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Naruto watched as Sasuke read through the paragraph, his eyes reading the same all the while, in Naruto's eyes. Inside, Naruto prepared for the worst. How could an innocent friggin' mad lib, of all things, lead to THIS? He's going to think I'm having some sick fantasies about him. Sasuke looked up from the mad lib, and……………………..
Laughed. He just laughed. Of course, either way, to Naruto this was a bit odd. Take out all the mad lib details, and it was Sasuke laughing. –Which people didn't tend to hear often. Naruto almost forgot about this in the moment, but he wasn't that scatter brained. He continued to stare at Sasuke, who continued to let out a small giggle-like laugh. Like he's trying to stifle himself, but can't. Ok, so he' s laughing, so what does this mean, exactly? Sasuke continued to laugh for a couple seconds more, while Naruto continued waiting for something else to happen. –Which something did.
That something was Sasuke tearing out the sheet of paper that Naruto had written upon, folding it, and placing it into his pocket. After that action, he went on to catch Kiba's attention, showing him the book.
"Hey, look what Naruto found. This thing is awesome, try one."
Kiba looked up to see Sasuke thrusting a small book in his hands. "Ok, alright, but I don't have a pencil, man." Sasuke then looked back to Naruto, whom was still trying to figure out why the guy wasn't beating the crap out of him, just stared back with a 'dear in the headlights' look upon his face. Still staring at Sasuke, Naruto saw him mouth the word pencil, so he reached into his pocket and gave him one. Once Kiba was fully equipped with his book of mad libs, and pencil-fully complete with an eraser and all- Sasuke turned back to face Naruto. (a/n still sitting cross-legged, now tell me the kid doesn't have skills) –And from that point on, the hot action on the bus moved from sleeping to mad libbing in small bunches.
"Naruto…"-, Sasuke attempted before interruption by the blonde.
"Look, Sasuke, I didn't do it on purpose, really. Don't get the wrong idea from this, or from anything. I did a mad lib. Because everyone was sleeping, and you took the damn seat. Anyway, a mad lib. A mad lib with random words. If those random words happened to add up to certain, ah, actions, then that's not my fault, is it? No, it's not, so you have nothing to worry about. Before you freak out, I don't feel that way about you. You can just go back to sleep or whatever and forget about it."
Sasuke watched Naruto as he, well, freaked out. Man, did he actually think out what he was going to say? I better not interrupt, he might bite me or something. When he was finally done with his spiel of words, Sasuke nodded. I'd rather not trigger a whole other bubble of babble from him right now… –So he spoke carefully. "Well, I'll go back to sleep if that's what you want me to do or whatever, but you can have back half of the seat this time around." And with that, he uncrossed his legs, and scooted further into the seat until he was situated close to the window as he was when the whole bus trip had began.
Naruto simply sat in the seat, not sure if he felt better on the wet ground, or next to Sasuke. How has this trip gotten so increasingly worse so quick? He leaned back with his hands behind his head. He barely even said anything…what could he possibly be thinking about this?
The truth was, Sasuke hadn't first thought much at all when he read it. Sure, it was a bit odd, but like the head-on-shoulder-with-his-head-on-head-that-was-on-shoulder incident, he honestly didn't care much. It wasn't abnormal for Naruto to throw his name in the 'lib, they were best friends, after all. –Or something like that. Mostly, he just found it funny. He knew it wasn't Naruto's complete intention or fault, but he wondered slightly if he should be torturing him about these two incidents instead of letting them pass with the ease in which he had been. After all, this is a band trip now, isn't it? Sasuke almost snickered inside, allowing his mind to come up with different possible variations of driving poor Naruto crazy. I could act weird, like him. That'd kill him. Or I could act perfectly normal, like nothing's happened. –But that would kill him, too. He'll wonder what's going on, either way. And what's the fun if the situation isn't completely in my hands? Sasuke turned from the window and looked at Naruto, who looked back, but then immediately looked away. Oh yes, I will definitely have to come up with something more creative than that. And as Sasuke watched the scenery pass as the small, packed bus got even closer to Fairbanks, thinking up a third and more creative plan was exactly what he did.
After a much needed Bio study session with Neji, (Shikamaru and Naruto had traded seats for this) Naruto opened up his sketchbook and began to finish the picture that he had been working on out of boredom during school hours. It was a fairly extensive pencil drawing that featured his room along with all of his favorite things. He had drawn it with the intention of including every detail of his room in it-which he thought he had. He ducked his head over the picture, staring at it intently. My music stand? He looked to the corner of his room. Check! My journal?…On the desk…check! Naruto searched around the picture for his favorite plushie. Stuffed foxie? He looked at his bed. Oh yeah, he's right where I left him, oops, I mean drew him. Naruto looked back to visually searching the picture. Then what could I possibly be missing? He looked at his floor. Ahh, dirty clothes. –But after drawing them in, something else yet was still missing.
Sasuke turned from the window to see Naruto focused on a picture in his sketchbook, looking a little annoyed.
"What's wrong?", he asked.
Not taking his eyes from the picture, Naruto replied "I was pretty sure that I had everything, but I feel like I'm still missing something somehow."
Sasuke glanced down from Naruto (which actually wasn't too far, considering how close Naruto had his face to the page) to the picture, but couldn't see enough from where he was from. "Can I see it?"
"Sure", Naruto nodded as he handed his book to Sasuke. Sasuke took the sketchbook into his hands and held the picture up. It was a drawing of a room, most likely from the door's view, with the smallest and most intricate details in everything that was in there. He glanced at the ground in the picture. Right down to the dirty clothes and dust bunnies, huh?
"This is pretty cool, Naruto, but what room is this?", he asked, already knowing the answer to his own question.
"It's mine, actually", he answered.
Perfect. Sasuke reached for the pencil that he always kept with him. "I figured. Anyway, I think I know what you're missing, do you mind if I give drawing it in a try?"
Naruto shrugged. "sure, I'm too frustrated to draw any more on it right now as it is." –And with that said, Sasuke began sketching in his addition to the picture with an occasional "No peaking." Spoken towards Naruto. Almost finished with his own interpretation of what Naruto was missing in his room, Sasuke was busy drawing in the final details.
Don't forget the little reflections of the light in the eyes..
Ah, I almost forgot to draw the nails in…
Finally finished, (ok, it was only 2 minutes) Sasuke too a look at what he had drawn. I do good work, If I can say so myself. Finalizing his decision, he handed the book back to Naruto.
Sasuke waited for Naruto to look at the picture, more or less waiting for his reaction instead. When he heard a sharp intake of breath from his right side, he knew that what he had drawn had been seen. Sasuke almost grinned. Naruto was embarrassed about falling asleep on him, bumping into him in the gas station, writing an interesting mad lib about him, and now the picture that he held in his hands. Just as Sasuke had figured with the prior incidents, Naruto had a good reason to be uncomfortable with this one, too. After all, how often did one have the self-portrait of Sasuke Uchiha laid upon their bed?
Sasuke allowed the grin to appear on his face, but only for a brief second. I guess that would be the first step…complete, huh?
Evil Sasuke :gasp: What else is he going to do! (do I even know?)
Anyway, it's out a bit later than usual, I got blocked..a couple days in a row, blocked. But last night I was able to get the missing half that I needed out of me, so I'm happy for that. In the next chapter, we're getting off of the bus! That's right, we're reaching Fairbanks, baby! Read and Rate, please! I love it, and it sometimes feeds me more ideas. (which, by the way, if you have any, feel free to tell me about if you want included!) Wow, I'm using a lot of ! marks, huh? Must be my 11:12 AM hyperness.
Anyway, thanks for reading and all that stuff, R&R, and that's xBlackLuckx, outtie like my sissy's bellybutton.