I don't own Naruto, never will *sighs* wish I did though.….…...if I did, I'd make Sasuke and Naruto a couple!! ^^ (Ack! Sry if I didn't put this before)
YaY, I've got the second chapter done!!! ^^ Mild swearing but that's about it for warnings. Oh wow, I actually got some good reviews. No flaming, good!! Thank you Vampire Goddess Jekyll, Sadistic Demon, cel Nora D, WuffieLuver, and keira Maxwell for reviewing. Nora D, thanx for being honest with me. You rule!! ^^
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RING!!! RING! RING!!
Damn alarm clock. I just smashed it with my knife. Ooh bad thing. Electric current coming Zzzzzzzttttttt!!! Man, what a way to start the first day of school. I must look fried. I stood up and took a good look at myself in the mirror. Yup, definitely fried. Extra crispy.
I sighed and walked into the bathroom. I discarded my fried clothes and hopped into the shower. The cool drops on my bare skin always relax me. I grabbed the nearest shampoo and lathered it throughout my hair. Wait a second...this smells odd, Gah! I got Kari's shampoo by mistake!! I groaned. Great, now I smell like Herbal Essences. Fruit Fusions. Why the hell does she buy this anyway?!?! Great. Now, I bet Sasuke will be smelling me and then rubbing it in my face.
Hold it; that did NOT sound right. Uchiha Sasuke smelling me?? I shuddered then shook my head splattering blops of shampoo around me. Him being even close to me is wrong.
Oh, I guess you're wondering who Sasuke is. Well, I prefer to call him Uchiha-temee. Yeah, I hate him. He's a stuck up asshole. He's got everything, good looks, popularity, good grades, everything, he's so damn perfect!! All the girls love him; you should see his locker around the holidays. I swear, he gets up to the roof in presents.
And you know what? He doesn't care! He doesn't care about it all. He just ignores it. Any praise he receives, he ignores, anyone who tries to be friendly to him, he ignores. That is, except Seto Kaiba. But then again, Kaiba's rude and snobbish too. So they go together perfectly.
Oh, Seto Kaiba's another guy I'm not very fond of. I mean, I don't hate him like I hate Uchiha, but he doesn't know how to appreciate things in life, Kaiba's not that bad. Well, he is, but at least he doesn't go in my face and call me names like Uchiha does. Uchiha is such an ass. I've got a mental list of all the names he calls me. He's got one for each day.
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays it's Dead Last. Tuesdays and Thursdays it's dobe. God, sometimes, he just makes me so mad. Everything I try to do well, he does a 100x better than me. He walks gracefully like a swan throughout the hall catching everyone's attention as they all stare at him in awe while I stumble through the hallway and no one bothers to give me a second glance.
But I guess that's life. Least I have one. I doubt he does. He never attends social events, he keeps to himself, and he doesn't even eat in the damn cafeteria! Well, neither does Kaiba, who know s where they disappear off to. I wouldn't blame them; the cafeteria food once in a while gets food poisoning.
The other reason why I hate him is because of Sakura. Sakura's this really hot girl I've been crushing on for the past few years that I've been here. But she doesn't like me, in fact, she hates me. Just because of Uchiha. She's only interested in him. Grrr...And he doesn't even bother to notice her. I mean, she's one of the most popular girls in the school; millions of guys love her, yet she stays with Mr. I'm-too-cool-for-everyone-so-fuck-off.
I pity Sakura. Kari has a better chance of getting at him, and she's probably the only girl I know that isn't affected by his good-looks spell. Thank god for that. She says that real beauty comes form inside. She's wise beyond her years. I think that's from traveling around so much. When you travel, you pick up things normal people usually wouldn't even learn till they're much older.
Kari's the best. She sees the inner me that nobody else save the rest of the gang sees. Then again, it took them a while to see it too but she saw it in me almost immediately.
I sigh again as I walk out of the shower and wrap a towel around my waist. Thinking about school does NOT make me feel good. Especially since I might have to see Uchiha. God forbid if I had any classes with that jerk. "NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" comes a high pitched voice. "Get down here or we'll be late for school!!!!"
I look at the clock. Oh shit. I don't have time to eat breakfast. I find the clothes I picked out from the night before, (Hey I've got to be prepared right?) and throw them on quickly. I rush downstairs hoping to at least get some ramen, but I guess I'll have to stop by the restaurant on the way to school.
Kari looks pretty pissed at me. "Bout time, Temari, Gaara, and Kankurou already left!" she cried out then nearly dragged me out the door grabbing both our backpacks along the way. I shrug grabbing at least a granola bar before leaving.
As soon as we left, we stopped after a few blocks at the cemetery. Kari let me go and headed over to a particular grave. Realization hit me as I went to join her. There were fresh flowers on the tombstone when I got there. I guess Nigisa put them there. Kari gave a sad smile as she read the inscription:
Takashi Keske
Wonderful and energetic being
Died in a warehouse accident
From being involved in a gun fight
At age 23
June 17, 2002"
A small tear slipped down Kari's cheek. "You remember how Keske would always go after Nigisa and she's always turned him down?" I nodded. Of course I remember. Keske was stubborn, but he was great too. He had excellent gun fighting skills and never lost a fight. His terms were 'Losers lose a body part and Winners get a girl' I can still recall that cocky voice he had when he'd challenge people.
Everyone respected him and most everyone loved him. That is, except Nigisa. She just thought of him as an annoyance, someone who didn't pitch into do his share of work around the house. Plus, he was always chasing her around, trying to see if he could win her over. He never did. Not while he was still alive.
Then one day, some guys from a different gang challenged him to a fight saying he was no match for them. The fight took place at an old abandoned warehouse. We followed Keske afraid that they'd gang up on him. They did. But Keske beat them all. It took a while but he did. They gang's leader couldn't stand being defeated and tried to shoot Keske. Keske dodged it, but the bullet hit an old gas tank and exploded. Nigisa had screamed and that's when Keske knew we were there. The fire spread quickly and soon there was almost no way out. So Keske did a brave thing.
He gave up his own life to save ours. He pushed us through the flames, as quickly as he could before the fire got worse. We were scared so we just followed his actions. We didn't know what he was doing at that moment.
Then another bullet fire and shot Keske in the leg disabling him. I remember his scream of agony then those final words he said to us. Go!! Before this whole place collapses and at that moment, every way that we could use to get to Keske collapsed around him GO!!!!!!!!!!! He cried out again. Not without you!!! Nigisa had cried out. Please Keske she had begged. But we all knew it was hopeless. Keske was going to die there. I love you Nigisa. Don't forget that, my home-girl
Those were his last words. We ran out of there right after, just before the entire warehouse had collapsed and would have crushed us.
Poor Nigisa. I guess she just realized how much she really cared about him. She must have been putting flowers here whenever she could since they buried him. She's got his handgun still in her room. She's never touched it. She wont' let anyone touch it. I respect that. You shouldn't fiddle with the belongings of the dead. They should stay put. It's only respectful to their spirits.
Kari stood up and smiled at me. "Let's go Naruto," she said and we both walked away form the graveyard. Kari suddenly glanced at her watch. "Holy Shit, we're fricking late!!!" she cried out and grabbed my arm for the second time that day. And once again, we were off rushing to get to school before the bell rang.
"Awww…. C'mon Kari, please, It'll be really quick, I'm hungry!!" I whine as Kari ALMOST dragged us past the ramen restaurant. "No way, I don't want to be late Naruto." She says trying to get me to walk past it. "Besides, you eat too much. You're going to gain weight. Oof! I think you already have," she adds as I stop and firmly plant myself right in front of the restaurant. Kari rolls her eyes and sighs in defeat. "Oh fine, one ramen Naruto, then we're leaving got it?" she asks then laughs. "Think you can handle only ONE?"
"Haha, very funny Kari" I reply sarcastically. Kari just laughs again as we enter the shop. I order up one ramen while Kari taps her fingers on the table impatiently.
While waiting for my ramen to cook, I take my schedule out of my backpack and start to memorize it. When I smell my ramen being finally cooked, I drop my schedule and gulp it all down.
"Jeez, Naruto, you're an animal" Kari remarks as noodles fly everywhere. "Weff...sofpherry" I reply noodles dangling from my mouth. I stare at them for a moment before swallowing them up. I wipe the rest off on my jacket sleeve not caring that there would be a stain later. "But you're the one rushing me anyway" I finish and smile. Kari smiles as well. "Alright, let's go!" she says and before I know it, I'm being dragged off to school again.
I sigh when we reach the school grounds. There's Temari, Kankurou, and Gaara waiting for us. "Hey guys!" I called out to them. They turned around and waved. "Hey Naru! What took ya?" Temari called. Kari and I smiled and ran over to our friends.
"Naruto was slow as usual, plus he wouldn't move form the ramen restaurant until we actually we in and ate there." Kari said laughing. The others burst out laughing as well. I suck out my tongue and pouted. "Well it wasn't my fault" I defended myself. "I didn't have any breakfast plus we stopped by to see Keske" Kari, Temari, Kankurou, and Gaara went silent. "You went to see Keske?" Gaara asked Kari. Kari nodded. "Yeah, think Nigisa laid out some flowers for him" she replied giving a sad smile.
"I see..." Gaara replied quietly. "I miss him," he said quietly. "We all do," I said. "Especially Nigisa" I added. We all nodded. Then, something hit me. My eyes widened as I took out my backpack and searched through it. "SHIT!!" I cried out and gathered my stuff.
"Whoa, what's wrong?" Naruto?" Kari asked. "No time to talk, I left my schedule in the ramen restaurant!!!" I yelled running as fast as I could. Crap, now I know I'm going to be late. And being late on the first day of school is NOT a good thing. I ran faster not watching where I was going obviously or the next that happened wouldn't have...happened.
"Oh my god, Naruto" I heard Temari called out. "Naruto, watch..." she never finished. Because, at that exact moment I had collided into someone knocking all the person's things to the ground. Everything seemed to go silent and some people even gasped. I almost fell over form running so fast then colliding when I hand grabbed mind and someone's arm encircled around my waist to keep my form falling. I sighed relief and muttered a quick apology. I was about to thank the person when I looked up and saw who it was. Suddenly, I understood why everyone had gasped.
It was Uchiha Sasuke.
And his arm was still around my waist while his other hand was entwined with mine.
I felt REALLY uncomfortable right then.
But Uchiha didn't seem to mind at all.
What?
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I'm done! ^^ I know, I know, I sort of added a bit of Jou's attitude from the beginning. Ya know, the way Jou always calls Seto by his last name and adds "Temee" to it? Well, I thought that was interesting so I put that with Naruto too. ^^ I hope this isn't as bad as the first chapter, I had a lot of typos and I had to re-post it. This time, I'm re-reading it instead of letting Microsoft Word automatically check it b/c it can't correct all my typos. Sighs. Oh well. R/R plz, I hope you like
Buh Bye!! ^^
s.S (aka sTaR SNipEr)