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SasuxSai fanfic
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Can I Hold Your Hand?
Chapter: Swimming with the shark
At school the next day
Upon arrival Sai was greeted by Naruto "The most amazing thing happened yesterday!" the loud blond stretched out his arms as if to show how yesterday was. Sai didn't pay attention to him, just pretended to listen "Me and Hinata" that's when every word of the blonde's words went in one ear and through the other.
Nothing could be amazing when it had anything to do with the two. At least Sai didn't think so, because 99.9% of everything that Naruto had told the emotionless boy was utter crap.
Pure lovey dovey shit. There was nothing amazing about it. If you wanted to tell Sai something amazing it better have flying cows in it.
"She told me I was amazing!" Naruto said twirling around while Sai tried to avoid his flying arms "She must be easy to satisfy then"the blonde stopped and blinked a couple of times "what do you mean?" he questioned hasting his speed.
"What do you mean, what do I mean?" Sai was confusing Naruto "Obviously I meant that your equipment can't be that satisfying" the blonde was now going berserk throwing punches at Sai which he easily dodged with limited movements.
"Entertaining," a husky voice behind Sai was heard. Not needing to turn to look for who it was, Sai already knew it was Sasuke.
"Sai, don't you have anything else to do rather than making people like me miserable!" Naruto whined pouting his mouth in an attempt to look sulky "It's my everyday medication" he said frankly as he fake smiled.
"I don't know how you got it to a different situation, Sai. I was clearly saying how amazing I was when I saved the turtle" Naruto said scratching the back of his head, while pulling an expression of confusion on his face.
Sai wouldn't be in this somewhat troublesome position if he had listened. What made it so troublesome was that Sasuke was behind, he was going to get so teased now.
"… I knew… that" Sai tried to sound convincing but it failed. As it failed a chuckling sound was heard behind him, he knew what was going to happen now.
"You little pervert" Sasuke teased elbowing him into his arm, walking away, leaving a laughing Naruto with a blank faced Sai.
"It wasn't that funny" the onyx haired male said watching the fox like boy holding his stomach while laughing "y-you bwahah pervert" students walking by were staring at Naruto then at him, some were giving him strange looks while the other half gave him thumbs up.
'great, I'm officially the pervert of the school'
At the swimming hall
The boys and girls had two different swimming halls, for several reasons. Sai wasn't going to participate today, so he had to find the teacher and ask if he could take a walk instead.
Entering the big door to the swimming hall he saw several groups of people with different teachers, at different pools. As he looked around he finally found his teacher Gai with those bushy eyebrows.
Looking at the group Gai was a hold of, he noticed some familiar faces, one of them being more familiar than the others. It was Sasuke and his minions with other unknown students.
The P.E teacher noticed the much too dressed boy "I take it you're not going to participate" his left brow twitched at him "What's your excuse?" Gai questioned getting all the other student's to pierce their gaze at the emotionless male.
'think think think' Sai chanted in his mind, trying to get an excuse that would clear his situation, not getting much time to think he quickly answered "My body is very fragile today, I will regain my youthful powers again next week" he hoped that it would work.
Gai made a thumbs up "I understand! There is nothing more important than youth!" 'mission complete'
Someone in the group of male's cleared his throat "The body doesn't regain its strength by just lying around" Sasuke said crossing his arms while plastering a confidential look on his face.
Sai just wanted to throw a dagger or something at him for opening his venomous mouth. Gai was now looking at the onyx haired male to counter attack Sasuke 'great'
"With time it does" Sai explained, piercing his dark eyes into the seniors abyss like ones, this was a struggle of power.
Sasuke gained the teachers attention "You do realize that he's deceiving you? He wouldn't be saying stuff like 'power of youth' if it wasn't to trick you from letting him go easily"
'damn you Sasuke' why was the senior so agitating?
Gai nodded his head slightly, when he turned his gaze to Sai he looked scary "Go change to shorts and a t-shirt! You are not going to get away!" the emotionless male clenched his jaw and forced a fake smile onto his lips "Fine" he could barely say the word. As he walked away he heard the boys laugh and tell Sasuke what a genius he was 'Today will be hell to pay' he thought as a muscle tugged at one of his mouth corners.
After 7 minutes of getting dressed he went back to his group. The males were all in the water ready for their laps.
"Sai, if one of the volleyballs comes over here from any of the other groups, you hand it to them, understood?" the teacher said with a serious tone, as if someone's life depended on it, with a single nod movement he told the teacher that he understood.
"also.. Could you go get coffee for the teachers?" now this was becoming too troublesome, hell, he didn't want to slave around!
Gritting his teeth he went to get the coffee, but was suddenly attacked with a splash of water soaking the side of the shirt and shorts, not missing the face or the hair. He wiped his cheek with the palm of his hand and looked to the side to catch a view of a smirking devil 'no mercy' that's what it was gonna be.
No mercy mode activated
They had done 10 warm up laps by the time Sai came back with the coffee and handed them to the teachers.
"Alright boys!" Gai said raising his voice "Y'all will swim 100 laps!" Everyone was waiting for his go, while Sai stood there cross armed watching the guys all lined in a row "Gai" Sai voiced up getting his attention as he stared his dark eyes at Sasuke "Don't you think Sasuke has a great physique? He would have no problem doing 500 laps"
As the senior heard the suggestion he quickly eyed Sai who gave him one of his famous fake smiles.
The P.E teacher nodded while scratching his chin "You're absolutely right kiddo!" Gai said as he hit a fist to his palm "Sasuke, 500 laps!" the raven haired boy wanted to protest but didn't want anyone to doubt his strength.
As Sai watched the senior swim he couldn't help but notice how fast he was, his arms were almost like torpedoes.
After the 100 laps everyone left the pool to join the volleyball game, except for Sasuke. Watching him now, he didn't look exhausted at all, it was like he had just started 'is he some kind of monstrous fish?' he thought for himself as he walked at the side of the pool.
"Are you sure you're a human?" Sai questioned the swimming senior who decided to not answer him "Ah, I see, I'm on your ignore list" he said knowingly sitting at the edge with his feet in the water.
Sai looked around if there was a teacher in sight 'none' his minor evil deed was about to take place, he just had to wait for the right opportunities.
When Sasuke was about to swim past the sitting boy a splash of water came his way, his short temper was soon going to boom.
Sai continued doing so for the next two times, but the third time the raven stopped and pulled his wet hair back with his palm "What do you want?"
The younger male cocked his head to the side so it was leaning on his shoulder, as he fake smiled "Attention"
Sasuke looked at the playful boy who splashed some water on him by using his feet. He quickly tried to block most of it with his arms "Ah, you got some water on you" Sai ironically said letting out a small chuckle, surprising himself as much as the other male.
"pff, what a girly chuckle you have" Sasuke said looking to the side,
"If mine is girly yours sound like an old man" Sai countered getting a glare out of the raven,
"You've never heard me"
"I did this morning"
Silence…
Sai wanted to disrupt the awkward silence so he decided to splash the senior again, but this time Sasuke grabbed his leg "gotcha," he smirked at the trapped teen who tried to use the other leg to get loose but got that one caught too.
Double ouch,
"I surrender," Sai said quickly knowing that Sasuke had a hold of him. The senior didn't loosen his grip just yet "You think it's that easy to get away?" the raven said as he got closer to the younger male, until Sasuke had a good hold of his knees.
"H-hey" Sai stuttered as he felt his knees bend at the warm wrapping arms around them. Sasuke was too close, his head was getting hot and dizzy at the strange situation "You better tell me things I want to hear right now," Sasuke said in a confidence drenched tone.
Sai wrinkled his eyebrows in an attempt to look mad, but it turned out to look more like a hurt deer than anything else.
"Go on" Sasuke said pinching him on the hollow of the knee, the junior was surprised at the sudden pain, his leg moved without him thinking about getting it out of Sasuke's tight grip. But he didn't bulge, neither did his arm.
"You're the best of a bunch" Sai said in a monotone, the raven had an expression of not being satisfied "nah, continue"
"You're the most.." Sai paused getting a curious look from Sasuke "unbelievable.." the senior was waiting "..Jerk I've ever met, you suck" he finished and tried to back away from Sasuke.
"If that's how you want it," the older male grabbed Sai by his shirt and flung him to the side, making a splashing noise as he hit the water.
He quickly balanced himself onto his feet as he pushed himself onto the surface of the water, panting lightly he said "I'm going to kill you" frowning irritatingly at him Sasuke gave him a smirk "I'd like to see you try"
Sai mimicked the senior as he used his hands to push him up onto the solid surface, but before he could even get one of his knees on the edge, two hands made their way to his hips and pulled him backwards falling into the water yet again.
He spit out the water from his mouth and wiped his face with his already wet hand "You really suck" Sai sulkily said turning his back to face the senior. He placed his arms on the edge resting his head onto his hands.
He felt a slight wave of water vibrating his bare legs, looking out of the corner of his eyes was the agitating senior "Hah, are you sulking?" Sasuke said as he knocked his finger bone onto the relaxed male's head "Do you realize how often you've changed expressions today?"
Sai looked over at the taller boy who was leaning his back onto the edge "… I have?" Sasuke was giving an are you dumb look "Can't people feel those kind of things," the raven said in a sardonic tone which made the junior think about it.
"I thought those were twitches" he explained thinking further more into it "hn," Sasuke let out. Sai straightened himself up "I think it's maybe one of those times when I really want to beat you badly" he explained "the feeling is annoying, I'd rather not have it" he added quickly.
Sasuke choked a chuckle "hrm.. really" he said watching the somewhat shorter male "You get it when you feel angry, mad, irritated or annoyed" Sai met the dark crystal eyes of his senior "no shit," he began "I'll end up seriously hurting you if you don't end it," Sai said hitting his fist slightly onto the older male's chest.
"Was that supposed to hurt?" Sasuke said sarcastically, receiving a fake smile "Why? You wanted it to hurt?" Sai said getting out of the pool "Sadist" Sai added as he walked away.
After a while,
Gai approached the relaxed senior at the edge, following behind him was Sai "Did you finish your laps?" the teacher asked the sitting Sasuke "Yes," he answered ruffling his hair. The younger male had a plan up his sleeves "He's lying, I've been counting his laps" Sai said fake smiling while wagging a finger at the senior.
The bushy brows of the teacher wrinkled "Re-do them!" he said striding away. Sasuke gave the teen his middle finger meanwhile Sai waved his hand at him. Gai stopped in his tracks and turned as he called for the junior "You'll remain here until Sasuke is finished with his laps," Sai was going to protest, but as soon as he opened his mouth Gai countered "No buts!"
Leaving the swimming hall with the other students. Now they were all alone "Look what you got us into" Sasuke said giving him a glare of death. Sai didn't find this situation any comforting "It just backfired" the emotionless boy said in disappointment.
"Just wait for a while, then we'll leave" Sasuke said standing up from the edge and stretching his arms "Good idea" Sai said sarcastically 'now that didn't run through my thoughts, idiot'
BUZZ!
"I HEARD THAT! YOU BETTER NOT LEAVE UNTIL YOU FINISH!"
BUZZ!
Both males were startled by the sudden voice echoing through the swimming hall "what the hell?" the senior cursed looking over at Sai "You read my mind" the junior said referring to the cursing.
Sai clapped his hands "I'll stand here and cheer for you," Sasuke wrinkled his forehead "I'm not going to swim" he protested ruffling his hair.
"Fine, then just wait until bushybrow leaves" Sai said quietly "what?" was the seniors reply, making Sai understand that he couldn't hear from that distance. So the junior approached him and repeated his whisper.
Both were waiting for that buzzing sound to be heard, but it didn't come to their relief.
"Let's wait for 10 minutes to be sure," the senior said being too sure that he would be gone by then "hey Sasuke," Sai said in a monotone getting the older male's attention "If it's a favor, don't." That was his idea, Sai was going to ask if he could get a ride home.
"How did you know I was going to ask for a favor?" Sai said curiously, thinking that the older male could possibly be a mind reader.
"You always address me by name when you want anything," Sasuke said reaching out his hand to ruffle the shorter boy's hair "what a mess," the raven said smirking.
Sai was quite taken a back at the sudden ruffle, but what was more surprising was that Sasuke had taken notice to that little detail. He hadn't thought about it, that he usually called him by name when he asked for favors.
Sai didn't know why he was getting caught up in that, so he just shook it off. Sometimes he just thought about things more than he should.
The junior straightened his hair out "don't ruin my hair,"
Sasuke mentally raised his eyebrow "It can't possibly get any worse,"
Sai stopped his movements to look at the senior's hair "yours doesn't look that good either"
10 mins after, now outside the swimming hall
They had managed to get away from there undetected, not that they saw any teachers around anyway. It was just the people at the reception, and they weren't really taking notes as to what they were up to.
Sai's hair was still damp from the little fun he and Sasuke had. Now he just wanted to get back home take a shower and put on his comfortable pajamas.
The raven haired male looked back at Sai as if to say hurry up "If you're going to be that slow, you won't get a ride" Sai picked up his pace until he was by the seniors side.
RIING RIING
The senior's phone vibrated in his pocket as he pulled it out to answer "what?" he answered sounding as if he hadn't slept for a while.
"I don't have time," Sasuke explained to the other person over the phone. Sai could make out that it was a female at the other end of the phone, as he heard it coming from the cell phone 'why does he need it to be that loud'
"whatever" Sasuke said with irritation, "I don't care if you come or not"
Sai could hear the senior getting hotheaded "That isn't my problem,"
"Do that, see if I care" Sasuke said with venom in every word as he closed the phone and tightened his grip around it.
Sai decided to speak up "You know, I can always take the bus home.. I think it's better for me to leave you alone," 'what am I thinking?' he mentally slapped himself for saying no to a free ride.
Sasuke looked into Sai's onyx orbs for a few second, then he retreated his gaze "No, I'll take you home"
"Why, are you afraid that I might get kidnapped otherwise?" Sai fake smiled, to irritate him so he would change his mind about driving him. The reason why Sai had changed his mind was because he didn't want Sasuke to lash out on him.
Why did he care about that?
Was he finally starting to like Sasuke as a person?
He didn't know. What is like?
The attempt at making Sasuke annoyed was a flat out failure "Who would want to kidnap you," the senior said not looking at the boy beside him.
"Then I should be going," Sai turned to the right to take the shortcut, but a hand grabbed his wrist "I didn't say you could leave" Sasuke said dragging him to his direction "So you're kidnapping me?" the younger male said in a monotone "Call it whatever you like," Sasuke replied.
End
Note: omg, they are finally getting on the way to friendship! Now that took some time. I am going to write the next chapter tomorrow, and upload it when it's finished and I have time : )
