Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters. I also don't own "Dance, Dance" by Fall Out Boy, and Romeo and Juliet.
Hey, because I love you guys I tried to get this up on Friday before I had to leave. But I had Naruto's POV and ¼ of Sasuke's POV typed up, then I had to leave. So sorry for another long wait between updates. A few more reviews and it'll reach 40, so I'll be starting on Sasuke x Naruto at the pier fic along with another. XD I will do them, not sure when. Here's Chapter 6.
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Chapter 6: New Things
(Note before story: In Sasuke's POV, it's the same Friday when Naruto leaves for the camping trip. Yay, finally on the same day. XD)
--- (Naruto POV) ---
Iruka-sensei's math class, along with myself, put the permission slips for the camping trip on his desk. When the bell rings to start class, he sighs heavily and passes a clip-board to Sakura, who's sitting in the first desk next to the door.
"This is a sheet where you'll put your name, along with your partner for the trip. Same sex partners, of course," he says, rolling his eyes. Hinata looks a little worried; she was the only girl in our group of friends. I lean over to whisper to her.
"Oi, Hinata. What'd you do for a partner the previous years?"
She just looks at me and grins lightly. "Forgetful, aren't you, Naru-chan? I just partner up with whoever doesn't already have a partner, which is usually," she stops, cringes, and looks at Sakura, "her."
I nod; I can understand why that would suck. In my real reality, Sakura is a major Sasuke-clingy bitch. To tell the truth, I used to have a crush on her. But that quickly ended when I was on the receiving end of her many punches, for running into poor Sasuke, or hurting poor Sasuke's feelings. It's obvious he didn't care whether I called him a teme or not, insults just bounced off him. But Sakura isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box.
Here, though, Sakura is, to put it bluntly, a nerd. She's quieter than the real Hinata, and even stutters more than her, which I didn't think possible. I only talked to her once, and that was when I helped her pick up her box of pencils. All I said was, "Here ya go," and she stutters about a million times and blushes, trying to get out a thank-you. I got out of there pretty fast.
The paper comes to me first, so I look at Sasuke and grin at him before writing down our names. In the end, Hinata was stuck with Sakura.
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The week goes by fast, and before I realize it I'm standing beside Sasuke loading onto the bus that'll take us to the forest. After everyone's on and ready, the driver takes off, and I relax against the window. Sasuke has the aisle seat.
The driver is this really grumpy old guy. An hour passed, and I think I'm going to die from being so bored. So we all decide to start yelling at him to at least turn some damn music on. After five minutes of yelling, and him grimacing in annoyance, he twists around to face us (and barely manages not to hit a stop sign) and yells, "OK YOU BRATS, JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!" The teachers on the bus, Kakashi, Iruka, and Jiraiya, just chuckle to themselves and act like they don't notice the students ganging up on the bus driver.
He reaches up and turns the radio on, changing stations when we start to yell at him that country sucks. Finally finding the station we want, he drops his hand back to the wheel, muttering to himself.
She says she's no good
With words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out,
"A joke of a romantic," stuck to my tongue
When the song reaches the chorus, grinning madly, the students on the bus get up and start jumping while singing along. Even though I'm in the back, and the teachers in the front, I can swear I see Kakashi jumping up and down and singing along under his weird mask.
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead,
Dance
This is the way they'd love if they knew
How misery loved me
The remaining hour is spent jumping and singing to the other songs that followed Fall Out Boy's. I don't realize it when we stopped in a big clearing in the middle of the forest. I don't think the other students had realized it either. We've finally arrived.
--- (Sasuke POV) ---
The weekend, and the weekdays following that, go by quickly, and it's Thursday again. Naruto and I talk a little more, but I still… I don't quite know how to put it. I don't like this Naruto, but I don't hate him either. We get along, but I still push him away. He notices, but he understands. I can tell.
He still seems wary of his new friends; they're getting along better but he's always looking over at Hinata, Gaara, Chouji, and Gaara.
I now sit with them at lunch, but they're always glaring at me. Naruto notices, but has given up trying to get them to be nice to me. I couldn't care less. It was when I was stabbing viciously at my spaghetti when an announcement came on throughout the school.
"Those of you are wishing to participate in this year's school play, come to the auditorium after school tomorrow. This year's school play will be Romeo and Juliet."
Almost immediately, Shikamaru, Kiba, Neji, and Lee break out into grins. "Don't forget to tell Iruka you're staying after school, Naruto." I roll my eyes. Everyone at school knows that, every year, all five of them try out for whatever the school play is. None of them ever make it.
Naruto looks at me, then at his new friends, a confused look on his face. "For the play? Why would I try out for that?" Wow, even if I wasn't already convinced this wasn't really Naruto, I sure would be now. Naruto can never put two and two together.
Kiba kicks Naruto's shin under the table, making him bang the table underneath with his knee and hiss in pain. "Dude, what's with you? We try out every year! So be sure to be in the auditorium after school tomorrow!" With that, and a grin, Shikamaru, Kiba, Neji, and Lee all pick up their trays, stand up, and walk off.
Naruto props and his leg up on the seat next to him and rubs his shin. "Sasuke, will you come with me?" He turns to me and smiles sincerely. The other Naruto would stick out his bottom lip in a pout and widen his big blue eyes.
"Sure, dobe, why not?" With that, we pick up our trays to finish the rest of the day.
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Getting permission from Iruka and Kakashi, Naruto and I slowly shuffle into the auditorium, immediately noticing the huge lit up stage, with Sakura standing on his reciting from a script she was holding. About fifty other students sat in the seats, watching and waiting their turn. We seat ourselves next to Naruto's friends.
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
Kabuto-sensei, who is reciting Romeo's lines for Sakura, looks thrilled at this duty. "Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" They go on like this for a few minutes. Sakura's voice is shaky, and she keeps fidgeting and giggling while glancing at me. All in all, she sucks.
One by one, students go up on stage. Some are very good, while some are just horrible. Shikamaru, Kiba, Neji, and Lee were the latter. Shikamaru looked bored, Kiba kept pausing to insult people, Neji seemed to catch stage-fright and walked off-stage, while Lee was just too damn hyper. Finally it was Naruto's turn to go up.
"What scene will you be reading?" Kabuto asks, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Um. Act four, scene three." Kabuto looks relieved at the fact that he doesn't have to read some weird part, and motions for Naruto to go. Naruto clears his throat, shuffles his script, then begins:
"Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!" With this he raises an imaginary bottle and drinks from it. "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
The whole room is silent, even Sakura, who was glaring her fullest and making fists at him, is staring at him in awe. I'm pretty sure my own jaw is somewhere on the floor. Then the room erupts in loud clapping, and half of them were giving him standing ovations.
Since the real Naruto can't act worth shit, I guess it makes since this one can act really, really great. Kabuto follows Naruto off-stage and over to us, trying to find his voice. "We'll..um…we'll call you tomorrow if you made the cast."
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Yes, I'm aware this chapter is short. It was supposed to be, because I was trying to get it up on Friday, but I couldn't so here it is today. Once again, I don't own Romeo and Juliet. Hope you enjoyed this small chapter, new character in the next one!
One review for this chapter equals me writing Chapter 7. Love ya guys!