Chapter 2- Cornered
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. If I owned Naruto then I would be too busy creating anime to write fanfics.
Note: this chapter has been beta'd by tenshi tsuki
Today was a bad day for Sasuke. The day started off as a complete disaster. First of all, Sasuke woke up on his bedroom floor with a sore back, tripped down the stairs and landed with his face shoved into yesterday's socks. He didn't have any cereal so he had to make do with an unknown gooey substance that had been in the fridge for 2 whole weeks and had misplaced his school things 3 times before putting them in his bag.
Things at school had been much worse. He finally got himself caught by the mob of fan girls at school between period 3 and recess and to make matters worse Naruto wasn't there to save him.
"Hey uh, guys," he said slowly to the girls hovering around him, "Um… have any of you seen Naruto?"
The girls all replied at once.
"Na-Naruto's at, at home." A small shy voice said. She was the only girl who seemed to be trying to save him.
"Why do you care?" An annoying girl with pink hair called out.
"How come you guys are so close?" A blonde this time.
"Why is Naruto at home?" he asked looking for the person that gave him the first reply getting a little bit peeved. Girls were so hard to deal with…
A whole load of outraged replies assaulted his ears. He couldn't even hear anyone with all those girls yelling at him. He covered his ears and shut his eyes.
"Shut up."
A low voice entered his ears and he lowered his hands. The voice had been quiet yet commanding. It sure shut the girls up. Sasuke opened his eyes, looked up and saw the girls parting to reveal a shortish boy about his age with blood red hair and icy green eyes outlined heavily with eyeliner. His hair was short and spiked and he had a big dark aura around him.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked the stranger.
"I'm Gaara. I'm in your class."
"Really?" Sasuke looked mildly surprised. "I didn't see you yesterday…"
"I was absent yesterday." He replied before turning to talk firmly to the girls still surrounding them. "Be gone." He said in a commanding tone.
The girls scattered whispering between themselves. Sasuke wondered why they didn't corner Gaara with his almost feral beauty and slowly he understood.
"Is that how you keep the girls away eh, Gaara? I was beginning to wonder why they were chasing me with you standing right there." Sasuke smirked.
Gaara turned and glared at Sasuke. "You have to treat girls like that with a firm hand and voice unless you want them to take advantage of you." He turned and began to walk away but Sasuke's voice made him halt his footsteps.
Sasuke's voice had taken on a dangerous quality. "Oh, looks like Mr. Icicle Prick is a little bit touchy."
"What did you say?" Gaara's glare looked enough to melt a solid cement and brick building to the ground.
"You heard me." Sasuke replied. "Did I stutter? Or is there something wrong with your hearing, little man?"
Gaara hissed a little and was raising his fist but was stopped by the school bell.
"Saved by the bell, hmm…" Gaara smirked evilly. "How cliché."
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Naruto showed up later in fourth period providing the PE teacher, Gai who preferred people to call him by his first name because it made him sound younger, with a feeble excuse of how his neighbour lost her cat and how he was roped in to helping his neighbour. Even though he had an excuse, he was yelled at anyway for his tardiness with the teacher yelling something about youthfulness.
Naruto just sighed, walked to his desk laying his head on his arms and closed his eyes. Everybody who knew Gai for more than 2 minutes knew that whenever you got Gai saying something about youthfulness, he would go on forever, occasionally glinting his teeth, blinding people left and right.
Sasuke though, hadn't quite caught on to what the other students were doing, preoccupied with getting Naruto to tell him why he was late, and caught the full force of the glint, screaming in pain.
The sudden scream from Sasuke had distracted Gai from his usual youthfulness speech and Gai called the class to attention once more.
"Are you alright, Sasuke?" Gai asked. "Maybe you should go to the infirmary…"
At once, all the girls stood to attention and started squealing. "WE'LL TAKE HIM!" They all said at once.
Gai though, knowing what those girls were going to do to Sasuke once they got him alone, looked over the eager heads of the girls and picked the first person he saw.
"Gaara, would you please escort Mr. Uchiha here to the infirmary."
Gaara smirked. This was the perfect opportunity. "Of course,teacher (Gai)."
Gai then paled a little when he saw the fury in Sakura's eyes. 'Oh damn youths!' he thought, 'Sakura's gonna kill me.'
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Walking down the corridor was no easy task for Sasuke when his eyes were temporarily blinded. It's not like Gaara would help him. Not after that incident in the morning.
As soon as they rounded the corner, Gaara whirled around, grabbed Sasuke's wrists and slammed him against the wall knocking the wind out of him. He was trapped. It seemed that Gaara's small body was deceiving in terms of strength.
"Don't you dare ever touch Naruto. You hear me! If you touch him I will make sure you die a very long and painful death. Don't even try and deny it. I saw you trying to get his attention in class. Naruto belongs to me!" If Gaara looked scary before… well, he was much scarier now. His face no longer had any trace of humanity on it and all that remained was animalistic hatred and disgust.
Sasuke on the other hand was a bit surprised at the look on Gaara's face. 'Wow.' He thought, 'The Icicle Prick seems to like Naruto… I can use this to my advantage.'
Sasuke smirked cockily, though he was still suffering from blindness. "Do you honestly think I would leave Naruto alone just because he "belongs to you"? No wayam I going to do that! A sweet piece of ass like that. Mmm mmm."
Gaara looked positively furious. One of his hands let go of Sasuke and he curled it up into a ball. He was just about to give Sasuke the most painful sucker punch of his life when a ball went flying their way.
"Excuse me." A teacher called to Gaara from behind the corner. "Would you mind passing the ball back, please. My class has gone crazy."
Obviously, the teacher was blind or the corner was blocking Sasuke from view but because it was obviously a teacher, Gaara let go of Sasuke and returned the ball to the flustered-looking 37 year old woman.
"Lucky again, Uchiha." Gaara said when the teacher left. "That's the second time the school has saved you. Hmph. Wimps like you need to be saved I guess... but the question is... who will save your sorry ass next time?" Gaara turned to Sasuke. "I trust you can find your way to the infirmary from here." And with one last smirk he disappeared from view.
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Sasuke was outraged. How dare that inhuman monster call him a wimp! He was gonna keep an eye on this Gaara fellow. After all, he couldn't risk Gaara interfering with his plan. Not now.
Sasuke turned and was making his way to the infirmary when he realised that the blinding white glare in his eye was getting a little better and had only left a small circle of white light in his vision. He ended up going to the infirmary anyway.
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At the infirmary Shizune, the school nurse, dropped her homemade medicinal eye drops into Sasuke's eye but decided to get to know the new student.
"So Sasuke is it?" she began, "How exactly did you manage to get blinded in the middle winter, when there are so many clouds outside?"
"Gai." He replied shortly.
The nurse chuckled lightly behind her hand. "You should have been here at the beginning of the year," she said, "Nobody knew what Gai was like and so the entire class was in here for about a week! All suffering from blindness!" She let out a full blown laugh this time.
Sasuke cracked a small smile.
The people here weren't so bad he decided. At his old school he was a major loner because he didn't like anyone and so did not talk but this school was different. It looked very entertaining…
AN: I apologise for not adding the disclaimer on chapter 1.
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