Author's note: thanks for everyone for the reviews! Ya'll make my day when I read them. A little get me up to write the next chapter. The meet Saturday rocked, I made a 3 average, which means I got to do a hell of a lot more work. And Monday we had our Halloween congress. I dressed up as a gay emo guy. It was hilarious. My gay friend on the team wore my old homecoming dress, ha-ha oh it was hilarious.

I hope this chapter turns out right. I had a lot of fun coming up with this one. I finally got to do a bit into Sasuke's view. He-he


How Homecoming changed my life.

Chapter 7: 'Happily Never After', that just ain't for me

Naruto shut his locker door shut and grimaced. Naruto put his back up against his locker, as he closed his eyes. "Hello Naruto." Naruto quickly opened his eyes and looked towards his right where the voice came from.

"Hello Sai." Naruto said while putting a grin onto his face. "How are you?"

"I'm just fine." The boy said back with a smirk. "I was wondering if you would accompany me to the dance this Saturday." Naruto's eyes went wide. He never thought in a million years that a boy like Sai would ask him out. Sai was one of the top students in school, student council vice- president, art club president, Link crew member (someone who helps out the underclassmen with school life), and captain of the school's speech and debate team (had to throw that in there).

"What? Why would you ask me out?" Naruto asked clearly blown away by the other boy's actions. Naruto had never even thought of the other boy in that way.

"Well I like you. I have for a while." The man answered with a small grin. "So will you go with me?" He asked again.

"I don't know. I wasn't really planning on going at all. You know I'm not really into school sports." Naruto answered back nervously. He didn't even know if right now was the right time to be going out with someone was. He currently had a major problem with a stuck up basketball player.

"How about we go to the game together and I take you out to dinner. After that can you give me your answer?" Sai asked. Naruto looked at the boy, and couldn't help but agree. It wouldn't hurt to go to a game together. Right? He nodded at the other, and the other leaned in and gave the other boy a kiss on the cheek. "I'll pick you up at 5:00 on Friday. That will give us enough time before the game at 6." Naruto nodded while a bright red blush appeared across his face. Sai walked away, and Naruto stood there for a moment.

'Did I just agree to a date with Sai?' he thought to himself, before shaking his head for a moment and running off towards his Senior Lit class.

Sasuke was standing at the end of the hall glaring at the spot where he saw 'it' kiss Naruto. No one had any right to kiss him, no one but Sasuke had that right. He just watched as all his efforts went to waste in a second. To say her was pissed was an understatement. Sasuke just couldn't believe that someone jumped out of nowhere and took away his blonde within a few moments. Sasuke closed his eyes, he really screwed up, and it was just a small misunderstanding.

Sasuke heard the bell rang and made his way to get a pass. He walked to the front office and looked down at the attendance lady. "What is your name?" she said as she pulled out a yellow pad of late slips.

"Sasuke Uchiha" he responded as she started to write his name down onto the yellow paper. She circled the unexcused and put her signature at the bottom before she gave it to him.

"Don't be late again." She stated before she turned back to her computer to type in his excused absence. Sasuke nodded before he headed off to his Math class. Before he made it too far, he ran into a familiar face.

"Well hello Sasuke." He looked up and saw his councilor Kakashi, and an instant indifferent look came across his face. "Were you late?"

"Yes." He said before he made a half circle to go around him. Kakashi easily cut him off.

"Well since you're out of class might as well as ask. So how is the, you and Naruto thing coming along." Sasuke glared at the man in front of him. Did he already know something was wrong? "Is it that bad? What happened, you had him almost eating out of your hand earlier."

"That is none of your business." He stated as he started to walk down the hall. He didn't need Kakashi giving him advice on this subject. He would get the blonde all on his own.

"Whatever it is, I suggest you two work it out and soon." Kakashi yelled at the boy. Sasuke kept on walking until he made his way into his math class.

"So glad you could join us un." His math teacher, Deidara stated as he took the pass. "I expect there will be no more disruptions from you anymore, yeah." Sasuke nodded before he headed back to his seat in the back of the room next to his friend Neji, and his boy friend Gaara.

"Why were you late?" Neji asked. "You're never late to this class, and you don't look to good."

"Sasuke I'm not one to normally care, but you don't look good." Gaara said. Sasuke looked over at his friends, eh Gaara was sort of a friend, and sighed. 'Might as well as tell them.' Sasuke thought before he told Gaara and Neji what was going on.

Naruto was sitting in his senior lit class while thinking about what happened earlier in the hall way. He subconsciously put his hand to his cheek where the boy gave him a peck. 'Do I actually like him?' he wondered. 'I didn't dislike that kiss on my cheek, but at the same time I didn't really enjoy it. Not like how I enjoyed Sasuke and my kiss.' Naruto blushed at the thought of what happened between the two of them in Kakashi's office.

"Naruto pay attention." Kiba nudged his friend Naruto. The boy stuck his tongue out at his friend before he looked down at Macbeth book that Jiraiya sensei was reading. Naruto wrote down the needed notes, and the bell eventually rang.

"There will be a test on Act four tomorrow. Then we will start the last act, Act five." To that some of the students cheered. "I expect A's out of all of you." He said as the students pulled out of the room. "Naruto, can you stay after for a moment?" Kiba told him he would right outside, and Naruto walked over to his teacher.

"Why are you not listening in class? You seemed to be off in la-la land the whole hour and a half."

"Ehh, Can't we just talk about this at home?" Naruto asked him while looking at the clock.

"No, once I leave here I'm no longer your teacher; instead I'm your guardian." He said back.

"There is just a lot of stuff going on these days. I don't know how to handle it all." Naruto said.

"Well I understand that you have 'stuff' going on, but I expect you to leave that all at the door. When you're in here I want you to think about Macbeth, and that's it." He stated. "Now go on, Kiba is waiting." He said. Naruto nodded before running out the door. 'He's changed so much.' He thought to himself before turning to a pile of ungraded essays from last week. 'I should probably get working on those.'

Naruto made his way around to where Kiba was waiting for him. "Hey!" Naruto waved at him.

"Hey Naruto, so what was all that about?" Kiba asked while pointing back at the classroom.

"Oh he just noticed that I was out of it in class to day." Naruto said. "He told me to basically stop thinking about my personal problems and leave them at the door."

"You should." Kiba said with a smile before he wrapped an arm around his friend's neck. "With that said what were you thinking about?"

"Well before class Sai asked me to the dance. I told him I didn't plan on going, and now we are going on a date Friday." Kiba's mouth was opened.

"Wait, Sai as in straight A's, Mr. Perfect, I'm a part of every school club, Sai?" Kiba summarized the boy. Naruto laughed loudly.

"That's the one and only." Naruto said while holding his arm to his stomach.

"I can't believe he is gay." Kiba said, in which Naruto hit him in the stomach. "What?"

"Talk for yourself. So how is that you and Shino thing going?"

"Nowhere, I already told you I'm not going to do it. I'm fine with the two of us being friends."

"What if you're meant to be more than that?" Naruto asked. Kiba gave him a side way glance. "You never know Kiba. If you really love him, then you would tell him."

"Our friendship means a hell of a lot more to me. I would rather hold my feelings inside and stay friends, then tell him and have us not be friends anymore."

"I highly doubt that would happen. If he really is your friend he would tell you lightly he didn't like you." Naruto said. "Then there is the chance that he likes you back. Isn't that chance enough to make you want to tell?" Kiba shock his head no. Naruto sighed at his friend, "It's ok one day you'll regret it though."

"Now how was the counseling with Kakashi?"

"Confusing, Sasuke kissed me while we were waiting for Kakashi. We got really into it. Then he walked in, and made some side comments and I ran out." Naruto said with a blush across his face.

"That must have been a productive way to skip out on Art." Naruto puffed out his cheeks at the other boy before they busted out laughing.

The two boys made their way around to the side of the building towards the exit gate, when out from around the corner came Gaara. "Naruto I need to talk to you."

"Why do you need to talk to me? You haven't talked to me since last year." Naruto said while glaring at his old best friend. Last year around February, Gaara and Neji hooked up, and Gaara at first tried to balance the two different groups, but he eventually choose to stay with the popular group. Naruto didn't blame him all that much, he now had a in with the 'in crowd.'

"Naruto, no matter what I say you won't forgive me, but this has nothing to do with our relationship. I'm doing this for Sasuke. He is upset that you're going with Sai to the game, and maybe even the dance."

"How did he find out?" Naruto asked while looking around the area. "Does news really travel that fast? Why would he even care about what my plans are on Friday?" Naruto asked clearly confused by the situation.

"You're clueless. He is head over feet in love with you." Gaara stated while staring at the blonde idiot in front of him. Naruto's cheeks reddened when the boy said that.

"Well apparently not." He muttered back. "He had that Sakura girl all over him at lunch today."

"Sakura is dating Lee, she and Sasuke are like brother and sister. She was only doing that so she could in a way test and see how into Sasuke you were."

"Why should I believe that?" Naruto said with a glare at his old friend.

"Just listen to me. He loves you, if you saw him last period you would know why I'm telling you this now. I normally could care less about all this romantic drama bull crap, but when I saw Sasuke's face as he showed up late in math, I knew it was something big."

"I would like to hear this from him not you. I want to hear it from him that he likes me." Naruto said before turning to walk away with Kiba.

"If that's what it takes." Gaara said before he walked the other direction.


Ok so I think I did ok with this. You find out a bit more about Naruto and a bit about who Gaara.

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*~ashley~*