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This is the Present

Chapter two

Naruto sat inside the empty building, anxiously waiting for Zabuza to arrive. He kept looking over his shoulder wondering if the other people were entering yet.

"Nervous are we?" A voice chuckled beside him.

Naruto spun around and was greeted by a dark spiked haired man with emotionless eyes.

"Hey Zabuza-sensei." Naruto grinned. The other man smiled back.

"I hope you enjoy the show. Oh and don't get too overwhelmed. Naruto-kun." He said ruffling the blonde haired boy's hair.

"Arigato for the seat!" he said getting up and hugging Zabuza. The older man tensed but then relaxed into the embrace. He ruffled the teen's hair once more before walking away.

Naruto sat back down and watched people enter the seat filled room. He had front row seats thanks to Zabuza who had organized this whole event.

'I wonder who will be sitting beside me.' He thought looking at the three empty seats beside him. His question was answered when Sakura, Sasuke and some lady he didn't recognize walk towards him. The lady had dark red hair and baby-blue eyes. Her face was soft and caring, she looked similar to Sakura. She led them into his row and paused when she saw him smiling at them.

"I am not sitting beside that!" She shrieked and took the opposite isle seat. Her face was full of disgust as she glared at Naruto, like he should've been there. Naruto just smiled and waved. Sakura took the seat nearest to her mother.

"Gomen Sasuke-kun." She said bowing her head.

He shrugged and sat down between Naruto and Sakura. To be honest he really didn't mind sitting beside the blonde haired boy. He looked around to see who all had come. The place was packed; most of them were kids from his school and their parents. He noticed Ino and her parents were here. Looking further back he noticed the Hyuuga siblings Hinata and Neji. Beside them sat Gai and his look-alike Rock Lee. Moving along he saw the Nara and Akimichi clans were sitting together. Choji Akimichi was sitting with his father and the elder Nara but Shikamaru wasn't sitting with his family. Sasuke continued to scan the crowds; Aburam Shino was sitting by himself with Tenten. Finally he located the lazy boy sitting with Inuzaku Kiba and his family. He had a faint blush on his face and was looking towards the ceiling. Sasuke noticed Kiba had and evil smirk on his face and raised an eyebrow in question. 'Seems like all of our friends are here, even that Gaara guy.' Sasuke thought looking back towards the open space in front of him.

Naruto couldn't wait for the show to start. He was practically bouncing in his seat, Sakura and her mother were giving him dirty looks, but he was way to excited to care. He would get to see Iruka sensei again and all that other cool stuff Haku was telling him about. Speaking of the long haired boy just where he was? Naruto looked around and spotted him in a corner, clipboard in one hand the other hung at his side. He looked Naruto's way and smiled. Naruto waved and smiled back. The lights dimmed and Zabuza entered from behind a curtain and walked into the middle of the empty space in front of everyone. He cleared his throat and at once the room went silent.

Haku walked up beside Zabuza and smiled. He looked so small beside the taller man.

"Hello everyone and thank you for coming." His voice was soft and pleasant to the ear. "I'm glad you all took the time to watch our presentation, my name is Haku I will be announce the event's that will occur tonight. Please get comfy and enjoy the show." He bowed and walked off stage.

One boy from the audience called out "You're beautiful can I have your number honey!"

"Yeah me too, you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen!" another called.

Naruto snickered. He had also made the mistake of thinking Haku was a girl at first, his soft voice and feminine like features gave off that impression.

"Psst what's so funny dobe?" Sasuke whispered.

"Can't you see?" Sasuke gave him a confused look. "What do you think of Haku?"

"Well she's very pretty." Sasuke admitted this caused Naruto to burst into a fit of giggle leaving Sasuke to stare at him wide eyed.

Haku smiled and plainly said "Sorry but I'm a boy" There were many shouts in protest and disgust.

"Man I never would've thought." Sasuke said blinking, Naruto had calmed down from his giggle fit.

"I can't wait to find out what they're gonna do." Naruto said smiling at Sasuke. He was so happy right now he didn't care about how much of an ass Sasuke had been to him earlier.

Sasuke grinned back at the boy beside him; his energetic behavior must have been contagious because Sasuke felt himself become anxious.

Before Sasuke could respond Sakura's mother cut in. "How in the world did trash like you get in here let alone front row seats."

Sasuke caught the brief flash of pain that shot across Naruto's face before it disappeared behind his well placed mask. Naruto bit his tongue and didn't respond he wasn't going to let people like her ruin his night; he had been looking forward to this for weeks.

He just grinned at her and Sakura. They hadn't noticed that Zabuza had been standing behind them for awhile now.

"I beg you pardon Miss but what did you say to my friend Naruto here?" They both gasped and jumped, startled.

"I was wondering where he got the money to pay for his ticket." Mrs. Haruna said with as much dignity as she could muster.

"Well he worked for it, helping me set this whole thing up, now if you would please be quiet we would like to start the show and your talking is holding it up."

She flushed darkly and mumbled an apology. Naruto stifled his laughter. It was priceless to see the rich snobs get put in their place.

Zabuza stood at the end of a line of five shinobi in total there were six. One being Iruka-sensei another one Naruto recognized as the detention teacher Kakashi. The three others were introduced by Haku as Kurenai, Asuma, and Gai. Sasuke looked up to where had saw Lee and Gai sitting, noticing Lee was sitting by himself beaming down at the older man.

"I swear there's something more then friendship going on between them." He mumbled.

Naruto looked at him. "Between whom?" he whispered.

"Gai-sensei and Lee."

"Lee…" Naruto didn't know who he was.

"Never mind just watch." Sasuke said pointing towards the front.

Naruto turned his head towards the front as the show started. The crowed gasped as the ninja's threw shuriken at each other and preformed many different types of jutsu's. Each display was shown in pairs. One time a Kunai went flying into the crowed only to be caught by Kakashi-sensei who had disappeared in a cloud of smoke and reappeared catching it in front of a small child's face. "Sorry" he said before heading back to the stage.

Naruto was having a great time. He loved everything to do with being a shinobi and he himself excelled at it. Most of the stuff they were doing was low level jutsu that he could do himself. After all Zabuza had trained him personally.

Sasuke lent over and whispered something in Naruto's ear that made the smaller boy blush. Sasuke smirked.

"So am I right?"

Naruto nodded.

Up in further in the rows Shikamaru yawned. "And I'm here again why Kiba?" he asked the brown haired boy.

"Because you owe me." Came the blunt reply

Shikamaru blinked.

"That's right, you owe me."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, "you are so troublesome I don't know why I even bother with you." He sighed.

His answer was a growl and Kiba glaring at him. Smirking he stared back defiantly. How he loved pushing the slightly taller boys buttons.

Shikamaru finally looked away as he grew board of this old routine. "This is so boring, we are shinobi ourselves why do we need to watch a bunch of older men perform stuff we can already do, I'd much rather be outside star gazing." Kiba rolled his eyes, why was Shikamaru always like this.

"Woof woof!" Akamaru barked.

"Yeah." Kiba pouted.

Shikamaru looked at Kiba, he hated it when he talked to akamaru, he could never understand what they were saying. Usually it wasn't ever good for him. He shuddered, what were they planning this time. He studied Kiba's face; there was no trace of a smirk or sly grin. Shikamaru was actually starting to get worried.

Ino was staring at where Sakura and Sasuke was sitting she hated not being able to sit with them and pouted. Zabuza's voice interrupted her thoughts.

"We need some volunteers for the second last part of our show." His deep voice boomed throughout the building.

Many people raised their hands but each sensei selected one student.

Iruka of course picked Naruto who gleefully jumped up from his seat and went to the front. Kakashi ended up picking Sasuke. Gai chose Neji, Asuma selected Hinata, and Kurenai picked Ino.

The five students stood in front of the audience nervously. They didn't know what jutsu they would have to perform Zabuza explained what they would be doing and they grinned. It was the Henge no jutsu. This was a type of ninjutsu where the user would change their appearance into someone else. He explained the simple steps to making this jutsu work. Those that completed the jutsu properly would be asked to join him after the show.

"Now on the count of three." He said.

"One"

"Two"

"Three!"

At once five people called out "Henge no Jutsu!"

The five participants were effulged in puff of smoke. When it disappeared the audience could see that all of the teenagers had changed. Where Hinata had stood a boy with short blue hair and pale eyes now took her place. This was a male version of the Hyuuga female. In Ino's place a Sakura double now stood. Neji had changed into their principal. Sasuke had transformed into Zabuza-sensei and where Naruto once stood, was now a tall, slender, nude blonde female. She had her hair in pigtails on either side of her head and was blowing kisses and winking at the audience.

Sasuke couldn't tear his eyes off female Naruto, it was bad enough he couldn't stop looking at him when he was male but now that he was female Sasuke felt his will weakening. He just wanted to kiss the damn baka silly. 'Wait a minute since when do I want to kiss him!?' Sasuke thought shaking his head. The other four teens released their jutsu's and looked at Naruto who seemed to have fun teasing the audience.

Zabuza cleared his throat and Naruto pouted cutely.

"But Zabuza-san!" she purred.

"That's enough." He growled.

Naruto pouted once more before releasing the jutsu, he was laughing at the look on the audience's faces.

They all were congratulated before taking their seats. Sasuke had a faint blush on his face but it was hidden by his long dark bangs. As the last part of the show continued Sasuke found himself staring more and more at the blonde boy beside him. Naruto was watching what was happening on stage without missing a beat. He loved watching two shinobi fight each other. Out the corner of his eyes he saw Sasuke staring at him.

'Why does he keep staring at me? It's really starting to creep me out.' He thought.

He turned and looked at Sasuke who blushed and looked down. He was acting funny.

"Umm. Are you ok?" he asked.

Sasuke nodded but didn't look up.

"Ok…"

a moment passed before Naruto asked "Why do you keep staring at me?"

Sasuke shrugged. This frustrated Naruto.

"Argh! You're doing it again!"

Sasuke smirked.

"Doing what?"

Naruto frowned and turned away from the other boy. He wasn't going to get angry tonight.

'Damn that didn't work. Wait why do I wanna piss him off again?' Sasuke thought also turning his attention to the rest of the show.

The show ended not long after.

"Well that's a relief." Sakura's mother sighed. "To think that ever commoners could get in." She glared at Naruto as she stood up. Sakura followed suit. They started walking away and realized that Sasuke wasn't following them.

"Are you coming Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked.

"No you guys go; I'll find my own way home. I have to stay anyway."

"Now don't be like that Sasuke. I brought you here and I'm going to take you home."

"Thank you Mrs. Haruna but I'm fine." He bowed.

"You sure Sasuke?"

He nodded, and hugged his friend. "I'll see you on Monday."

She nodded and left.

Ino saw Sakura and her mother starting to leave. She left her parents to go meet them.

"Hey Sakura-chan" she smiled.

"That was sooo cool wasn't it!?"

"Yeah!" The two girls started a heated discussion about the show.

"My mother said you could sleep over if you want." Ino smiled.

"That would be great." She turned to her own mother. "Can I?" she pleaded.

"Of course darling" she said smiling "Call me tomorrow and I'll pick you up. Bye!" She briskly walked out the door.

"Ino took Sakura's hand and pulled her towards her parents. "We'll meet you guys in the car!" she called. They nodded and the two girls took off.

They reached Ino's family car within minutes and hoped into the back seat. Once the door was closed Ino pinned Sakura against the opposite door and kissed her fiercely. Sakura could all but comply with Ino's ministrations. Ino licked her bottom lip asking permission to enter. Sakura willing submitted to the blonde. Wrapping her arms around the other girl's neck she drew their bodies closer so that there was no space between them. They broke the kiss after a few minutes, both girls panting heavily. Ino smirked at the pink haired girl. Sakura smiled back.

Ino's parents came into view from the car. Ino smirked once again. She always had good timing. She and Sakura had been doing this for months and no one was the wiser. Everyone thought they were just best friends. By the time her parents reached the car both girls had caught their breaths and were looking normal. They both grinned widely as the car started up and headed towards the Yamanaka residence.

Naruto and Sasuke walked into the center once again joined by the Hyuuga siblings. Ino had left with Sakura.

"We just want to congratulate you guys once more on a job well done." Zabuza explained. "I saw many potential ninja's in the audience but only a select few had open charka holes."

They nodded in understanding.

"Further more on completing the jutsu we wanted to give you guy's a free lesson."

"We already are being taught." Neji spoke up. His sister nodded in agreement.

"Ok then please feel free to leave." The nodded and left.

Zabuza shook his head "Kids these days."

"Hey!" Naruto sputtered, Zabuza laughed and ruffled his hair affectionately.

"Well besides you. I'm guessing your going to leave also Sasuke?"

The dark haired boy shrugged "Kakashi-sensei has been teaching me."

"Well then, since I don't really get any additional students I'll take my leave, I have other places to be." As he said that Haku started walking towards them.

"Are you finished here Zabuza-sama?"

The older man nodded.

"Then shall we Zabuza-kun?" He said taking said man's arm.

Sasuke lent over and whispered in Naruto's ear.

"He's our age." Naruto replied

Sasuke's eyes widened in shock and Naruto laughed at him.

Zabuza blushed and left with Haku.

"Bye!" Naruto called to their retreating backs.

Sasuke stared at the ground. He didn't really have anything to do right now. He had forgotten to call Itachi so going home was out of the question. He didn't feel like dealing with the older boy's bullshit.

"I wonder how Iruka is doing." Naruto wondered out loud. He hadn't seen him since the end of the show. "Hey lets go find him." Without thinking he grabbed Sasuke's hand and started dragging him through the door located behind the curtain. Memories of his childhood flooded back to him as he dragged Sasuke. The raven haired boy reminded him so much of his lost friend.

'Where the hell does he get all his energy?' Sasuke thought as the blonde dragged them down hallway after hallway opening door after door for the man Naruto talked so fondly of.

He was different from the Naruto at school; he was happy and full of energy. Sasuke smiled despite himself. He liked this Naruto much better then the one he saw at school. Hell he'd admit he liked Naruto period. He was the first person in a long time to make Sasuke truly smile. The blonde had also caught his attention by just walking into the class room. Naruto was like an addiction and Sasuke found himself wanting to spend more time with the him. The only problem was whenever he went to talk to him; he ended up insulting the blonde or somehow offending him.

Naruto's loud voice interrupted his thoughts.

"A ha! Found you!" He was standing in a doorway pointing at its occupants. Sasuke placed his head on Naruto's shoulder to also looking into the room. His hand was still in the blonde boy's grasp, but he didn't mind.

He could tell that he and Naruto had caught the two teachers in the middle of something as both of them had blushes on their faces and Kakashi was fixing his shirt.

"I knew it! Kakashi-sensei is your secret lover!" Naruto stated proudly.

"Oh? How did you figure it out?"

"Because of the book you were reading today. That was the only hint that Iruka-sensei would give me." Naruto was smiling broadly.

"Well since you've proven your detective skills would you mind leaving, we were in the middle of something and I don't have much time." Kakashi stated bluntly.

Naruto flushed and left closing the door behind him. Sasuke's head was still on his shoulder so he didn't move very far.

"Ummm…Sasuke?"

"Huh?" Sasuke had spaced out, Naruto was very warm and he just stood there absorbing the heat. He lifted his head off Naruto shoulder and stepped back.

"Gomen"

"It's ok." His shoulder had gotten cold where Sasuke's chin had been.

He realized that he still held Sasuke's hand, he made no move to drop it and neither did Sasuke. Slowly they made their way back to the viewing room where the show had taken place. In Naruto's mad dash he had gotten them lost.

They walked outside and breathed in the fresh air, it was dark out and the moon hung low in the sky, the stars just faintly showing.

"You should be getting home." Naruto said. "You probably have someone worrying about you."

Sasuke shrugged looking towards the sky. "I only live with my brother and he's probably at home fucking some whore."

"Oh.."

Sasuke shrugged again.

"Plus it's the weekend who wants to go home?"

Naruto blinked.

"Where do you live?"

Naruto blinked again "uhhh on the outskirts of town."

"Mind if I hang out with you?"

Naruto dropped Sasuke's hand.

"Ummmm I guess." He was kind of startled. 'He seems different from at school.'

It took them a while to get to the outskirts of town. Sasuke was happy to be out and about in the night. He looked at Naruto who smiled at him. He smiled back. He really didn't see anything wrong with the blonde at all. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand once again and started dragging him thorough fields and backyards as to what Naruto called "Short-cuts."

"Not far now." He said looking back. Naruto decide to break out into a sprint without warning. Sasuke taken by surprise tripped.

"Gya!" he yelled, as he fell into Naruto's back causing the smaller boy to also fall. They tumbled a couple of feet before stopping in a tangled mess of limbs.

"You're such a moron! why didn't you say you were gonna start running? Or you at least could've let go of me." Sasuke growled

"Why didn't you read my movements? You're a ninja!" Naruto growled back.

"What!?" Sasuke tried to get up but found he couldn't, his legs were bent oddly and tangled with Naruto's the most he could do was use his arms as leverage to lift his upper half off Naruto who was trapped beneath him.

A few silent moments passed. "Hey you think you could get off, this is really uncomfortable."

"Don't you think I already tried that dobe."

"Why can't you?"

"Our legs are tangled and one wrong movement will break my left ankle." He replied nonchalantly.

"Oh…Well then..." he tried moving but winced as pain laced up his right leg.

"Told you Dobe." Even though it came out in mono tone Sasuke was worried.

"Hey I have an idea."

"Hmmm?"

"The way you are right now is putting more weight and pressure on your lower half so if you collapse and lay on me it takes pressure off the legs which should give us what we need to move them." Naruto explained.

Sasuke slowly lowered himself on the smaller boy careful not to crush him, this wasn't like earlier today here he had him pinned, one wrong move and would be hurt himself.

Naruto let out a deep breath."Much better." He said as the pain was already starting to subside. Laying his head back on the cool cement he just relaxed for a few minutes. Sasuke's heat was sending tingles down his spine and he needed to get up before he fell asleep in the street.

"Are you ok Sasuke?" he asked as the other boy hadn't moved since lying down completely.

"Yeah." he said.

"Lucky for us my house is actually 10 feet away." He smiled at Sasuke's hair. "Wouldn't want anyone seeing you with me." Although he said is jokingly Sasuke still picked up the faint resentment in the statement.

Here he was laying on the road to what he would think looked like cuddling with someone he had just met, yet it all seemed so familiar to Sasuke, but he was sure he had never seen the blonde anywhere before. Had he?

"Why would I care if anyone saw me with you?" Sasuke said turning his head so he could look into Naruto's beautiful blue eyes. 'Wait did I just think beautiful?'

"Because I'm a demon." His voice taking on a mock tone. "I'm bad news."

"Like I care? That's just what people say. I haven't seen you do anything remotely demonic." Sasuke growled at him.

Naruto blinked. Sasuke was so passionate about him not being a demon. Kyuubi mewled in approval.

They lay like that for a while more, Sasuke resting his head on Naruto's chest listening to the heartbeat. He sighed contently. He couldn't remember the last time he felt this clam and relaxed.

Slowly Sasuke tried untangling his legs from Naruto's, the smaller boy helped and together they got themselves untangled. It took them a good 15 minutes, but in the end they succeed. Both boys lay side by side panting, Sasuke's ankle was shooting with pain and Naruto's right leg had been bent oddly. They got up after they caught their breath and silently walked the rest of the short way to Naruto's place.

He quickly crashed on the couch and put his feet up on the coffee table. "Much better" he said yawning.

Sasuke nervously stood in the doorway, he looked around. The house wasn't too big and it wasn't that small either.

"Are you gonna stand in the doorway all night?" Naruto said looking over the back of the couch.

Sasuke walked over and sat beside Naruto.

"Nice place you have here." He said and he meant it.

"Thanks. It's not much, but its home." Naruto smiled lazily.

Sasuke wanted to ask how Naruto paid for it but decided against it.

"Want something to drink?"

"Yeah sure. I don't care what." Sasuke said.

Naruto got up and returned with two bottles of water. He yawned again. They drank in silence.

"Well I'm tired, you can crash here if you like." Naruto said getting up.

He disappeared into a room which Sasuke guessed was either the bedroom or the bathroom. Naruto reemerged a few minutes later in a black t-shirt and a pair of grey boxers, he held out a blue t-shirt for Sasuke.

"You can use this so you don't have to sleep in your clothes."

"Arigato" Sasuke said taking the article of clothing. Quickly he changed and neatly folded his clothes placing them on the coffee table.

He followed Naruto into the room where the blonde had previously disappeared into. As Sasuke had guessed it was his bedroom. It was basically empty scarce a bed and a few pictures/posters covering the wall.

"You can take the bed, I'll take the floor. Sorry to say but I don't have any extra blankets." He said.

Sasuke noticed a thin blanket on the floor with and equally pathetic looking pillow.

Naruto collapsed onto the floor pulling the blanket over him. Sasuke crawled onto the surprisingly comfy mattress. He grabbed a sheet and threw it over his body.

"Night" yawn "Sasuke." Naruto said already falling asleep.

"Oyasumi Naruto-kun." Sasuke said tiredly. He hadn't realized how tired he was until now.

The sound of Naruto's calm, deep breathing soon lulled Sasuke to sleep.

Owari

A/N: Well I did it! I finished tonight I met my self-imposed goal. Anyway there you have it chappie two. Damn I'm proud. There's probably mistakes in this chapter too, grammar and spelling aren't my strong point . anyway hope you enjoyed it.

Solo1487: Of course I'll finish this story. It's already done. It's just a matter of typing it up . ugh..-.-' and yes my spelling and stuff is crap.

Kisu: Sorry to say there won't be very much Itachi in this story and when he is in it he's basically a bastard Gomen. And the past is the past…Hard to say. Depends on which past you are talking about

Watermelon Gal: Yes it is set in present times and the whole demon deal is the Kyuubi has been in Naruto's family for generations. So he's basically harmless .' and about Naruto's swear he has a lot of pent up anger against the town and finally found somewhere to let it out. He won't be swearing that much all the time. Gomen.

Vampires Nightmare: Thanks for your review they all count huggles back Of course I'm making the ooc-ness work it is I :P

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