The once energetic blonde was just sitting. In his chair. In his form room. Waiting for his boring Form Tutor, Kakashi-sensei. The bell starting first period had already gone. He sighed. Everyone was sitting at least three seats away, squashed into the other side of the room. There was a word echoing in Naruto's head…
"Fag…"
Over and over again… all in his voice. Oh, he thought he was so special. Who was he? Uchiha Sasuke. Oh, how Naruto detested him… He thought he was so handsome, and that he could get anyone he wanted… Naruto wiped his eyes hastily as he remembered…
"OHAYO, 'SUKE-KUN!" Squealed the overly-hyper blonde as he skidded to a halt in front of the magpie-haired boy. He slung an arm around Sasuke's shoulders, grinning so widely he had to close his eyes. That grin instantly faded, his eyes able to open, as Sasuke shrugged off his arm. "Go away." He snarled.
"'Suke-kun…"
"Don't call me that."
"Sasuke…"
"Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Piss off, Dead last. Its over."
The blonde was lost for words. For a split second. As he spoke his voice became increasingly shaky as tears welled up In his eyes.
"Sasuke… w-why? I-is there s-s-some-o-one ells-s-se?" Whimpered Naruto.
"No. It was a bet. Get over it. Fag." He snarled, stomping off and leaving Naruto, his head bowed, sobbing.
Naruto shook his head, his hair becoming spikier and messier as he did so. But something strange happened. Someone came and sat next to him. It was like a miracle. No-one EVER came at sat next to the fag or the freak. And those were his more affectionate names. The boy that sat next to him was strange. He had a cherry red mane of spiky hair, and a red tattoo on his head, the kanji character 'ai', and sea-foam green eyes which were heavily lined with dark kohl. He looked at Naruto as if he hadn't noticed he was there before.
"Ah, sorry. Haven't introduced myself. My name is Sabaku no Gaara. Nice to meet you." His face was emotionless. Naruto thought a smile would be in order. But instead, Naruto grinned. "Uzumaki Naruto. Same here. Did you just transfer, or something? You don't seem from around here." Gaara, of course, did not look at all like he was from Konoha. He had black everywhere – black trench, black fishnet shirt, black trousers, and black boots – even a big, black bag. He looked homicidal and had the feeling that he had just coming out of a funeral parlour … but had a friendly aura around him otherwise. Even though he didn't look it.
"Yea. I arrived yesterday from Sunagakure." Gaara leaned back in his chair. "Hey, why is everyone atleast three seats away from you?" Naruto sighed. He was gonna lose a friend again…
"'Cause I'm a fag so everyone hates me." Naruto sighed again, waiting to hear Gaara get up and walk to the back of the room to join everyone else. But all he heard was a thud. Gaara had leaned back his chair way too far, and had fallen over. Naruto bit back laughs at the dazed look on Gaara's face as he got up and picked up his chair and sat in it again. He leaned back again, careful to keep his feet on the floor.
"Well then, everyone better sit four seats back, because there are two fags sitting at the front now. Oh, by the way, you shouldn't call yourself a fag. Call yourself gay, it's a much more self-respectful way of putting it."
Naruto felt like cheering. Finally, he wasn't alone in this world!
"I'll introduce you to some of my sibling's friends at lunch. Most of them are gay, so I'm sure you'll fit in." Gaara drawled his words now, completely comfortable with his surroundings. Naruto was stunned. This was the first time since… ever anyone had been comfortable around him. Even he hadn't been comfortable around Naruto. But of course, Naruto didn't know until he declared it over. Naruto hastily rubbed at his eyes again.
"Hey, Gaara, can I see your timetable?" Gaara nodded, handing him a scruffy piece of paper from his trench coat.
P1 – ENGLISH, IRUKA-SENSEI
P2 – MATHS, ASUMA-SENSEI
-BREAK-
P3 – SCIENCE – OROCHIMARU-SENSEI
P4 – SCIENCE – OROCHIMARU-SENSEI
P5- PSHE – JIRAIYA-SENSEI
-LUNCH-
P6 – READING – KAKASHI-SENSEI
P7 – PYS. ED – GENMA-SENSEI, ANKO-SENSEI
Naruto blinked.
"We have identical timetables!" He yelped.
"Good, you can help me around then. Stupid people gave me no room numbers…" Naruto grinned. "They always do."
First period past quickly, as did second. Then it was break, and Naruto found himself being dragged along by Gaara, listening to his drawling voice. There was a large group huddled underneath a tree, all chattering. Naruto found himself being pulled down to sit next to Gaara. He plonked himself down, waving a hand feebly in greeting. He got back a cheery wave in return from everyone.
"Hey, Gaara, you owe me a bar of chocolate! You said you wouldn't get a friend on your first week here!" Chirped a blonde. Her hair was tied up into four pigtails, and wore a purple skirt and black shirt, with fish-netting on her arms and around her collarbone. She had a pair of blue sandals, and a red ribbon tied was tied around her waist. "By the way, Blondie, I'm Temari. I'm Gaara's older sister. And that's Kankurou who is Gaara's older brother and my younger brother." She yelped as the boy to her left pulled on of her pigtails. He had purple makeup on his face (AN/ It's the second design, and it might be red… but I think its purple…) and had a black hair with little cone-shaped ears on it, with his blonde hair poking from underneath it. He pulled a mock sour face.
"That is Kankurou." Gaara poked Naruto, and then pointed to Cat-head. "He's obsessed with Puppets." Kankurou held up a hand, which had a face painted on it. He grinned, waving. "Temari is obsessed with fans…" Temari pulled out a black stick from the red ribbon, and expertly pulled it apart to reveal a fan. "And then there is the large amount of friends, who you will learn of in time." Gaara twisted round to settle beside a long haired girl with dark eyes and full lips. If Naruto was straight, he probably would have fallen for her. Then Gaara looked behind Naruto and his jaw dropped. "Omigod, cute boy at 12'o'clock and proceeding anti-clockwise." Naruto turned, then hastily turned back to glare at the ground. Sasuke was plodding along at turtle pace, surrounded by a bunch of fangirl whores. Naruto looked around. Several were drooling, and only one was a girl and that was the long-haired, dark-eyed girl who Gaara was sitting next to. Then she spoke.
"Oh… cute…" She drooled. She actually had a really deep voice. Gaara blinked. "Oh, yea, Naruto, this is Haku. Haku, Naruto. This is one of the gay guys I was telling you about." Naruto gawped, and Gaara sniggered.
"You thought that he was a girl, right? He's not. But he has the same taste as one." Then he went back to drooling as he watched Sasuke plod off. Naruto blinked, and then sighed.
"I wouldn't think about Sasuke if I was you. He's straight, but hates all girls. His friends like playing jokes on everyone in the school, though… Sasuke is their hook line and sinker. He could get any girl in the school if he wanted to. Even most of the boys… and he managed to get me, once…" Naruto muttered, and wiped his eyes with balled fists. "Oh, yea, I heard about that. Sorry about that, man…" An unfamiliar hand was placed on his shoulder. He looked up, blinking. He looked almost identical to Sasuke, apart from a pair of scars underneath his eyes. He looked at the hand on his shoulder, and found the nails were painted purple. "You're Sasuke's brother?" The boy above him nodded. "Yea. Itachi. Nice to meet you, Naruto."
Naruto grinned devilishly.
"Hey… can you give him something for me?" Itachi nodded again.
"Give him a good hefty slap on the back that sends him flying. Tell him with hate from Fox-boy." Itachi grinned.
"Sure thing, Fox-boy." A taller, sickly looking boy appeared from behind him.
"Hey, why don't we make up nicknames for everyone in the group? Fox-boy sounds like a good one for you, considering those whiskers." He gave Itachi a pat on the back, and he went flying.
"YOU COULD BE CANDYCANE!" He got a blank look from everyone. It was eerily quiet. Naruto was biting back giggles as Itachi picked himself up and sat next to Naruto.
"Why Candycane?"
"Well, those lines on your face look like little Candycanes…"
"And what about you? Well, you look eerily like a shark, so… SALMON!"
This earned laughs.
"Gaara could be Panda!" More laughs. Gaara did indeed look like a Panda with his alabaster skin and dark eyeliner.
"Temari… Number 1 Fan girl!" Suggested Kankurou. Cackling erupted.
"Shino… BUGMAN!"
"Nananananananana BUGMAN!" More cackling, and a boy dressed in grey with a very large collar that covered his mouth whacked Kiba around the head. Wait a moment – KIBA? What was HE doing here? Oh well. Naruto was too busy laughing.
Eventually, everyone dispersed for 3rd period.
"Oh, great… double science next…" Groaned Naruto as he and Gaara made their way to science. They plonked themselves at the back, and got out their books. Sasuke, of course, decided that he would taunt Naruto by sitting infront of Gaara. So, during that entire 2 hours, he had to listen to Gaara drooling over him. He even managed to get into a large amount of trouble for swearing loudly when he dropped a glass vial on the floor. He scampered out to catch up with Gaara, and they trailed to PSHE.
At lunch, Gaara plonked down next to Haku, and Naruto plonked himself next to Itachi. They wore identical expressions of abject horror, and were clutching their heads.
"Oh no! They just had PSHE! Save the poor souls!" Yelled Kisame, patting their heads. The rest of the group shook their heads in mock pity.
"It was HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE I TELL YOU!" Wailed Naruto. "The perverted man… he made us do HORRIBLE roleplay… about sexual relationships…"
"Okay, now that is just plain gross. What did you have to do?"
"We don't want to talk about it…" Groaned Naruto and Gaara in unison.
Kisame leaned over to Itachi, whispering loud enough for everyone to hear.
"It probably contained groping and fondling…"
The day ended two periods later, and Naruto found out that Temari was having a party after school. So, of course, he decided he would gatecrash. But his plans were ruined when he was invited. He, of course, didn't turn it down. He hadn't been to a party… well, ever. Unless he had gate-crashed it, in which case it wasn't fun. He just got treated like gum on the sole of someone's shoe.
Well, the whole group was there. Naruto, Gaara, Temari, Kankurou, Itachi, Kisame, Deidara, Zetsu, Zabuza, Haku, Ukon, Sakon, Tayuya, Kimimaro, Jiribou and Kidoumaru. Don't forget Shino and Kiba. They had all managed to fit into the sand sibling's apartment, and were now lazing everywhere – on the floor, on stools, the couch, on beanbags – it looked more like a GIANT slumber party. Chocolate and Soda for all – wh00t! Naruto was hanging off one of the arms of the sofa by his legs, his face bright red. But not because he had been hanging upside down. The guys around him were talking – in detail – about all the people they had sucked face with. And many of them were boys – some of them Naruto knew. He was grinning, of course. He found it rather amusing. Itachi was sitting next to him, squished next to Ukon and Sakon who were currently blabbing on about a threesome they had had once. Naruto was watching them, and then his eyes were on Itachi, who was eyeing him in a way he hadn't seen anyone look at him before. But Itachi turned his gaze suddenly to Kisame, who had started on a tongue wrestling match he had had with… ITACHI? Naruto turned his gaze to Itachi again. Itachi had turned beet red, and his gaze had turned somewhat evil. Itachi suddenly bounded up and was wrestling with Kisame. He had somehow managed to grab a bar of chocolate and was attempting to use it as a gag. Naruto took this chance to sling himself into Itachi's seat before Ukon or Sakon budged and hogged the couch. Everyone was laughing at the pair who were rolling around on the floor, Kisame laughing as he restrained Itachi's wrists with his strong arms.
"SHUT IT KISAME AND DON'T EVER TALK ABOUT THAT AGAIN!"
"Why, you complete CRACKPOT! You ENJOYED it so WHY are you trying to GAG me! STOP IT!" Giggled Kisame. "STO- gglmmfg!" Itachi had successfully shoved the chocolate into Kisame's mouth. He sat back, proudly watching Kisame trying to chew the bar while laughing so hard his beady little eyes rolled up into his head. Tayuya had to pat Kisame on the back so he would swallow. Itachi turned back to his seat, only to find it occupied by a giggling Naruto.
"Sorry, Itachi, I nicked your space!" Giggled the blonde. Itachi sat on the back of the sofa, resting his knees on Naruto's shoulders, pretty much sitting on him. Naruto blushed heavily, and he got so strange looks. Even Kisame stopped giggling. Itachi rested his arms on Naruto's head, and fiddled with his hair.
"Hey, why don't we play truth or dare?" Suggested Ukon, breaking the awkward silence. And so, a game began…
AN/ And that ends the First Chapter! Hope you enjoy my first fic (: The INTENTED pairings are below as promised… But I'll be mean and not put all of them down…
GaaSasu (le gasp! Not…) ItaNaruIta, KisaIta, NaruGaa, DeiKisa (Hasn't been put in yet, gimme a break…) and ZetDei.
Itachi Naruto fluff (well, what I hope is fluff, anyway…) in the next chapter. Enjoy!