Chapter Two...are you apprehensive? Excited? Wondering why I talk so much before and after the fanfic? Well, too fucking bad. Lousy readers who don't review get stuck with my blathering. I feel...so alone right now... Hopefully I'm not so annoying that no one WANTS to review, so I'll apologize. Sorry.
Disclaimer: (breathes in)ho god, (breathes in)ho god, (breathes in) ho god, wait,...,wait for it...I'm gonna think of something real funny...ok, The reason I don't own Naruto is because slavery isn't allowed in the U. S. Eh? Eh? Come on, you know that was funny. Maybe not. But it's so stupid I was laughing when Ityped it.
You Look Like A Nerd With Those Glasses On, Sasuke. (Chapter Two)
Sasuke was...dreaming. A cat nap, before class start. But make no mistake, he was also fully alert for any sly and groping hands.
Earlier that morning:
"So, Sasuke, you're first day of school with your new glasses. How do you feel?" Kakashi walked over and stood behind Sasuke, who was observing himself in the full-length mirror of his closet door.
"I look like a nerd." He responded flatly.
"...Yeah, you look like some Richy-Rich kid in that uniform with those on," Kakashi gasped between snorts of laughter. "NO! You look like an extremely anal accountant! The look on you're face! 'I'm sorry, Takada-san, you owe two million yen in taxes and you can't afford to have your cat receive the necessary shots, so you'll have to get rid of that, too.' 'Bu-but' 'And you'll have to sell your late husbands house, as well' Bwaa-ha-ha!" Kakashi was so enthusiastic that he dropped the perverted book he never seemed to finish, despite reading it all hours of the day, even during work.
"Well at least you're amused."
Kakashi only collapsed into convulsions of laughter again.
Present:
Sasuke was brought out of his reverie by the arrival of the first period teacher.
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Iruka fidgeted before adjusting Naruto's tie one last time before allowing the blonde to exit the car.
"Don't be so nervous, Iruka. It's just school. What could possibly happen?" Naruto rolled his eyes at his brother's antics. "But keep in mind, Iruka-kun, that you owe me lots an' lots of ramen!" Naruto had had a fixed fascination with the stuff ever since he had first met Iruka when he was young and the older man (in reality, Iruka was only a teenager) had taken him off the streets to buy him dinner at a ramen stand.
"I'm not nervous!"
"Riiiiight."
"I'm not!"
"Stop babying me, we have to go in soon so I can get verified and get my class information. I'll probably be late as it is."
"Since when were you a stickler for the time," Iruka muttered under his breath, but agreed and began the walk towards the school office.
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"Umino Naruto, son of Umino Iruka?" The elderly secretary squinted at the two of them. Umino Iruka-san looked a little young to have a son in his teens...Shit. The old lady mentally cursed in an un-old-lady-like fashion. She was not going to enjoy receiving all the calls from protesting parents.
"Yes, Kino-san, that is correct."
"Oh, yes...your schedule, here. You're homeroom is A-203. If you just take the stairs to the right of the office, you'll be on the correct floor, and A-203 is a few doors to the right. Don't worry if you're not sure, they're all labeled. If you have any questions you can just ask your teacher or a classmate. Have a nice day, Umino-san."
"You too, Kino-san." Iruka and Naruto bowed and left the office. "You're sure you'll be okay?"
"Yes, Iruka-kun, I'll be fine. Now, go do whatever you do all day and stop worrying, it'll give you wrinkles! Ja!"
What does Iruka do all day?
"OOOOoooh, you-" But it was too late, because Naruto had already sprinted through the double doors that lead to the stairs.
"Oh well." Iruka sighed and left without finishing his sentence. Because, after all, Naruto didn't really need to know what Iruka did when he wasn't working.
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There was really, Ino thought, no need for Sakura to be such a bitch.
Sakura had always been a little cold to Ino, or at least since middle school. When she decided that she liked Sasuke. Ino had first, of course. And she had known before Sakura knew that she knew, that Sakura had a crush on the Uchiha. Since Sakura had confronted Ino about it, however, the two best friends had been at odds.
Today, however, had brought that competition for Sasuke to another level. Before, Sakura would call Ino a pig, and Ino big-forehead. But, at least on Ino's side, the names hadn't meant anything. Ino had considered their fights a friendly rivalry. Now, however, Sakura had outright called Ino a whore, and a pig. In front of the Uchiha. Something Sakura had never done before.
And now Ino felt wronged. She was as faithful to Sasuke as Sakura was. And it most certainly wasn't her fault that she was just a smidge taller than the other girls, so her uniform skirt was barely two centimeters shorter than some of the girls'. God knows others were worse. And that crack about being a pig! She was thinner, and had a larger rack than that bitch!
Nevertheless, Sakura's biting words had driven Ino to the stairwell by the office where no one ever went, to cry and vent her frustrations.
But what had hurt the most was not Sakura's words, but the implication that some boy was more important than their friendship.
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There is no you, there is only me, there is no you, there is only me, Naruto hummed and noted the vending machines in the stairwell. There is no fucking you! There is only me, There is no fu- Hold that thought. "Are you all right?"
For Naruto had spotted a girl huddled between the wall and the vending machine that sold water bottles. It was by chance, really, since if the girl's hair had been black or brown instead of blonde, he would never have noticed her sitting there.
The girl sniffled in response. Naruto walked over to where she was and squatted. "Are you hiding?"
"No!" the girl said vehemently and defensively at the same time. "I'm just not ready to go to class yet."
"Right" Naruto squinted suspiciously. "Hey...have you been crying? What's wrong?"
"Ugh. NO. I was not." She had not been crying. Most definitely not.
"Oh." apparently the boy had decided not to pressure her on the matter. "Well, hi! I'm Umino Naruto! I'm new here! Who're you?"
"Yamanaka Ino. Nice to meet you." It was. Most people in Konoha, or at least this stuck-up school, would ignore her and gossip about her later.
Standing, Ino fluttered her hands at her skirt to remove any dust from the floor. "We should get going, Umino-san. We're both late." Ino smiled. "What class are you in?"
Crap! I'm late for class! "Uh, um, A-203."
Weird... "Me too, hehe, he."
"Haha, that's kinda weird, haha," Naruto laughed. Or maybe it was more of a high-pitched giggle.
"Come on, I'll show you there, then."
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Sasuke was lightly dozing. It was not befitting of an Uchiha to snore or drool or engage in something like 'slumber' during school hours. Or in school, just for a peek at how he was raised. And since he was dozing lightly, he snapped to attention quite quickly when someone rapped smartly on Asuma-sensei's door.
"Ino-san, you're late."Asuma said reprovingly. "That's not like you."
"I'm very sorry, Asuma-sensei, it won't happen again." Ino bowed apologetically. Asuma-sensei observed her tear-stained face, ascertained that she had been crying, and sent her to her seat without punishment. Sasuke thought that Asuma-sensei was wishy-washy. And wimpy.
"And you are...?"
Into the room stepped what was possibly the cutest girl that most of the boys in the room had ever seen. Unfortunately, the 'cutest girl' was not a girl at all. Just a short, fine-boned, insanely skinny boy, as became apparent when...
"I'm Umino Naruto, the new student."
"Yes, I was told about you." Naruto imperceptibly tensed. "You're also late."
"Ahh, yes, sorry about that, I had to...help out a friend." he winked at Ino, who giggled quietly. "I promise to never be late for your class again...er..."
"You may address me as Asuma-sensei, Naruto-san."
Naruto laughed. "I promise never to be late for your class again, Asuma-sensei," he said jokingly. Cm'on, if I were any sweeter I'd have cavities! Let me sit DOWN!
"That's very good, Naruto-san. You can sit next to... Sasuke-san." Asuma-sensei rumbled a laugh and asked Sasuke to raise his hand. Sasuke did. It was not befitting of an Uchiha to defy his sensei's orders and make a scene.
Naruto raised his eyebrows before making his way towards said boy. It must be that Sasuke, the one Ino-san and Sakura-san were fighting about.
Sasuke sat in the back row, on the side closest to the wall. Asuma had set him there to keep him from distracting all the girls (and some of the boys) during class.
Naruto walked to the desk and set his book bag on it before sitting down and taking out a notebook. Asuma-sensei was lecturing about Japanese history, and a period Naruto had already learned about, at that, so he felt it was alright to spend the rest of the class sorting out the people into groups: the people he would avoid like the plague, and the people he would avoid like the chicken pox. (A.N. Lets just say that Naruto already had the chicken pox, so he would avoid them, but not as much)
Hmm...those two look all right...they can go in the pox box...eww, he's playing with a...beee, hoshit! Ack! Plague! Plague! Just as long as it stays over there. Ugh. Moving on, she has pink hair, pink is such and ugly color, plague, that guy with the face paint and the contacts looks alright, pox box he is, and Ino, my first acquaintance, you shall be endowed with the honor of the chicken pox box. Eww, he has eyebrows...really thick ones...hey, his uniform is green and orange! Alright, now they have to let me wear a black one! Naruto glanced at Sasuke surreptiously. Hn. He's quiet. But he's a plaguer. He probably thinks he's so cool, sitting there like no one else matters. Arrogant prick, I bet. That girl over there looks pretty normal. Hmm, good aim, too. I'm not gonna piss her off. Pox, plague, pox, plague, plague, plague, plague, jesus, what's with these people, plague, pox, pox, plague, pox, plague. Hn. These people are boring. At least maybe they'll leave me alone. Not like the others.
Every single one of them was hideous. So judgmental. So opinionated. So blind. Like a flock of sheep. They just bleated the same thing over and over and did what their herder told them to until one was stupider than normal and got lost and scared so it had to be chased around until it was herded back into the flock or it got hit by some passing car on the road because it was too stupid to move out of the way. THEY ALL THOUGHT THEY WERE DIFFERENT but they were all the same. THEY WERE all unique in the exact SAME WAY. Bloody sheep oozing at the backs of their necks bleating helplessly and-
No. Thinking about that was not good. Not here. That would only depress him more than normal, something he didn't need with the pressure of a new school weighing down on him. Then the bell rang.
Naruto turned to Sasuke. "Hey, can I borrow your-"
"Hey, you name's Umino-san, isn't it?"
"Er..."
"Why do you have a choker on?
"Do you play any instruments?"
"Sports?"
"Hey, Naruto-san!"
Naruto felt a hand tugging on his arm, and was momentarily thankful that he had only taken out one notebook, and had put it back away soon after. He allowed the tug to pull him up out of his seat and out of the crowd of curious students. (Most were boys, as most of the girls were more preoccupied with Sasuke.)
After Ino had safely pulled Naruto out of the mass, she whispered, "Come with me"
And before the class knew it, the new student had been whisked out of their midst by one of their own.
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"Whew. Thanks for getting me out of there, Yamanaka-san." Naruto thanked the girl profusely.
"You can just call me Ino. And, it was nothing. Just helping out a new student." Ino scanned the courtyard (the school's puffed up name for the lawn) and selected a tree void of students. "Come on, we can eat over there."
"Ok. And you can call me Naruto then!"
"You're a really happy person, aren't you?"
"Ano sa, ano sa, I try!"
"Come on, we can people watch and I'll tell you their names so I can introduce you later."
"Cool!"
What am I getting myself into?
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"That's Hinata-chan, and her cousin Neji-san, with the white eyes. They're Hyuugas. And that guy with the sunglasses is Aburame Shino, and over there's Kiba (he usually sneaks food to stray dogs during lunch, and that lazy ass is Shikamaru, with his best friend Chouji, he eats all the time, and..."
Naruto sighed. No doubt Ino's running commentary would be fascinating, if the odds of these people talking to him were more than one in a million. But he sincerely doubted whether even Ino would want to talk to him once word got out to the parents that he was attending this particular academy.(1) Pretty soon, Ino would go to ignoring him, and he would be shunned by the student populace, as well as be invisible to the teachers. Naruto wouldn't be surprised if the student population began to drop because of the angry parents. Maybe, after they ask me to leave, Iruka will take me far away, where no one knows me...
"...And there's Sasuke and his fan club. You sit next to him, so you already know that, though. The teachers gave us assigned seats and put Sasuke by himself because the girls kept on getting into fights about sitting near him. I won't name all of his stalkers" Thank god, Naruto thought, "Because there's just so goddamn many of them, but you see the one with the pink hair, right next to him?" Naruto did. "That's Sakura. She used to be my best friend." The last statement was said regretfully.
"..." Naruto didn't know what to say, so he didn't say anything at all.
Jeez, the closest thing I've had to a friend in over...a very long time, and she gets weepy from looking at some boy...
"H-hello, Ino-chan..." While Ino had been talking, the Hyuugas seemed to have snuck up on them.
"Hi, Hinata-chan, Neji-kun, what brings you here? Oh, this is Naruto-kun, he's the new student, remember?"
"I-I remember. Hello, Umino-san" Hinata stuttered. Neji only nodded his acknowledgement.
Hmph. He's a prick. And she stutters too much. We'll have to fix that self-confidence problem, won't we?
"Hi, Hinata-chan, Neji-kun, is it alright if I call you that? You can call me Naruto, or whatever you want, as long as it isn't mean!"(2)
"Y-yes, o-of course..."
"Hinata-sama would like to know if we may eat with you." Neji cut in. And a good thing, too, or they would never start their lunches, let alone finish them.d
"Sure! Go ahead..." So the pair sat down, and the four began to eat and converse, with Ino and Naruto doing most of the conversing.
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From across the courtyard, many people were watching the group in which the new student sat and ate his lunch. Some gossiped, some decided to mock (3), and some didn't say anything at all.
That whore, Sakura took a break from fawning over Sasuke and glared, Making a move on the new student like that. If Sasuke cared about her, she'd have hurt his feelings. Turning back to Sasuke, she smiled charmingly and complimented him. I'll just have to teach her, and that boy a lesson.
Sasuke, on the other hand, wasn't really thinking, for once. He was just staring, at a boy no less, a fact that his fan girls seemed to be ignoring. Later that night, he would contemplate on the blonde enigma(4), but for now, he would settle for gathering as much information as possible to mull over.
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That day, the student body continued to gossip about the new student, Umino Naruto. By the end of the day, almost everyone knew the name of the new boy, and what he looked like.
To end the chapter with some food for thought that has nothing to do with this fic: The road of life is riddled with pit stops for Kakashi to waste his time at. So, he really does get lost on the road of life...
Dun-dun-dun! To be continued.
I have plans for this fic, people, plans. But this chapter frustrated be very much. I re-wrote parts several times, and I got ideas, so I had to check details, and- argh!
Wheew. Sakuras-a-plotting! Ooh. She's so evil in this fic. And if you disagree with the people in this fic, or the -eventual- pairing, don't judge my writing on that. Even though a lot of people seem to enjoy yaoi on this site. And Ino. If Sasuke has to be straight, and not with me, I'd want her to win, because Sakura's the one that ended their friendship. That said, I appear to have a thing for anime guys. As long as they're not old. Yet another issue I have. sighs
1. I'm too lazy to think up a name for the school. Since Konoha is the name of the city/suburb they're in, that won't work. Or will it?
2. Naruto's being very, very rude. I'm not Japanese, but I'm under the impression that just asking to not use the honorific like that would be bad. So don't ever, ever do something like that.
3. He looks girly. Remember? Prolly not. I didn't say much about that, did I. I don't really mention it all that much for a while..
4. I have no idea why Sasuke thinks Naruto is an enigma. It sounds cool, though. And Naruto is an enigma! Sort of.
Ok, I want reviews. Tell me you want more snarky Naruto. Cuz, I do. Sadly, I don't have that many 'thoughts' this chapter. I'm gonna try and fix that.
And, If you all review enough, I'll give you a little present. In a form of an omake. Just what does Iruka do all day? Kukuku.
...Goodbye.