Chapter 3
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Pant.
Pant.
"Hey, you alright?"
"Yeah, pretty good. You?"
Kiba smirked at the blond who was shaking dirt out of his golden locks. "Never better," Naruto replied, smirking back.
They had beat the guys up good, and were about to finish them off when school authorities finally arrived. But of course, them being the victors, the situation wouldn't be in their favour so they had to skedaddle it out of there. Which was why they were on the other side of the school campus and also completely out of breath.
"You had me fooled at first, I thought you'd be one of those sickly, weak home schooled kids, but you put up a pretty good fight," Kiba praised.
"Heheheh...Uh... Kiba-kun... heheh..." Naruto stuttered sheepishly, his hand absentmindedly scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah?" Kiba asked, stopping his grooming of Akamaru's fur.
"Uhm... I kind of... uuhhh... lied... about the home schooling. Heheheh..." Naruto confided, his head hanging a bit in shame. Kiba's widened at this confession.
"...What? Why?" Kiba bit back a yell, hurt that the person that he considered a friend had lied to him.
Naruto looked at Kiba sadly, his eyes pleading for forgiveness. "I'm sorry! Really! I just said that because... because..." He sniffed into his arm.
"You didn't seem to like me much and I thought my p-personality was annoying you... so I didn't want you to think I was n-naturally this way... I... I wanted to be your friend... I don't know what got over me... "
Kiba looked at Naruto in shock. He was this self-conscious and wanted a friend that badly? Feeling pretty bad himself that he was that hard on Naruto at first, he forgave him.
"Y-you'll still be my friend, r-right?" Naruto quietly asked, his fragile heart showing through the blueness of his eyes.
Kiba smiled and patted him on the head. "Heh, with the way you stood up for me, I have no choice, right, brat?"
Naruto grinned so widely at those words that Kiba was afraid his face would crack in two.
"So... Naruto... What school did you go to?" Kiba inquired while lying back on the grass to stare up at the sky.
"Sand High."
"That prestigious school? Wow." Kiba whistled.
"I thought you were just playing along with my story at first, though, so I'm sort of glad that you're pretty stupid too."
"HEY! I ain't stupid, ya brat." Kiba glowered while Naruto laughed at his facial expression.
"Well, Kakashi-sensei did already tell everyone where I transferred from," laughed Naruto. Kiba gave an hmph and turned to the side seeking comfort in his dog. It wasn't his fault he never listened!
After a moment of silence, Kiba glanced over his shoulder at Naruto who was blissfully looking at all the wild flowers that surrounded him. Clearing his throat, Kiba asked, "Uhm, so Naruto, is the part about you moving here because of some weird business stuff true though?"
Naruto looked up from his nature studying and grinned. "Yepp, completely."
Kiba grinned back and for a while, the two new found friends just smiled at each other, enjoying the feeling of this tranquility. If Kiba had any gay feelings in him, he'd have fallen for Naruto then and there.
But he didn't so he was just surprised that a kid like Naruto could look so... so... beautiful.
Unfortunately for someone else (who was currently bisexual) though, they caught a glimpse of Naruto sitting there in the pouring sunlight, his stunning smile gracing his features. And couldn't help their heart from fluttering a little.
"We're late to class!" Naruto yelled as he dragged Kiba down the hallways, frantically trying to find class 2-7. "Auuggh! The hallways are so confusing! Sand High was so much easier to navigate around!"
"You know, I could just lead us. You don't have to drag me around," Kiba suggested exasperatedly.
Naruto huffed and gave a big "Fine!" as Kiba finally guided them down the correct hallway.
"This is all your fault Naruto. If you hadn't fallen asleep on the grass we wouldn't be late to afternoon classes."
"It's not my fault the flowers and wind were so comfortable! And you were snoozing too so don't put the blame all on me!"
"Well, you fell asleep first! And because of the lack of anyone to talk too, I fell asleep too! So it's mostly your fault!"
"Well! You had your dog! Go talk to him! And you could have woken me up!"
"...It's still your fault!"
"Nu-uh!"
"Yuh-huh!"
"NU-UH!"
"YUH-HUH!"
"Your fault!"
"No, your fault!"
"Your fault!"
"YOUR FAULT!"
Kiba felt himself grin at how they were bickering like lifelong buddies already. It had been a while since he had argued like this with a friend.
"Okay, kids. I don't care whose fault it is, just sit down."
Naruto and Kiba looked up, surprised that they had already entered the classroom and had succeeded in disrupting the class by their little show in the front of the room. Grinning bashfully at each other, they weaved through the desks and into their seats.
"Okay students, I see that we have a new student. Let me re-introduce myself then."
Naruto looked up and saw that at the front of the room was a curvy woman with wavy black hair and surprisingly red eyes.
"I'm Kurenai-sensei, and that's all you need to know. I'm your Art teacher." And with that short intro, Kurenai-sensei continued the art lesson.
Throughout the whole afternoon, Sasuke couldn't stop himself from staring at the blond. There was something mysterious about the kid... how is it that on his first day he already became the talk of the school as the-cute-little-guy-that-beat-up-a-bunch-of-bullies? If this went on, he would seriously be a threat to the nice little high school life Sasuke had all planned out.
And before, when he saw Naruto glowing in the sunlight... ... that little thump in his chest surely wasn't a good sign at all... The kid just might give him a heart attack someday... for no apparent reason.
"See you, Kiba! Ol' buddy ol' pal ol' friend!" Naruto waved at his dog-loving buddy with a happy grin on his face. Kiba shook his head in exasperation, but gave a wave back anyway, calling out "Whatever, Naruto!"
Naruto laughed as he turned and started the twenty minute trek to his apartment. Smiling to himself, he could feel that this city and environment would be a much better experience than Sand City...
Especially since no one here knows him or his past...
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Still the original writing of xXCabbageXx.
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