A/N: OC ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't going to have them in this story, but I've decided to use only one of mine and one of Unicorn Sky Riders'. You have been warned.
(btw, I was going to use this little scene, the begining that is, in a high school fic I planed to write, but I abandoned that idea cause I'm not going to write that fic).
6
"Hey, Red."
Gaara raised his black-lined eyes to stare at Sasuke. He silently moved his bag onto the floor of the bus and allowed Sasuke to seat himself beside said red-head.
"What's up?" he asked in his throaty, dark voice.
"My half-brother's come to visit."
Gaara's invisible eyebrows rose. "You never mentioned any half-brother."
"Didn't know I had one."
Gaara grunted in acknowledgement.
A loud eruption of giggles sounded from somewhere behind them. Sasuke rolled his eyes and slouched a little in his seat. Gaara lowered his head so only the most observant of people could've seen this tiny movement.
'Fangirls,' Sasuke thought in annoyance. 'They never shut up.'
"I don't know why you two don't like them." an obnoxious voice said.
Gaara and Sasuke simultaneously glanced over their shoulders to see who was seated directly behind them: Naruto Uzumaki.
"I would love to have girls climbing all over me. It sounds great."
"It's not."
"Yeah, and it's none of your business, Uzumaki." Sasuke agreed as he looked at Gaara again. 'There's only one girl I want,' Sasuke thought 'And you'd kill me if you knew.'
"Sis!"
"Hey, bro, how was VA class?"
Sasuke's heart thundered in his chest as he glanced behind him again. Nojiko Uzumaki; Naruto's twin sister.
Sasuke switched his gaze to the floor as fast as possible. He didn't have to look at his crush, he had memorized everything about her already. He jumped when he felt a cold hand on his arm. He looked up into glittering blue eyes.
"Hey, Sasuke, do you know if we got any homework in French?" Nojiko asked, brushing her midnight black hair out of her eyes with her pale hand.
Sasuke forced himself to speak. "We don't have any homework, Nojiko."
Nojiko sighed in relief, smiling at him gratefully. "Thanks, I completely spaced out halfway through it." She faced her brother as he began to talk about something completely irrelevant to Sasuke.
Sasuke winced as he felt a stinging pain from Gaara pinching him unexpectantly. He glared. "What did you do that for?"
Gaara leaned forward to make sure the twins wouldn't hear, completely unnescessary as Naruto had a very loud voice that could cover up anybody's conversation. "Ask her out already."
Sasuke shook his head. "No."
"Why not? You get along fine with her. You're in all the same classes as her. You'll have to face it eventually."
"No, I won't. And getting along with her is called being civilised, Gaara. She dislikes me as much as her brother does." Sasuke sighed. "Besides, when are you gonna ask Shitumi out, huh?"
Gaara tried vainly to hide his blush. Sasuke was always amazed by that. Shitumi was the only girl who could make Gaara do that in this lifetime. And there would probably never be another one.
Gaara swallowed. "You know I can't."
Sasuke smirked. "You're being a coward."
Gaara's head snapped up. "So are you!"
Sasuke sighed. "Yeah, I know."
The bus took off then. Sasuke settled into his seat for what he knew would be a long and depressing journey.
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Sasuke began to walk through the crack in the wall and down the path that was a shortcut to his apartment as the bus drove off again. A voice floated down to his ears, "Sasuke! Wait up!"
Looking over his shoulder, he was surprised to see Nojiko hurrying down to him. When she skidded to a halt, she held out her hand.
"This is yours, isn't it?"
Sasuke looked down in amazement. His wallet. He lost that a week ago when he ran away from his dad. Taking the red leather in his hand, he replaced it into his back pocket.
Switching his gaze to her, he saw Nojiko looking at him in a mixture of amusement and confusion."Thanks."
"No promblem."
"Uh... why are you staring at me like that?"
"Why didn't you check to see if I'd taken anything?"
"I trust you."
Nojiko laughed. "Strange how little of that there is in the world."
"Yeah." Sasuke was a little uncomfortable at the moment, he'd never been alone with Nojiko before. "Um... don't you and Naruto get off somewhere else?"
"Usually, yeah, but we're staying with Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade for a couple of weeks so this is the quickest root there."
"Oh. Um, where's Naruto then?"
Nojiko stuck a thumb over her shoulder, indicating her brothers whereabouts. "Shops. Wanted some takeaway ramen."
"SIS!!!"
Both dark-haired teenagers turned to see the blonde running down towards them.
"What's up?"
Naruto grinned brightly. "Kiba called! He finally worked up the courage to ask his crush out and she said yes!"
Nojiko matched her brothers grin, though her's didn't show her teeth. Her teeth never showed when she smiled. "Well, that's great. Congrats to Kiba."
"Yeah."
Both twins looked at the boy in surprise. Sasuke shrugged. "It's hard asking the girl you like. Especially when you know it's not just liking them."
Nojiko's shout of surprise broke the silence in the clearing. "Oh, cripes! We're gonna be sooooo late, Naruto!"
Naruto and Nojiko burst abruptly out the crack in the wall and into the street, going the opposite way to Sasuke's root.
"See you, Sasuke!" They both shouted.
Sasuke smiled at their retreating figures. "See you! But tell me who Kibas' girlfriend is!"
Naruto gave the reply as Nojiko jumped over the metal fence. "Shitumi!!!!"
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A/N: My last chapter was set on late night Sunday. This is set on Friday afternoon when school ends. To save my own confusion, Sasuke has my timetable. Nojiko is mine. Shitumi is Unicorn Sky Riders'. This was just an introduction chapter to them.