Disclaimer: This is a non-profit fiction piece, meant for entertainment only. But one day, this would be the real plot for the manga once I buy over Naruto from Kishimoto-sensei.

Warning(s): AU (because I totally don't know what's going on in Naruto anymore XD). Major OCC-ness, a long chapter, bad language, revival of deceased characters, pathetic attempts at humor and fluff, as well as shounen-ai.

A/N 1: "speech"; 'thought'; 'SMS/phone message'


FIRST LOVE

STEP X: Naruto, you what?!? Introducing Rin... Sushi versus Ramen!! Also, Densha-Shounen, Kiba-sama da — !!

"Kiba, wipe that smile off your face. It's very disturbing to see that first thing in the morning." That was the warm greeting from one of his four dear friends, Aburame Shino. This was followed by a couple of nods from his two other friends, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji.

Kiba scowled.

It was just like his friends to burst his tiny bit of happiness and cause that little flower bud of joy (he was feeling poetic at the moment) to shrivel up into a dark clump of displeasure.

"Tch! What do kids like you know anyway?" He uttered, eliciting a few confused looks.

"Huh?" Chouji asked as he chomped on a health-bar. "What are you talking about?"

Kiba gave the three boys a (very irritating) smirk, one that said 'I know things that are beyond the mental capacity of you monkeys', before flipping the invitation for a Goukon (1) in their faces. "I'm saying, I'm way above this. — referring to the invitation — Take this, kids, and have fun!!"

The three exchanged looks as they stared at the fluttering paper, and the retreating back of the canine-lover, and wondered what the hell was wrong with that usually date/female-obsessed boy that day.


Apparently, Kiba was not the only boy who was behaving strangely. The last remaining member of the group was acting weirdly as well. There was a good reason behind it though.

"Sasuke, what are you doing?" The blonde asked.

The taller boy merely raised his brow and shot him an 'isn't it obvious' look.

Naruto scowled. "Teme! I know you're hugging me. But what I want to know is why. Class is starting in 5 minutes, you know? It takes more than 5 minutes to get there from here (science block). You're gonna make us late."

Sasuke sighed. "Naruto, have you thought about changing seats?"

"...Eh?"

"I don't think I can stand being so far apart from you when we are in the same room."

The blonde looked at Sasuke strangely. "It's not that far... You're just sitting at the direct opposite. At least you'll see me when you turn your head to the left."

"Yeah. I guess so." The brunette gave another wistful sigh. "Ah... Why can't I hug you like this forever??"

Naruto turned red. "Y-Y-You... stop saying all this mushy stuff..."

"Don't like it?"

"Eh... Uhm... I... Uh, that is..."

"Like it...?"

"...Uhm, that is... uhn." The blonde lowered his head to hide his burning cheeks. "But not too much..."

Sasuke chuckled. The bell rang. Hand in hand, they walked towards the direction of the classrooms. They figured that since they were late anyway, no one would witness that little act. Little did they know that every single moment they had shared had been witnessed by a pair of narrowed, stormy green eyes.


"Uchiha-kun! Why aren't you in the fields? Didn't principal Sarutobi give the soccer team permission to practise during classes?" Iruka-sensei exclaimed in genuine surprise; he had expected the boy to be practicing for the coming IH soccer matches so it was surprising to see the quiet boy around.

"..."

"...Uh, okay. Go to your seat and settle down." Unsurprised at the lack of response from the usually stoic boy, Iruka turned to the other student and frowned. "Naruto, I need to see the excuse letter (for not attending the 5-day excursion to Water Country) from your grandfather. Do you have it with you now?"

Naruto shook his head and looked away. Actually, he had the letter. In fact, he had been proof-reading it not too long ago on his way to school, despite strict instructions from the old man not to open the envelope. Right now, though, the letter was in a crumpled mess sitting in the bottom of his bag. There was absolutely no way he could give that shit-excuse-of-an-excuse-letter to his teacher. 'That jii-jii... How dare he write such embarrassing excuses and ask me to pass it to the teacher directly!?'

Iruka gave a mental sigh. Naruto's tardiness was expected too. "Well, just pass it to me by the end of this week. Please remember to tell him... okay? Now class, I want you to open your textbooks and turn to page 340. Today, we'll be talking about..."

And lesson went on normally for Umino Iruka, English teacher of Ha-Ou Gakuen and form teacher for class 3-9. Or so he thought.

Minutes later, Iruka felt his patience snapping when he caught four of his students not paying attention for the third time.

"Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kiba! Take two pails each, fill them with water and stand outside!!" He screamed when he caught Kiba smiling suddenly at nothing in particular (he had been fantasizing); Sasuke throwing furtive glances in Naruto's direction; Naruto fidgeting in his seat and blushing for no reason; and Sakura's intense glances towards Sasuke's and Naruto's directions.

Caught, the four shot up from their seats — Kiba, in shock and slight anger at being disturbed; Sasuke, in displeasure but some mild amusement when he saw Naruto's surprised face; Naruto, in surprise and shame; and Sakura in embarrassment — took out the buckets from the cupboard and proceeded to fill them at the toilets at the end of the corridor. Then they trudged back to the classroom and stood outside, holding the buckets with their hands at a right angle to their body under the watchful eye of Iruka-sensei.

"I want the four of you to stand like this for the remainder of the lesson. If I hear anything, ANYTHING, no lunch break for you. Got it?" With that, he slid the door shut leaving the four with their punishment, each immersed in their own world.

English lesson came and went. Other lessons came and went as well. Soon it was lunch break. Naruto approached his clique the moment the bell rang and pushed them towards their secret corner in some deserted corner of the school.

He had big news to share today.


Silence ensued. If the situation was not serious, Naruto would have burst out laughing at the bug-eyed look on his friends' faces. Even the usually expressionless Shino had his eyebrows shooting up to his hairline.

'Looks like I just dropped a bomb.' Naruto inhaled deeply and sighed. "Yeah, so that's about it."

Kiba was the first to snap. It was the damn Italian-accented 'No's again. Must he always do that when faced with unbelievable situations?

Shino righted his shades and in his usual monotone, started doing what he did best (stating the obvious, of course) and repeated everything Naruto had mentioned. Well, the main points at least.

"So now you're actually married." He began.

The blonde nodded.

"But you ran away from your ...honeymoon and met Uchiha." He continued.

The blonde nodded again.

"Instead of being with Hatake-san, you spent the time with Uchiha. And now, you and Uchiha are an item."

The blonde nodded a third time, with a slight blush on his whiskered cheeks.

Cue in Kiba's disbelief. "No! I cannot believe this!!"

Shino was shaking his head as well.

Chouji was so shocked he actually the wrapped his half-eaten snack-bars and put them back into his pockets. "You and Uchiha...? I thought the two of you were enemies...?"

"Naruto, you what?" Shikamaru asked after processing the entire situation.

Naruto winced. "It... It just happened."

"You don't understand how serious this is, Naruto." Shikamaru, for the first time ever, turned very serious, more serious than Naruto thought he could ever be. "This is possibly the cruelest thing you have ever done in your entire life. And this includes the time when you ate 10 bowls of ramen and ran off without (paying and) saying a word to us, making us the vendor's free slave for a week."

At that reminder, the other two scapegoats cringed at the bad memory.

"Oh hell, that was bad..." Kiba groaned when he remembered the vendor. Even now, he could still picture that malicious face pointing to the incredible pile of dishes and the ridiculous commands to wash them without gloves. His poor hands were sore after that incident.

"It... it's not that bad, Shikamaru!" Naruto protested. 'It isn't really my fault anyway...'

Shikamaru folded his arms and continued his lecture. "It is. You're playing with their emotions and feelings. What's gonna happen to Hatake-san? Or even Uchiha?"

"I'll...!! ...I'll... ...I'll..." The smaller boy frowned. 'Oh yeah... What will I do with them...?'

"Well? What are you gonna do??"

"...But it isn't my fault!! I didn't wanna get married!!" Naruto defended. "It was an arranged marriage. Ero-jii scammed me into it!! No, ero-jii scammed that pervert and me into it!! The both of us didn't really want it!! At all!! ...Besides... Sasuke is really good to me... He really likes me. He has liked me since we were in first year!! He has liked me for that long!!"

Silence ensued. If the situation was not that serious, Naruto would have burst out laughing at the bug-eyed look on his friends' faces.

'Shit. Did I just drop another bomb?' Naruto groaned as he buried his face into his hand in frustration.

Moments later, Italian-accented 'No—'s 'punctured the air.


'It was a mistake to let them know.' Naruto thought furiously as he stomped up the stairs towards class. He had thought that they, as his closest buddies and people who know him best, would understand his plight and be happy for him. 'Well, guess I thought wrong!'

He slowed down his steps and slowly sat on one of the steps and sighed sadly. 'Why? I thought they would understand... It... It's the first time someone told me in my face that they love me that way; that they love someone like me. Why can't they understand how important that is to me? ...Shikamaru no baka!! (2)'

"Uh, Naruto-kun?" A tentative voice called out, pulling him out of his melancholy.

He looked up at the source of the voice and his blue eyes widen in surprise. For the first time ever, Haruno Sakura, self-proclaimed number 1 fan of Uchiha Sasuke, took the initiative to talk to him, the class dead-last who has had no affinity with the females in class since he did a lame impression of the principal during a show-and-tell session in class in year 1, Uzumaki Naruto!

"Naruto-kun!" She smiled cheerfully. "Can I talk to you privately after school? At the science block??"

Naruto got over his shock and scratched his head. "Uh, sure Sakura-chan!"

The girl beamed then skipped away. "Thanks Naruto-kun. It's a secret date between the two of us!! Then I'll see you later!"

Naruto scratched his head. Then a thought struck him and he blushed deeply. 'Eh? ...D-Date!? Could it be... a love confession as well!?' In a daze, the blonde walked to class, wondering just what the hell was going on in his (love) life.


After school, Sakura headed to the science block first. In the end (after waiting for an hour and half), Naruto didn't turn up. "Uzumaki Naruto. I'll crush you."
'I'll kill him! That sickening old man!!' Naruto fumed as he hopped out of the train and made his way to one of the club strips. 'Club One More Kiss. Here it is!'

::Flashback::

"So if you take this angle and give this amount of speed, you should get..." The physics teacher droned on about some oscillation problem while half the class dozed off.

Naruto was making progression towards Ramen-land when his cell phone suddenly vibrated.

"Uwah!"

"What is it, Uzumaki?" Asuma-sensei scratched his head and sighed mentally.

"Uh, nothing. I need to go to the bathroom!" With that, Naruto sprinted out of the classroom and cursed at whoever was calling him.

"Yo!" Turned out to the stupid pervert husband of his.

"...What?" The boy hissed. "I'm having classes right now. This better be good, you..."

"Come to Club One More Kiss after your classes end."

"What? What the hell is that?!"

"Don't ask so much!! You're my wife now so you had better listen to me!"

"You're not only a perverted man, but chauvinistic too!! And who the fuck is the wife!?"

"Language, shounen!" Kakashi barked before returning to that infuriating drawl of his. "Ho... have you forgotten about our deal, wife-san?"

"I don't remember promising you anything! Stop calling me your wife, damn it!"

"It's the 'You-have-to-listen-to-me-for-five-days' deal. I repeat, come after class. I know what time your classes end, so don't keep me waiting. Or else! I'll SMS you the address."

"Hey— !"

Du... du... du... The scarecrow had hung up.

'That unreasonable, selfish, chauvinistic...!'

::End Flashback::

'How dare he hang up on me?! How dare he order me around! Tch! I didn't even have time to tell Sakura-chan not to wait up for me. That old man... I'll give him a piece of my mind...'

He slammed the door to the club opened and stepped in... only to be blocked by a huge, callused hand. "Excuse me, kid. Students are not allowed into clubs." A deep and thickly accented voice pointed out.

"I'm meeting someone here!" The blonde grated out irately.

"No students are allowed!!" The bouncer was one stubborn man.

Naruto huffed. "I already said! I'm meeting someone!! And he's in there already!!"

"And I also said, no students are allowed!!"

The boy was about to lash out at the bouncer when the commotion caught the attention of the Mama-san.

"Bobby, that boy is meeting one of our customers. Do let him in."

"...Yes, Boss."

The blonde stuck out his tongue at the bouncer, inducing a scowl on the man's otherwise emotionless face, and followed the Mama-san. When she took a good look at him, she immediately cooed. "Oh! You're such a cute boy! Kakashi-san never told me that you're this adorable!" Somehow, she gives off a very Yaeko-feeling. Naruto merely blushed and nodded his head in thanks.

"Ah, there he is. Kakashi-san is sitting at that corner with his friends. Just take a seat first. I'll come to get your order for drinks." The Mama-san smiled encouragingly as she patted the boy's shoulder and went on her merry way.

"Ah, he's here, he's here. I told you guys that he'll come as long as I made a call, didn't I? Ahahaha... Oi kid, come sit here, sit here..." Kakashi patted the seat next to him.

Naruto made his way mutely to the seat and plopped down quietly.

"Naruto, these are my friends. Friends, this is my... wife, Naruto! Ahahaha..." Kakashi chirped as he grabbed a bottle of wine and chugged down its contents.

'Don't tell me... he's drunk?' Naruto thought as he looked at the pervert's friends. 'Well, at least they seem pretty decent...' "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you..." The two guys sitting next to Kakashi echoed.

"Ah! I saw the two of you at the wedding..." Naruto commented when he took in the long needle one of them was chewing while the other had a prominent scar on his face. "Uh... Kenma and Raitou...?"

"Uh, no... I'm Genma. Shiranui Genma." The needle-chewing guy clarified then pointed to the other man. "He's Namiashi Raidou. You could address us by our given names, Uzumaki-san."

"Ah, please call me Naruto as well." The blonde bowed.

"Ah, so you're the rumored bride of Kakashi? Haha, you're really cute and gentle-looking like Kakashi described." A pretty woman commented as she smiled at him warmly. "Oh, do you want a drink?"

Naruto nodded. 'Cute and gentle? Oi, oi, oi ero-otoko, who likes SM and commanding me around... what the hell are you telling your friends?' He shot his killer glares at the man beside him but the man didn't even flinch.

Instead, Kakashi raised his hand. "Oi Mama-san, give this kid a whiskey-water mix! One more for me as well..."

"Kakashi!" The pretty lady scolded. "How can you give a student alcohol!? Don't mind him, Naruto-kun. Ah, I can call you Naruto-kun right?"

The blonde nodded. "Sure, uhmm... Ms...?"

"Oh! Forgive my rudeness. Just call me Rin." The lady, Rin, smiled at him again then ordered a cranberry-apple cocktail for him.

"Thanks."

"Haha, polite too! Kakashi, you've gotten a very good spouse, haven't you..." Rin commented as she sipped her martini gracefully.

"Yup... Sure did. Mama-san! Another whiskey!!" Kakashi hollered.

"HEY OLD MAN!" Naruto slammed his hands on the table and stood up. Realizing the looks the other members of the group were shooting him, he sat back down meekly, like the rumored submissive spouse. Lowering his volume, he continued. "Uh, hey, stop drinking already..." Naruto pulled the almost empty glass from the man's hand and scowled.

"Tch. Just leave me alone, brat. Besides, you aren't supposed to be telling me what to do. I'm the husband, remember?" Kakashi muttered as he brought another glass to his lips.

"...So why did you call me here?" Naruto gritted. 'Must not strangle him. Must not strangle him. Must not strangle him...'

Rin blushed. "Ah, actually it was because of me. Well, I just came back from a break and heard that this guy is suddenly married. So I wondered who it was and wanted to see you... Is it a bother?"

The boy shook his head. "No, not at all... Rin-san. I just thought this guy here was pulling another trick on me..."

Kakashi's three friends stopped drinking and stared at him. "...Eh?"

"Uh, he always pulls tricks on me."

"Kakashi?" "Tricks?" "Always?"

"Uh yeah, he likes to tease me. Like that time, when I was doing homework, he walked around my room half-naked and dripping with water. And he won't even take off his mask when it was soaking wet... He knew I wanted to see what's under the mask but he purposely wore two/three masks all the time." Naruto explained as he looked at the oblivious man beside him.

"Well... that's unexpected." Rin uttered.

"...Eh?"

Genma picked up the fallen needle and cleaned it with a towel before chewing on it again. "Kakashi is considered the serious one in the group. He seldom teases people."

"Yeah." Raidou continued. "He always has this cool, serious, no-nonsense thing that got all the ladies falling left, right and center over him. It's surprising to know that he has that side to him."

"I-is that so?" Naruto never knew that the pervert had a serious side as well. He was always teasing him, walking around half-naked, laughing madly at the Osaka channels and reading porn at home.

"Well, he has changed a little though. Not as stern as before and more open now."

"Yeah, since Obi... uhm... never mind." Raidou stopped and looked at Rin apologetically.

The subject of their conversation suddenly shot up from his previous slouched position and sat ram-rod straight. "Naruto..." Kakashi began and turned to the boy beside him.

"Hm?"

"...I feel sick."

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The blonde shrieked.


"I'm sorry about this." Rin apologized as she helped Kakashi into the cab and sat in the front seat.

Naruto shook his head and smiled at her. "No, please don't say that. It's his fault!" He smacked the forehead of the silver-haired man lying on his shoulder.

"I was the one who suggested a gathering. I forgot that Kakashi loves to drink excessively..."

"He does? I thought he has a low tolerance for alcohol..." Naruto was playing with the silver hair of his partner now. 'Hm, it's softer than I thought...'

"He had a high tolerance, actually, but it's been a while since he last drank, I guess..."

The scarecrow suddenly moaned.

"Oh no, is he going to throw up again?"

"Ungh... Rin... Rin... Ki... Kissu (3)... Rin..."

"... ..." The two occupants in the cab were stunned. One was feeling embarrassed and blushing brightly while the other didn't know what to feel.

'What's this feeling in my chest...? It's like that time when I asked him about the people he kissed... Ugh. Chest pains... I knew it! This jerk would be the cause of my eventual death! Heart-attack at my age!!'

Rin released her seatbelt hastily and turned back to the couple in the back seat. "It's nothing like that!! Uh, Naruto-kun, please don't misunderstand anything..."

"A-Aa. Don't worry. I know it's just the pervert in him activating. I should apologize for his misbehavior."

"Oh. Well, actually, Kakashi and I... we don't have that kind of history. Well, I used to like him a lot but he had someone else then. Anyway, those are all over now so don't misunderstand anything, 'kay?" Rin smiled a bit sadly before turning back to seat herself properly.

"Rin... kissu... kissu..."

"Just sleep properly, damn it!" Naruto smacked the man's forehead again and shifted his head away from his shoulder. Seconds later, Kakashi hung all over him again.


"Ugh... you're so heavy..." Naruto grumbled as he tugged the taller man to his (Kakashi's) bed.

Rin had offered to help but seeing how late it was — they had spent the entire evening and night in the club with Kakashi going in and out of his (alcohol) induced coma —Naruto thought it would be dangerous for her if she went home too late. Rin had smiled and ruffled his hair.

"You're a nice person, Naruto-kun. I'm glad you're by his side."

She had paused a bit, seemingly in hesitation about something, before bowing. "Please take good care of Kakashi-san. Good night." With that, she returned to the cab and left, leaving behind a slightly confused and embarrassed blonde with a half-drunken man on his shoulder.

'Hm, what was that all about anyway?' Naruto pondered as he tried dragging the man when tugging gave him a 5 centimeter (cm) progress, which is as good as none. 'Hm, Rin-san and this man seem really close... ...Maybe she is the one he was talking about...? Maybe Rin-san thought that the person he loves is someone else but it is actually Rin-san!! After all, he was just dreaming of her in the taxi just now... This pervert. Going 'kissu-kissu' like a love-sick idiot...' He stopped dragging and slowly turned his eyes to the snoozing man on his shoulder. 'Love-sick... huh.'

The obsidian eye of the man opened briefly before fluttering close again. "Bed..." He staggered the few steps towards his bed and did a crash dive onto the fluffy entity contently... with the blonde in his arms.

Naruto cursed. "Shit! What the hell!? Don't just flop onto people like a dead fish!" He tried to push the man atop him but gave up after a couple of attempts.

'This gives me an incredible sense of déjà vu.' The younger boy sweat-dropped when he recalled the other night the man had gotten drunk. 'That's why I told him not to drink so much...'

"Hmm..." The silver-haired man groaned in his sleep.

'Wonder what he's dreaming?' The boy laid in his husband's arms quietly and continued to stare at him. Then an idea struck him. 'Chance! It's time to see what he really looks like!!' The blonde perked at that then slowly raised his arm and inched his hand towards the target — the despicable mask.

'30 cm... 20 cm...' A bead of sweat rolled down his neck and he gulped when his hand was just a couple of cm away from the piece of cloth. 'Approaching target...'

Then suddenly the man flipped over and the target was missed. 'Shit! Scared the hell out of me...' He got up slowly and made his way towards the door. 'Ah well... at least I'm free. Hm, one day, I'll see what's beneath that mask, Hatake Kakashi!!'

The blonde placed his hands on his hips and cackled manically as he imagined the day he would see Kakashi's full, uncovered face and take lots and lots of picture. He would be waving the blackmail materials in the older man's face and the man would go on his knees and beg him, addressing him as 'O Great Naruto-sama' and apologize for all his previous misdeeds. Probably even break down and cry while doing that.

A groan interrupted his musings and he frowned at the man before stomping to the switch and turning the lights off. 'For now... I'll leave him alone and prepare for class... Shit! I haven't done any homework!'

As the blonde hastily made his way out the room, he failed to hear it.

"Uhn... Naruto... L-love... you... uhm... always... love... uhn... kissu..."


His cell phone vibrated. 'Hm... SMS? Who could it be at this hour...?'

'Hey, where did u go aft homerm? Cldn't find u anywhere in sch... Sorry 4 not callin u earlier but demon-coach made me stay back 4 makeup. 2mr's match 1... it'll be a piece of cake but u wanna come n watch?' (4)

Naruto bit his lips. "That's right... He accompanied me to morning homeroom so he missed practice for today." The blonde looked at the clock and his blue eyes widen. 'Already 12?! Did Sasuke just got home...?'

The phone vibrated again.

'Hey. Can't slp. Can I call? Wanna hear ur voice.' (5)

'Sasuke...' Naruto held his cell close to his chest as an incredibly sweet warmth spread across his chest. He pressed the numbers and listened to the droning of the dial tone.

It took less than a ring.

"Hello?"

"...You surprised me."

"Ah... Did I? Sorry... It's because I was surprised too..."

"Eh?"

"Ah, well I was looking at my phone and waiting for your reply so... yeah. Hm, thought you were asleep actually."

Naruto chuckled. "Eh? Didn't know that the cool, awesome Sasuke-sama would wait for phone calls and SMS-es."

"Yeah well... 'cause the cool, awesome Sasuke-sama is waiting for a certain SMS reply from a certain dead-last that's why..."

"Oi! How dare you! I won't go tomorrow..."

"No-no... Come and watch. Don't you wanna see the cool, awesome Sasuke-sama in action?"

"Hahhhaha... You're so full of yourself! Hmm... Should I make a bento for you? What do you wanna eat?"

And the young couple continued chatting till one of them fell asleep. Even then, they didn't hang up.


Kakashi thought someone had dropped an alarm clock in his head when he woke up. Along with that, someone had dropped a large drill as well. Why else would his head be buzzing and aching so badly? So it was with a very disgruntled mood that he got up with that morning.

'Crap... Have to send the brat to school as well... Is he late already?' He went to Naruto's room and found it empty. Shrugging, he made his way to the bathroom. He gingerly touched his head and winced when the alarm clock and drill in his head went on advanced mode like a well-coordinated orchestra. 'Have to get aspirin...'

So it was with that intention, as well as a drink of water, that he staggered to the kitchen when his eyes caught something on the counter. It was a pile of assorted sushi and maki (6). However, it was the messiest sushi and maki Kakashi had ever seen.

His stomach chose that moment to growl. 'Ah well... looks bad... but might taste good...?' Besides, he was sick of seeing ramen in the kitchen.

He threw the pile of sloppily made food onto a plate and made his way towards the living room. Flipping the TV switch on, he turned to one of the local cables and made himself comfortable.

"Oh!! This is a very exciting day for Ha-Ou Gakuen today! Even though it is half-time, it already looks like the soccer team is well on their way to victory..."

Kakashi paused, mid-chew. 'Ha-Ou Gakuen? Isn't that Naruto's school?' He turned up the volume.

"Oh wow!" The weird-looking commentator continued. "Look at the amount of fans for Ha-Ou Gakuen! I didn't realize they had so many cheerleaders in that school... And they are all cheering for a... Uchiha Sasuke-kun! Ah, it must be the star player, Uchiha-kun!"

The commentator looked around. "Where's Uchiha-kun then...? Ah! Look! Look! He's sharing a bento with a very cute friend!! Seems like they're having fun eating the sushi! Oh! And that cute friend was the one who had been cheering him on fervently in the first half as well! Ahh... youth is such an awesome thing... Haha... the two of them almost looks like a couple eating like that... Hahaha... Well, we'll report more on this event later. Back to you, Mizushi-san!"

An obsidian eye widen as the image he just took in replayed in his mind. Naruto and a brunette had been sharing a bentou. Naruto had been giggling and the brunette had been smiling. Naruto had blushed and popped a piece of perfectly made maki in the brunette's mouth. The brunette had smiled and ruffled Naruto's hair. The atmosphere between Naruto and the brunette had been very rabu-rabu (7).

'So this means...'

Kakashi stood up from his seat and made his way to the bathroom to wash up.

A plate of smashed up mixture of rice, raw fish, and seaweed lay abandoned on the plate.


"Eh? Kakashi? What are you doing here?" Genma asked as he stopped his painting.

"Hm, felt like doing something artistic..."

"Ah, is that so?"

Raidou popped in when he heard Kakashi appeared in the Art Institute. "Kakashi! Have you heard?"

Using the porn in his left hand as reference, Kakashi started his water color painting. "What?"

"You mean you didn't know?"

"Know what?"

"You're assigned to Ha-Ou Gakuen as a graduating project!"

The brush in his hand dropped.

"Uh oh..."

To be continued


A/N 2:

(1) Goukon : 合コン, a short form for Goudou Konpa, a group blind date with an equal number of males and females.

(2) Shikamaru no baka: Stupid Shikamaru. Uh, I feel bad for putting this. Apologies to Shikamaru fans!

(3) Kissu : キッス, katakana for kiss.

(4) 'Hey, where did you go after homeroom? Couldn't find you anywhere in school... Sorry for not calling you earlier but demon-coach made me stay back for make up. Tomorrow's match (number) One... it'll be a piece of cake but you wanna come and watch?'

(5) 'Hey. Can't sleep. Can I call? Wanna hear your voice.'

(6) maki : 巻き/捲き, have seen both versions before but I think the latter is the more correct one. Some people call them sushi rolls? Well it's just various food (cucumber, egg, fish, crab-stick, etc) wrapped in rice and then wrapped in seaweed and rolled up.

(7) rabu-rabu : ラブーラブ, katakana for love-love (often used by high school-ers) to describe a couple's level of intimacy. Kind of.

Thanks for the reviews. Actually, thanks for waiting as well and apologies for the late update... School is taking a very big portion of my time since mid terms for me are approaching. I feel like a surfer stuck in a sea of never-ending waves. But because I'm a lousy surfer, it's really terrible for me... Get the drift? No? To simplify, I'm drowning.

Well, there isn't much KakaNaru action in these few chapters but the next chapter would make up for it! Hang on there!

Up next! Naruto ambushed! 'How to tell Naruto...? – by Kakashi' First SasuNaru. Now, IruKaka!?! Will this ever be a KakaNaru story? All these and more would be revealed in the next installment of FIRST LOVE!!

And as promised (actually I just felt like writing a Kiba story)... this is the side story of Inuzuka Kiba, the Densha-Shounen (Train-Youth).


Inuzuka Kiba was an average youth. He had average height, average looks and average grades. He had great friends and a nice, loving family as well as a few dogs. He was also a big animal lover, specifically canines, and loved to spend time with his favorite pet, Akamaru. He loves school, and though he was richer than average, preferred to take public transport to school, just like what he was doing at current.

Outwardly he explained the reason (to his friends, family and anyone else who happened to be listening) for this was, to save his parents the trouble from fetching him to and from school but the truth was really because... the chance of meeting girls were logically higher when you go by public transport. Like all other youths, Inuzuka Kiba was a hot-blooded male with an (unhealthy) obsession with the female species and the concept of dating.

Unfortunately, these few years, he hasn't had much luck in that department; he blamed that entirely on his four great friends. However, he was sure that it would change soon, and the reason for that welcoming change was in his hands — it was an invitation to a Goukon.

'Hehehehehe...' Kiba thought as he smiled lecherously in his seat on the train. 'I bet there would be all kinds of awesome girls there... Though it's sad, I'm sorry, my friends... I'll be going alone this time.'

As he fantasized about the awesome results of the Goukon, a soft whimper by his side caught his attention. 'Hm?' Curious, he turned his head.

What entered his field of view (tunnel vision) was something that he would never, ever forget for the rest of his life.

It was a really, really cute (blushing) girl. That sweet little face was framed by long, raven hair, bringing out her fair complexion and her most amazing feature was a pair of rather unusual large pale-lavender eyes. There aren't many people who have such a unique eye color. 'Wow... so cute...'

The face of an ugly and drunk-looking man, next to the cute (but distressed) girl, entered Kiba's line of vision suddenly, snapping the boy out of his 'observing trance' (which was really just openly gaping) and he saw red. That old, seemingly drunk man was inching towards the girl and caressing her thigh openly. It was obvious that those touches were un-welcomed with the way the girl was whimpering and trying to inch away from the man.

'Why isn't anyone doing anything?' Kiba thought, frustrated. Glaring at the man, he realized why. Sitting next to the old man were two strong-looking males, who seemed to be the pervert's bodyguards, and they were randomly shooting killer eyes to anyone who dared to stare at their boss. The pervert was becoming more brazen in his actions as he attempted to hug the girl.

'Like hell I would let him do that!' Kiba swore as he shot up from his seat and took the four strides to stand in front of the man.

Feeling a shadow on him, the man stopped his advances and looked up. "What? What dya' want kid??"

The intercom dinged.

Kiba gave the man a feral grin, drew his fist behind then slammed it into the man's face as hard as he could.

Before the deed actually made an impact on the shocked occupants in the train's compartment, Kiba grabbed the girl's hand and made a run for it when the intercom dinged again and the doors slid opened.


"Haa... Haa... You... Are you okay?" Kiba asked after checking that the coast was clear. He had thought the bodyguards would come after him but so far, everything looks clear.

The raven-haired girl nodded then blushed when she looked down.

Following the girl's line of vision, he looked down as well then quickly released the grip he had on the girl's hand. Embarrassed, they blushed and looked away from each other.

A minute of silence passed later before the girl realized something with a gasp. She absent-mindedly stuck out her tongue then turned to the boy next to her and bowed deeply. "Ah, thank you for saving me on the train just now."

Kiba scratched his head and tried hard to resist the blush when he noticed how much cuter the girl was when she smiled. "Ah, that was nothing... Uh, be more careful in future."

The girl nodded and smiled shyly. "Yes, I will. Thanks a lot for your help... ...I shall be going now."

"Aa..." Staring at the girl's fading back, Kiba suddenly recalled a very important matter. He ran up to the girl and patted her shoulder lightly. "Hey! Wait!!"

"...Yes?"

"Uhh... that is, uhh... I uh... What's your name?"

Pale eyes widen then the girl lightly knocked her head with her fist in self-reproach. "How rude of me..." She smiled and bowed again. "I'm Hyuuga Hinata. Please call me Hinata... It's nice to meet you... uh...?"

"Ah! I'm Inuzuka Kiba... Call me Kiba... and nice to meet you as well."

"Ano, Kiba-san... I'm sorry but I've got to go for lessons now. Uhm, this is my cell phone number. Please contact me. I wish to thank you for helping me just now..." The girl bowed again, after slipping him a card, and then shot him a soft smile before rushing off towards the sea of milling people.

Kiba stood for a full 5 minutes, drowning in that bit of happiness from a cute girl calling him by his first name.

This was the beginning of his love story.

(Just a note, his good mood lasted all of 34 minutes and 56 seconds and swiftly rocketed downwards when Shino gave him the warm greeting, "Kiba, wipe that smile off your face. It's very disturbing to see that first thing in the morning.")

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