Enjoi!
The gentle warm breezes of earlier summer had begun to escalade to soft gusts of cool. Leaves had been changing to their casual fall attire and the days were quickly becoming short. Sasuke was left alone during the only period of the day he had free and instead of wasting it indoors he decided to take a walk about the school grounds.
'it's such a nice day out...' He thought to himself.
He found an abandoned picnic table near the plush green soccer field and sat down. There were figures in the distance kicking a soccer ball around, and he managed to pick out Naruto from the small crowd. It wasn't difficult because of the bright blonde hair and of course the annoying boasting and laughter that could be heard from a mile away. Sasuke smiled to himself thinking about how obnoxious the boy was, but that was probably why they became friends in the first place. Opposites do attract after all.
Sasuke and Naruto were always enemies in middle school, fighting and aggravating each other whenever they had a chance. But since they came into high school the maturity level seemed to grow, as did the friendship of the two. In ninth grade they barely fought once, unless it was careless teasing which they still managed to do every chance they had. And in tenth grade they had so many classes together they couldn't have disliked each other. Now since they were in eleventh they were particularly inseparable. Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke were known as The Three Musketeers, although they liked to call themselves The Three since that was much more kawaii sounding.
Sasuke watched as Naruto pelted the ball into their makeshift goal of two book bags. Naruto then proceeded to take his shirt off and run in circles with it swinging above his head, "Goal! Goal! That ends the game with an amazing hat trick by the one and only Uzumaki!" Sasuke rolled his eyes and watched as the two losers were about ready to tackle Naruto. Sasuke couldn't help but laugh when Naruto was slammed into the ground with the help of his own teammate. After what seemed to be a heartfelt apology for being so cocky they got off him and helped him to his feet. There was some laughter and then they parted their separate ways, the two losers going back to get their book bags and the winners heading towards Sasuke. He noticed Kiba was the one on Naruto's team but he only waved a hello-goodbye to Sasuke and said "later" to Naruto as he walked back toward the school, most likely late for a class like Kiba always was.
Sasuke couldn't help but admire Naruto's built upper body as the sun scintillated the sweat on his chest and abs. He always loved the seemingly henna tattoo on Naruto's stomach, but in a flash it was gone as Naruto pulled his pale yellow shirt back on. Sasuke sighed just enough so Naruto couldn't hear him.
"Did you see me hit that last shot? I'm amazing!" Naruto laughed and sat down on the bench across from Sasuke.
"Don't be too modest now, dobe." Sasuke teased but Naruto was unaffected. Whenever he won anything Naruto couldn't be pulled down from the high horse he rode. And he made sure everyone knew it too.
"You're just jealous because I'm basically the best soccer player ever known." Sasuke couldn't help but glare defiantly. Naruto was the best soccer player at school, and he sure did like to flaunt it.
"What class are you in right now?" Sasuke asked to change the subject.
"Uh... Study hall. What about you?"
"Lunch." He heard a grumble in his stomach and finally felt the hunger he was trying to evade. Naruto cocked an eyebrow at the sound and chuckled to himself.
"You wanna get something to eat? I'm so hungry, I could really go for some ramen."
"Sure, but the periods over in half an hour we have to be quick." Sasuke was always worried about being late to classes, while Naruto didn't care as much.
Sasuke was the epitome of the perfect student, while Naruto was the epitome of the perfect jock. Both were praised by the teachers because one was Valedictorian and the other had broken just about all of the sports records the school had. They could both get away with being late to a class, or even skipping the whole thing if they wanted. No need for a hall pass, their popularity guided them safely wherever they wanted to go and whenever they wanted.
There was a small café on the main street across from their school that a lot of kids hung out at whenever they had free time. It was the happening place to be, so who wouldn't want to be there? Naruto and Sasuke entered to find Sakura sitting at a table with a few of her girlfriends; TenTen, Ino, and Hinata. They all waved and said "hi" in eerie unison, while all of them but Sakura blushed slightly and giggled. You could see the spark of annoyance in Sakura's mannerisms as she cracked her fingers delicately.
"Hello ladies!" Naruto said confidently while pulling up a chair in between Ino and Sakura. Sasuke nodded to them and also pulled up a chair to Sakura's other side next to Hinata.
"Hey guys why are you here?" Sakura asked.
"Just came in to get a bite of food, I'm starving!" Sakura chuckled and pushed Naruto's shoulder playfully.
"When are you not hungry Naruto?" The girls giggled except for Ino who was feeling just a tinge of jealousy.
Ino and Sakura fought for a while in ninth grade when there was a battle to win Naruto's affections. But Sakura decided to back down because she valued their friendship too much, Ino was like the sister she never had. Ino still had a crush on him but whenever she tried to catch Naruto's interest he merely brushed her off without even realizing it.
'I'm gorgeous why won't he like me!'
Naruto went up to the counter and ordered two bowls of ramen and a sprite then headed back to his seat. He loved the feeling of being watched by everyone in the café, it was invigorating to know that people knew you. He didn't have as big of a fan club as Sasuke did, but he was satisfied knowing that he did have a small fan basis.
Sasuke watched as Naruto sat down back in his seat, and then noticed the table behind them. There were at least five drooling freshman girls just gawking at Naruto from behind. He wanted to strangle each and every one of them...
'he's mine...' Sasuke thought, but then realized Naruto really wasn't anyone's... He'd never had a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Sasuke decided he'd bring that up into conversation whenever he could. But at this point he wanted to get the fan girls away from him.
"Hey Naruto, careful when you stand up you don't want to slip on the slobber behind you." Sasuke was pleased with his remark and it made Naruto turn around and look at the girls. They all blushed and turned away but he made it a point to talk to them.
Naruto walked toward the table and made sure that none of the people at his table could see what he was doing. He pulled a pen from his pocket and grabbed a napkin from the dispenser in the center of the table, all the while the freshman girls in utter shock and amazement. When he was finished writing on the napkin he heard the waiter call his name and he gave the napkin to the prettiest freshman there. He winked at her and then went to the counter to get his food.
As he walked back to the table the girls ran out of the café at lighting speed giggling. Naruto sat back down and gave one bowl of ramen to Sasuke and put the soda in between them.
"What did you do to them?" TenTen asked.
"Oh you know, I gave them a number." Naruto smiled and dove into his ramen headfirst.
"Whose number?" Sakura asked as she raised an eyebrow. Naruto laughed and managed to mumble in between bites of ramen.
"Sasuke's." The whole table stared at Sasuke waiting for a reaction, and they couldn't help but laugh. Sasuke's eye twitched and he dropped a spoonful of ramen on the table.
"Oh poor Sasuke! Naruto you're so mean... you know he has a problem with all those girls stalking him!" Sakura made a pouting face towards Sasuke and rubbed him on the soldier. She could tell he was pissed off.
"I... I'm... I'm going to kill you Naruto!" he said through clenched teeth. Hinata got very nervous and said she was going to visit the ladies room, TenTen and Ino followed in suite.
"Oh come on it's just a joke! Look they'll call you, realize it's not me and hang up scared!" Sakura kept rubbing Sasuke on the shoulder trying to calm him down.
'Why does he have to do this kind of shit to me?' Sasuke thought.
"Say you're sorry!" Sakura whispered to Naruto rather loudly. Naruto rolled his eyes...
'Maybe that was a little harsh...' He thought.
"... I'm sorry Naruto, look when they call just tell them they have the wrong number..." Sasuke noticed the look of concern on Naruto's face and calmed down. Naruto had that affect on him, especially when he was truly being sincere.
"Fine... but you owe me big time." Naruto scratched his head and made a nervous "heh heh."
"Well tomorrow's Friday, let's say I take you to the movies and I'll pay?" Sasuke smiled.
"But you have to get me popcorn too, and a large soda." Naruto was wide eyed.
"That'll cost me forty bucks!" Sakura glared at him.
"Ugh fine..." Sakura smiled and Sasuke let out a small grin.
'He's going to put me through hell tomorrow...'
'I'm going to put him through hell tomorrow.'
Sasuke looked at his watch and noticed there was only five minutes left until the next class started.
"Come on Naruto we've gotta go the next class is in five minutes." Naruto looked at his bowl of unfinished ramen and then at Sasuke's, he barely touched it.
"But... My ramen!" Sasuke rolled his eyes and grabbed Naruto by the arm.
"Come on dobe." Naruto whimpered and Sakura took the bowl of ramen from his hand and started to eat it.
"Hey! That's mine!" Sakura gave him a peace sign and winked as noodles hung from her mouth.
"We've gotta go! Come on we'll be late." Sasuke waved goodbye to Sakura and Naruto followed. He glared back at Sakura as he passed the shop window and gave her the middle finger. She giggled and gave one back.
'When are they going to realize they're in love?' Sakura giggled again at the thought Naruto and Sasuke together. She knew they had feelings for each other since they ended the tirade in ninth grade. That's why she let Ino go after Naruto in the first place. She just had to give them a little push...
yey it's done! That took forever, but I hope you like it :D I know I enjoyed writing it! Haha, I can't wait to write the next chapter! It should be up tomorrow or the day after... but soon I promise!
xxoo yaoi