Wiggle Those Hips – You're a School Girl Now
Bevino – Summer 2007
Beta'd by Allys777
.:Chapter 7:.
W e A r e T h e B o y ' s O f E y e l i n e r
That smile flashed through his mind for the hundredth time the next day: that beautiful smile with the soft pink lips and the flashing white teeth. Naruto understood very well why Sasuke didn't smile. If he went around smiling like that, girls would die by his feet. Boys would turn gay, and lesbians would certainly turn straight in a flash, and the boys who were already gay would love the Uchiha more than their…
Erhm… mothers.
Yeah.
Naruto groaned and let his head hit the nearest wall, pounding into it several times. The long blonde hair fell into his eyes as he did so, and his head started throbbing more than before. He hadn't gotten any sleep tonight either. All he could think about was Sasuke. Why? Why the hell was he thinking about him?
Oh.
That smile.
Right.
He sucked his bottom lip into his mouth and bit down on it hard, not wincing from the pain. He remembered what he had told Sasuke yesterday when they had parted.
"About the gun, Sasuke…" he had said. Sasuke had tilted his head a little, but that was the only reaction he got. The raven's face had again become emotionless when they had come down from the roof. "…I'll tell you when I'm ready, okay?" Sasuke had nodded, and had seemed satisfied with that. As if Naruto would actually tell Sasuke about the gun.
Because that was the problem in the end. He could never tell Sasuke about who he was. Naruto could never say 'My name is Uzumaki Naruto' to Sasuke. He could never show Sasuke that he was a man.
And he could not let Sasuke under his skin, through his veins and into his heart. He could already feel that Sasuke had wormed himself too close. Probably not intentionally, but when he had smiled at Naruto with the wind blowing in his hair, Naruto had understood that this was something Sasuke didn't do just like that. He could not let Sasuke get too close.
Kiba, Chouji and Shikamaru were okay. They frankly didn't care about him that way. Sure, they were his friends, but they minded their own business and didn't press him for anything. Not that the Uchiha had come so far yet, but he could hear the warning bells in the back of his mind. And the worst of it, Naruto knew why they rang. It was not only because Sasuke was Sasuke, being curious (a closet curious person), it was the way Naruto was beginning to feel about him. The thought scared him.
Because if Sasuke ever felt like getting into Naruto's heart, Naruto would probably let him.
All because Sasuke was… special. In some kind of way.
And knowing that fact scared the shit out of Naruto.
Realising he had sunk down to the floor with his body now resting against 'the Great Pound Wall'. Naruto shook away the images from his head of what – or rather who – he could pound against, 'the Great Pound Wall' and raised himself from the floor. He dusted of his skirt while his eyes caught the eye of a redhead who was looking at him.
He had seen the redhead around before (he took the school's design class together with him) but he had never really acknowledged him. He had just been another face in the crowd, like everyone else. Naruto didn't really know anyone in that class, but he had spoken to several of them.
Redhead guy, however, seemed to be very quiet, and also sometimes, very alone.
Just as Naruto was about to ask him what he was looking at, the teacher came. Mr Hagane, a.k.a. Kotetsu, was the design and handicraft teacher. He held several classes in the school as the head of the design department, and Naruto liked him. Now, however, he put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, scaring Naruto to the point that he threw his books and papers all over the place, gasping in fright as Kotetsu laughed happily.
"Now, now Miss Shizuka! Can't go around and be easily scared like that!" Naruto growled and furrowed his eyebrows. What kind of teacher went around scaring their students in the first place? Kotetsu looked at him, and the older man's eyes darkened. "Class starts now. You better hurry and pick that up."
Naruto's hands followed the man's neck as he passed him on his way into the classroom, but he controlled the urge to strangle the man and dropped down to the floor instead, gathering his papers and books. 'Freaking teacher,' he thought as he held everything in a messy heap in his arms, stumbling into the classroom as the last one. Every pair of eyes followed him, and he mentally cursed as he saw that almost every seat was taken. Kotetsu cleared his throat, and Naruto hurried to the first empty seat his eyes could find. It was in the back row of the classroom, closest to the windows.
The desks in the classroom were ordered two and two, since the subject demanded lots of group assignments. Naruto noticed when he sat down quickly, trying not to drop his things again, that he had picked the seat next to redhead guy.
The boy stared at him, and Naruto noticed that he had dark circles underneath his eyes, and that he'd made a futile attempt to hide them underneath a thick layer of pitch-black eyeliner. His shockingly read bangs hung over his forehead, and close up he also saw a tattoo of some sort, with a Chinese or Japanese (Naruto didn't really care, after all) symbol. The boy also had really green eyes.
It took Naruto a few seconds to realise that the redhead had spoken to him.
"What?"
"I said, Fuck off," the guy snarled in a mere whisper.
Naruto felt himself getting confused.
"Why?" Had he done something?
"None of your business. Get lost."
'None of your business.' How well Naruto knew those words.
"I'm not leaving. If you want me to leave, you better have one good explanation." Naruto looked up a little, and added after a second, "Unless you have lice. That would probably make me leave too. But maybe that is a good explanation?"
The redhead growled and several kids and turned their seats. The word 'lice' went through the room rather quickly, since Naruto hadn't bother to whisper.
"I don't have lice," red head snarled, trying to save his pride and reputation, "if anyone has lice, it's you."
Naruto could only wonder why.
"Well, I'm not moving," he said, leaving the lice to their own. To prove that he wouldn't move an inch, he leaned back in the seat, making himself comfortable.
The redhead's eyes turned into slits.
"I'm a murderer. How's that for a reason?"
Naruto turned to face him, his hands folded behind his neck. 'A murderer huh?' He smirked a little.
"No, not good enough."
The other guy's eyes widened for a second. This was probably the first time someone hadn't put their legs on their back and run away at these words. His surprise however, was soon replaced by a scowl.
"I probably won't be able to control myself and kill you," he said.
"Not if I kill you first," Naruto retorted.
The redhead bit his lip, "Hanging around me will give you a bad reputation."
"Couldn't be any worse than it is now."
The boy looked at him questioningly.
"I'm the new girl," Naruto continued. This would surely shut the other guy up. He had probably heard something about Naruto. Not that Naruto minded. He had never in his whole life had a good reputation, so why should it matter now?
Redhead guy was quiet for awhile, and Naruto started to listen to the teacher.
"I'm not good to be around at all."
"I think I'll be the one to decide that."
"My dad's also a murderer."
"My dad's killed people too," Naruto was actually starting to find this entertaining. The poor guy was actually putting great effort into getting him to go away.
"Well my dad is a great Mafia leader."
Naruto felt his whole body tense up. Mafia huh? Maybe this guy was not so good to be around after all. Not for Naruto in his current position (he looked down on his boobs) at least.
"And… where's you dad now?"
The red head seemed satisfied with the reaction he had got.
"In prison."
Naruto felt himself relax. The feeling of needing to show this guy up suddenly came over him again.
"Well, my dad probably put him there."
Now it was the redhead guy's turn to tense up. Naruto could only imagine what went through his mind. 'A cop's daughter huh?' Probably not the best company for someone whose father was in the Mafia. The redhead tried a new track.
"My mother died giving birth to me."
"What a coincidence! Mine too!" Naruto was awfully amused.
"I haven't seen my dad since I was ten."
Naruto leaned closer and whispered in his ear.
"My dad is dead."
The battle was over: 8-0, Naruto.
"Can you two turtle doves be quiet and listen down there?"
Both Naruto and the redhead ignored the teacher. The redhead smirked and offered his hand to Naruto, who gladly took it.
"Sabakuno Gaara," he presented himself.
"Nanohara Shizuka. It's a pleasure to meet you."
After class, Naruto made Gaara come with him to meet his 'gang'. Naruto knew that they were already waiting for him to come, since they always met up on the breaks. His three friends looked up when the two boys approached them, Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, Chouji dropped his bag of chips and Kiba choked on the candy he'd just put in his mouth.
"Ah," Kiba said, rather loudly, "who's your friend, Shizuka?"
"You know perfectly well who I am, Inuzuka," Gaara snarled, wondering why the hell he had followed the blonde haired chick to these morons.
Kiba narrowed his eyes, "I guess I do," he pouted, and Naruto smiled at them.
"Come on," he said, waving with his arms, "it can't be that bad. You can't get any worse of a reputation hanging with Gaara here, than you'd get hanging with me."
Chouji picked up his neglected bag of chips and nodded thoughtfully. What Shizuka said actually made sense for once.
"Nanohara," Gaara said.
"What?"
"He's dating my sister."
Gaara pointed at Shikamaru, who for once changed his bored expression and looked sideways guiltily. Naruto grinned and hit Shikamaru rather hard in his shoulder.
"You don't say!" he exhaled. "Shikamaru, you didn't tell me you had a girlfriend!"
Shikamaru rubbed his injured shoulder, glaring at Naruto.
"Maybe I had a reason," he grumbled, making Kiba laugh out loud.
Naruto turned to Gaara who was still eying Shikamaru rather angrily, and Naruto pounded his back, making him fall forward into Shikamaru's knee. Gaara's sharp chin dug its way into Shikamaru's thigh, making Shikamaru wince from the pain it caused. Gaara also landed rather sharply on the ground, which meant that it wasn't only his chin that took damage from the fall, but his knees too. The brunet and the redhead looked up angrily at Naruto, who only laughed together with Kiba and Chouji.
"Look, you already have something in common!" Naruto laughed. Shikamaru and Gaara stared at him, before he continued, "You both are weaker than a girl!"
The two boys threw themselves at him, not in order to hurt him, but to tickle. How they could guess than Naruto was horribly ticklish was scary, and soon Naruto couldn't even breathe from all the struggling and laughing.
At last being able to worm himself out from under the two boys, Naruto rested on his hands and knee's catching his breath. Gaara and Shikamaru had (to his surprise, since the two of them were both very quiet and… stoic characters) gone over to tickle each other, and Naruto was happy to be free. Kiba and Chouji were cheering them on, and Naruto was going to start too, when he saw something that bothered him in his eye corner.
Of course, as it had been the last time, it was Sasuke.
And the image of Sasuke's smiling face once again entered his mind, and he felt a blush creeping up his cheeks. Sasuke was looking directly at him, and was heading his way, with a faint smile on his lips. Naruto suddenly felt himself being breathless.
Why? Why did Sasuke have to be so freaking beautiful? Why wouldn't he let Naruto's heart be, without even trying to steal it? Why did he look so happy to see Naruto?
Now all the blood in Naruto travelled to his face. He had to get out of here. He couldn't let Sasuke take that last step. Quickly he turned back to his friends.
"I have to go," he hurried his words, "I… forgot something in the classroom. Take care of Gaara for me!" Before they could say anything else, Naruto waved at them and ran away, leaving four silent boys, and one confused Uchiha Sasuke behind him.
"What the hell is her problem?"
Two pair of eyes watched him walking around in his room, only stopping now and then to randomly kicked the chair Sai sat on. Not that is was Sai's fault, no. The black haired boy had only chosen a very bad place to sit – in the way of Sasuke's fuming. The three pale, dark haired boys were currently spending their afternoon in Sasuke's room, which at least two of the boys were beginning to regret.
"Sasuke, are you sure you're not overacting?" Neji asked him carefully. Neither Sai nor he had got any other reaction for weeks from the Uchiha, and even though they weren't the closest friends, the two of them had actually become worried.
Neji had first met Sasuke the year he went into the second grade at school, and Sasuke had just started the first. Since Neji was a year older, and also the youngest All Class Representative (A.C.R.), he had been given the honour of showing the new students the school; he had been introduced to the young Uchiha pretty early on. Sasuke had been like him, if not worse – quiet, calm, and amazingly hard working. He had never gotten to know Sasuke that well, in fact he didn't know much more about the boy than that he hated both this school and his brother.
But Neji had never (never!) seen Sasuke acting like he was right now. The Uchiha's usually pale face was beet red in anger, and he had practically stopped all his school work.
And the one who made Sasuke act this way?
None other than the amazing Nanohara Shizuka.
The girl hadn't even been at the school for two months, but even so she had succeeded in screwing the raven's head up. And Neji had to admit, he too had been pretty amazed by Miss Nanohara.
Neji looked with compassion on Sai, whose chair was again kicked rather harshly, almost making him fall off. The Hyuuga didn't know if he should be glad or sad that Sai hadn't met the new girl yet.
"I am not overacting!" Sasuke growled as Neji actually took the opportunity to grab the back of his pants and drag him down on the bed. Usually he was not allowed on Sasuke's bed, but since Sasuke hadn't said anything so far…
"I think you are, Sasuke," Sai said, smiling like always (though Neji saw a vein throbbing slightly on his forehead), "I haven't seen you this worked up since…" Sai went silent.
"We've never seen you like this," Neji finished instead of Sai.
Sasuke closed his eyes and let his back fall onto the bed, his legs still placed on the floor. He opened his mouth and closed it a couple of times, before he settled for a heavy sigh instead. Sai came over to them, also crawling onto the bed together with the other two. He bent down over Sasuke, still smiling.
"Yeah. Never. Care to share your thoughts, Sasu?"
When Sasuke only glared at Sai at the nickname, Neji inwardly gasped. If Sasuke had been himself, Sai would be a patient in the nurse's office right now. Instead, the duck butt sighed again.
"She's ignoring me."
The sentence was followed by a thick silence. Sai and Neji looked into each others eyes. They would never have thought that they one day would help Sasuke with girl problems.
"Who?" Sai asked stupidly.
Neji rolled his eyes along with Sasuke, who didn't even dignify himself by answering.
"One day she's all nice and… I don't know… actually… okay."
For Sasuke thinking a girl was 'okay' was a huge step.
"And then she just avoids me. Like I did something!"
Neji leaned back into the dark wall, thinking. In fact, that was very weird. Any girl at school would be overly thrilled with having Sasuke this interested in them. But this girl, she confused the hell out of them. It was almost like she withstood Sasuke's manly charm, as if a mosquito could withstand the light from a lamp.
"Why are you letting her under your skin, Sasu?"
The question hung in air for a couple of minutes, before Sasuke was finished with his thinking.
"I… have absolutely no idea."
And that was true. Sasuke had no idea why he'd let her under his skin. Ever since he was thirteen years old he had never let anyone too close to his heart. He had trapped the big muscle inside his chest. Not even Neji or Sai could get any further inside that they already were.
Maybe it was the way… Shizuka had opened up her heart to him? Maybe her being so open minded, light hearted and plain happy made his heart wanna go along? Maybe the fact that she had shared a piece of her childhood with him made him feel special? But in the end, he didn't even know her. That story she had told him could be something she made up (but Sasuke had to admit that his heart didn't believe so). She wasn't really pretty, but Sasuke actually felt himself wanting to see her smile directed at him over and over again.
The tan colour of her body only made that want worse, along with the bright blonde of her hair and those beautiful blue eyes…
Both Sai and Neji jumped as Sasuke abruptly sat up in the bed. He could feel their eyes looking at him questioningly.
Maybe he was actually… attracted to her?
She was tall, she had long, nice legs. She looked funny, but in a way, very charming.
Thinking of Shizuka naked in his bed made his face turn red again (not from anger this time) and his heart sped up.
His pale hand found its way to his lips.
'Oh god.'
Sasuke was up on his both feet and running out of the door. He didn't care that he left both Neji and Sai in his room. His legs moved on their own to Shizuka's room, knocking several times on the door. When he didn't get a reaction from either the door or anyone who could be on the other side, he ran out into the school yard. It was afternoon, and he couldn't imagine where the stupid chick could be.
But one thing he was certainly sure of was that this time she couldn't avoid him.
Running through the yard which was now empty, Sasuke stopped. What was he thinking? That he could find her by just running? He had no clue where she could be, he didn't even know where she usually went when she wasn't in her room.
Sasuke ran a frustrated hand though his hair.
He was almost certain that he was beginning to hate her.
Not caring what he did at the moment, he sat down in the grass, his hands laid over his knees. How could she make him lose his head like that? Here he was, a desperate man sitting in the grass in full view of everyone inside, chasing after some weird girl.
Sasuke shut his eyes tightly and let his body fall down on the ground. Groaning, he turned his head to the left and opened his eyes.
A pair of sock-clad legs was seen behind a building.
For those wondering why Naruto was currently sitting underneath a tree, sleeping in the cold autumn air it was rather simple. When he had been walking back to his dorm that same afternoon, he had seen Sasuke, Neji and some other dark haired guy (why did they all have dark hair and pale skin by the way?) and he had stopped dead in his tracks. He had managed to successfully avoid Sasuke for some weeks now (three to be exact) and he was not going to fail today. Before any of the boys could turn around and spot him, Naruto had bounced back outside again, only to be met by a half empty schoolyard. There was no chance that his friends were still outside, not when the weather was turning so cold at this time of year, making them change their meeting spot.
No, for as far as Naruto knew, he was really alone.
And he was also really tired.
Having the feeling of always being chased by Sasuke made it hard for him to seep. He had made his way to the other side of the medicine building, just wandering about. He wondered if this was what the rest of the year would be like. It was fine during lessons – he didn't have any together with Sasuke. Gaara and the three brunets got along fine with each other, so they weren't a problem. Naruto had even met Shikamaru's girlfriend and Gaara's sister, Temari, and Kiba had confessed that he too had a second half – a shy girl named Hyuuga Hinata, who turned out to be Neji's cousin. How those two ended up together (as well as Temari and Shikamaru) was beyond his imagining, but he guessed that sometimes people just matched.
Naruto didn't dare to think like that about him and Sasuke.
However, he had been brought back from his thoughts by a giant oak standing proudly. The leaves had turned orange, brown, yellow and red, some of them having fallen onto the grass.
This, he had thought whilst looking up at the beautiful tree, would be alright to nap under.
And it was like that Sasuke found him two hours later, sleeping peacefully.
Sasuke watched her chest rise and fall from her deep breathing, and a warm feeling settled inside his chest. This was the second time he'd found her sleeping, and she was as charming now as then. She had her school uniform on, and was hugging herself tightly to somewhat escape from the chilly wind. Her blonde hair fell over her tan face, and her pink lips pouted slightly.
This time she didn't drool though.
Sasuke didn't know what he was going to do; wake her up or let her be. But evening was approaching, and the sun was setting. It would be pretty cold soon.
He knelt down next to her. She shifted slightly under his gaze, but she didn't seem to wake up. She actually looked to be caught in a deep sleep, as though she wouldn't wake up if he didn't do anything.
Being so much closer to her, Sasuke was enchanted by lips that looked so soft.
Would he dare?
Would he dare to do something he would never have thought he would ever try?
Would he dare to kiss her?
Just a little.
On her lips.
Just for once become a thief and steal something.
A kiss.
Slowly inching closer, Sasuke shakily breathed out as his lips met hers. They really were soft; almost softer than he would have believed. A tingle went from the contact between their lips to his brain, travelling further down to his toes. To think that a small thing like a kiss would have such a big impact on him.
Not being able to hold back anymore, he pressed closer, enjoying the contact more than he had enjoyed anything before.
Naruto himself was floating on a cloud up in the sky. He didn't know what was happening, but he felt really good. Something was trying to bring him back from the heaven, and when he opened his eyes, he found an angel kissing his lips. Pale skin so close to him, dark hair brushing his forehead…
It felt wonderful.
Naruto pressed back, satisfied with the mewl that was suddenly heard from the angel.
It was a shame angels didn't exist.
If they did, he would definitely take this one home and kiss it forever.
But angels didn't exist as far as he knew.
And the human in front of him was none other than Uchiha Sasuke.
When reality at last hit him, he placed his two large hands on Sasuke's shoulders, and pushed him away. The Uchiha fell down on his butt with a surprised yelp, and Naruto was quick to stand up and brush off his skirt (oh how weird it felt). Sasuke looked up at him from the ground, smirking.
"What the hell do you think you're doing you fucking bastard!" Sasuke shivered at the low voice Shizuka had used. Sasuke didn't answer, just continued to smirk happily. Shizuka's eyes were blazing, but Sasuke could see that it wasn't from anger directed at Sasuke himself. No, that anger he had seen when he had found the gun.
This was different.
Naruto growled and stomped away. Behind him he heard Sasuke inhale some air, before he yelled.
"There's no need to stay away from me Shizuka!"
Naruto continued walking, ignoring the Uchiha.
"Whenever you close your eyes, I'll be there to steal a kiss!"
Naruto let out a frustrated howl before he turned around the corner of the building.
Sasuke remained in his spot underneath the tree. Yes, Shizuka had been mad. But Sasuke was neither worried nor scared.
Because he had felt Shizuka respond in the kiss.
To Be Continued
