Author's notes: I think this fic is going pretty well so far! I didn't think I'd be able to do it XD. Hopefully I don't take as long to write as usual.
Disclaimer: Me no own… You no sue…
Opening Song: 'Lucky' –SR-71 ((Absolutely awesome song and band!))
Warnings: Future NaruSasu Shonen-ai (That's sexy boy love for ya! Don't like? don't read… don't complain!) Also, future KibaHina (if I ever get to it… So its not a for sure thing.) Quite a lot of swears/insults and all that shizz. Close friendship between Kiba and Naruto. Fan-girl bashing, Bwahaha! (that includes Sakura, Ino, etc.) And a very evil Sasuke!
Oh, and in the chapter 3… yeah I realized how boring Naruto and Kiba's IM names were. I'm too lazy to think up clever messaging names for the two of 'em. And I just realized that Shikamaru hasn't been in the story since… the first chapter! I shall revive him!
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Chapter Four
I know we don't think alike
You're always wrong I'm always right
Acting not so secretly
You want to be just like me…
-SR-71
Sasuke drummed his fingers on the wooden table before him. At least this cheered him up quite a bit. The first class after lunch had been his favourite, Writing. The silent boy always had a passion for spilling out his emotions onto paper, it contented him. At the moment, the class was waiting for the teacher to appear through the door, but instead of calmly and quietly waiting… Sasuke had to witness a noisy argument occurring to his left between Naruto and Ino. Yep, he was stuck with sitting at a table with the two of them due to the seating list being in alphabetical order. But on the slightly positive side of it all, that meant Kiba and Neji sat at the table in front of them. So Sasuke didn't have to suffer entirely.
As if knowing the Uchiha was anguishing, the teacher walked in serenely. Her dark brown hair was long and curly and fell dexterously onto her shoulders. In this particular boys opinion, she looked a little too young to be teaching. "Good morning, welcome to writing class. I understand we have a new student here, Sasuke is it? I am Ms. Kurenai, just call me Kurenai though." Her voice was soft and pleasant as she greeted the silent teen. Sasuke just nodded and forced a small grin to show he wasn't stuck up. The girls around him sighed at his gaze, he had only entered this school a day ago and already he was used to the flirting, giggling and random calls to him. But god was it ever annoying for him.
"Well, for today… You all will be doing a project in pairs. With one group of three due to there being an odd number of people here. I'll let you choose your partners for this one, because you'll need to visit each other's houses in order to get a good mark. Alright, pair up then I'll tell you all what this is all about." There was a sudden sound of metal chair legs against linoleum and a quick shuffling off feet after the last word was emitted from Kurenai's mouth.
"Sasuke!" Ino bravely wrapped her arms around him from behind and pulled him close against herself. Sasuke felt like suddenly gagging. "Want to be my partner?" She said, pushing herself closer to Sasuke every second.
"No. Go away." He lifted his arms and removed her clinging limbs.
"Ino, stop harassing Sasuke." Kurenai said as she passed by. "Sasuke, you'll be partnered up with Naruto. He knows you best, and by what I've heard. This project would work best with you two together for it."
Naruto had apparently heard this. "W-WHAT! But I'm partnered with Kiba!" The blonde furiously pointed to his former partner.
"Well, change of plans for you two. Sorry Kiba." She said, walking away to organize the other groups. Kiba shifted his gaze between the two and bit his lip, his expression showing that… he didn't want to be in the middle of those two right now. So instead, he sauntered bravely over to a lonely looking Hinata. Sasuke watched as the shy girl blushed and nodded to a very pleased Kiba. His charcoal eyes directed themselves back to his left, where a once again angered Naruto sat.
"Okay, now that everyone is paired up. I will now tell you what is happening for this project." The two frustrated boys earned a couple questioning looks, seeing as the two most unlikely people were paired up. Some of the girls whined to their partners, annoyed with the outcome of them not ending up with Sasuke. And as for the boys, they were actually amused with the fact that the two had to suffer together. "Alrighty then. This activity will be worth sixty percent on your final grade. It will be a literature scrapbook." At this, many people raised their eyebrows and questioning mumbles were uttered throughout the room. "Quiet! You and your partner have two weeks to do this. Absolutely no last minute projects will be accepted."
"I don't understand this whole thing. What the hell is a literature scrapbook?" Temari interrupted, earning a glare from the teacher.
"I was getting there… This scrapbook will be based on you and your partner's lives. You will compare events that happened within your past. No point form accepted. And now to further explain. Your scrapbook must first include a description of your partner written by the other. Consider it an essay. This will be the first couple pages in your scrapbook. It is what you know about your partner already, whether you're lifetime friends, or have just recently met. Don't hold back, I won't criticize for any rude comments. Afterwards, you have to include timelines, showing all the main events in your lives. And compare them afterwards in yet another essay. The rest… is up to you. Do anything that shows how you two are alike, different or just your experiences together. On the last couple pages, I want an essay on what opinions have changed about your partner, whether they are for better or worse. It'll be graded on neatness, content, colour and you must include pictures, poetry, and/or short stories, etcetera. Anything that'll improve your mark."
How interesting… too bad I'm paired up with him. Sasuke groaned on the inside. They'd have to get together throughout this. That meant constant Naruto. Which also meant constant arguments… and a constantly frustrated Sasuke.
"Alright, I'll give you the rest of class to plan it out, or just get to know your partner as much as you can!" Kurenai stated and sat down at her desk, leaving the class to instantaneously begin talking amongst themselves.
"So… I guess we have to work together on this one." Naruto mumbled and lazily forced himself to shuffle closer to Sasuke, showing to the rest of the class that they were indeed partners. Sasuke nodded. "Any ideas…?"
Sasuke was laughing on the inside, wow… Naruto is trying so hard not to burst into a fit. It was true, judging by the expression on Naruto's face, it looked as if he were about to explode if he held in the rude complaints for any longer. "Hn… no." Was all Sasuke said in reply, there, that should piss him off. Start your 'cool' act. Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad; Sasuke could just spend the rest of his days in this school pissing off Naruto.
Naruto's eyes narrowed, uninvitingly tearing a sheet of blank paper from Sasuke's binder. What seemed to piss him off even more was that… Sasuke didn't seem to care. "Anyways. I was thinking… Biographies after the essays. They can include everything like, favourite movie genre's, music, all the way to, say… the hardest experience in our past?" Sasuke's eyes widened. Shit…maybe this won't be so great.
The soft ticking of the clock filled the noiseless and cramped room. An old looking man was now fast asleep on a chair that was centred in front of the room. Sasuke and Naruto sat at two separate tables. The raven-haired boy closed his eyes and laid his head on his hands, choosing to 'meditate' while time in the detention hall passed by. But that was all interrupted when a soggy item chose to land itself his left cheek. Sasuke opened his eyes, wiping the spitball off of his face and onto the ground. His glare made its way over to Naruto, who was now trying not to smile and pretending to amuse himself with the lame posters on the walls stating crappy ambitious sayings. Sasuke was about to ask what the hell the reason was for getting his by saliva covered paper, but that would only make Naruto annoy him more. So he chose not to acknowledge the blondes immaturity.
"Trying to ignore me are ya?" Naruto asked mockingly. Yes…Sasuke's inner self hissed almost insanely. "I won't leave you alone that easily."
"Hn…" Sasuke rolled his eyes and sighed. This got Naruto rather disturbed….
"Y-You think you're cool with that?" He tried to defend himself, resulting in a loud and uneven tone of voice. Sasuke just raised an eyebrow, trying to vaguely understand what Naruto was trying to say to him. "Why are you so anti-social…?"
"Why are you so annoying…?" He retorted. Oh yes, Sasuke was having way too much fun on the inside with this one. Naruto appeared as if he was going to answer, but just made a low mumbling noise and turned his head away instead.
"Well… I'm going." Naruto stated, not caring whether the snoozing teacher dismissed him or not, he was currently too annoyed to really care. Sasuke watched as the blonde slung his book bag over his shoulder and carelessly walked out of the room. After a moment, the old man began snoring boisterously, and that was Sasuke's cue to imitate Naruto… and also ditch the detention room.
The weather outside was… in more basic terms, shitty. The rain poured down and the grey sky poked fun at Sasuke as he hurriedly hustled out of the school. He lifted a hand over his head, in attempts to shield himself from the rain. But that didn't really help much at the particular moment. So he chose to take refuge at the small bus stop shelter. He sighed, throwing his bag beside him as Sasuke perched himself onto the dry wooden bench. Not noticing the company he had at the moment.
"Oh yeah… you take the bus." The voice sounded as if it was trying to poison Sasuke in usage of words. He looked to his left, yep, there sat Naruto. The blonde currently had a black hooded sweater on, the material covering most of his bright hair, as it was pulled up over his head, most likely due to the rain. Sasuke nodded, and directed his attention to his watch, which now read 4:43.
"Dammit… Itachi's going to kill me." Sasuke mumbled almost inaudibly. Naruto raised an eyebrow at the raven-haired boys odd behaviour, apparently not catching what Sasuke had just said. The bus came to a halt in front of them moments later; the two boys wordlessly clambered on. After what seemed like forever, Naruto finally broke the silence.
"So… why do you push away those girls all the time…? I know their annoying and all. But, it's kind of… rude. Don't you think?" Sasuke looked up at Naruto, who sat across from him in the very empty city bus.
"Oh umm…I dunno,N-no reason I guess." Sasuke felt himself flushing slightly, God dammit! Don't be embarrassed you dumbass! Sasuke then began mentally slapping himself back to normal. Actually, there was a reason. A reason that Sasuke had only recently discovered, and he still had a hard time admitting it to even himself… Uchiha Sasuke didn't like girls. Well, not in that way at least. Yep, the almighty Uchiha and his… almighty-ness is indeed gay. Naruto nodded, choosing to not to question the bewildered Uchiha any further. The bus suddenly came to a stop, and without a word of departure, Naruto gathered his belongings and stepped outside into the rain. Sasuke watched the blondes back as he hurriedly ran into the lower-class apartment building. Being the only one left on the bus, the solitary boy chose to let out a long awaited sigh.
The buildings passed by through the windows as the raindrops sloppily distorted the outdoor images before him. Moments later the bus came to a sudden stop. Sasuke looked out of the window before stepping off, glancing at the tall, grey building that looked as if it was melting through the view of the soaked window. He rushed out, and with any luck, he wouldn't be too drenched. But no, by the looks of it… luck wasn't on his side today. The door opened automatically to welcome the Uchiha, who was now extremely wet and frustrated. Sasuke mumbled as he walked through the lobby, his high-topped converse shoes making obnoxious and wet squeaking noises for every step he took.
Due to him not feeling too athletic at the moment, Sasuke chose the elevators over the stairs. Dammit… was Sasuke's first inner thought as he entered through the elevator doors. There were approximately ten people all cramped into the slightly undersized space. The said boy pushed his way in, pressing his floor number on the way and leaning against the nearest wall. An old woman was trying to be unnoticed and silently giving Sasuke glances through the corner of her eye, making a weird face at his 'drowned' appearance. The small ding occurred and the doors slid open, giving Sasuke the opportunity to escape from the cramped space and questionable glances. He put his card key into the slot and the door clicked open, tossing his bag on the ground and clumsily kicking his shoes off.
"You better not leave that bag there…" Sasuke froze after hearing the voice. He looked up at the couch, where an older male sat lazily. The simplest way of describing him is, like an older version of Sasuke; though his raven hair was longer and tied back neatly.
"You're off work early I assume, Itachi?" Sasuke responded, picking up his bag again. Itachi had an extreme knack for forensic sciences, so the police department immediately took him in to work after learning about what the older Uchiha could do. So his job was murder investigations, and in some severe cases… interrogation. It was weird how Itachi did so well in everything. Their parents knew he was born a genius, so of course, they expected Sasuke to do the same. Until they of course… died. Now the younger Uchiha had to live with his only sibling and only surviving family member. So yes, the two brothers were the last to hold the Uchiha family name.
Sasuke didn't want to bring up a conversation; the relationship with his brother wasn't at all that close. So instead, he walked silently into his room and closed the door behind him. Stopping by and pressing the play button on his stereo, filling his room with the music of 'Panic! At the disco'. He sighed, falling onto his bed, aware of the fact that his moist clothes would dampen the sheets. He allowed his mind to drift away at the moment, his thoughts pausing on the blonde who he had recently become acquainted with. "What is up with him…?" He looked up at the ceiling, paying no attention to the music flowing through his ears.
Is he really jealous of me? Sasuke pretty much sensed envy within Naruto's voice at every word he uttered. Why the hell does he want to be like me? Sure, he was good looking and everything. But what was so great about being bombarded by girls 24/7? Or even being in denial about your own sexuality! No matter what he thought of, everything he thought about himself had its extreme downsides to it. Heh… personally, I'd rather be like him. So carefree… Sasuke sighed and closed his eyes, no matter how hard he tried, the blonde boy wouldn't leave his thoughts.
Authors notes: Dum da da DAAAA! I believe Sasuke is become attracted to Naru-chan! But he doesn't know it quite yet. And probably won't for a while. But the love overcoming his mind will soon stalk up and… ATTACK! Gyahaha!
And, I know Itachi wasn't in here much… and that's because I don't like him! Nuu! Stupid Itachi… making little Sasu-kun suffer through the death of his whole clan! How could he do that to the little chibi-chan! I just don't like Itachi. Anywhoo, if you want… I shall maybe tolerate him and put him in the story more.
And the band mentioned in here, 'PANIC! At the disco' their a really good band. (Along with SR-71) You should give 'em a try if you're into the emo type music.
Ohh, and there was a little bit o' KibaHina in this one. At least… it's the start of it. That pairing won't be in much, just background really.
Okay, Ja ne. I'll try to update soon enough. Next Chapter: some of Naruto's point of view on the whole thing.
