sorry, i forgot to update on friday. and it isn't very long...
:The Pianists:
-Chap. Three
They stared at the door for a while, Naruto extremely wide eyed and Sasuke only slightly, but soon the two slowly turned their heads to look at one another before turning away quickly.
Sasuke stood rigidly in the middle of the room with his arms crossed and leaning on one leg, the other by his side loosely keeping him balanced. Naruto was sitting in a chair that he had put the right way after it had most likely suffered being thrown during one of Tsunade's…'fits'.
"so…" Naruto tried to start something between the two figures and Sasuke noticed a change in his voice, it didn't seem as confident, and it didn't seem nearly half as annoying, "what's your favourite piece in here?" he said while flicking through the bound book of music they would be playing for 5 nights to mass audiences.
Sasuke made his way to the opposite side of the room out of habit of trying to keep away from most people, he sat down by the piano and brushed his fingers lightly over the keys, "how am I supposed to know?"
"have you looked at all the pieces?"
"no" he said bluntly, Naruto also noticed a change in his tone, he didn't seem as cocky and arrogant.
"oh…" there was a pause, "well, there's this really nice piece called-"
"I don't care" it's not that Sasuke wanted to sound rude, it's just that he had already come up with a whole list of insults and ways to make Naruto's life a hell in the time that they had to be together. It was his defence mechanism to keep people from him and from hurting him.
Naruto didn't dare make any sound in reply.
"look" Sasuke started, "I never asked to play this crap, I never offered, but now I'm being forced into it just because no one else is good enough. Just because we're going to be working together, don't get the idea that that makes us all 'buddy buddy' and think you can talk to me whenever you feel like it. It's strictly business."
"like I'd want to talk to a jackass like you anyway…" Naruto mumbled to himself.
Both boys looked up at each other cautiously, there was something about the other boy. Something hidden. As if, when Tsunade was there, they were completely different and were trying to hide themselves, or protect themselves. They both noticed it in the other with how they were behaving now, and this made them interested in each other. They both wanted to know about the other and had a feeling that there was a lot to find out…
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