"Is there a reason we're socializing with freshmen?" Kakashi asked, casting a cold look at a girl who bumped into him with a box. The halls were crowded with the new freshmen moving into their dorms, it was loud and sweaty and Kakashi would much rather be in his room and reading.

"For crying out loud Kakashi," Obito said, sighing loudly. "You do know that these are our residents, right? We're supposed to socialize with them."

"And?" he drawled. It hadn't been his idea to sign up to be a Resident Assistant for their junior year in the first place. He remembered being a freshman and he certainly didn't want to relive those problems, let alone help new kids deal with them. But Obito had forged his signature on the application and he figured he could use the cash. His friend threw his hands up with a frustrated sound.

"We just have to meet these two and then you can go cower in your cave until orientation," he sighed, running a hand through his black hair.

"I don't cower, if anything I lurk," he sniffed. "And what's so special about these two?" he actually didn't care, but Obito had been persistent to drag him out.

"It's my cousin!" his face lit up.

"Great," he groaned, "Another Uchiha." Obito shoved him lightly.

"Be nice, besides it's Sasuke, Itachi's brother. You remember him, right? You've met a couple times."

"Of course, I remember him, we always say exactly zero words to each other," Kakashi intoned, rolling his eyes. He vaguely remembered meeting Itachi's brother at some family event.

"Shut up bastard," he groused. They turned a corner and Kakashi saw a flash of yellow before he was plowed to the ground.

"Ow," the figure on top of him groaned and shifted.

"Tell me about it," Kakashi hissed, his back aching.

"Oh fuck," the guy breathed and suddenly Kakashi was looking up into the clearest and bluest eyes he had ever seen. The tan face flushed deeply above him. "I'm so sorry," he said in a rush. Kakashi grunted as the guy's knee collided with his stomach in his haste to get up. "I'm sorry!" he repeated, grabbing Kakashi's arm and hauling him up with surprising strength.

"It's… fine," Kakashi said awkwardly, looking down at the blonde freshman. He briefly wondered if he was concussed because there was no way this guy was real. The blonde hair, blue eyes, tan skin for miles, good god it was like light was radiating out of him as he smiled.

"What the hell moron?" a new voice asked. Kakashi pulled his eyes away to see two sets of judgmental Uchiha eyes staring at them. Great. He quickly stepped back and hoped that his face didn't give anything away.

"It was an accident I swear!" Kakashi flinched at the volume. Wow, loud, he thought as the guy turned away from him.

"Sure, it was dipshit," the new Uchiha, Sasuke, smirked and Kakashi thought he heard the blonde mumble something about a bastard.

"Well, Kakashi this is Naruto. Naruto this is Kakashi," Obito smiled widely, throwing his arm over Sasuke's shoulders. The young man blinked up at Kakashi before flashing a sheepish smile and sticking out his hand for a handshake. Kakashi looked at his friend as if this was some kind of prank, but Obito just snickered. He shrugged and took the hand that was still being offered.

"I would say nice to meet you, but my back says otherwise," he said, and Naruto's smile immediately collapsed.

"Yeah well, I think I have a concussion, what is your chest made of? Concrete?" he asked, reaching forward to poke at him but he knocked his hand away with a glare.

"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship! What do you think Sasuke?" Obito asked, pulling at his cousin's cheek.

"Get off of me," Sasuke growled, elbowing his cousin hard in the stomach.


For some reason, back in September when I got back into writing KakaNaru again I started a few stories that followed this flashback - present - flashback - format. This was one of them but I decided that I wanted to add to it and post it in a linear fashion as more like vignettes? We're just gonna play around around with and we'll see, it'll be an adventure.

The original inspiration for this College AU was Joy and Quarter Past Midnight by Bastille (okay my love for Bastille was out of control back in September too) and the meanings behind those two songs just screamed college to me. It'll make sense eventually haha.