Hey guys, I'm sorry for 2 things; one being the fact I have not uploaded in a while, the other for being a lazy idiot that can't be bothered to write for her followers, and I swear I will write once a week (Thursdays probably) at least, and try to make up for the time I've missed. It's just been hectic with school and stuff, but hopefully I will be back writing regularly, but once a week is my goal at the moment. Anyway, without further ado, here is the chapter you guys have been waiting for!

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(2 weeks later)

Mayako's Perspective

"Oi! Wake up!"

"Gah!"

I'm pretty sure the thump Naruto made when colliding with the floor could've be heard from all over the Leaf Village.

We both have a habit of oversleeping, but Naruto is WAY worse than me. He can sleep almost through anything, and the only time he actually gets up is when it is an important occasion, when it's the weekend because there is no academy, or when I kick him out of bed.

Or pour icy water onto him.

…

Or chuck him off the balcony.

...

What? I've only done it 13 times! Plus, it works!

I grab him by the back of the collar on his shirt and the rim of his pyjamas, and yank him up. I then walk towards the door that leads to the balcony, and kick it open. I then swing him a couple of times, and chuck him over the metal bars and watch as he plummets. He's only ever hit the ground once, he's woken mid- flight most of times, and some of the times he wakes up just when I am about to chuck him. I was feeling generous today, so I just kicked him out of bed. He wobbles a bit in mid-air before falling off his bed, landing face first, skidding towards my bed and banging into it in the process. I grin, placing my hands on my hips and leaning a tad forward for effect.

"Morning!" I say sweetly. His hands are now tightly grasping his face as he rolls around on the floorboards, his feet flailing around as he does so.

"I'm up! I'm up! … Argh, geez why are you so evil!" he shouted through his hands, making his voice muffled.

"What was that? Did you say you wanted me to chuck you off the balcony?"

"N-no, I'm good…" I sigh as I jump off the bed, and walk towards my brother. He swings his body upwards, and is now in a sitting position, his hands slowly retreating from his face, placing them onto the surface of the floor. I crouch down with both knees, now level with him, and pull at his cheek with my right hand. He looks up at me with a pouty and annoyed face, and lets out a grunt.

"Come on, let's get dressed and have some breakfast, then head to the academy." I grin. I then let go of his cheek and stand up, dusting off my pyjama shorts as I do so. As I head for the closet, I see out of the corner of my eye my brother standing up, using one of his knees and the end of my bed. He stretches out his back, and makes his way towards me. I open the closet door to reveal a range of clothes the old man has given us recently. I grab an orange jacket and a navy t-shirt along with some khaki pants with the bottoms rolled up, and chucked them at Naruto behind me, who is too slow to react to the clothes, or too lazy, I can't tell. He winces before they smack his face, making his head tilt back and lose his balance a bit. After he regains balance, he then walks back over to his bed like a zombie, and starts unbuttoning his shirt, throwing it onto the bed as well as his monster beanie as I like to call it. I have a beanie too, but it's resembles more of a fox than a monster. I have the same pyjamas as my brother, but it's too hot for me to sleep in them at the moment, so for my temporary solution to the hot weather, I just wear a t-shirt and baggy pants to whenever I sleep, or the day's clothes if I can be bothered to change into anything else.

I continue to look inside the closet, rustling through the clothes on the floor, and flicking through the ones I had been bothered to put on the hangers. I ended up choosing some baggy, light khaki (green) pants; the ends rolled up like Naruto's, and a plain, off-white t-shirt. I grab my stuff, and turn in the opposite direction, and walk over to my bed. When I turn around, Naruto is stripped down to his underwear, struggling to put his shirt on. I sigh as I bung my clothes onto my bed, and start undressing myself.

…

"Okay, we have ramen, ramen, or ramen." I say to Naruto, leaning backwards whilst holding onto the door handles of the fridge. Naruto walks up behind me with his hands in his pockets, and looks over my left arm to peer into the fridge which was half-filled with our favourite food. He then reaches into the fridge with his hand, his arm ducking under mine, and picks out a flavour; miso ramen. I decide to have the same, and find the same flavour, and close the fridge with my free hand.

After we ate our breakfast, we chucked the empty ramen cups in the bin, and grab everything we needed before we head off to the academy, and surprise! We might be on time for once!

…

The echoes of our sandals can be heard with the hundreds of others around the halls. I adjust my backpack as I keep on walking towards our classroom, making sure to bump into as many people as possible because why the hell not? They give me crap so I'll treat them like crap. I then turn towards the door to our classroom, Naruto right behind me. As I open the door, I hear the chats of our classmates, and no sensei telling them to shut up. As I walk in, I gaze around the classroom, and Naruto, now standing next to me does the same. Mainly everyone's here, including the jerk. Wait a second… I say inwardly. Sasuke's here but… Squeals and shouts could be heard from the hallway, the noise getting louder as they begin to come closer. I gulp.

"Naru- ah!" It was too late to warn my brother as the stampede of Sasuke's fan club rushes into the classroom. Naruto and I both fell down simultaneously, smacking the floor hard as the fan girls squealed, stomping on the both of us. It was almost never ending.

"Hey- ah! – There are-a! P-people down her-ouch!" I shouted in between each step that made contact with my body. After a couple more seconds, Naruto and I lay there half-dead in the middle of the doorway, dirt and footprint clearly visible on our clothes and skin. The fan girl voices and squeals began, and the arguments of who got to sit in the empty seat next to Sasuke. I don't get what all those idiots see in that jerk, I really don't. Anyway, when I snap out of my temporarily unconscious state, I prop myself on one knee, hoisting myself up. I let out a cough as I dust myself off, removing some of the stains in my clothes, even though I really don't care about the mess. As I hear a groan to my side, I glance down at Naruto, who reaches out in front of him with his hand for whatever reason, and smacks back into the floor, earning some confused looks from around the classroom. Ignoring my peers' gazes, I bend down slightly, and grab his hand, hoisting him to his feet with one pull. He wobbles a bit before regaining his balance, and starts to dust himself off. I glance around for empty seats, trying to block out the horrendous noise emitting from the fan girls as they continue to swoon over Sasuke. Instead of popping a vain, I sighed as I laid my eyes on two empty seats in the front row near the windows. Awesome! I inwardly said to myself.

We head town the small flight of stairs, our eyes staring at our classmates as we make our way down. Shikamaru was sleeping; no surprise there. Chouji sitting next to him was eating crisps, no big surprise there either. The bug kid, I think his name was Shino or something, I can't remember. He doesn't speak often. He's standing at the back of the room, as well has Hinata, who was fidgeting with her fingers. Sakura and Ino were currently fighting on who got to sit in the empty seat next to Sasuke. Let's see, who else… well, that's all the classmates I can remember. Naruto takes the seat nearest to the window, and I slide in next to him, placing my arms on the wooden bench, resting my head in them similar to what Shikamaru was doing. I really wasn't in the mood for doing anything relating to me doing work. I sighed.

I daydreamed for a while, staring at the clock as time passes by, and was suddenly snapped out of my thoughts hearing the melodramatic gasps and shrieks of the fan girls. I sighed once more.

What happened now-eh? My brain paused for a moment as I turn my head in the direction of the noise, and widen my eyes as I stare at a certain looking jerk sitting next to me, his arms linked behind his back as he leans back onto the desk behind him. All eyes that were on Sasuke quickly shifted to me, some shocked, some extremely furious *cough* Fan girls *cough*. Naruto was as dumbstruck as I. I jumped out of my shocked look, and jumped into one of complete confusion, and an emotion called "What the actual hell, get as far away from me as possible before I get killed or I kill you!" As more piercing glares were sent my way, shrunk down into my arms, and look at Sasuke again, my face now scrunched up and furious.

"What are you trying to do? Get me killed?!" I whisper angrily at the jerk.

"I'd rather sit next to you idiots than the idiots over there." Sasuke explains in his cool manner, glancing over at the fan girls, who look heart broken.

*Shatter*

… Literally.

"Okay class settle down and take your seats!" Iruka sensei's voice boomed across the entire room. Oh thank god, Iruka you are a life saver! The fan girls gloomily squish onto the spare seats around the classroom, and anyone else who was standing up as sensei made his way down to his desk at the front of the classroom. Everyone had become silent, the only noise that was being made were the sound of our sensei's sandals echoing throughout the classroom. Iruka sensei then glances around the classroom until his eyes landed on me and Sasuke. Please just leave it as a shocked expression-

"Strange, I thought you two hated each other." Iruka sensei thought outloud, drawing attention once to me again.

"We do." Sasuke and I said simultaneously, sending each other matching irritable glances. Iruka sensei then does something unexpected; he sends us a smile, then a double wink. My face turned as red as it could get, and I could see a bit on Sasuke's out of the corner of my eye.

Sasuke stands up, moving to the other side of the room, trying to rid himself of what our sensei just did. I, however, casually walked over to where Naruto was sitting, who was still too dumbfounded so see what Iruka sensei did. I then opened the window, and jumped out of it, completing a somersault before landing on the ground underneath me. I look up, and see Naruto jumping straight down seconds after, landing with a bit of a thud. Ignoring Iruka's orders to get our buts back inside, we both headed off in the opposite direction, my face still fuming with embarrassment.

…

Naruto and I had spent the entire day running from Jounin who have been trying to capture us, but gave up the hunt as school was nearing to the end, so there was really no point. We ended up at the public park where Naruto and I normally hang out together, and sometimes with some boys in our class. We had been there for a while, taking turns pushing each other on the swings, and chatting with each other. Naruto was currently pushing me on the swing, us talking about random topics.

"Hey May?" He asked, his face turning a bit serious. I look back as he continues to push against my back.

"Yeah?" I answer.

"When we painted the village the other week, what happened when Sasuke and you took off?" He asked, his face flooding with curiosity. I flinch a bit before answering him. I look down at my feet as they swung to and fro in the wind. Sasuke and I, we made an agreement not to tell anyone what happened that day. I wasn't allowed to tell anyone, not even Naruto. What we said there stays there. Nothing changed between us; we still acted the same way towards each other. Jerks have feelings, but he was still a jerk.

"Well, I lost track of him, and when it started raining, I went to Ichirakus to stay dry from the rain." I paused for a bit to let Naruto take the lie in. "We were lucky weren't we that it rained!" I say cheerfully, changing the mood. His face then beamed at me as he continued to push me on the swing, the chains beginning to screech.

"Yeah! We got a lucky break!" He grinned. I smile back at him, then turn my attention to the front as I prepare to jump off. As it reached its highest point, I let go of the chains, and push myself off the seat as I go flying off the swing. I landed firmly of my feet as I look back at Naruto, who is now standing 8 meters apart from me.

"I think that's a new record!" I shout to him, cupping my hands over my mouth. He pouts as we rushes over and draws a line with a stick in the ground, measuring how far of the distance I jumped.

"Hey guys." Naruto and I both turn our attention to the familiar lazy voice that belonged to none other than Shikamaru. As he walks up the steps, he waves one lazy hand at us. I smile along with Naruto, but turn my expressions to neutral when I see two figures trailing behind him. As they all stood at the edge of the top stairs, I could see them clearly.

"Hey." Kiba uninterestedly greeted with his hands in his pockets.

"Baark!" I notice Kiba's dog on the top of his head, wagging his tail frantically whilst panting at the same time.

"Hello!" Another classmate of ours said, carrying a bag of nearly empty barbeque chips. Most likely Chouji. Yeah that's Chouji. Naruto and I avert our attention to Shikamaru, who is getting ready to speak.

"Not to be a drag or anything, but can we hang out for a bit? We have nothing better to do." Shikamaru asks, shrugging his shoulders in the process. I gleam brightly as Naruto is still processing the proposal.

"Yeah, sure!" I say, smiling brightly. I glance over at Naruto, who is giving me the biggest grin I have seen in ages. He's happy, and now I'm ecstatic. The trio make their way over to where we are, and stop in front of us, Shikamaru peering down at the 14 scattered lines parallel to one another.

"So what do you want to do?"

…

We've all played for two hours, from the swing game to the game we are playing now; truth or dare. We are all sitting in a circle, laughing our heads off at Shikamaru's impression of Iruka. As we regain our breath, we return to our cross-legged state, now Shikamaru's turn to ask someone. His eyes land on me. Dammit.

"Mayako, Truth or Dare." He asks. I was willing to do Dare this time around, but if Shikamaru's asking, I'm gonna go with

"Truth." I reply. He raises an eyebrow before leaning onto his hand, his elbow resting on his knee. He thinks for a moment before giving me a question.

"Sasuke. What do you think of him, and do you like him?"

"Hey! That's two questions!"

"That's your truth."

I let out a small scowl as I think of some answers. Kiba, Chouji, and Naruto are all looking at me with curiosity, probably all thinking on what I going to respond with. I scrunch up my face.

"Sasuke… He may be top of the class but he is a massive jerk. He's a bastard who thinks he is greater than everyone else. I really hate him!" I emphasize 'really'. My expression then changes as I realise I have missed an important point out. Even though I don't want to admit it, it is Truth or Dare. I have to say the Truth.

"But… at the same time." Everyone is still listening to what I have to say.

"I kinda wanna be friends with him, even though he's a jerk." Shikamaru takes in what I have said, whilst Kiba and Chouji ponder a bit. Naruto has the same feelings, but won't admit them. He looks at me knowingly as I wait for Shikamaru's response.

"Do you like him?" He speaks.

"What?" Not hearing what he had said.

"You didn't answer the other part. Do you like him?" He asks again.

"HELL NO! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" I yell, both embarrassed and angry. Naruto, Kiba and Chouji laugh as Shikamaru looks at me weirdly. When the others settle down, he gives me a smile.

"You're definitely different from the other girls." He said lazily before leaning back onto the ground. As I was about to respond, I was cut off by voices I did not recognise.

"Shikamaru! Come on, let's go!"

"Heehee, come on Chouji , you too!"

"Kiba! Get your ass over here! I told you to be home half an hour ago young man!"

Shikamaru and Chouji smile over their shoulders to look at the figures, whilst Kiba gulps before scurrying to get away from the woman approaching him with the intent to kill. He jumped over the fence that led into the forest with his dog still on his head, mumbling a goodbye as the woman chases after him. We all sweatdropped as we quickly waved him goodbye. Shikamaru leans up, and stands up from the ground, now holding his hand out to Chouji.

"Come on Chouji, we should get going." Shikamaru told his friend, who grabs his hand for support. "Coming dad!" Shikamaru yelled louder at the man who resembled him. I'm guessing the other man was Chouji's dad, and the woman who was chasing Kiba was his mum. Shikamaru turns around to me and Naruto before he runs off.

"Guess I'll see you tomorrow. School's a drag." He smiled before rushing off with Chouji to their parents. As they walk down the stairs, they hold their father's hands. I look over in Naruto's direction, to see him almost about to break. That happiness I saw in him was gone. Just like me, I guess he wanted to fill the love of a parent. I lifted my left hand up to place on his shoulder, and smiled when he looked in my direction.

"Let's go home." I said. He stood there for a moment before smiling himself, taking my hand from his shoulder, and put it in his own, squeezing it tightly.

"Yeah."

And there we go! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Don't forget to leave a review telling me what you think, and also don't forget to favourite and fallow this story, it'll make my day! Anyways, I will see you all next Thursday with another chapter!

(Also, if you read my story Blended, I'll be posting a chapter in a couple of days!)