A/N Hi again! It's me, xBlackLuckx, up with the next addition to Why is it always the rain?. As promised, this nice little chunk of text is longer. Feel free to R&R, because your feedback is very greatly appreciated by me. I realize that my P.O.V. can be a little……..bad at times, but I will try my best. Tell me what you think!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I do own a rather nice picture of him.
Thank you Sasuke2006 for the review!
Beep. Beep. Beep. SLAM! Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at his clock. Yep, 6:00 AM. He rolled out of bed groggily and headed into his bathroom to take a shower. His bathroom was pretty well sized, with both a shower and Jacuzzi tub. The color scheme was still covered in pink pansies and roses from the last person who owned the apartment. Sasuke hated it, but really didn't have the time to change it, so he dealt with it. At least the pink fuzzy carpet is nice and soft...
Sasuke stepped out of the bathroom in a dark blue towel, heading back to his bedroom to find some clothes to wear for the day. He settled upon a pair of black leather pants with buckles and random zippers going up the sides and a black tank top with a black long sleeved fishnet shirt over it. He wasn't gothic or anything, but he did like to change his style around a lot. After gelling up his hair and putting on just a little bit of eyeliner, he opened up his shoe closet to find a suitable, matching pair. He put on a pair of black combat boots, and headed out the door. (But not before grabbing a package of pop tarts) Sasuke looked at his watch. 6:45. Not too bad. School started at 7:00, so he went down to the garage where his car was parked.
Sasuke loved his car. It was a 2005 Mustang, red, why wouldn't he? He stepped in, put the keys in the ignition, and headed out. Just as he was pulling out onto one of the main roads, it started to rain heavily. Rainy Octobers.. He spotted a person with a black hoodie pulled tight over his head, running pretty hard. I would hate to be that guy.. Sasuke thought about giving him a ride, but decided that he didn't have enough time, and that the person would be all right. So he drove on.
Naruto woke up hearing the annoying sound of his alarm clock. He rolled over and turned to look at it, only to find that it was already 6:40. He groaned. School will be starting in 20 minutes! Naruto thought quickly and frantically, realizing that he had missed his bus and all city buses heading towards his school. I'll have to run. Skipping his morning shower and ramen, Naruto quickly dressed into dark blue jeans, a bright orange shirt, and a black hoodie. Grabbing all of his scholarly needs, he ran out of the door. I've got a long way to go.
Naruto was making his way to the road he knew led to Shiawase High when it started to rain. Heavily. He cursed as he quickly pulled up his hood over his head. I know I asked for it by over sleeping…but why is it ALWAYS THE RAIN! He looked over and saw a bright red car driving along on his left. He looked inside the car and at the driver. Looks like that guy at The Happy Bag…Naruto continued to look at the driver, before tripping into a huge puddle, letting the car go forward leaving Naruto behind. Naruto cursed again, pulling himself up. I wonder if it was really him..Naruto looked down. Shit. The whole front of his pants and shirt were dripping with mud. Just keeping running.
Naruto finally arrived at school at 7:06. He walked into the office, signed in, and received his schedule. Maybe they'll cut me some slack, I AM new..He looked down at his schedule for his senior year at Shiwase High:
1 Health Hinata Hyuga Rm. 207 Okay…Health…that should be easy.
2 APScience Haku Rm. 112 What? How'd I get into AP SCIENCE!
3 Band Umino Iruka Rm. 32 Wait a sec….But I don't play anything!
4 Lunch If I had only brought ramen….
5 APPoetry/Lit Hatake Kakashi Rm. 92 Ahh..my best subject!
6 Drama Haruno Sakura Rm. 67 What's up with all the weird names? O.o
Ahh, So I have NO type of math this year. That's nice. Or History. Just…easy stuff. Except for AP Science..shiver I'll manage Band somehow. I'm sure they'll give me something, it'll be all right. Drama…same ol', same ol'. Naruto smiled. I guess it's ok. We'll see what happened. Realizing he had just wasted two more minutes, he took off down the halls, following the numbers on the doors until he found room 207. He put his hand on the door handle. Here it goes…
Sasuke looked up with the rest of the class as the door of the room slowly opened.
"…and I'm going to ask for your homework from over the weekend in about five minutes, oh, you must be our new student!" Sasuke saw who had come through the door way and got the shivers. In front of him, was the guy in the black hoodie he had passed on his way to school. Ms. Hyuga gave a weird stare. "Could you please take that hood off?" The boy in the door way lowered his hood, revealing the same face that Sasuke had saw at The Happy Bag the day before. It's him. Oh, great. Another lovely day in the wonderful life of Sasuke Uchiha. Sasuke looked at the annoying boy. His clothes were stained and sopping wet. He smelled a little funny, too. The other students realized this, and Sasuke heard whispers flying over the airwaves from every direction. How pathetic. Sasuke looked at the teacher as she beckoned the guy in further, causing silence in the room.
"Are you Naruto Uzamaki?" The boy apparently named Naruto nodded. The teacher stepped closer, talking privately with Naruto. From his hand gestures and movement, Sasuke could tell he was telling her his life story explaining why he was late. When he was finally finished, Ms. Hyuga nodded and pointed at a table for him to sit at. It was the only table with another spot to accompany someone at the two person tables. Sasuke cursed as Naruto sat down next to him. If Naruto recognized and remembered who he was, he wouldn't know, because the blond didn't say a thing. Sasuke spent the rest of the period staring out the window at the rain as the pros of having a supportive family were discussed. Stupid stupid stupid.
Naruto was bored to tears. And he was pissed. Honestly, why did his textbook think it knew exactly what his life was like? The textbook didn't experience the effects of not having a supportive family, he did. Why did the book think what it said could fix everything? Could the bold text bring back his parents? Could the italics change what he had done in the past? Did the subtitles under the pictures give a rat's uncle if his life was going down the crapper? No, didn't think so, Mr. PHD Doctor from a highly established university.
Naruto glanced around the room. Most of the class looked pretty bored as well, save Sasuke, who looked like he had dropped his ice cream cone and he was going to kick the kid who had bumped into him. When does this class end anyway? Super nerd science has got to be better than this, right? Some unknown gods that must have wanted some recognition answered Naruto's thoughts, because seconds later the bell rang. Naruto grabbed his bag and began to walk out the door and into the hallway. Room 112. Taught by Haku. Naruto mentally rolled up his sleeves and pushed up his nerd glasses. Here I come, AP Science.
Sasuke let out a breath of relief as he heard the ever beautiful high pitched squeal of the bell, signaling class out. What's a family when the only one waiting at home for you is your imaginary pet goldfish? Sasuke walked down the hall to Haku's room. Scratch that. It died last week from lack of importance. Sasuke sat down, and took a look at the board for what they would be doing that day. Dissecting a goldfish? What is this world coming to? And aside from that, isn't looking at dead animals so Sophomore year material? Sasuke put his dead down and closed his eyes, listening to the rest of the class coming in after him. But "Lucky" WAS important….
Sasuke let out a breath of relief as he heard the ever beautiful high pitched squeal of the bell, signaling class out. Sasuke walked down the hall to Haku's room. Sasuke sat down, and took a look at the board for what they would be doing that day. animalsSasuke put his dead down and closed his eyes, listening to the rest of the class coming in after him.
The bell rang. Sasuke opened his eyes, more out of habit than anything. He took a look around. (A/N Yes, that's seems to be very popular in my story)In front of him was a particularly large head of spiky blond hair. Uggggg .The following five minutes to the end of class were horribly sad. Pathetic, really. Apparently Haku thought that splitting open a goldfish required two people, because he paired the class up. Naruto ended up with a random kid that Sasuke didn't know, but he could tell by the girl's expressions that she wasn't very pleased. Why was this important? It wasn't, aside from the fact that both the girl and Naruto were too freaked out to touch the fish. Naruto did it in the end, but was just as bad as the girl at first.
Sasuke himself was paired up with a girly girl as well. Actually, she was more of the queen of girly girls to be more descriptive. She was staring and muttering incoherently, so Sasuke just sighed and decided to get the bulk of the work over with. How lame.
AP science passed fairly quickly, and soon enough the bell rang yet again, filling the hallways with students. Sasuke was relieved to be rid of the stupid fish and girl (then again, is there a difference?) and was even more content in the fact that band was next. This semester, their band teacher, commonly known among students as Iruka, had decided upon a different way of running the class. Sasuke had only been going to the school that year alone, but he had heard from other students of what Iruka usually assigned, and decided that this new "project" was a currently a change for the better.
Sasuke walked into the band room and sat down in his usual area, with the other guitarists. He waited silently, spacing out while staring at a random poster until the bell rang, urging the rest of the students to make their way to class. The room that was before filled with chatter and random bits and pieces of music quieted down, bringing Sasuke out of his small daze. He looked to the center of the front of the room, where the ever spirited Iruka stood with Naruto. This one too? Sasuke frowned as Iruka introduced Naruto to the unsuspecting band members. Just when I thought I had found my haven…
Naruto looked around the large room, filled with instruments and students. They were in small groups around the room, some grouped by instruments, while others mixed. He took a deep breathe. Looks like a cult to me.
"So tell us, what do you play, Naruto?" Naruto looked around the room, searching for an instrument he knew the name of. There was a group of girls with shiny thin tubey stick things. Too girly. His eyes trailed over to the guitar section, where Sasuke was sitting. Oh yeah, that'll be fun. He then looked in the back, where a group of kids were sitting with brass instruments with 3 buttons on each one. Too……hard looking. Then he saw a huge instrument with many different buttons and a huge whole in it. What the hell is that? O.o Naruto noticed that he was taking too long to reply, so he decided to tell the truth.
"Umm…I actually don't play anything, I'm not even sure how I got into this class." Naruto looked up at the guy who called himself Iruka, expecting to see annoyance, but instead found him thinking. What would he do with him?
Finally, he spoke. "Actually, you're in luck this year, Naruto. This isn't any ordinary band program." Naruto looked around. It was true, the room wasn't exactly seated like a normal band room.
"This year, we are allowing students to organize their own music and performances. There is a minimum of two people in an act, and a maximum amount of six. Any instruments can mix, and you can either choose to play something composed by a known artist or yourself. At the end of the semester, we will hold a big concert, with every act in the class. This, plus participation and other aspects will be your grade for these two quarters. Now, why are you in luck? You're in luck because on your transcript, it says that you were in choir for three years prior to this. You must have some singing ability, right?"
Naruto just silently nodded, already not liking the way this explanation was heading.
"You're in luck because I will be placing you in Sasuke, Lee, and Chouji's group. They need a singer and help with writing their song, so I think this will suite you. It's final, so don't ask me to help you learn the flute or something later on." Iruka smiled and gave a little wave, and then walked out of the room.
Naruto looked in the direction of where Sasuke was sitting. He doesn't look very happy. Then again, has he ever? With that though established, Naruto started to make his way across the room.
"…...because I will be placing you in Sasuke, Lee, and Chouji's group." Sasuke watched as Iruka waltzed out of the room, leaving the blond standing, no, walking towards him. Shit.
Naruto arrived and pulled up a chair, while Lee took the initiative to introduce himself.
"Hi! I'm Lee, and I play the bass guitar in our group. Nice to meet you!" Lee gestured to a rounder guy sitting near him. "Oh, and this is Chouji. He plays the (drum) set for us!" Naruto looked over at Chouji. The guy who fell asleep during Health.
"The crabby one over there is Sasuke, he plays"---
Sasuke interrupted Lee's explanation. "He knows already." Lee just smiled and nodded, obviously disappointed that he didn't get to go further on with his introductions. Sasuke spoke again while picking up his guitar, "Let's just get this over with." With that, Lee strapped on his guitar and Chouji sat down at the set.
Towards the end of the period, Naruto had a pretty good understanding of the band itself, and what the sum of their song sounded like. They had played what they had so far, which had actually sounded pretty good. It was an upbeat song, but had its mellow parts to it as well. Angry, yet calm. Naruto had made up a main melody to it already, and had spent much of the time humming to it while they played. He would have to write words to it later.
He was walking to lunch while thinking of this, when he entered the lunch room. He nearly tripped from what he saw. Are there really THAT many kids in this school? He looked around. Literally every table was filled with students, and he couldn't even begin to think of who would allow a new kid like himself to squeeze in. Besides, he didn't even have any food to eat, due to his rushed morning. To the corner of back of the room was a door. Naruto walked to it and pulled at the doorknob. Outside.
Bright sunlight blinded Naruto as he stepped outside, but he shrugged it off as he walked towards a huge tree on the green lawn that made up the side of the school. At least it'll dry my clothes some more. He slumped against the large, anchoring tree, facing the school. Naruto brought out his schedule, seeing what he had after lunch. APPoetry/Lit with Hatake Kakashi and……Drama with Haruno Sakura. He folded the slightly damp paper and put it back in his pocket. Having nothing else to do, he stared at the wall of the building in front of him.
"It's pink…," Naruto gasped. How had he not realized that his school was PINK! "Why do I have to go to a PINK school?", Naruto whined.
Naruto heard a voice from behind him. "It's more of a salmon, really." Naruto jumped up and turned around. No one, except for the tree. Is the tree talking to me?
"I'm over here, Dobe." Naruto stopped looking at the tree and took a couple steps around the trunk. On the other side sat an annoyed Sasuke with a smirk on his face, peering up at Naruto as he was gazing down on him.
A/N Thank you for reading! Again, please please R&R for me! Has anyone noticed the whole "happy" theme of the names for the story? Lol. ShiawaseHappy in Japanese, and the store's name was the Happy Bag. (yes, I know it's a bit lame, but can you sue a girl for being bored?) I don't think that this has any importance to the story, its just something I put in there for the spirit of it. Also, I was going to go on to the end of the day with this Chapter, but I just kept making everything longer and longer, so the next part of the day will be in the 3rd extension. Thanks! (Sasuke's a bit of a brat, isn't he?) Ah, and 'dobe' is Naruto's nickname from Sasuke. Means bottom of class, stupid, to sum it up.
