Disclaimer: My wish to own Naruto will forever be denied because he souly belongs to Sasuke. XD; Make that Kishimoto-sama.
Chapter 2: Enter Kakashi-Sensi!
Naruto's POV
Where in the hell is Sasuke? I will note here that I could careless about where he could possibly be. The raven haired boy always got the better of me and I couldn't stand it. How everyone always was so Sasuke is so awesome and Naruto is so not. It fucking annoyed me! I did however point out this fact for my obvious reason to get Sasuke in trouble for tardiness…heh. There was barely an actual point in our training with Kakashi that Sasuke had ever been late. And as for Sakura, I don't think the girl knew what the word tardy meant. Always on time completely well groomed.
I now have to add here that my feelings for Sakura had ebbed away over the years. I loved her like I loved Hinata, like a sister. As for Sakura's inner self, well I loved her like I loved Kiba, I could barely stand to talk to either of them.
But all in all Sasuke was late and I was standing here waiting for him at the Hokage mountain. I smiled to myself remembering the time I had covered those faces in paint. What fun!
"Naruto? Your actually here?" it was Kakashi-sensi waving his hand just to show that he acknowelged my existence.
"Yes! Sasuke is late! He hasn't shown up! Was there something important you wanted to tell all of us?" I asked putting my hands in my pockets and making my pout/glare face at my teacher.
"Well…Yes. I informed Sakura already upon her return from sand but you and Sasuke looked so wiped out I decided to inform you at a later date." I didn't see the importance of this information and waited for him to tell me what I was guessing to be another mission or some new test to test our ninjutsu. Instead Kakashi said:
"Well, I don't want you too expect this too happen very often but all the others have given there teams breaks for that party at Ino's. So I am giving Team 7 the same treatment. So dunce you have 6 days off work…but then you and Sakura and Sasuke are back to missions." Without giving me a chance to even burst with my excitement Kakashi faced the way to Sasuke's apartment and walked off. Time to go get a bowl of chicken ramen to celebrate! Or maybe I should get miso…my thoughts trailed off as I ran in the direction of the ramen house.
Sasuke's POV
Crap. Crap. Crap. Why in the hell can't I get up? Oh! That's right the bed broke last night…I remembered how when I had finally laid down and began to fall asleep my whole body was jutted downward as one of the legs on my creaky bed had broken. Now all that was left was the frame with a big dent in it's side from where I had kicked it and gotten an overpowering ache in my right big toe and on the floor was my mattress, however it seemed that during the night the pain from the mission I had just been on had finally taken it's effect and not only was a huge piece of the frame sticking into my side now but I found my arms aching like never before.
"Not at your best are you Sasuke?" came a easy to recognize voice. Damn. What was Kakashi-sensi doing here? Oh, shit. I was supposed to meet him and Naruto at the Hokage mountain. I banged my head against my pillow.
"So…Are you ready for your next assignment?" asked Kakashi eyeing my room and not really looking at me. He was probably taking in the old wooden desk that held all my old schoolwork, all graded and my Konoha Leaf ninja headband was in the upper mini compartment. I could not wear that thing while I slept or I woke up with a big square on my forehead where the steel plate was.
"What is it?" I asked now still trying to force my arms to push me out of bed. I found that when I did get up I got a blinding headache, probably from the over use of the sharigan.
"Rest. From the looks of it you won't be attending Ino's party will you?"
"Most likely not." I said back, putting my head under a pillow to try and lower the volume of Kakashi's voice. It was giving my already brain-piercing headache quite a lot of throbs.
"Shame. Well get some rest. Naruto and Sakura I'm sure can party without you and-" what else Kakashi was about to say this fic will never know for at that moment the door to Sasuke's one room apartment banged open.
"I've had it! Your going to pay me and I mean now!" shouted the landlord looking at me with something close to absolute disgust. "You broke the bed! I can't believe you broke the bed! That's gonna cost you extra boy!" the Landlord looked seriously close to self destruction at this point. Sasuke would normally have done something like move but at he found no energy not to mention any chance. Kakashi had stepped in front of the Landlord and was asking "How much does Sasuke owe?" out of curiosity most likely.
"It's none of your business, Sensei!" I shouted at him.
"100 dollars and then 50 more for the bed." Whether he said this out of seeing how much it would tick me off or whether he now knew this was my teacher and in most people's minds a teacher would help their student in a tough situation, I didn't know. What I did know was I had to get up and do something. So without flinching or wincing I imagined I couldn't feel the pain and got up to face my Landlord and teacher.
"I told you! The 100 I am getting from my last mission. As for the 50 I can earn on my own on my next mission. I can-"
"Enough Sasuke. Your coming with me." Kakashi grabbed my arm and pushed the Landlord to the side.
"Why in the hell did you drag me out here?" I asked an hour or so later as my teacher and myself sat outside the Hokage Mountain that I had been supposed to visit that morning.
"You clearly need a new apartment…" said Kakashi flipping through another page of that book he was always reading. I remembered how I had made him drop his guard during his first test with us. I was the best on our team, so good he had had to put that book away.
"Hn…" I said this now turning back to look up at the azure sky. Not one cloud hung in it right now. It was weird how gloomy sand looked compared to Konoha. I'll never leave this place. I thought, I knew it was a odd thing for me to think considering how gloomy I always was but this had been the land the Ucchia clan had chosen to bring up it's heirs. I didn't feel like going against their old traditions…Like my brother had done. I frowned at the sky now. Just thinking about him made me want to punch something or make someone else hurt inside. Another flip of a page went by next to me. "Are their really apartment advertisements in that book?" I asked noticing Kakashi's eyes had stopped going across the page he was reading as he looked up at me for a minute. He then smiled one of his stupid goofy smiles that reminded me of Naruto and then turned back to his book.
"No of course not. I just need to finish this chapter." Said Kakashi flipping to the next page. God I'm going to kill him.
"Sensei." I said annoyed.
"Alright. Alright. Let's see…" Kakashi produced a newspaper out of thin air. As he scanned it for good applicants I eyed his book wearily. Anything called "Make out Paradise" was something I defiantly was not going to add to my reading list of Ninjutsu scrolls.
"Sensei. I don't want too leave my apartment. I can pay the rent." I argued under my breath not wanting anyone to hear that the famous heir to the Ucchia clan was apartment less.
"Yes. Well I wish I could sleep all day but we don't always get what we want. You couldn't pay that rent by the way it was too high."
"I could too! I-"
"Besides you need an apartment with a nice landlord. Not jackasses like that one you got. So…How about this one?" he pointed to an apartment picture. It looked just like the one I had lived in previously.
"You honestly expect me to move from on garbage heap to another exactly like it?" I scoffed resting my head on my hands like I had done many times before. Surprisingly enough they didn't hurt that much anymore, perhaps all they needed was to be stretched.
"Very well. How about…here?" asked Kakashi now pointing to another one. The apartment looked smaller and the pay didn't look to steep. But suddenly Kakashi pulled it back towards him reading along the paragraph in small mumbles.
"What?" I asked frowning at him out of the corner of my mouth since I was staring at a bird pecking something on the ground.
"It says here "You must like cats." Do you like cats?"
"Do I look like I like cats?"
"No. No you don't." said Kakashi sighing and flipping through the pages in the newspaper some more.
Every single apartment had something wrong with it. Something that didn't mix well with me till…
"Aha! Here it is! Perfect!" Kakashi grabbed me by the arm and pulled me up.
"What? Where is it?" but Kakashi was already humming to himself and walking down the road into town.
"Son of a-" I mumbled but raced after him before I could finish because I heard some girls shout "Sasuke!" behind me.