Chapter Eleven
Naruto stood in a line as he was waiting to get in the bus. All of his classmates stood in-front of him, he sighed and looked in the distance. He soon spotted Sasuke, that already was sitting in the bus, with his head rested on the back of his palm, he had a bored expression written all over his face. Naruto knew he'd get in the bus before everyone else, his fangirls of course wouldn't let anyone get past him.
Finally everyone got in the bus, Naruto sighed and sat on the right row, next to the window. A random girl sat next him, with a face full of disgust, he payed her no attention. He was used to this by now, receiving death glares from everyone, almost everyday, was now normal to him.
He rested his head on his hand and stared outside the window. The blond didn't know why, but he kinda felt excited today, even though he hinted that no one would talk to him, or even look at him. He was happy, he finally had an excuse to skip work and skip tutoring with Sasuke, not that Sasuke's tutoring was something bad, but he didn't like bothering him in anyway.
Naruto glanced at Sasuke, that was staring outside the window, just like him, but he seemed deep in thought, the blond sighed and leaned back in his seat. What was he thinking about? Naruto was very curious, but he couldn't go and ask him what he was thinking about, maybe if they were friends like before, he would've, but now things changed, and are very different.
The bus went to a complete halt making Naruto's body shift to the front as it stopped. Well it looks like they finally made it to their destination. Most of the students groaned as they got up to exit the bus hence they were headed to a carnival, they thought it was childish and boring, but Naruto disagreed with them, he thought they were brats who didn't appreciate what they had, and sadly he was right, unlike Naruto, they had a good life comparing to his pitiful one, and that's what made him angry. Not appreciating what you have, is something terrible.
The Uzumaki got up and exited the bus, just like the others. He slightly stretched inhaling the fresh air, and followed his classmates.
Everyone stopped in a place filled with benches and tables that were made for picnics, Naruto thought that they were headed to a carnival not to a park. That's when he turned his head to see the principal; Tsunade and his teacher that was always wearing a mask that covered half of his face. Naruto furrowed his eye brows in confusion, he didn't know the principal and his teachers would be joining them on this trip.
Tsunade ordered everyone to sit down for a fifteen minute rest, before she would inform them on what to do.
Naruto sat down alone a picnic table, while girls were fighting to win a seat with Sasuke and others just sat down with their friends, Naruto frowned slightly as stared down at his lap. Everyone preferred to sit in a crowed table then to sit down with him, his heart stung at the thought. His eye sight started to get blury. No, he couldn't cry, he was a man, he had to man up and at least try to act tough. He wiped his wet eyes with the back of his palm and gulped the lump in his throat. Naruto then rose his head and looked at everyone else, some flirting, others were playing tricks on each-other and some were pushing them selves off the table while laughing. Why couldn't be like that? Why couldn't enjoy his time like the others? He soon tried not to think about it and replaced those thoughts with positive ones, even though he didn't have that many positive memories, he just didn't want to be negative right here and right now.
Tsunade sighed, as she looked at the blond, slightly frowning she crossed her arms over her chest in a quite tight matter. The masked teacher noticed this and glanced at her.
"It's Naruto, isn't it," He said. Tsunade looked at him before nodding.
"Yeah, he's having a tough time, everyone's ignoring him, even at a time like this," She said, sighing once again.
"Poor kid, I guess people aren't accepting as they seem to be,"
"And they're giving him a hard time, he's supposed to forget about everything and enjoy his time here, not make him pity himself about the life he's living." She sighed, sitting down. The masked teacher sat down beside her on the bench, trying to comfort her.
"Then what do you plan to do on that?" He asked and she massaged her temples.
"I don't know,"
"How about this trip, are you going to serpret everyone in groups or let them go one by one?" He asked again, and Tsunade looked at him with a smile that soon widened.
"That's it! Kakashi you're a genius!" The man; Kakashi gave her a puzzled look.
"What're you planning to do?" She just smiled at his question, and didn't answer it.
After the fifteen minutes have passed, she gained everyone's attention, and looked at them one by one, everyone had shivers run through down their spine, they were afraid that they might have down something wrong and were going to get punished any moment now.
"Okay, instead of everyone going with a group of friends, we've decided to let you guys go, two by two; it's safer this way and much more easier." She smiled, and everyone groaned. "But," She said, and gained everyone's attention again. "I'm going to pick these small groups," She gave everyone a closed eyed smile.
Everyone groaned even louder, now they had no chance of being with the person they wanted to be with, but Naruto didn't payed no attention to them, he knew who ever he'd go with would just ignore him, besides he also knew he wouldn't be partnered with Sasuke, so he was calm and collected.
"Before, I pick everyone's partner, I wanted to say that you have to be back here at three o'clock sharp," Tsunade said and everyone nodded. Since it was twelve pm they had only three hours, most of the students sighed in relief at this thought.
Tsunade started picking students who she saw cute together, even though they never spoken to each-other she partnered them, which made everyone annoyed. Two by two students started leaving, some boys were partnered with boys and some were a girls with boys. It didn't matter to Tsunade whoever looked cute together would be partnered whether they liked it or not.
Naruto looked around to see Sasuke still sitting down, with an annoyed expression washed on his face, his heart beat increased. No, no, no he couldn't be partnered with Sasuke, he was just imagining things, of course he wouldn't be partnered with him, there were still more students sitting down, maybe the principle was waiting for the right time. The blond looked around to see only four more students including him and Sasuke, oh no. What was Tsunade thinking? Naruto prayed that he'd get called on to go with that random student but he was unfortunate. Tsunade called on him and Sasuke.
"Oh, it seems you guys are the last pair," She smiled innocently at the two. "Have fun!" She said and left the boys alone. Naruto stared at her dumbfounded and Sasuke just face palmed. Of course she planned for all of this, but maybe they're going to change for the worse. Naruto's heart beat increased once more, now he was with Sasuke, the last person that wanted to see him. Oh how was he going to deal with this?
Sasuke hid his hands in his pockets and started walking, leaving Naruto behind. Naruto noticed this and caught up, walking behind him. The whiskered teen lowered his head and stared at the ground, slightly frowning, he bit his lower lip.
"Which ride do you wanna go on first?" Sasuke asked, catching Naruto off guard making him raise his head and stare at Sasuke who was searching for the right ride to go on. He felt his heart skip a beat, making his heart flutter in excitement.
"I'm okay with any ride," he simply said.
"So you aren't afraid of heights?" Sasuke asked, raising an eyebrow questioning him.
"No," The blond said, shaking his head in decline.
"Okay then lets go on the roller coasters," Sasuke said, walking. Naruto nodded, and instead of walking behind him, he walked beside him.
Naruto raised his head to hear screams from the roller coaster, he gulped, oh boy, this was going to be a long ride, Naruto thought. The two teens waited until the coaster stopped. Everyone got off, some with green faces, others were barfing and some were even laughing. Naruto gulped the lump in his throat and sat down, Sasuke sat in-front of him, while he sat in the back. The coaster started moving slowly and the speed soon increased. The Uzumaki hasn't ever went on a coaster he was sure this was his first time. He felt his hair, fly in the rapid wind as he hung on tight to the coasters belt, he smiled ever so widely as he started giggling. It was fun. The ride was incredible he never found something this amusing before, he soon couldn't take it anymore and let his arms go, while screaming loudly, he screamed like there was no tomorrow, luckily it was combined with the other screams, so no one noticed it was that loud, but he didn't care. There were no fucks given that day.
The ride eventually came to a stop, alerting everyone to got off the ride. Sasuke groggily got up with a slightly green face, holding his head, he tried to get his balance back. While Naruto got off laughing, he placed his hand over his mouth in attempt to calm down, from laughing too hard, but of course it was no use. Sasuke glanced at Naruto, when was it the last time he laughed like this? He never heard him, laugh like this before.
"That was fun!" Naruto giggled, smiling widely. Sasuke just stared at him, with shock. Naruto noticed this and looked at him, frowning.
"Is there something wrong? Didn't you like the ride?" Naruto asked, with concern. The Uchiha looked at him and walked away with his hand into his pockets. Naruto caught up, walking behind him, frowning. 'Did I do something wrong?' Naruto asked himself. 'Maybe it's cause I have a weird smile or a ugly laugh, or maybe he wants to be partnered with someone else' Naruto frowned lowering his head, one minute he was happy, and the second he was already sad. He loved that feeling of happiness, but he was afraid to be happy, because every-time he was, something happened to him making him regret lots of things in his life.
Naruto just followed, not daring to mutter another word. Sasuke soon came into a complete halt making the smaller male bump into his back. Naruto raised his head, slightly rubbing his forehead, he could've sworn he hit a rock. He uttered a 'sorry' before Sasuke turned around to look at him.
"Wanna get some ice-cream?" Sasuke asked, looking at the blond. Naruto's eyes widened, wait...what just happened? The shorter male just nodded, from the shock. The Uchiha lead him to a close ice-cream shop, he ordered two ice-creams, and took his, gesturing to Naruto to take his share. After the blond took it, he started thinking about what was going on and In result Naruto squeezing the cone to hard, from Sasuke's weird actions, it fell on his shoe, he didn't even get to lick it. He frowned and slightly pouted and whispered an 'aww'. Sasuke noticed this and sighed handing his, to the blue eyed male. Naruto looked at him with confusion.
"Take it, Sasuke simply stated.
"But it's yours, I can't-"Naruto was cut off by Sasuke.
"I don't like sweets anyways, so it's no big deal," Naruto first heisted but soon took it smiling.
"Thank you," He said smiling, a real genuine one.
"Hn." Came Sasuke's famous reply, which proved him to be a real Uchiha. The two teens sat down on a close bench near by, Naruto started eating his ice-cream while Sasuke was looking at the distance. After the blond finished his ice-cream, he glanced at Sasuke, curious at what he may be looking for.
"Is there something wrong?" Naruto asked. Sasuke just shook his head.
"I'm just looking for more rides," Sasuke replied. "got any you'd like to go on?" Naruto's face lit up as he quickly nodded.
"I'd like to go on the Ferris Wheel," He said getting up, pointing at the gigantic wheel but after a few seconds when Sasuke gave no reaction, to Naruto's request, the blond frowned a bit.
"I mean, if you'd like to go," Naruto, muttered more like whispered as he bit his lip. It soon became a bad habit of the blond to bite his lower lip whenever he was nervous.
"Fine, let's go," Sasuke said, getting up, and dug his hands in his pockets as he walked to the wheel with the blond behind him. After they bought tickets, they waited in the line and soon entered on of the cabins, the teens sat down, and closed the door, a few seconds later the rode started and the cabin got higher and higher from the ground, The Uzumaki stared at the beautiful view, with a small smile on his lips, Sasuke noticed this and glanced at him, confused.
"Weren't you excited a few moments ago? What's wrong now?" Sasuke asked and Naruto looked at him with a shocked expression and hided it with a fake smile.
"No, it's fantastic, rea-" Naruto said and was cut off by Sasuke.
"Is it because you think, I don't want to be partnered with you?"The Uchiha asked.
"I- yeah..." Naruto lowered his head, nodding. The dark haired male, sighed and looked at him.
"It's not, don't worry," Sasuke said,"Just...just enjoy your time here and forget about everything else," He said leaning back in the seat. Naruto raised his head, and glanced at Sasuke, who's eyes were closed with his hands behind his smaller male, felt butterfly's in his stomach as he heard those wonderful words of concern leave Sasuke's mouth, he finally made sure that he didn't hate him anymore, but he still had a long way ahead of him in making things clear with Sasuke, but he knew he was doing it right.
The teens spent their time riding various rides, some were picked by Sasuke, and some were picked by the Uzumaki. Time soon flew by as they both had fun, even though Sasuke wouldn't ever admit it, but he truly did have a wonderful time with Naruto. The teens made their way back to where the bus was, along with their classmates to avoid the anger of their scary principle. Naruto looked at his classmates, and instead of seeing them have that bored expression they had when they got here, they had smiles on their faces along with laughs and giggles were heard with their partners, it seemed like it wasn't only Naruto who had fun but everyone else also did, which made Naruto happy, he always liked seeing others happy, even if they actually despised him.
Maybe this simple day was the best day in Naruto's life. He's done a lot of stuff he had wished to do, and instead of him being ignored, he was acknowledged by the person, he was afraid of. The person, who he tried his best to impress. He smiled, as he thought, 'This moment shall be cherished, as one of the most amazing moments in my life' He knew he could rebuild his and Sasuke's friendship, he couldn't screw this up, he finally was doing something right and all it took was to never give up. Naruto, then focused his mind, on not giving up anymore, he didn't want to be weak, he wanted to be tough. He wanted to be remembered as the person who never gave up and he could do that, with support.
After everyone made it back to school, students entered their classrooms. It seemed like they had a half an hour before they could head back home. Naruto exited the classroom sense there was no teacher, and made his way to the principals office, he knocked the door, and twisted the door knob open after he heard a 'come in'.
The principle raised her head to see Naruto standing beside the door, she smiled after she realized it was him.
"Oh Naruto, is there something wrong?" She asked in concern. Naruto shook his head in reply.
"No, I just wanted to thank you," Tsunade raised an eyebrow at his weird statement.
"For what?" She asked, putting her pen down, folding her hands together.
"For making this day come true, I wasn't ignored today, nor was I picked on. I had a great day, and it's all thanks to you," He finished smiling, his blue eyes, glowing. Tsunade placed her hands on her desk and got up. She walked to the blond, and looked at him, big brown orbs were locked with glowing blue ones. She wrapped her arms around his back, bringing him into a tight hug.
"You don't need to thank me Naruto, It's my duty, to help," She said pulling back, placing her hand on his shoulders. The blond smiled again, he even lost count in times he actually smiled a genuine smile. Tsunade then placed her lips on his forehead, planting a small kiss there.
"Now, if there's anything you need help with, don't ever hesitate to call me, alright?" Naruto nodded and thanked her once more, before leaving her office. He sighed in relief.
It was official this 'was' the best day in his life and he thanked Tsunade for every minute of it.
