{I do not own Naruto. Expect offensive language and concepts, disturbing situations and possible violence.}
Thanks for all the reviews! ^x^ I've kept you all waiting long enough, but just so you know I have a tendency to slow down on my stories as they get older; I promise to try and be consistent in this story at least.
Epilepsy Facts:
People with epilepsy have often been targeted for their disorder. In the past, before the disorder was understood, epilepsy was often blamed on supernatural events. People suffering from seizures were said to be possessed. Up until 1982, in the state of Missouri there was a law prohibiting those with epilepsy from marrying. As late as 1986 the state of South Carolina allowed the forced sterilization of women with epilepsy.
(That is sick and wrong!)
Grand Mal
Ch 6: Pizza Envy
Sasuke lead Naruto to a booth away from his group, but where his older brother could easily be seen. The redhead seemed to understand what was going on; while Kyuubi watched the two like a hawk he made certain that none of Naruto's little friends bothered them. "Looks like you have your pick of guys. Uchiha seemed nice enough," Kyuubi spoke to himself.
A young woman about their age stopped by their booth. She smiled at Sasuke sweetly ignoring Naruto in favor of the hunky brunette. "Good afternoon. I'm Ino and I'll be serving you today. What can I get for you Handsome?" The girl flipped her platinum blond hair making eyes at Sasuke. He grimaced but noted that Naruto seemed unaffected by her rudeness.
"So what do you like on your pizza?" Sasuke looked down to the shorter boy. Naruto smiled, "Anything you like is fine. I'm not really picky." Sasuke nodded, "We will have a medium 'meat lover's special' with the cheese crust, and I'll have a cola, and what do you want to drink Naruto?" Ino wrote Sasuke's order down.
"Oh, do you have root beer?"
"Yes," She spoke without looking at Naruto, "So that's one medium meat lovers, with the cheese crust, and one cola." She started to walk off. Sasuke stopped her, "Hey miss you forgot my friend's drink."
She turned fluttering her eyes at the boy, "Oh I did?"
"Yes my friend wants a root beer," He looked to Naruto, "That's right isn't it?" Naruto's cheeks were bright red but he nodded. Sasuke glared at her. The server nodded, "S-sorry. Root beer I got it." She took out her pad and scribbled on their receipt.
"I'm sorry about that Naruto," Sasuke rested his elbow on the table placing his chin in his hand and looking at the boy, "I didn't know the servers were so rude here."
"It's ok; I think she likes you though. She is very pretty," Naruto smiled, "Maybe you should ask her out."
"I'm not into bleach blonds," Sasuke snorted, 'Besides I am more into blond boys,' Sasuke added silently before smirking, "I like natural blonds…epically golden blond."
"Huh?" Naruto looked crossways at the boy.
Sasuke didn't answer instead he fished in his pocket and pulled out some quarters, "They have one of those old fashioned juke boxes over there, why don't you go pick some songs out." He thrust the quarters into Naruto's hands grazing the soft tan fingers slightly. Naruto grinned widely and ran across the restaurant to the machine. Sasuke watched the gleeful blond feed quarters into the colorful juke and press buttons, soon an old rock and roll tune blared through the speakers.
… You ain't nothin' but a hound dogCryin' all the timeYou ain't nothin' but a hound dogCryin' all the timeWell, you ain't never caught a rabbitAnd you ain't no friend of mine
Well they said you was high-classedWell, that was just a lieYeah they said you was high-classedWell, that was just a lieWell, you ain't never caught a rabbitAnd you ain't no friend of mine…
Sasuke stopped listening to the lyrics as Naruto skipped over, "They even had real vinyl no CD's isn't that cool!"
"Yeah that's cool," Sasuke liked the shine in those bright blue eyes. He was liking Naruto more and more each minute he spent with him.
Kiba sat with Naruto's little friends he was actually enjoying himself they were pretty cool. The girl he met in the Arcade turned out to be a freshman that went to their school and she looked so familiar to Kiba and Sasuke because she was the Captain of the football team's little cousin Hinata.
"So there Hina," The girl blushed at the nick name he had pegged on her, "You got any plans this weekend?" He sipped on his soft drink while staring into her pretty light purple irises."
"N-not yet," She blushed furiously as he slipped his hand over hers tracing her knuckles with his thumb.
"How about a movie," His flashed his eyeteeth at her, "Tomorrow night."
"I-I um, I'll have to ask my father.
The others around the table were either gagging over Kiba's flirting or trying hard to Ignore it. Things were going very well until their food arrived along with an angry looking football captain, "Hinata! Where have you been?" Neji shouted angrily. You were supposed to meet me half an hour ago. I can't believe you forgot." She looked at her watch and panicked, "Oh gosh! We're late. I'm so sorry Neji." He grabbed her hand and pulled her away making an even bigger scene out of the monstrously embarrassing moment.
"Hey!" Kiba stood from the table almost knocking over his chair, "Hinata! Talk to me at school tomorrow!" He sat and scooted in his chair and laid his head down on the laminate top of the table.
Kyuubi cleared his throat, "Well that was awkward, Oh well let's eat everybody!" He grabbed for a slice of pizza chomping into it before tearing up and opening his mouth, "Hot!" He downed his entire cola and grabbed for Lee's to chase it. He was waving his hand in front of his mouth to illustrate just how hot it was. Everybody else took their slice blowing on it first and taking small cautious bites.
Naruto turned when he heard his brother screaming. He turned back around his cheeks were red and he ducked, "What an idiot." Naruto mumbled while they waited for their pizza to arrive. It was taking forever and his stomach made its displeasure known grumbling loudly. Naruto's blush grew reaching his neck and ears, "S-sorry." He hid behind his arms, 'This is getting really embarrassing, and in front of the coolest guy in school too.'
"Don't apologize I'm actually wondering why our order is taking so long, your friends got theirs already," Sasuke was about to get up and complain when the blond bimbo came back holding their order, but something seemed wrong it was cut as it should have been but the halves were separated so they would not touch and the girl was very deliberate about placing it so one half was facing Sasuke and the other facing Naruto, "Enjoy your meal." She ran off before either could say anything. Sasuke didn't like it at all. He took a slice of the pizza and sniffed it. It looked normal. He cut into it with his fork and it seemed normal. He tasted it and his was normal, but Sasuke looked at Naruto's slice He was about to bite into it and Sasuke saw something suspicious.
"Naruto, wait, don't eat that!" He snatched the slice from Naruto's hands. The boy looked confused and slightly upset. Sasuke tugged at the white thing he had seen hanging out under the cheese. He pulled out a latex condom it looked used he dropped it onto his plate disgusted. Naruto looked shocked, "W-what was that?"
"Naruto, please stay there and don't eat that pizza." Sasuke slid out of the booth and marched up to the counter.
The blond was up there chatting with some other bitchy looking teen. "Was something wrong?" Ino asked all so innocently.
"Yes I would like to see the manager please," He leveled a threatening gaze at the girl. "R-right away sir."
Naruto poked at the pizza and something slimy and unpleasant oozed out of it. He felt like he was going to cry. He felt a hand resting on his shoulder. He looked up to see his big brother and then the tears came. Kyuubi frowned, "What happened?"
Naruto pointed at the spoiled pizza, "They put stuff in our pizza." Naruto and Kyu heard Sasuke shouting at the manager then he demanded that the guy come over and see what his employees put in their pizza. Kyuubi glared at the pimply faced twenty something. "I don't find it one bit funny!" Sasuke yelled the man frowned as he was shown the disgusting things in Naruto's food, "It was deliberately targeting my friend!" Sasuke took his fork and scooped the condom up offering it to the manager, "How would you like to chew on it. I think we will be leaving." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand and started to storm out. Kyuubi stopped him, "Excuse me where do you think you are going with my baby brother?"
"I was going to take him somewhere decent to eat since these pigs jacked off into our pizza!" Sasuke growled. Naruto looked so lost and so upset. Kyuubi hated it. He has had to deal with this kind of issue before. People who know him, or at least about him, think it's ok to pull cruel pranks like these because of his circumstances.
"Kyu?" Naruto looked at him, "Can, can I go with him?" The older boy seemed to think it over.
"I'm sorry Naru, but we have to be home in less than an hour," Kyu rested his hand on his brother's shoulder pulling him away from the Uchiha. Sasuke looked ready to kill the redhead. Kyu smiled softly at his brother, "We will pick up something to eat on the way home ok?"
Naruto sighed in defeat. He folded his arms and looked up to his big brother, "I guess…" He turned to Sasuke looking apologetic, "I'm really sorry I ruined your evening." He pouted a bit.
"Don't apologize. It was not your fault. I took pictures of that crap I'm calling the health department on them in the morning," Sasuke held up his cell phone, frowning, "None of that was your fault." Sasuke grabbed his shoulders and looked him in the eyes, "Ok?"
"I guess so, I get it," Naruto looked away. Everybody was staring at him standing in the entrance way of the pizza joint. He felt very humiliated, but at the same it felt nice that Sasuke was so concerned, "I really am sorry they did that. They wouldn't have messed with the pizza at all if you weren't with me." To Sasuke it sounded like that kind of thing had happened to him before. He got even angrier, "You know that's not right Naruto. They had not right to do something so disgusting to you."
"It's ok, let's just drop it. I feel really tired now…Kyu can we go home now?" Naruto looked to his brother hopefully.
"Sure Naruto," Kyu smiled and began leading his brother away from the scene.
"Wait Naruto," Sasuke stopped him, "Um could I talk to you tomorrow, we could eat lunch together…"
"Sure," Naruto smiled, "That sounds nice."
Sasuke watched the boy leaving he just seemed so defeated. It just wasn't fair. The boy had enough to deal with without stupid bitchy waitresses. Sasuke grunted, 'as if serving the boy a used condom would impress me. Actually I think I know that girl…Ino Yamanaka she's a cheer leader. I think she and I need to have a talk tomorrow.' Sasuke left the pizza place dragging Kiba with him. They drove in silence as Sasuke brooded and Kiba pined for the blue haired girl.
Naruto climbed into the shiny red corvette he felt eyes on him. He looked around to find the owner of those eyes but saw nothing. Kyu pulled out and they headed home. Not long after that a black car pulled out not too far from where they had parked. Kyu didn't seem to notice the black car tailing them but Naruto looked back more than once. He felt a little bit nervous about it?
Sasuke walked into school and everybody…everybody being the popular kids…was all abuzz about some party the football captain was planning for Saturday night. Sasuke shrugged figuring he'd hear about it at practice. He smiled knowing he would not have to deal with his pale look-a-like for the next two weeks at least.
A fancy black jaguar pulled carelessly into the faculty parking lot. The door swung open and a formidable looking man in a dark three piece suit stepped out. He looked all business except for the unruly white locks he kept pulled back in a ponytail. His hair nearly reached his butt, but it didn't detract from his look. It only made him seem all the more intimidating. He mounted the small flight of stairs leading from the parking lot to the main building. He held a manila envelope in his hand and wore a cocky smirk on his face.
Naruto seemed especially anxious all morning. He was waiting for the lunch bell to ring on the edge of his seat. He promised to eat lunch with the coolest guy in school and he just couldn't help but be psyched. There was a small twinge of worry in the back of his head that this was all just an elaborate joke being played on him but he pushed that thought away. Sasuke seemed to be genuine.
The bell rang and Naruto got up to leave when a pair of gangly arms snaked around his neck, "Naruto! Tobi has a surprise today! Tobi's good friend Dei is coming to see him. Dei is pretty like Naruto with pretty yellow hair and blue eyes. Naruto and Dei could be brothers!" Naruto pushed the boy off him, Naruto noticed just at that moment how much taller Tobi was then him, but he always thought of the strange kid as…well a little kid. He acted like one, but he was very friendly to everyone, "Th-that's nice Tobi. I'll see you after lunch." Naruto grabbed Lee and took off for the lunchroom.
Sasuke stood at the entrance of the cafeteria waiting. He saw them running through the halls, and smiled.
"Hi Sasuke," Naruto spoke softly as he and his friend stopped in front of the taller boy, "I'm starved let's go get something to eat!" Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand without thinking twice and pulled him into the cafeteria. He didn't even see the slight pink tinge on the bridge of Sasuke's nose. Sasuke hoped nobody noticed it actually.