Anou...etou...I'm very sorry for taking so long! You see, I was distracted, and then when I finished wouldn't let me post...grr
A REVIEW OF HUNTER X HUNTER! (Yes that would be the reason I haven't updated or checked my email) Read if you please, I want this series to have a larger fanbase! It's waaay better than Naruto as a series. (Well that's in my opinion)
A very intriguing storyline! By the guy who did yuyu hakusho. Don't be put off by the art in the first chapter of the manga, it stays bad...and every so often, gets worse. Grr. I guess he was short on ideas and had to meet deadlines? Anyway, the lineart isn't nearly as good as yuyu hakusho, and actually reminded me a little bit of disney. Few halftones are used, so it's mostly black and white. This makes for an unpleasant experience when the artist gets lazy and uses forest background-tones, which are fuzzy and use a lot of gray! It also pisses me off. Geez, it's not that hard to sketch in a few leaves and branches! And it looks better, too! steams HOWEVER! The anime is great! Wonderful animation, and the music blends in very well. The anime fleshes out some scenes and elaborates on the character backgrounds, and Gon is absolutely adorable! kyaaas kyaas for senritsu and kurapica too It has it's share of shounen ai fanservice (well, about as much as Naruto) and there are few girls, so the annoying token girls to satisfy the femmes are nil. (No offense to y'all girls in the audience) (wait, I'm a girl!) So watch the anime, you can find all of it on animeepisodes as well as the OVA and can probably find a download of GI somewhere (it was licensed recently.)
Once you watch the anime, you can go back and read the manga and it will seem much better, and continue onto the CA arc which (rumors say) will be made into an anime someday!
Phew. On with the fic!
Disclaimer: this section is a waste of space
Chapter 17: Bathroom Fun?
Roommate came in again. Please, please, let me see your notes! James hid them and spilled beer on them by accident!
Come on, buddy! Please? You know I'd do the same for you!
The boy sighed. When he had first arrived, he would have replied with a cool stare. A, what, you really expect me to do that? look.
This time he gave in. He had memorized the notes anyway, so photocopy them and give them back.
The roommate was ecstatic. Thank you, I won't forget it! he said. The boy had stopped listening. He had to study more, memorize more.
This was his last year here; he was twenty-two now, four-year college over. It was winter, so he didn't have to worry about his sports scholarship. But he had vowed to maintain a 4.0 for the entire time; his pride wouldn't allow anything less.
Everyone had said he was a genius.
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"Sasu-niii!"
Sasuke felt wrinkles form around his eyes and his lips turn down. He stiffly turned around.
"Sasu-nii? Why?" he struggled to force the words out.
"Because..." Naruto sang. Sasuke's mouth thinned more, if possible.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "You have the same haircut as Iruka-san. His foster father. Minus the ponytail."
"Mou, you ruined it, Shikamaru-kun!" Naruto made goopy eyes at Shikamaru. "He would have been so surprised, too."
"Surprised?" Sasuke repeated cautiously.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes again. "We're going to stay at Naruto's apartment over the weekend. For that dumb project at stuff."
Naruto slunk up to Shikamaru's side and poked him. "Ne, ne, Shika-kun, don't forget, we're going to dress you up, and Lee-kun will come over and we'll go shopping with him too and we'll get Sasuke and Ino-chan and Hinata-chan something to wear too for the dance!"
"Heh?" Shikamaru snorted. "I'm not going to the dance!"
Naruto frowned. "Yes you are."
"No. No I'm not." Shikamaru tried to walk away but Naruto lunged after his arm.
"Yeeeeeees..."
"Iiiieeeeee!"
Sasuke turned around very slowly. He decided to talk to Kakashi, maybe he could arrange to be grounded or something, so he wouldn't have to go. Or he could hang Kakashi's underwear from the window, that might make him mad—
Shikamaru was still trying to escape from Naruto when Sasuke had run away into the classroom.
"Sasuke-kun"
Nuooooo! Not Sakura! Sasuke thought desperately. Bathroom! She won't go in there!
"Do you have a date for the dance, Sasuke-kun?"
"Y-yyeah!" Get away! I like, I like----
Sakura looked disappointed. "Oh? Who is it, Sasuke?" Naruto had managed to drag Shikamaru into the classroom. Ino had shown up, along with Lee, to help.
Sasuke's eyes flicked to the door and back to Sakura. Ummmm... Sasuke made a serious face and turned to the door.
"Sasuke? Where are you going?"
Sasuke stopped and looked over his shoulder. "Pee."
Sakura backed up. "O-ok, you do that then, Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke darted for the door, down the halll, and into the bathroom to lock himself in the one stall.
Had he...almost thought that in front of a girl? That he liked Naruto? No, that would be absolutely dangerous—once you made eye contact with a maniac like Sakura, she could immediately tell what you were thinking.
At any rate, he absolutely could not go to that dance, he would be swarmed by the girls and thereby unable to spend time with his sweet but cruel Naru-chan–
"Gaah! I really hate public bathrooms!"
"Naruto, this is a school bathroom." Shikamaru's exasperated voice resonated off of the tiles. "Why did I have to come with you? We're not girls."
"Soooorry. But I drank a lot of juice this morning without thinking, and I don't feel safe in bathrooms with more than on toilet." Naruto whined.
"It's weird! Two guys do not go to the bathroom together!"
"Well, duh, don't look! Geez, Shikamaru, that's obvious!"
Shikamaru grunted. "Well then, princess, I'll wait outside and guard the door."
Sasuke heard the soft sound of school shoes on tile. "Hum? I thought Sasuke was in here, though." Naruto wondered. Shikamaru paused at the door.
For a moment, Sasuke's heart stopped beating. W-whatshouldIdo, whatshouldIdo–
Naruto began to bend over to see if there were any feet. Sasuke's heart resumed it's meager tempo. He flushed the toilet, unzipped and re-zipped his fly, and opened the door.
"What are you doing, you idiot?" Sasuke worded contemptuously. "You can't just look under the stalls, if nobody were in there, the door would be open."
"Ara?" Naruto stopped, bent over halfway. Shikamaru sighed and leaned back to watch.
"Na, Sasuke, what were you doing in the stall anyway? It doesn't sm-" Naruto began to smile gleefully.
"I was peeing! I don't like public bathrooms either, princess!" Sasuke stomped over to the sinks and rinsed his hands before brushing past Shikamaru in his haste to leave.
"Well?"
"Shikamaru, you have to leave too. Keep watch!"
Naruto smiled as Shikamaru left the boy's bathroom. Silly Sasuke, he shouldn't use that stall because of such misconceptions.
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Well, that had been Thursday. A bad day, in Sasuke's easily miffed opinion. And Friday was no better.
"Sasu-nii, hurry, hurry, we're going to my house to meet Iruka-nii!" Naruto chirped.
Sasuke was unthrilled. "Gosh darn. I forgot my clothes." He tilted his head away with a tiny, emotionless smile. "Oh. Whatever will I do. I suppose I must only go for a little while to complete my third of the project, then leave." He deadpanned.
"Mou! Sasu-nii!" Naruto pouted.
"Oh, no you don't." Shikamaru glared ominously. "Ne, Naruto-chan, we can accompany him to his house to retrieve his belongings, can't we?"
"Accompany, accompany!" Naruto clapped his hands gleefully.
Sasuke sweated. "Let's not and say we didn't."
"How dare you, Sasuke." Shikamaru scolded. "Trying to shirk responsibility!"
Naruto gazed at Shikamaru in amazment. "Wow, Shikamaru-sama!"
"My mom's a real hardass. I learned it from her." Shikamaru crossed in arms in satisfaction.
Naruto's baby blue's shone. "I wonder what it's like to live with a woman in the house?"
"I don't want to know what it would be like with a woman in my house," Sasuke muttered. I'd never get any sleep–the noises would never end!
"Oh?"
"Sasuke, we're coming with you."
"God damn."
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Iruka panicked. Any minute now, and the boys would be back from school. And he hadn't even begun to clean up from work!
Naruto would probably expect Iruka to have cookies and tea ready for them, and he would come home to find–to find—to find---------
Porn. Porn everywhere. Jiraya-sama's rough drafts, scattered about. Boobies on every sheet. Penises on every paper- porno magazines to be used as reference shots, inspiration, naked men and women going at it–and...
Oh no! Naruto would be scarred for life, to find out what Iruka did in his free time! How he earned their extra pocket money–
For of course, in their family, Iruka didn't need to work, money was wired to him from father and grandfather every month (his father, of course, was the favorite son, and in turn, Iruka the favorite grandson.) But Iruka did this job because he liked it-
Did that make him a pervert? Yes, he supposed it did. Did Naruto know that Iruka was a pervert?
Yes, probably so. After all, Naruto had grown up in an environment that made him entirely sensitive to perversion. He probably didn't care that Iruka was a closet pervert because Iruka didn't go for lola-shota or boys.
Yes, Iruka was a manly man, he liked the full-chested type, the double F's (AN: ouch) and the slender waist and the curvaceous hips.
But he had to clean this up! Not only that, he had to bake cookies and make tea and vacuum and get out blankets and pillows for the guests that were spending the night! And go shopping for dinner (well maybe they could just order pizza) and for breakfast so Naruto could show that he had a foster father to be proud of!
Iruka went on auto-pilot and sped around the apartment so fast that there were afterimages. It was just too bad that while that was going on, Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sasuke were standing on the crowded subway train heading in the opposite direction.
TBC
Again, sorry for being such an erratic updater (and a liar at that!) WATCH HUNTER X HUNTER! If you so choose to. It really is a good series.
And please don't forget to review.
A word from my muses. They are our two favorite characters from Animal X.
Yuuji: A guy tried to rape me again, Minato.
Minato: ...is this my fault...he's been raped three times since we've been together...
Yuuji: Yep. It's all you damn dinosauroid's fault. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been turned into he-she.
Minato: Yeah...you do reek of girl, Yuuji-chan.
Ahem, yes, Yuuji gets raped far too often. Ami Sugimoto-sensei, too many rape things is a bad thing (unless it's manga p0rn. Did I say that?)