A/N: Oh my gosh! It's been FOREVER since I updated this story! Woah, I almost forgot about it! Sorry for the wait, all! I am now presenting (insert drum roll here) Chapter 4!
Chapter 4: Sasuke's Drastic MeasuresSasuke had just stared silently at the boy's adorable smiling face after receiving the 'good news'. His mind was running one hundred miles an hour but his body seemed frozen in time. He just continued to stare at the boy as he continued to smile. His eyes showed an expression of shock mixed with confusion, and unbeknownst to anybody, hurt.
He hadn't realized it before but the boy had actually grown on him. On many occasions did the boy happen to stumble into his peaceful thoughts, subconsciously of course. During the rare occasions when Naruto wasn't by his side, Sasuke would spend his time worrying about him, wondering what he was doing. He hadn't realized it, but he had slowly come to thinking of Naruto as somebody more than a friend. He considered Naruto as somebody he felt obligated to protect. Somebody he could talk to. Somebody who would be there. And the only 'somebody' he had.
Because of their usual, day-to-day routine, Sasuke grew used to believing that Naruto would always be by his side. When somebody who has been at your side for what seems like forever is suddenly taken away, the aftershock is both startling and painful. It is like walking up a flight of stairs and stumbling onto the flight above, thinking to yourself that there is another step when there really isn't. Both shock and fear take control of your heart for a split second before you regain balance and control.
Naruto had become the center of his universe but now that Sakura had rudely popped into the equation, everything would change for the worse. His universe, without its center, would collapse all around him.
But being Sasuke, he dare not let it show.
"Isn't that awesome, Sasuke?" Naruto asked after many minutes of waiting for any sign of reply.
Sasuke, being the talented actor he is, resumed his regular cool, seemingly remotely interested expression, crossed his arms and said, "Yeah. That's awesome."
To his disappointment, Naruto sat across from him instead of right beside him at the table and to add lightning to the rain, Sakura took a seat right next to him. But what really brewed the storm was that fact that the large lunch he had packed earlier proved obsolete as Sakura offered to share hers with Naruto, who gladly accepted completely forgetting the eating tradition that he and Sasuke had kept alive ever since he had arrived.
Sasuke had long since (well, since at least three minutes ago) ridded himself of all of his despair and instead of wallowing in his own sorrow, decided to find a solution to solve the problem, which, of course, was Sakura's interference.
Just like the Uchiha he was, he wouldn't give up without a fight. He replaced his sorrow with a determination so intense that if he had a much stronger brother who he wished to die, it would lead him to victory.
He casually smirked to himself as he planned in his head how to grab Naruto's attention and keep it.
He didn't bother eating lunch that day. Instead he formulated a plan behind a book he pretended to be reading, thinking out possible actions over and over again.
He turned to the cafeteria window as a streak of lightning flashed through the sky and illuminated the entire room. He could see a storm brewing. But he didn't know that there were two of them. Two storms were brewing. One outside and one inside and Naruto happened to be in the eye of the more dangerous one.
Naruto loved advisory class because there was never any work to do. It was all about 'learning about yourself and others', as the faculty would like to put it. Today he looked forward to another class of relaxing and doing absolutely no work with the exception of ten question quizzes that help you get to know yourself by asking questions such as 'do you talk to friends about your problems' and 'do you like to play video games.'
As he lay back in his tilted chair, he almost fell off of it as he notice not Mr. Lapinsky (their awkward advisory teacher who had recently moved to Japan and spoke with a funny foreign accent) walk through the classroom door, but instead Kakashi-sensei who walked in with his trademark mask that helped to take away from the sophistication that was added unto his image by his expensive-looking briefcase (which everybody in the classroom knew only carried his set of perverted adult books).
"Good morning, class!" he said in his usual cheery tone and continued to smile silently until at least one person actually returned his greeting.
"Today, we will be doing a few 10 question quizzes and looking at possible job options for the future!" no matter how enthusiastically he said it, and how interesting he tried to make it sound, he would never be able to make that sentence sound at all exciting enough for the students to actually care.
After doing the quizzes (which Naruto answered randomly, filling in the first bubble that came to site and occasionally making strange pictures by playing connect the bubble), and picking out a job using a rhyme children would use to pick the poor person who was 'it' in a game of tag (little did he know that he chose hairstylist), he just lay his head down on his desk for the remaining thirty minutes of the class as Kakashi-sensei continued to read his perverted book, occasionally sending out a high-pitch giggle that would cause the majority of the students to jump.
Finally, as the class was just about over and the students lay as lifeless bodies draped over the tops of their desks, Kakashi-sensei got up and asked for everybody's attention (which was eventually given to him at glacier speed).
"Class," he began as soon as everybody had turned their heads towards him, "I am assigning you an assignment!"
He had been thinking this over for the past ten minutes as he watched the students laying around and doing nothing at all. All the students with the exception of one. He noticed a quiet boy in the back corner of the room silently watching another student by the name of Naruto. At first, he thought this was creepy but decided in the end that it was indeed adorable. He would help that boy befriend Naruto (though he wasn't sure if it was allowed) and watch their relationship develop closely.
"I am going to put you in pairs and you are going to interview your partners but in your own time! I'm going to be teaching this class all week because Mr. Lapinsky has broken his leg again and I have decided not to give you any class time to work on this! Record your interview and after that is done, write a paragraph describing the person and what you think of them."
As he put the unsuspecting children in pairs that looked good, Naruto thought it would be another boring assignment. But this was before he got to know his partner a little bit better. As Kakashi continued to pair the students up, Naruto noticed that Sasuke had been paired with Sakura. Finally, in what seemed like forever as Kakashi dragged his voice on to make two words take forever to say, Kakashi had made it to his name.
"Naruto and…Gaara!"
Naruto had talked to the silent Gaara after classes were over to plan when and where they were going to meet. As he spoke, Gaara would reply with small, silent, barely noticeable nods. They had decided to meet after school the next day at Naruto's house.
Now the school day was over and he continued walked home alone. Sasuke, who would usually walk him home though his own house was in the opposite direction had apologized and said that he had some important business to take care of.
Now that he had nobody to talk to, he spent his time walking home thinking. He thought about Sakura and how lucky he was, looking forward to their date that was going to take place during lunch hour. But he began to think about Sasuke and what he would be doing without him. As he continued to think about Sasuke, he suddenly remembered that he had lent him a book that lay conveniently in his bag and decided that now would be a good time to return it. His house wasn't very far and if he ran, he would probably be able to make it there under fifteen minutes.
His decision was made, he whipped his whole body around and ran the whole way to Sasuke's large house.
Sasuke had apologized to Naruto and said he had some important business to take care of. Now he sat at home, thinking about how he could obtain Naruto's attention. Things would been much more convenient if he had been paired with him for the advisory assignment, but instead the pervert had to make him spend time with bubblegum head.
He scratched at his wrist lightly, having, on the way home, been stung by an annoying bee. He had decided that standing still while be buzzed around him was much too time-consuming and fought back, trying to land a swat on the swift bee.
He continued to think about how to catch a person's attention, running the ideas through his head. Right now, he was desperate to get Naruto's thoughts diverted away from Sakura and would settle on something that would distract him if he couldn't find something that would catch his attention.
His eyes landed on a pair of scissors and paper that lay on the desk in his room. It was as if I light bulb had lit in his head when a brilliant idea had suddenly popped into his mind. He would do something that would both distract Naruto from Sakura and put all of his attention on himself. He approached the scissors as he thought about what a genius he was proving to be.
When he made it to the desk, he picked up the scissors and stared at his left wrist.
Yes, it was the perfect plan.
As he began to carry out his plan, he did not notice the silent presence of Naruto in his large house.
Usually, people would need a map of some sort to maneuver through the rooms, but Naruto knew his way around and made his way to Sasuke's room.
He made it up the large staircase and at the door to his room. He turned the knob and when he opened the door, he yelled,
"Sasuke!" as he stared at his best friend, scissors in his hand.
A/N: Oooooo, suicide! Poor Sasuke! But he can't die, right? WRONG? Or not! Feedback on this chapter please and I swear I'm going to make more of an effort to update faster! With 4 other siblings using the same computer, it's hard to make time :PSee you next chapter!
P.S Btw, sorry if the chapterdoesn't seem to bewrittenvery well. It was very rushed to bedone in 20 minutes :P