A/N: A day late. Not too bad, but still late. Sorry! Thanks to everyone reviewing!
Disclaimer: Hiring people to help move Naruto and the others to my place wasn't a good idea. Who would've thought the two buff hairy movers would betray me?! Masashi, you win this time!
So far he had every class with Sasuke. It was really a pain in the ass. Why couldn't he get at least one class without him there bothering him?
Naruto looks to his left at his science partner, Sasuke. The raven was staring right back, a smirk on his face.
"Will you stop staring at me? What? Like what you see?" Naruto had meant it as a joke.
"Yeah, I do." Naruto stared at the raven. He was insane to think Sasuke just said that he liked the way He looked. A blush ran across the blonde's face.
"Sasuke that's not funny. Don't counter my joke with that lame come back." He turned around to look at the front of the room where their teacher stood.
"Who said I was joking?" Naruto jumped in surprise as Sasuke whispered this in his ear.
He stares at the raven beside him. What was going on? Sasuke was acting strange. Ever since they met this morning for the first time in seven years, Sasuke has been acting like this. Was it a new type of bullying? Going around and whispering in his ear and practically calling him hot? Also the way Sasuke kept staring at him, making him blush.
Naruto didn't get it. The whispering was uncomfortable sure, but being called hot was kinda flattering. Maybe it was meant to be disgusting for him since it was a guy telling him that. Sasuke's looks, he just ignored them. But the other looks he was getting from some of the students worried him. He wondered if they knew about him. That was stupid though, they wouldn't remember something like that. They would've been too young to bother remembering something like that.
His thoughts went back to Sasuke.
Naruto wasn't really bothered by Sasuke's bullying. What a stupid bullying method. Sasuke's gonna have to try harder if he wants to be mean to me.
Naruto went back to work on his science work, ignoring the glare the raven was now giving him, and smirked. He assumed he had pissed the raven off for failing to bully him.
Was Naruto really that dumb? After the incidence this morning in first period, Sasuke has been trying to advance on the blonde. He had been whispering to him trying to be seductive, but the dope had been thinking Sasuke was trying to be creepy. Calling him hot didn't seem to help either, he kept playing it off as a joke or something, and Naruto kept ignoring his stares.
It was pissing Sasuke off. Why couldn't the blonde realize Sasuke was trying to pick him up? Maybe he was going to have to be more physical. No, that wouldn't work, Naruto would probably take it wrong and want to fight the raven.
He was going to have to take it slowly. Start from the beginning. He'd have to become the idiot's friend first. It was the only logical way he could think of.
Get Naruto to be goods friends with him, and then advance on him, do things a friend wouldn't do. Maybe then the blonde would freaking get it.
He looks back at his blonde. "Naruto."
The blonde doesn't look over at him, instead he stares straight forward. "What do you want bastard?"
"Let's forget about the past and be friends." Naruto whipped his head around and glared at the raven.
"I told not to bring up the past. And what's this about being friends? Why would I be friends with you?"
"I think if you want to forget about the past then forget about us meeting and me bullying you. We can pretend we just met to and got on wrong turns, but we got over our differences and became friends. I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt anyone if we hung out."
Naruto pondered Sasuke's words.
"If you're trying to be funny, or if you're planning something sinister, you better forget it. I won't fall for it."
Sasuke held his hands up in protest. "I'm not planning anything, I just think it would be interesting if two enemies became friends, but if you're not up to the challenge then forget it."
That got Naruto's attention. He never turned a challenged down, not even the one where he had to dye his hair pink and pretend to be a girl for a week. Ok, he should've turned that one down, but a challenge was a challenge.
"Fine, I accept your challenge. I don't think we can become friends and you do. What do I get if you lose?" The raven pondered this.
"You can have me something embarrassing." The blonde grinned at this.
"And if you win?" The raven smirked.
"You. I get you."
The blonde was taken aback by this, but thought it was Sasuke's weird way of saying he would gain another comrade.
"Deal." They shake hands, then look forward to listen to the teachers instructions.
Sasuke is excited. He knew he would get Naruto. This is going to be fun.
On the way home from school, Naruto stopped by the store. He wanted to buy some instant ramen. Tsunade hated the stuff and never bought it. He always had to go out and get it. The old lady's taste buds must be dead.
Reaching the ramen shelf, Naruto started to fill his cart with his favorite food.
"Naruto is that you?" Naruto, hearing his name being called, turns around.
The man behind Naruto was tall with dark brown hair pulled back in a tie. He was wearing a dark green jacket with loose black jeans. Naruto noticed he had a scar across his nose, making him look ridiculous with that big smile stretched across his face.
"Hey it is you. Do you remember me? It's ok if you don't, it has been seven years."
Naruto gave the man a big grin. How could he forget? This was the man who was practically like a second farther to him. His favorite teacher, Iruka.
"Hey! Of course I remember you! It's been a long time Iruka." They gave each other an awkward hug.
"Looks like you haven't change Naruto. Still eating instant ramen." Iruka pointed a finger at Naruto's cart full of Ramen.
"You know me, Gotta have ramen. It's the love of my life." They laugh at the joke.
Naruto looks over at a clock on the wall, and sighs. It was getting late.
"Sorry to cut this short, but I got to get home before Tsunade worries. It was great seeing you Iruka! We should catch over a bowl of ramen, your treat of course." Naruto laughs has Iruka complains about the blonde being obsessed with the noodles.
They say their goodbyes, and after another awkward, they part ways.
Iruka looks older, but doesn't seem to have changed any.
Naruto pays the cashier and walks home.
He watched as a boy exited the small grocery store, a bag full of something the man couldn't recognize. That didn't matter, what mattered was the brat carrying the bag. He noted how the brat had spikey blonde hair like his mother (1). Basically everything about the boy resembled her.
He didn't need to confirm who he was; the hair and blue eyes said it all: He was the Uzumaki brat he had been looking for. He had been looking for him for seven years, after he killed the blonde's parents.
He had planned to kill the boy as a child; the day of the funeral was his main idea. He would wait till he was by himself, then after kidnapping him, He planned to kill the boy and spread his remains on his parents freshly buried grave.
But the boy never showed up to the funeral. He had waited for hours after the funeral was over and still hadn't seen him. He then went to the blonde's house to see if he went back there.
He wasn't there, but the torn down police tape indicated that someone had been.
He had looked at his work. (2) He was pleased that the blood on the bed was still wet, like it had just happened.
Turning away he left the house quickly; he didn't want the police coming back and seeing him there. He would have a hard time getting away.
Now, after seven years of searching for him, he got a tip a few days ago that the blonde was back at the Hidden Leaf.
He still wondered where he had been hiding for all those years. He had checked every record of Naruto's, but found nothing.
He guessed the police didn't want any information to leak about his new location.
The man watches Naruto for a few more minutes before turning the opposite way. He already had his strategy formed.
Naruto was going to wish that he never came back home.
Naruto opens the doors to his house and finds the lights are off. It looked completely dark inside the two story house, almost like no one there. But, Tsunade had told him that she would be there waiting for him every day.
Naruto's blood ran cold as his thoughts went back to that day when he walked into the darkened house to find his parents dead.
No, things like that don't happen twice. Tsunade is asleep or went out. That had to be it.
Even as Naruto thought this he couldn't get his mind off the image of walking into his guardian's room seeing blood and torn limbs scattered everywhere. The metallic smell would fill his nose, and blood would soak into his shoes.
He could picture Tsunade's head ripped from her body, lying near the edge of the bed. Her eyes would pear into Naruto's.
Her arms and legs would be chopped into little bits and thrown around the room like confetti.
Her blood would be everywhere: on the walls, the roof, the floor, and a pool of blood on the bed.
Naruto's breathing was getting faster and shorter as he pictured it in his head. His vision started to get blurry. He felt his knees buckle, and he started to fall.
He hit the floor hard. He was too numb to feel it; all he could feel was the fear of knowing Tsunade could be dead in her room.
He didn't register the voice shouting for him, or the arms that wrapped around him.
He closed his eyes, and let the darkness take him away.
A/N: Hmmm, Naruto needs help…. I feel kinda sorry for him, even if I am the one writing it. Also, why is he so dumb? He needs to figure it out eventually that Sasuke likes the dope. Poor Sasuke. In the next chapter expect something bad is going to happen. Just letting you know.
(1) Remember when I told you I made Minato the mother?
(2) He was examining the damage he had done to the room, remembering what he had down, and looking at the after math of it.