but neither one of them said anything until they were sitting down at a table. When Sasuke noticed that Naruto gave him a look he didn't quite understand he simply said:
"What."
Naruto hardened his gaze a little. "How come you only have to tell Sakura to leave us alone once when I tried to convince her for like ten minutes with no result?"
Sasuke raised one eye brow at this. "I didn't know you wanted to be alone with me that bad."
Naruto looked slightly flustered and tried to cover it up by giving Sasuke an even harder glare. "That's not the point! And I don't! I just want to know how you did it!"
"Easy. Just make her think that her high scores will dramatically lower unless she does."
"You give them high scores?" Naruto almost choked on his food.
"As if" he snorted. "But making them think that makes them easier to handle and my life a lot easier."
"Geez, being popular is really complicated isn't it? Now I'm glad I'm just the gay friend" he grinned widely at Sasuke.
~Line breaker~
After lunch they went to the library and managed to finish their task with fifteen minutes to spare before it was time to head for class. Even Sasuke was a little surprised at how easy they had completed the seemingly hard assignment. Naruto of course claimed it was because of his amazing skills. While Sasuke checked it through once more to see if it was ready to be handed in, Naruto couldn't help but steal quick glances at the pale piece of gourgeousness beside him. If that was even a word. In any case it suited him, and he couldn't help but wonder what Sasuke would look like on Saturday night. Gah it's tomorrow! I completely forgot! We need to decide where to meet and everything… Feeling embarrassed, excited and nervous at the same time, he didn't notice Sasuke talking to him.
"Hey, dobe! I'm talking to you" the pale piece of gourgeousness said while waving a hand in front of the day dreaming dobe.
Startled at being caught day dreaming, Naruto laughed apologetically with one hand behind his head.
"Sorry, what did you say?"
"Hn, who's the one not paying attention now?" Sasuke smirked and was completely unaffected by Naruto's "Teme!" in response.
"I just said that I think we can probably hand it in during the lesson" Sasuke continued in that calm voice of his that almost made Naruto space out again.
"Huh? Yeah, I guess you're right" he answered while trying to come up with a natural way to bring up the topic of tomorrow.
Sasuke noticed that Naruto seemed to be thinking hard about something while chewing on his lower lip in a very effective way. Before he did something reckless at the sight he forced himself to say something, anything, and was only mildly surprised at what he came up with. He had been thinking a lot about it after all.
"So I was just thinking about tomorrow…" he stopped talking when Naruto's head snapped up with a surprised look on his face.
"Yes?" he answered, his breath almost catching. He wondered silently how the notion of Sasuke actually thinking about tomorrow could make him all light headed just like that.
"Um, like, where we should meet up and stuff like that, you know" Sasuke mumbled, staring down at the table. Naruto looked way too cute for him to be able to both look at him and think at the same time.
"Oh yeah, I don't really know, the club opens at ten, so maybe we can meet up at the bus station half past nine?" Naruto didn't realize that he had been holding his breath until he heard Sasuke's nonchalant "Ok" and started using his lungs again. Spending time with Sasuke like this was starting to get a little too nerve wrecking. He didn't want to think about how nervous he would be tomorrow.
Haha, it's not easy to be Naruto is it? Don't worry, it'll get better! Maybe. :p
