Warnings for extreme babbling by the author in this chapter!!!! O.o
Matt: Wow would you look at that, new chapter, far out! -.-
Uni: Hey everyone Matt is back!! *glomps him*
Matt: Yes thank you. *wriggles out of Uni's grasp* Anyways I am forcing Kouji into reading the disclaimers today!!^^
Uni: Kouichi isn't going to like you forcing his brother into anything.
Matt: He'll live (Uni: yes but you wont.) *ignoring Uni* Kouji??
Kouji: *glares at Matt* Look at previous chapters for disclaimers!!
Matt: -.- (Uni: *sniggers*)
Uni: I have done it and I am deeply sorry. I have gone and made fluff *watches as people goes to hit the beck button* HEY WAIT!!! I promise you this will be one of the only chapters with fluff, don't worry I am going to make a LOT of angst in the next chapter and within the next. three I hope, I am going to turn everything upside down *grins maniacally* I have no idea if Japanese people eats with forks more often then we do with sticks, but since Naruto has never lived off of anything other then ramen then I am guessing he cant eat with one. Besides I needed some funnies.
Also, thanks a million to Moon Klutz and Bronze Eagle for offering to be my Beta, you have no idea how much I appreciate it. And thanks to my new beta Cheryl-chan for offering and doing the job^^
And now on with the chapter!!
Yuki and Is
Northern Lights
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I wake up in the morning
Put on my face
The one that's gonna get me
Through another day
Doesn't really matter
How I feel inside
'Cause life is like a game sometimes
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Naruto was sitting on top of the roof of their 'new home' contemplating the previous few hours. He had long since stopped thinking about the iciness between Kakashi-sensei and the strange man in the circle. He had come to the wise conclusion that he would probably never guess what it was anyway, and thinking about it would only end up giving him a headache. On top of that, being as beat as he felt, that was something he could live without.
Naruto closed his eyes for a moment. Everyone in the village with the exception of the guards at the gate seemed to be sleeping. He and the rest of the little house had gone to bed what felt like hours ago to Naruto, but in truth, it was probably only one. The blond boy had lay down in his new bed and tried to fall asleep at first, but it soon became apparent that that was just not going to happen any time soon. In the end Naruto had risen from his covers again and climbed on to the roof. That was what he usually did at home whenever he had trouble sleeping.
Naruto soon realised that sitting on the roof of a building in Is village was a lot harder then sitting on his own in the Leaf village. He found two reasons for this: One, he hadn't thought about how cold it was outside and hadn't bothered to change out of his pyjamas and bunny slippers for the occasion. He paid the price for his stupidity in the form of an almost instantly running nose. This he could do something about though, and he instantly shot inside and got into some more sensible clothes. The second thing he was still fiddling with; the ice on the roof! At home the ice was never thicker than he was able to scrape off. Here however, he was practically sitting on a ten-centimetre-thick layer of ice. This made it absolutely impossible for him to sit still and not fall of the roof. Naruto was however slowly beginning to find a way of dealing with this too. Using the heels on his boots, he had hacked two small indents in the thick ice and was now resting his heels in them, thus preventing him from sliding anywhere.
Feeling slightly proud of himself for coming up with that, he leaned back on his elbows and began to study the sky. It was just like the one at home, only the cold weather was making the millions of stars seem clearer and brighter than they had ever appeared to Naruto before. Then suddenly something happened that made Naruto's eyes go wide. Colours! All the colours of the rainbow slowly began to play across the sky! Rather like misty waves splashing out on the sky lake, had it been a shore, of course.
Completely mesmerised by the beautiful light show Naruto leaned forward, unconsciously resting his upper body against his legs. It was so beautiful! He had never seen anything like it. Naruto was so preoccupied with looking at the northern lights that he momentarily forgot that he was still sitting on a roof, and that the only thing keeping from falling down from that roof was two little carvings he had made with his boot heels! To his shock, the carvings suddenly gave way under his weight.
Naruto yelped loudly when he felt his legs slipping from under him, sending him on a rough slide down the length of the roof. Unconsciously, he reached in under his jacket for a weapon of some kind that he could hack into the ice when he made it to the edge. He swore at himself when his hand found nothing, and he realised that he had left them in his room. Naruto squinted his eyes and prepared himself for a hard hit. This was gonna hurt.
The next thing he knew, something, or someone, grabbed a hold of his collar from behind thus keeping him from sliding out over the edge. Frowning, Naruto widened his eyes as he cringed his neck to look at whatever it was that was keeping him from falling.
Blue eyes fell on black bushy hair, and bored looking eyes, and grew even wider. Sasuke! At first Naruto could do nothing but stare at him stunned, but he immediately frowned instead.
"Let me go!" Sasuke just quirked a fine eyebrow at him, looked down at the roof and then back up. Naruto followed his gaze down to the roof and down the side to the edge. Then he turned back to look at Sasuke whose amused expression was clearly asking "Really?'.
Squinting his eyes, the blond just grinned sheepishly. Sasuke sighed, "Use your Chakra like when you climb trees. And after, keep in mind that it is ice you are standing on and not bark. It's slippery."
Naruto couldn't suppress a glare at Sasuke for coming up with that, and correcting him. As Sasuke slowly put him down, Naruto slowly concentrated on his Chakra as he stood still on the icy roof. He smiled when he stayed put rather than plunging towards his death again. It worked!
A little shakily Naruto sat down again, leaned his upper body against his bent legs, and once more looked up at the sky. The lights had dimmed down a bit, but it was still beautiful. He managed to forget that Sasuke was still currently standing behind him.
"I hear that when it is mid winter up here, the northern lights can last for the entire night."
It took Naruto a while to register that Sasuke had said something. Completely caught off guard that Sasuke had actually started talking to him first and not vice versa, Naruto tore his gaze from the sky and whipped his head around to stare at Sasuke, baffled.
Sasuke's cheeks coloured a bit and he glared. "Stop looking at me like that, you idiot."
Now there was the Sasuke Naruto knew and could deal with. "I am not an idiot!" he huffed, glaring back. This set off a small glaring contest, ending when Sasuke's eyes softened a bit and he smirked instead. He lifted his head to look up at the sky again.
This only confused Naruto more "What?" he asked, crooking his head and squinted at the other boy as though studying him would magically give him the answer he was looking for.
"Nothing, idiot," Sasuke replied in an absentminded voice, not taking his eyes off of the sky. Feeling slightly annoyed, Naruto sat there and continued to stare at the ebony haired boy, hoping to the gods that Sasuke would see the message that he was, in fact, not welcome. This however didn't seem to work, as Sasuke remained completely unfazed. Well, on the outside at least. So in the end, Naruto turned his head away and sighed in slight exasperation.
They sat like that in peace for quite a while. But in the end the silence seemed to be getting to the energetic of the two and he decided to ask Sasuke's opinion on the issue that had been bugging him ever since they had been to that temple (even if he had decided not to think about it).
"What do you think was up with Kakashi and that weird dude in the temple?"
"How should I know?" came the reply, this making Naruto glare at the other boy in a futile attempt to bore holes right through him. Sasuke glared back, but then, just like the last time only minutes before, his eyes softened and he opened his mouth to continue. "But whatever it was that happened, it left Kakashi feeling betrayed somehow." Sasuke trailed off as he, thoughtfully, looked out over the village seemingly at nothing in particular.
Naruto was feeling thoughtful himself. It wasn't because of the Kakashi thing though; he had barely paid attention to what Sasuke had been saying. No, Naruto's attention had halted at the softening of Sasuke's eyes when it happened for the second time. It had made him feel somewhat uneasy. The softness had been almost untraceable and Naruto was positive that the only reason he had even noticed in the first place was because he had known and been close to Sasuke for quite some time now, and had gradually learned how to interpreted the almost nonexistent emotions in the boy's stone face correctly. But even though it had passed almost unnoticed it had still been there, and now Naruto was wondering what that could mean. He had only seen that emotion on Sasuke's face a few times before, and that had either been mixed with terror when either Sakura or Naruto himself was in danger, or the time on the bridge when he had taken the needles instead of Naruto. And the last time he had seen it, was mixed with anger and hatred when he had faced his brother for the last time.
All of these times had been in extreme situations, and Naruto was positive that there was absolutely nothing dangerous about to attack, and that Sasuke wasn't dying or anything. And so once again within a time span of only a few hours, Naruto was drawing a blank.
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But then you came around me
The walls just disappeared
Nothing to surround me
And keep me from my fears
I'm unprotected
See how I've opened up
Oh, you've made me trust
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It had been a while since any of them had said anything to the other, and now the silence between the two boys on the roof was somehow starting to become uncomfortable again. With that, yet another unsaid, unconscious, and this time overly absurd competition started. None of them was willing to be the first one to say something. It didn't matter that it wasn't an argument that had started the long period of silence, and that it wasn't an apology they were looking for, it was simply who could stand the uncomfortable silence the longest.
In the end it was either a tie or Naruto's loss depending on the viewpoint, because a loud rumble broke the nearly silence.
"You hungry?" Sasuke asked as he turned his head to look at the blond in amazement that such a loud noise could come from such a small body. Then again, this was Naruto, and being loud and noisy was what he did best. Sasuke really shouldn't be surprised that he could be so, even without opening his mouth.
"Yeah, we didn't really get any supper," Naruto answered him, holding his hands on his belly in a near protective manner. Sasuke opened his mouth looking like he was going to say something, but was interrupted by his own growling stomach. Though much more subdued then Naruto's had been, Sasuke still sweatdropped and looked rather annoyed.
"Wanna go get something to eat?" Sasuke sighed, looking questioningly over at Naruto.
Naruto squinted. "Is this some kind of sick way of asking me out on a date?" This turned out to be a not particularly smart thing to say (Which really he should have known.) because it instantly earned him a whack on the head courtesy of Sasuke's knuckles.
"You total moron! Well fine. If you wanna stay up here and keep freezing your arse off while you starve, that's your business." The Uchiha boy shrugged as he rose up from his seat and made three graceful jumps down the length of the slippery roof. When he got to the edge, he didn't hesitate to jump out over.
"Hey that hurt!" Naruto yelled after him, still rubbing the sore spot on his head where Sasuke had hit him. He really was getting kind of cold, despite the fact that he had changed into something warmer then his pyjamas. Kakashi had mentioned something about dressing warmly for the 'vacation' but Naruto had jumped up and fallen down on that just the same. Now however, he wished that he had listened. He couldn't sleep either, that much he knew. Naruto's stomach grumbled impatiently once again, reminding Naruto of his hunger.
"Fine!" Naruto muttered to his annoying stomach and got up to follow Sasuke's example in jumping down from the roof. Soon he was sitting in a crouching position in the streets of Is Village.
"Took you long enough." Naruto's head snapped up, eyes narrowing in the direction that the familiar voice had come from. And there, a little further down the street stood Sasuke, arms crossed and face blank, leaning up against the far wall of another house. Gods he hated him!!
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Because I've never felt like this before
I'm naked
Around you
Does it show?
You see right through me
And I can't hide
I'm naked
Around you
And it feels so right
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After wandering down who knows how many streets and alleys that all turned out to end blind, they had finally found food! It was about time too! If they had had to wait any longer, Naruto was sure he would have either thrown up or simply had his hunger pass. And according to Naruto both things were equally bad.
Now they had two problems. Because none of them could read the menu, and the man behind the counter didn't speak a word of Japanese and was almost equally as lousy at English, they had just ordered. something. The first problem came when Naruto and Sasuke were handed a knife and a fork each. Sasuke didn't seem to be having any large issues with this, but Naruto had practically lived off of ramen for his entire life, and you did not eat ramen with a fork. To put it frankly, he was going to have to learn to make use of these strange instruments. If he didn't, he would be in deep shit if he wanted anything to eat anytime soon.
The next issue- no, make that the next two issues. The first of the aforementioned two issues came when the food came. What on earth was that?! Naruto nearly gagged when a plate with two oversized meatballs, some potatoes, and some half circle shaped see-through. stuff arrived. And the whole thing was covered in brown sauce too O.o
Naruto quickly recovered though. He was really too hungry to care at the moment. Besides, it did smell kind of nice...
Now to issue number two. HOW to eat it. First he tried holding on to the fork and knife like you would hold a pair of chopsticks. That didn't work out. Next he tried holding the fork like you would hold on to a pencil. That didn't quite work out either. About ten minutes later Naruto had only managed to eat one, of the weird half circle fruit/vegetables and at this point he really didn't feel like giving a damn about how you ate the shit right. He stuck the fork into the nearest oversized meatball and started biting from it. When he made it half way through though, the other half fell off.
"ARGHH!!"
If the other few people in the restaurant hadn't already been looking at the two strange boys of which one of them couldn't even hold a fork fight, they were now. After a few moments of dead silence, the curious Is Villagers turned back to there own business. A light snigger could still be heard here and there, but it soon died down too.
"Yeah well try giving them a pair of chopsticks," Naruto mumbled sourly, giving the fork he had thrown down on the table a good glare.
"Baka," Sasuke grunted from the other side of the table, and Naruto could have sworn the grunt was to hide an otherwise totally un-Sasuke-like snigger. Naruto directed his glare to Sasuke. It wasn't his fault that he had never had parents to make him foreign food where you had to use a knife and fork. Granted Sasuke's parents had died when he was very young, but he had been old enough to remember things about them, and probably also different things they had taught him. Like how to use these blasted instruments.
Curiously Naruto watched how Sasuke held the little buggers and used them to eat with as if it was all he had ever used. His eyes grew wide when Sasuke was done and rose from his seat. Where was he going? Naruto was just about to ask when Sasuke turned and sat down in the empty seat beside him with a sigh.
"Fine, I'll teach you how if you can't do it yourself," his rival muttered as he grabbed a hold of Naruto's right hand, and carefully coached Naruto's fingers around the slender shaft of the instrument he was holding. Naruto looked on in silence, shifting his gaze back and fourth between his hand and Sasuke.
"I assume you know how to hold a knife?" Sasuke said, as he removed his hands from Naruto's and leaned back in the seat.
"Yes," Naruto snapped, sending Sasuke a half glare, vaguely wondering what the tingly feeling that had been on his hands ever since Sasuke grabbed a hold of it was. He just hoped that the other boy wasn't sick or something.
The rest of the meal went quite well actually. Naruto took himself in trying to shift the fork once in a while, because he was holding it too tightly and it was hurting his fingers. But otherwise, everything went well and the last part of the meal he practically swallowed.
"See? It wasn't that hard." Sasuke said as he got up from his seat and headed for the door. "No," Naruto mumbled, probably too low for Sasuke to hear.
"Are you coming?" Sasuke's impatient voice sounded from the door. Naruto looked around the restaurant. When had everyone left? He got up and followed Sasuke out and together they made their way back to the house.
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I'm trying to remember
Why I was afraid
To be myself and let the
Covers fall away
I guess I never had someone like you
To help me, to help me fit
In my skin
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"Jamen det var da. interessant." [1]
"So he couldn't eat with a fork, big deal. I know I could never eat with sticks."
The girl turned around too look at her companion and sighed. "No not that! You saw them for yourself."
The boy turned his black-blue eyes downwards in thought. "Yeah I guess you could be right."
"I am always right."
"And so full of yourself I could puke, but this little thing in the restaurant really proves nothing."
"You didn't feel their emotions, I did. They were raging. And we are outside, luv, so as long as you don't vomit on my dress, you can do whatever you feel like."
"I would love to hit you with whatever might be left of my last meal, unfortunately I have nothing in my stomach at the moment or the strength to throw anything anywhere anyway. You're sure it wasn't just hormones? You know boys that age are really."
"It was not, I tell you!" The young woman stamped her foot in the earth and pouted.
"Fine, fine, whatever you say. I am not arguing with you when you are in that corner."
"Yay me!" The girl clapped her hands, beaming at the boy beside her "I want a piggy back ride!"
For a moment the boy's eyes flashed with what could very well have been pain or sorrow, before he turned and lifted his companion up off the earth.
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[1] "Well that was. rather interesting."
Uni: *tries to speak even though Matt is running in circles around her trying to get away from Kouichi and his frying pan* Okay ladies and gentlemen, I present to you; the language essay *grins*
I have been found out. Well almost anyway^^ But since Norwegian and Danish are practically the same when you write it, I knew that if I said it wasn't Norwegian you would guess anyway. I am now telling you that it is in fact Danish^^ I know that the language doesn't fit the surroundings and if longer conversations take place, then I am probably going to throw some Norwegian and Swedish and probably some German in, just for the hell of it :) The reason for me being able to just mix up the languages are that country does not exist. (But if it did, then I think it would be safe to say that it is somewhere in the northern regions of Norway ;) So why am I using this language? I am because I love seeing Naruto looking confused, and I could imagine Sasuke looking adorable like that too. The main reason however, is that I needed them in a foreign country, and I have seen one too many fics where the characters go to another country, and then everyone there are magically able to speak fluent Japanese or everyone speaks English like it was a second language, or the whole language issue is simply skipped all together. I didn't want that to happen to my story too, since I want it to have just a little touch with reality *covers and prays that she hasn't offended anyone* The last reason for this is that I am trying to teach my lovely Erin to speak Danish and I thought that she might be able to learn something from reading some in a fics.
So anyway what did you think? Tell me, tell me, tell me^^!!! Reviews are inspiring you know. Trust me on this one ;) Also I would really like to know what you think of the boy and girl (Who shall remain nameless until I chose otherwise *whispers that there is a picture of the boy on mediaminor where the other picture that no one was able to see it up and viewable now*) Should I keep them around or kill them off first chance I get?
Matt: Wow would you look at that, new chapter, far out! -.-
Uni: Hey everyone Matt is back!! *glomps him*
Matt: Yes thank you. *wriggles out of Uni's grasp* Anyways I am forcing Kouji into reading the disclaimers today!!^^
Uni: Kouichi isn't going to like you forcing his brother into anything.
Matt: He'll live (Uni: yes but you wont.) *ignoring Uni* Kouji??
Kouji: *glares at Matt* Look at previous chapters for disclaimers!!
Matt: -.- (Uni: *sniggers*)
Uni: I have done it and I am deeply sorry. I have gone and made fluff *watches as people goes to hit the beck button* HEY WAIT!!! I promise you this will be one of the only chapters with fluff, don't worry I am going to make a LOT of angst in the next chapter and within the next. three I hope, I am going to turn everything upside down *grins maniacally* I have no idea if Japanese people eats with forks more often then we do with sticks, but since Naruto has never lived off of anything other then ramen then I am guessing he cant eat with one. Besides I needed some funnies.
Also, thanks a million to Moon Klutz and Bronze Eagle for offering to be my Beta, you have no idea how much I appreciate it. And thanks to my new beta Cheryl-chan for offering and doing the job^^
And now on with the chapter!!
Yuki and Is
Northern Lights
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I wake up in the morning
Put on my face
The one that's gonna get me
Through another day
Doesn't really matter
How I feel inside
'Cause life is like a game sometimes
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Naruto was sitting on top of the roof of their 'new home' contemplating the previous few hours. He had long since stopped thinking about the iciness between Kakashi-sensei and the strange man in the circle. He had come to the wise conclusion that he would probably never guess what it was anyway, and thinking about it would only end up giving him a headache. On top of that, being as beat as he felt, that was something he could live without.
Naruto closed his eyes for a moment. Everyone in the village with the exception of the guards at the gate seemed to be sleeping. He and the rest of the little house had gone to bed what felt like hours ago to Naruto, but in truth, it was probably only one. The blond boy had lay down in his new bed and tried to fall asleep at first, but it soon became apparent that that was just not going to happen any time soon. In the end Naruto had risen from his covers again and climbed on to the roof. That was what he usually did at home whenever he had trouble sleeping.
Naruto soon realised that sitting on the roof of a building in Is village was a lot harder then sitting on his own in the Leaf village. He found two reasons for this: One, he hadn't thought about how cold it was outside and hadn't bothered to change out of his pyjamas and bunny slippers for the occasion. He paid the price for his stupidity in the form of an almost instantly running nose. This he could do something about though, and he instantly shot inside and got into some more sensible clothes. The second thing he was still fiddling with; the ice on the roof! At home the ice was never thicker than he was able to scrape off. Here however, he was practically sitting on a ten-centimetre-thick layer of ice. This made it absolutely impossible for him to sit still and not fall of the roof. Naruto was however slowly beginning to find a way of dealing with this too. Using the heels on his boots, he had hacked two small indents in the thick ice and was now resting his heels in them, thus preventing him from sliding anywhere.
Feeling slightly proud of himself for coming up with that, he leaned back on his elbows and began to study the sky. It was just like the one at home, only the cold weather was making the millions of stars seem clearer and brighter than they had ever appeared to Naruto before. Then suddenly something happened that made Naruto's eyes go wide. Colours! All the colours of the rainbow slowly began to play across the sky! Rather like misty waves splashing out on the sky lake, had it been a shore, of course.
Completely mesmerised by the beautiful light show Naruto leaned forward, unconsciously resting his upper body against his legs. It was so beautiful! He had never seen anything like it. Naruto was so preoccupied with looking at the northern lights that he momentarily forgot that he was still sitting on a roof, and that the only thing keeping from falling down from that roof was two little carvings he had made with his boot heels! To his shock, the carvings suddenly gave way under his weight.
Naruto yelped loudly when he felt his legs slipping from under him, sending him on a rough slide down the length of the roof. Unconsciously, he reached in under his jacket for a weapon of some kind that he could hack into the ice when he made it to the edge. He swore at himself when his hand found nothing, and he realised that he had left them in his room. Naruto squinted his eyes and prepared himself for a hard hit. This was gonna hurt.
The next thing he knew, something, or someone, grabbed a hold of his collar from behind thus keeping him from sliding out over the edge. Frowning, Naruto widened his eyes as he cringed his neck to look at whatever it was that was keeping him from falling.
Blue eyes fell on black bushy hair, and bored looking eyes, and grew even wider. Sasuke! At first Naruto could do nothing but stare at him stunned, but he immediately frowned instead.
"Let me go!" Sasuke just quirked a fine eyebrow at him, looked down at the roof and then back up. Naruto followed his gaze down to the roof and down the side to the edge. Then he turned back to look at Sasuke whose amused expression was clearly asking "Really?'.
Squinting his eyes, the blond just grinned sheepishly. Sasuke sighed, "Use your Chakra like when you climb trees. And after, keep in mind that it is ice you are standing on and not bark. It's slippery."
Naruto couldn't suppress a glare at Sasuke for coming up with that, and correcting him. As Sasuke slowly put him down, Naruto slowly concentrated on his Chakra as he stood still on the icy roof. He smiled when he stayed put rather than plunging towards his death again. It worked!
A little shakily Naruto sat down again, leaned his upper body against his bent legs, and once more looked up at the sky. The lights had dimmed down a bit, but it was still beautiful. He managed to forget that Sasuke was still currently standing behind him.
"I hear that when it is mid winter up here, the northern lights can last for the entire night."
It took Naruto a while to register that Sasuke had said something. Completely caught off guard that Sasuke had actually started talking to him first and not vice versa, Naruto tore his gaze from the sky and whipped his head around to stare at Sasuke, baffled.
Sasuke's cheeks coloured a bit and he glared. "Stop looking at me like that, you idiot."
Now there was the Sasuke Naruto knew and could deal with. "I am not an idiot!" he huffed, glaring back. This set off a small glaring contest, ending when Sasuke's eyes softened a bit and he smirked instead. He lifted his head to look up at the sky again.
This only confused Naruto more "What?" he asked, crooking his head and squinted at the other boy as though studying him would magically give him the answer he was looking for.
"Nothing, idiot," Sasuke replied in an absentminded voice, not taking his eyes off of the sky. Feeling slightly annoyed, Naruto sat there and continued to stare at the ebony haired boy, hoping to the gods that Sasuke would see the message that he was, in fact, not welcome. This however didn't seem to work, as Sasuke remained completely unfazed. Well, on the outside at least. So in the end, Naruto turned his head away and sighed in slight exasperation.
They sat like that in peace for quite a while. But in the end the silence seemed to be getting to the energetic of the two and he decided to ask Sasuke's opinion on the issue that had been bugging him ever since they had been to that temple (even if he had decided not to think about it).
"What do you think was up with Kakashi and that weird dude in the temple?"
"How should I know?" came the reply, this making Naruto glare at the other boy in a futile attempt to bore holes right through him. Sasuke glared back, but then, just like the last time only minutes before, his eyes softened and he opened his mouth to continue. "But whatever it was that happened, it left Kakashi feeling betrayed somehow." Sasuke trailed off as he, thoughtfully, looked out over the village seemingly at nothing in particular.
Naruto was feeling thoughtful himself. It wasn't because of the Kakashi thing though; he had barely paid attention to what Sasuke had been saying. No, Naruto's attention had halted at the softening of Sasuke's eyes when it happened for the second time. It had made him feel somewhat uneasy. The softness had been almost untraceable and Naruto was positive that the only reason he had even noticed in the first place was because he had known and been close to Sasuke for quite some time now, and had gradually learned how to interpreted the almost nonexistent emotions in the boy's stone face correctly. But even though it had passed almost unnoticed it had still been there, and now Naruto was wondering what that could mean. He had only seen that emotion on Sasuke's face a few times before, and that had either been mixed with terror when either Sakura or Naruto himself was in danger, or the time on the bridge when he had taken the needles instead of Naruto. And the last time he had seen it, was mixed with anger and hatred when he had faced his brother for the last time.
All of these times had been in extreme situations, and Naruto was positive that there was absolutely nothing dangerous about to attack, and that Sasuke wasn't dying or anything. And so once again within a time span of only a few hours, Naruto was drawing a blank.
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But then you came around me
The walls just disappeared
Nothing to surround me
And keep me from my fears
I'm unprotected
See how I've opened up
Oh, you've made me trust
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It had been a while since any of them had said anything to the other, and now the silence between the two boys on the roof was somehow starting to become uncomfortable again. With that, yet another unsaid, unconscious, and this time overly absurd competition started. None of them was willing to be the first one to say something. It didn't matter that it wasn't an argument that had started the long period of silence, and that it wasn't an apology they were looking for, it was simply who could stand the uncomfortable silence the longest.
In the end it was either a tie or Naruto's loss depending on the viewpoint, because a loud rumble broke the nearly silence.
"You hungry?" Sasuke asked as he turned his head to look at the blond in amazement that such a loud noise could come from such a small body. Then again, this was Naruto, and being loud and noisy was what he did best. Sasuke really shouldn't be surprised that he could be so, even without opening his mouth.
"Yeah, we didn't really get any supper," Naruto answered him, holding his hands on his belly in a near protective manner. Sasuke opened his mouth looking like he was going to say something, but was interrupted by his own growling stomach. Though much more subdued then Naruto's had been, Sasuke still sweatdropped and looked rather annoyed.
"Wanna go get something to eat?" Sasuke sighed, looking questioningly over at Naruto.
Naruto squinted. "Is this some kind of sick way of asking me out on a date?" This turned out to be a not particularly smart thing to say (Which really he should have known.) because it instantly earned him a whack on the head courtesy of Sasuke's knuckles.
"You total moron! Well fine. If you wanna stay up here and keep freezing your arse off while you starve, that's your business." The Uchiha boy shrugged as he rose up from his seat and made three graceful jumps down the length of the slippery roof. When he got to the edge, he didn't hesitate to jump out over.
"Hey that hurt!" Naruto yelled after him, still rubbing the sore spot on his head where Sasuke had hit him. He really was getting kind of cold, despite the fact that he had changed into something warmer then his pyjamas. Kakashi had mentioned something about dressing warmly for the 'vacation' but Naruto had jumped up and fallen down on that just the same. Now however, he wished that he had listened. He couldn't sleep either, that much he knew. Naruto's stomach grumbled impatiently once again, reminding Naruto of his hunger.
"Fine!" Naruto muttered to his annoying stomach and got up to follow Sasuke's example in jumping down from the roof. Soon he was sitting in a crouching position in the streets of Is Village.
"Took you long enough." Naruto's head snapped up, eyes narrowing in the direction that the familiar voice had come from. And there, a little further down the street stood Sasuke, arms crossed and face blank, leaning up against the far wall of another house. Gods he hated him!!
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Because I've never felt like this before
I'm naked
Around you
Does it show?
You see right through me
And I can't hide
I'm naked
Around you
And it feels so right
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After wandering down who knows how many streets and alleys that all turned out to end blind, they had finally found food! It was about time too! If they had had to wait any longer, Naruto was sure he would have either thrown up or simply had his hunger pass. And according to Naruto both things were equally bad.
Now they had two problems. Because none of them could read the menu, and the man behind the counter didn't speak a word of Japanese and was almost equally as lousy at English, they had just ordered. something. The first problem came when Naruto and Sasuke were handed a knife and a fork each. Sasuke didn't seem to be having any large issues with this, but Naruto had practically lived off of ramen for his entire life, and you did not eat ramen with a fork. To put it frankly, he was going to have to learn to make use of these strange instruments. If he didn't, he would be in deep shit if he wanted anything to eat anytime soon.
The next issue- no, make that the next two issues. The first of the aforementioned two issues came when the food came. What on earth was that?! Naruto nearly gagged when a plate with two oversized meatballs, some potatoes, and some half circle shaped see-through. stuff arrived. And the whole thing was covered in brown sauce too O.o
Naruto quickly recovered though. He was really too hungry to care at the moment. Besides, it did smell kind of nice...
Now to issue number two. HOW to eat it. First he tried holding on to the fork and knife like you would hold a pair of chopsticks. That didn't work out. Next he tried holding the fork like you would hold on to a pencil. That didn't quite work out either. About ten minutes later Naruto had only managed to eat one, of the weird half circle fruit/vegetables and at this point he really didn't feel like giving a damn about how you ate the shit right. He stuck the fork into the nearest oversized meatball and started biting from it. When he made it half way through though, the other half fell off.
"ARGHH!!"
If the other few people in the restaurant hadn't already been looking at the two strange boys of which one of them couldn't even hold a fork fight, they were now. After a few moments of dead silence, the curious Is Villagers turned back to there own business. A light snigger could still be heard here and there, but it soon died down too.
"Yeah well try giving them a pair of chopsticks," Naruto mumbled sourly, giving the fork he had thrown down on the table a good glare.
"Baka," Sasuke grunted from the other side of the table, and Naruto could have sworn the grunt was to hide an otherwise totally un-Sasuke-like snigger. Naruto directed his glare to Sasuke. It wasn't his fault that he had never had parents to make him foreign food where you had to use a knife and fork. Granted Sasuke's parents had died when he was very young, but he had been old enough to remember things about them, and probably also different things they had taught him. Like how to use these blasted instruments.
Curiously Naruto watched how Sasuke held the little buggers and used them to eat with as if it was all he had ever used. His eyes grew wide when Sasuke was done and rose from his seat. Where was he going? Naruto was just about to ask when Sasuke turned and sat down in the empty seat beside him with a sigh.
"Fine, I'll teach you how if you can't do it yourself," his rival muttered as he grabbed a hold of Naruto's right hand, and carefully coached Naruto's fingers around the slender shaft of the instrument he was holding. Naruto looked on in silence, shifting his gaze back and fourth between his hand and Sasuke.
"I assume you know how to hold a knife?" Sasuke said, as he removed his hands from Naruto's and leaned back in the seat.
"Yes," Naruto snapped, sending Sasuke a half glare, vaguely wondering what the tingly feeling that had been on his hands ever since Sasuke grabbed a hold of it was. He just hoped that the other boy wasn't sick or something.
The rest of the meal went quite well actually. Naruto took himself in trying to shift the fork once in a while, because he was holding it too tightly and it was hurting his fingers. But otherwise, everything went well and the last part of the meal he practically swallowed.
"See? It wasn't that hard." Sasuke said as he got up from his seat and headed for the door. "No," Naruto mumbled, probably too low for Sasuke to hear.
"Are you coming?" Sasuke's impatient voice sounded from the door. Naruto looked around the restaurant. When had everyone left? He got up and followed Sasuke out and together they made their way back to the house.
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I'm trying to remember
Why I was afraid
To be myself and let the
Covers fall away
I guess I never had someone like you
To help me, to help me fit
In my skin
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"Jamen det var da. interessant." [1]
"So he couldn't eat with a fork, big deal. I know I could never eat with sticks."
The girl turned around too look at her companion and sighed. "No not that! You saw them for yourself."
The boy turned his black-blue eyes downwards in thought. "Yeah I guess you could be right."
"I am always right."
"And so full of yourself I could puke, but this little thing in the restaurant really proves nothing."
"You didn't feel their emotions, I did. They were raging. And we are outside, luv, so as long as you don't vomit on my dress, you can do whatever you feel like."
"I would love to hit you with whatever might be left of my last meal, unfortunately I have nothing in my stomach at the moment or the strength to throw anything anywhere anyway. You're sure it wasn't just hormones? You know boys that age are really."
"It was not, I tell you!" The young woman stamped her foot in the earth and pouted.
"Fine, fine, whatever you say. I am not arguing with you when you are in that corner."
"Yay me!" The girl clapped her hands, beaming at the boy beside her "I want a piggy back ride!"
For a moment the boy's eyes flashed with what could very well have been pain or sorrow, before he turned and lifted his companion up off the earth.
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[1] "Well that was. rather interesting."
Uni: *tries to speak even though Matt is running in circles around her trying to get away from Kouichi and his frying pan* Okay ladies and gentlemen, I present to you; the language essay *grins*
I have been found out. Well almost anyway^^ But since Norwegian and Danish are practically the same when you write it, I knew that if I said it wasn't Norwegian you would guess anyway. I am now telling you that it is in fact Danish^^ I know that the language doesn't fit the surroundings and if longer conversations take place, then I am probably going to throw some Norwegian and Swedish and probably some German in, just for the hell of it :) The reason for me being able to just mix up the languages are that country does not exist. (But if it did, then I think it would be safe to say that it is somewhere in the northern regions of Norway ;) So why am I using this language? I am because I love seeing Naruto looking confused, and I could imagine Sasuke looking adorable like that too. The main reason however, is that I needed them in a foreign country, and I have seen one too many fics where the characters go to another country, and then everyone there are magically able to speak fluent Japanese or everyone speaks English like it was a second language, or the whole language issue is simply skipped all together. I didn't want that to happen to my story too, since I want it to have just a little touch with reality *covers and prays that she hasn't offended anyone* The last reason for this is that I am trying to teach my lovely Erin to speak Danish and I thought that she might be able to learn something from reading some in a fics.
So anyway what did you think? Tell me, tell me, tell me^^!!! Reviews are inspiring you know. Trust me on this one ;) Also I would really like to know what you think of the boy and girl (Who shall remain nameless until I chose otherwise *whispers that there is a picture of the boy on mediaminor where the other picture that no one was able to see it up and viewable now*) Should I keep them around or kill them off first chance I get?