Mr. Popular: the attention seeking bastard!
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Destiny is something you've invented because you can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental
-annie reed, Sleeples in Seattle
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Early in the morning as Sasuke wakes up, the first thing he checks up is his reflection in the mirror. Stare at it for some time and ruffles his hair more. Satisfied with the just-got-out-of-bed look, he will straightly go to the bathroom across his room and take a bath, duh. He will finish after 20 minutes and go back to his room to wear his uniform for school days and street clothes on weekends. For Sasuke, weekends are never vacant; always have a date, a trip to the library or the park, the beach, mall, or restaurant with random girls or with his family or Itachi alone. Mostly, he's at Naruto's house during Saturdays.
"Sasuke, baby, breakfast is ready"
'Damn, did she call me BABY AGAIN?'
That is his mom. He is thankful that his mom and dad had 'the genes' that made up such a fine creature such as Sasuke. Well, Itachi is not that bad either, it's just that, at least he looks a bit tad more masculine than his elder brother.
Looking back at his reflection in the mirror, he dried his hair and brushed it just slightly as to give a bit rough look and not flatten his hair. Opening his dresser, he wore his short sleeved button down polo and school vest.
"Oh, good morning bastard" Itachi greeted as he spotted his little brother as he got down the stairs for breakfast.
Sasuke glared.
"Itachi, that's not nice." Their mother chuckled and served a pitcher with orange juice on the table.
"But Naruto does it" the eldest of the Uchiha brothers said nonchalantly
"Naruto is different" Sasuke said pulling a chair.
"I was just teasing little brother, no need to be so protective of your bo-best friends' nickname to you" Itachi smirked
Sasuke glared again and Itachi and placed the dishes in the sink.
"How's the sleepover? Was it a bang?" There is a glint of something in Itachi's eyes that Sasuke could not place.
"None of your business just get out of my line of sight will ya!"
"Sasuke, no need to be angry early in the morning" Mother Uchiha reminded Sasuke as she washed Itachi's dishes.
"hn."
"Hon, boys, I'll go ahead okay?" Their father called rushing to their mom's side, kissing her cheek and waved to the boys in the kitchen.
"bye hon, take care!" Their mother called.
Sasuke loves his family. His mother, father and Itachi. Really, sometimes, he wondered why he included Itachi there but he can't do anything, they're brothers and brothers must love each other in a brotherly way, right?
"Bye mom... and bastard!" Itachi called from the front door and their mom chuckled once again.
"Bye babe, take care too!"
After checking himself for the final time, Sasuke bid goodbye to his mom and rode his bike to school.
Like usual.
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It was today that Naruto decided to wake up 15 minutes earlier to avoid being late. At least if he encounters a series of dreadful events like last week, he'll fortunately have 10 minutes to deal with it.
But before that, he had to buy some hot tasty bread for breakfast.
"Hey" He felt a tap on his back as he thanked and paid the owner of the bakery for some bread
"Hey! Gaara, you're early today" He smiled at the boy and offered some freshly baked treats to him which the boy politely refused.
"No, you're just always late" Gaara smirked
"Hey! That hurt you know" Naruto pouted and laughed
This is Gaara. One of my good friends since first year, somehow, he resembles Sasuke with the brooding and the untouchable aura and we did got into a fight once. I can say that after that fight, we gained some sort of respect with each other. He's quite popular with the girls too, yeah you know, the mysterious type of guy. Just a tip okay, the girls love the mysterious silent type of guys. They like, what, solving the mystery that is Gaara, or Sasuke for that matter. Haha I should know, I placed a microphone in the girls dressing room last year. Wink.
"So Gaara, how's life doing?"
Naruto and Gaara parked their bikes and went to the building together.
"hn. What do you think?"
"Aw, what, do I look like, I want to think about that?" Naruto grinned and punched Gaara in the shoulders slightly.
"I'm okay Naruto, and don't lecture me for not sleeping, because I did last night, earlier than usual"
"haha, yeah, you look more human today, and a bit talkative too" Naruto pat Gaara's shoulders.
'what's with the people being talkative these days' (1)
Naruto remembered an incident when they were classmates and Gaara did not sleep for one whole week, damn, it had been hell because the red haired teen destroyed everything he sees. Talk about psychotic. But now, Gaara's been alright.
While walking to their locker, a girl waved at Gaara blush staining her cheeks. And Naruto noticed a faint blush on his cheeks as well.
"haha, I see you're becoming popular with the girls" Naruto teased
"Not used to it." Gaara's blush went a shade redder. "Hey, Naruto, my locker's over there, nice seeing you"
"Ok, no prob Gaara see ya later" Naruto waved and went to open his locker.
As he opened his locker, an envelope fell to the ground with his name neatly written.
He was about to open it when:
"Hey dobe, you look more like an idiot today" Sasuke opened the locker beside Naruto's.
"Good morning to you too"
Naruto noticed three envelopes that fell off Sasuke's locker. Then he grinned.
"hihihi, Sasuke, less letter than usual huh? I bet you're becoming less popular nowadays" Naruto got his books and placed them on his bag
"hn, at least I have some, unlike some people, to my right" Sasuke smirked.
"tsk tsk tsk" Naruto closed his locker and faced Sasuke showing him his letter.
Sasuke looked unbelievably at Naruto.
"Ha, die from jealousy Uchiha! hahaha" Naruto laughed boasting the letter in front of Sasuke's face.
"You mean this shit?" Sasuke grabbed the envelope and began to tear the letter open.
"HEY! You bastard! I'm the one supposed to open it first!"
The blonde tried to redeem his oh so already open letter but the look on Sasuke's eyes made him just take a peek at the letter through the raven haired shoulders.
Sasuke's eyes widened and looked at Naruto in his peripheral vision.
"Oh wow, is this for real? Someone just told me I am hot! haha beat that Uchiha! hahaha"
Sasuke shrugged and gave the blonde the damned letter hastily then went to class ignoring the "wait for me bastard" from Naruto's loud mouth.
'Why am I bothered about that... that piece of junk? That's just one, I've got so many of those and yet...'
Sasuke snarled to himself ignoring the pestering voice of their eager english teacher.
'I can't stop Naruto from being popular, and in the first place, the moment that we began hanging out like normal friends, it is expected that he'll get some attention too. But...'
"Sasuke? Is something wrong?" the shy girl beside him asked and Sasuke noticed that the teacher just went out of the classroom and most of the people are standing.
"hn." he said and murmured something to his self, something that Hinata found strange, but she did not mind, besides, all of us has our weird sides.
Right?
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It was strange that Naruto and Sasuke were not spotted together by anyone. Even during their Math where they were seatmates, they completely ignored each other... umm, Sasuke did the ignoring and Naruto wondered what in the world did he do to deserve this ill treatment.
'Maybe, I forgot something? Wait, is today his birthday? No, that can't be, it's august. Did I promise to make his homework? That's impossible he doesn't trust my answers during seatwork more if they're assignments. Err, I stepped on his foot? That's pretty shallow yeah, but the way he kills using his eyes whenever someone steps on his foot, maybe it's not that bad of a guess? Umm, oh yeah the cellphone incident last Saturday…? But, we're cool a while ago...'
Naruto glanced at his watch.
'Man, still 15 minutes before dismissal.' and spotted the pink torn envelope tucked in his screaming orange notebook.
"Oh. I almost forgot..." Naruto removed the letter from the envelope and read it contents...
Naruto-kun,
I don't know if you even know me, I hope you do, even by face. I have come to notice you when one day my friends were talking about Sasuke-kun as you passed by our classroom um, last year. I don't know why, but it was you that I noticed, it was you whom I first asked, it was you whom I think I have fallen in love with... sound pretty pathetic? I'm so sorry but that is what I felt that time... until now... I felt the warmness of your smile and your genuine heart... some of my friends told me, "why Naruto? He's so loud" but I think that's the whole point.
At that part Naruto stopped reading.
"What whole point?"
He shouted a bit loudly forgetting that he's still in class then continued reading not minding the questioning look on his classmates faces.
Maybe they were just comparing you and Sasuke, I see he's your best friend, everyone knows that... but somehow, even though Sasuke's more popular than you, I just want you to know that I think you're... hot.
"Oh" Naruto cannot hide his smile not that he tried to hide it at all. And he did smile the love sick kind of smile. He never felt so elated before. And it's euphoric.
Whenever you make people laugh, whenever you comfort someone, whenever you greet someone and whenever you show kindness to others and love to your friends... it makes me like you more... love you more. I want to let you know that the good things you do are not left just like that... unnoticed... because maybe somewhere inside this building, someone, someone besides me is touched by you... you and the goodness you do...
With lots of love,
sayaka, 2-2
Naruto read the letter again. Then smiled broadly. And read the letter again. And again. And again. And again.
'If this is how it feels to receive a love letter, how come Sasuke always acts like an asshole? I could smile for months because of this' Naruto thought nodding to himself and grinning like a maniac.
"Mr. Uzumaki? is something the matter? Sorry to offend you, but you look like a clown" Their history teacher asked Naruto and the whole class laughed.
'Fuck that idiot, trying to ruin my moment here!' Naruto stopped himself from punching his sensei square in the face.
His eyes fell on the envelope.
'Okay Naruto, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, there, clam down, the teacher's being a bastard maybe he hasn't received any love letter? Ever! bwahahahaha and I did! hahahaha' Naruto's alter ego did some weird dance while stepping on the teacher who dared to humiliate him!
Naruto scratched the back of his neck muttering "gomen gomen"
Instantly, the class was dismissed.
And Naruto's foolishness was seen clearly by Sasuke.
'That dobe...' he let a small smile at Naruto's naivety.
At that moment, the thing that was bothering Sasuke faded.
'Maybe, I'm being a selfish bastard... this is my best friend... if people notice him, it's alright then, we'll be both noticed. Period.'
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"Umm, goodbye Naruto-kun"
Naruto looked at the girl and smiled brightly
"Good bye Hinata-chan! Take care"
"Uh... thank you Naruto-kun" Hinata blushed slightly and headed for the back door.
As Naruto is about to go out the room, someone punched his shoulder slightly.
"hn. Walk home?" Sasuke did not wait for Naruto's reaction; he just passed him and walked slowly down the corridor.
Behind Sasuke, Naruto smiled gratefully and caught up to Sasuke, slinging his arms in the raven haired shoulders carelessly.
And Naruto's endless chatter echoed throughout the corridor drowning the sound of their footsteps away.
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(1) The incident in the library, remember? haha chapter 2
I'm not really sure how to feel about this chapter, is it crap? Waaaaa when I finished this, I felt like I can sleep a deep sleep whoa ;p
For all the reviewers, thank you so much:D
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