A/N: Naruto doesn't belong to me.......
The Most Beautiful Smile
By Pinky Cat
Chapter 3: I'm gonna win
Black eyes opened, a new start into a new day
Sasuke stood up from his bed and while walking to the kitchen, he couldn't prevent himself from thinking about Naruto. The feeling when Naruto hugged him, nor the scent or warmth.
Without noticing it, he began smiling.
Suddenly the doorbell rang. It sounded like his alarm clock did, so of course, he hated the tune. He made a mental note to change that as soon as he got some spare time.
He walked to the door and opened it just a tiny bit, just to have it smashed against his face.
He muttered a few curses under his breath before looking at his short tormentor, standing happy and energetic as always at the doorframe.
Speaking of devil
Sasuke opened his mouth to speak, but Naruto cut in.
"You probably want to know what I'm doing here" He shuffled through his orange mantle's pockets and slipped out something. He showed him a paper, the registration to the 'most beautiful smile' contest as he could see now.
"some crazy girls are doing this stuff for me. Actually, I didn't even want to take the contest last year"
Naruto was an itsy-bitsy tiny bit jealous of Sasuke, before regaining himself again as he realized he was being talked to
"I'm eating breakfast, wanna join me?"
Naruto shook his head "No thanks, I already ate breakfast"
Sasuke stepped aside, so Naruto could enter. "Sit down; I'll be ready in 5 minutes"
"Ok" And off was Sasuke
Naruto slowly walked over to the couch looking at everything in the house. Almost everything was black or wooden colored.
He slowly sat down on the dark brown leather couch, trying to make as little noise as possible.
When he sat in the couch safely, he slowly turned his head to the direction Sasuke left to.
There was a door and it was slightly opened, so that he could see the hall behind it.
This was the time he first realized how big his house was. It's just too big for one person. There were at least 5 rooms. How could a single person a 13 year-old orphan above all afford the money for this?? He was certainly living with someone, but why hadn't he told him?!?
It wasn't bad to live with someone else, but why had he kept it secret???
He had to ask him, and Sasuke would tell him the truth, right?
Sasuke didn't have any dark secrets, right?
Sasuke didn't have anything to conceal, right?
There was only one way to find out...
Naruto stood up and slowly made his way to the half-opened door. When he reached the door he slowly lifted his hand to the doorknob. But suddenly the door was pulled open and Sasuke bumped full speed ahead into Naruto sending them both crashing at the ground. Sasuke quickly stood up and offered Naruto his hand mumbling 'sorry'. Naruto took it gratefully and was easily pulled up by Sasuke, making Naruto wonder how strong Sasuke was.
Naruto dusted off his clothes when he remembered his question
"Sasuke, does anyone beside you lives here?" Sasuke shook his head.
"Naw, I live alone."
He paused for a moment
"If you're wondering about the size of this house, it's that big 'cause my parents kinda left it for me" Sasuke added shrugging.
Naruto re-thought his thoughts to find, that everything fit together and that his worries have been completely useless
Naruto took a sharp intake of breath
Sasuke began panicking slightly "what is it?"
"We have to be at school in exact 3 minutes and 27...26 seconds....."
Sasuke turned around and looked at the clock that was just above the door he'd just come out.
Hhmm Who was their teacher in the first class....... Oh shit Ebisu-sensei
Now Sasuke began to panic. "WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE??? RUN!!!!"
Sasuke took all their things into one arm and Naruto's Hand into his own and began to run for his dear life.
Naruto and Sasuke were in front of the classroom, breathing very heavy. Sasuke was the first to stop and waited for Naruto to stop, too.
Sasuke opened the door with a swift push, well let's say he TRIED to open it in a swift push.
The door however, stopped midway and a loud crash from the inside was heard.
Sasuke tucked his head inside to see what it was. Sasuke's eyes widened.
Ebisu-sensei was sitting on the floor, massaging his apparently aching back.
Naruto also tucked his head in "Hey Sasuke, what's going......"
Sasuke clamped his hand over Naruto's mouth although Naruto had already stopped talking.
Ebisu-sensei looked up with a vein popping up on his temple. Immediately standing up he screeched "And what are YOU two doing here?? Huh??? I'd give you lifelong detention if it wasn't for..."
"If it wasn't for...?" Sasuke managed to choke out.
Naruto looked at the class. Everyone was waiting tensely for their Sasuke-kun to save the day.
He looked at Sasuke again. He seemed so stiff, apparently his first time being caught at something. But not Naruto, this happened to him everyday at least three times...
Naruto looked at Ebisu-sensei again as he was continuing his speech
"If it wasn't for TODAY!!! You will get your Photo's today!!"
Ebisu-sensei pointed towards the chairs in a manner of 'sit-down-already-before-I-change-my-mind'
Both silently obeyed, quickly sitting down in the said chairs.
Ebisu-sensei walked to the front again.
"Akiyama"
"Haaaaaaii" hurried footsteps were heard when 'Akiyama' went to get his photo's
"Asakawa"
"Yup!!"
"Uchiha"
Sasuke looked up
"Hai" He said shortly, standing up. Slowly, he made his way to the counter.
Ebisu held out a tiny brown box in his direction.
Sasuke picked it up and made his way to his chair again. Just as he sat down, the box was snatched away from him.
He looked over to Naruto who was looking at the Pictures giggling
"Hey Sasuke, why do you look like this? Someone stole your comb?"
Naruto, however had no time to laugh at his own joke
"Uzumaki"
"My turn!!!!"
Naruto suddenly jumped up, knocking over his chair and went to the front to get his Pictures.
Sasuke took this time to get his Pictures back and take a look at them. He looked at them and froze for a second, .... He really looked .... Angry....
But it's good right?!? No one likes bitchy Sasuke!!
THUMP
Sasuke looked over to where the sound came from.
Even if it was unintended, the scene burned into his mind.
Naruto was sitting on the ground, his photos scattered all over the ground. He was shaking with fear, eyes wide and clenched teeth.
"My turn!!!" Naruto, being as impatient as always, opened the package right away.
He swiftly took the first Photo he could get, and looked at it.
He looked at his Photo, the first thing he saw were bloody red eyes, eyes that haunted him;
It was the fox demon
Time was up; his knees couldn't hold him any longer.
Time seemed to go in slow motion; he saw how his Photo's were swirling in the air, every one of them being the fox demon.
Suddenly, it speeded up again and
THUMP
All of his Photo's scattered on the ground.
Someone of the class shouted
"Hey Uzumaki, Is it your first time seeing yourself? Well.... I'd be shocked, too!"
And the class broke into laughers. Naruto looked around for a second before releasing the breath he hadn't realize he'd been holding.
He collected his Photo's gingerly and still un-sure on his knees made his way back to his seat.
The class was still laughing but the fake-coughing of their teacher brought them back to reality.
"Yamamoto"
And the class went on like it was doing before.
Sasuke looked over to Naruto; he looked like he was trying not to let on anything.
"Naruto?"
Two slight watery blue orbs gazed at him. He asked the question, the one and only probably every single one of the class wanted to know.
"What happened??"
Naruto turned away again as if he'd been burned.
"I-I just don't know!!" he snapped
Sasuke moved his hand forward to Naruto's chin
But retreated before even touching it again as a hurt thought made his way to Sasuke's mind
Am I still that far away from him...?
Ebisu-sensei was finished handing out the Photo's and was now saying his final speech before everyone finally could leave. It was the same speech as every year and all the students could recite it exactly even if it was 3 o' clock in the morning.
"So if anyone wants to take part in the contest and doesn't already have the applications, get it from your teacher, that's me, and bring the applications to the assembly hall where we're going to meet in 15 minutes"
For about 3 seconds everything was quiet, before they finally broke into the natural break-chatter
Usually now, Naruto would say something like: Out of my way!!! I'm gonna have the best seat in the cafeteria!!
And usually, all the girls would screech: forget it!!! The Window-seat is just for Sasuke-kun
And usually, Sasuke would just sigh and try to find a place to enjoy his break, if you could call it that
But this wasn't as usual.
Sasuke looked over to Naruto again, who has been walking beside him to the cafeteria.
There was a big crowd so nobody would notice someone missing, would they?
Sasuke opened his mouth but it was way too loud for Naruto to understand him. He looked at Naruto's hand which was hanging loosely at his sides as if he had no feeling in it anymore.
Sasuke held his breath and hoping that nobody was looking, he picked up Naruto' hand and with one swiftly motion pulled Naruto out of the crowd.
Naruto tripped in the progress but Sasuke caught him.
Naruto, still not realizing what just happened and just heard Sasuke whispering "let's get out of here"
Sasuke breathed in the fresh air. He looked over to Naruto who was sitting next to him also leaning to the big tree- sleeping. Sasuke was feeling a strange emotion of happiness, of fulfilled desires, completeness
Naruto thrashed having a frown on his face. Sasuke's attention was brought to Naruto again. Worried, Sasuke leaned closer to Naruto's face as it was looking away from Sasuke.
Suddenly Naruto's eyes shot up and he looked into Sasuke's direction.
Naruto looked around every here and there hardly fixing his gaze on anything before sighing and leaning back to the tree. Sasuke looked at him as if he had voiced his question and hasn't gotten his answer yet. After some minutes of no answer he dismissed it as a nightmare- something that everybody has sometimes- and looked at his watch.
4 more minutes to go, it'd be better if they'd get on their way now. Sasuke stood up heavily and pulled his backpack on one shoulder.
He held his hand out to Naruto and after he took his hand, Sasuke quickly pulled him up and the both of them made their way to the assembly hall.
They didn't say anything on the way there, but it was a comfortable silence.
When they arrived, there was Ebisu-sensei was standing in the middle of a big crowd in front of the door, collecting all the applications.
Naruto went into the crowd and fought his way to Ebisu-sensei to give him his application.
Sasuke already made his way to the seats inside the assembly hall. He tried to walk quick and quiet so nobody would recognize him and follow him to sit next to him.
After he found his seat, he put his bag on the seat to his right so Naruto would have a seat, too. There was a piece of paper on every seat so he picked his and Naruto's up before sitting down. It was a simple white paper with a single line on it. Probably for the vote.
After he saw Naruto enter Sasuke waved to him so Naruto would see him.
Soon, it started and the head-teacher held a speech. Naruto thanked God that his speech wasn't too long and that he started with the contest right away.
There was a huge blackboard behind him and he wrote down all the name's of the participating people.
Sasuke was the first, probably because his application has been given to the teachers the very first. Or maybe the girls blackmailed the head teacher....
Naruto was the last person because his application reached the teacher the last after he had to fight himself through the crowd. Or maybe the girl blackmailed the head teacher for him to be the last, too.....
The photo's were projected on the wall with an over head projector.
Most of the people started laughing upon seeing Naruto's photo as it looked really strange because he was smiling even though he looked like some elephants stomped onto his face.
The head teacher was having a hard time keeping all of them quiet
"sh- HEY! BE QUIET!.. good.... Well, put your vote on the paper that was on your seat and put them into the boxes. If you lost yours, you can still take one from the stack next to the boxes, then you can go outside and relax a bit until we're finished"
It was still quiet until the head teacher gave a short nod and everybody stood up and made their way to the boxes. There were 3 entrances and there were 2 boxes at every entrance.
Some students remained in their chairs since they had no faith to come through the crowd anyway.
Some minutes passed and the hall was slowly becoming emptier, as everyone went outside.
Sasuke looked around the crowd for a head with blond messy hair. When he caught sight of it he went to him and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"Hey Naruto, who do you think...."
Sasuke looked at Naruto and noticed he wasn't listening.
"Helloooo Naruto!" he said, waving his hand in front of Naruto's face but Naruto just kept looking at that one point and making a "shhhhh" motion with his hand
Sasuke frowned at him before looking in the same direction that Naruto was looking.
There was a group of girls chatting
"Did you see Uzumaki's face?"
"Yes I did, oh my god it was SO funny"
"Do you think he got beat up?"
"Naw!! He just probably walked against a door or something"
And the group exploded into fits of laughers
Naruto still looked at them with a dreamy look and with an angelic hint of a smile on his face.
"They like me..."
Sasuke looked bewildered at Naruto
"Err, Naruto, they just made fun of you!!"
Naruto finally turned his head to Sasuke and looked at him with a mixed expression of sadness and anger.
"Just because someone likes me instead of you once your lifetime doesn't mean you have to be so jealous"
Sasuke looked at Naruto ridiculously. Somehow he was feeling like screaming.
He was feeling like screaming and hitting his fists into walls, shaking Naruto so he'd wake up. Beat up the people who had talked like that about his Naruto.
But after all, Sasuke is Sasuke, right?
So as self-controlled as possible, Sasuke turned around and started walking into the other direction. It was such a pity, such a shame that Naruto didn't just open the eyes and see which persons are just the wrong people and which are the right ones to hang out with.
Sasuke smiled to himself, he was definitely one of the right ones! Sooner or later, Naruto would think so too!
Sasuke spotted Naruto going back to the assembly hall as some others were doing, too.
Sasuke sped up his pace and walked up behind Naruto and put his arm around Naruto's shoulder. And because Sasuke was in a good mood again he added a "hey buddy"
Something similar to anger blazed in Naruto's eyes and he shrugged Sasuke's arm off.
"Sasuke, I've decided something."
Sasuke nodded, motioning for him to continue
"I'm gonna win this year's contest, and I'm not gonna win it for myself. I'm gonna win it for every person out there that was ever called a 'loser' or a 'freak'. I'm gonna win against all the people like you that made them what they are."
Naruto had really strong but controlled anger in his voice.
Sasuke gaped at him. It isn't like his life depended on it. Why was Naruto overreacting so much??
Naruto sneered at him and walked past him. Still with his back turned against Sasuke he said "Let's see who wins"
Involuntarily Sasuke answered "Let's see"
That was it. Naruto was doing a big mistake and he'd realize that when he lost. He'd finally open his eyes after he lost. At least Sasuke hoped so. He didn't want them to become rivals-to-death
Sasuke made his way to his seat again and noticed that Naruto had sat down somewhere else. It wasn't hard to find his golden blond hair about 3 rows in front of him. He was chatting with some people around him and he seemed really happy. The others seemed to be happy too. But they more like seemed to laugh at Naruto, rather that with him.
Some minutes passed and the teachers called all the students in again to announce the winner.
"First off I want to say that every single one of those who participated had a really beautiful smile" Sasuke heard the head teacher say
the head teacher kept talking about how every smile was special until he came to the interesting part.
Naruto noticed his 'friends' laughing when the head teacher had mentioned that every smile was beautiful. Maybe they thought that every one besides Naruto didn't have a chance, he thought with a smirk on his face.
The head teachers voice interrupted his train of thoughts
"And the winner is..."
Naruto felt as if his heart was beating so loud that the entire hall could hear it
Thump-thump............
Thump-thump............
Thum-thump...............
"Uchiha Sasuke!"
A/N: Hi everyone, as I promised, here's the update. I'll update 'am I in heaven?' soon, too! I hope you liked this chapter because I didn't. I didn't take my time to write it I wrote it really fast so it doesn't have the quality it should have....
I promise that the next update will get better!
Ok, and this is the longest chapter I ever wrote so PLEASE REVIEW pplz.(insert really cute smiley with huge puppy eyes here)