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It's Love

Chapter Four

Naruto laid with his head on his desk. He was tired, and he didn't want to be there. There was about another 50 minutes before anyone had to be in school.

Iruka had asked him to come in an hour early and help clean up the room. Apparently, he had been in there all of Sunday looking for some picture he lost. It was supposedly "very important" and he would "die if somebody were to see it". But, either way, he tore apart the room, and he wasn't going to make just any random person help, so of course, he made Naruto do it.

Iruka, after picking up a few things, left Naruto to clean all on his own. He said he had some business to take care of, and just vanished. Naruto, of course, being incredibly tired, sat down and rested for a moment.

Suddenly, the boy heard the sound of the door knob turning. "Crap!" he thought to himself, jumping up from his seat. He figured it was Iruka, who would go on forever if he found Naruto not doing what he was told do. He immediately plunged himself to the floor a few feet away from his desk and began gathering papers.

To Naruto's surprise, it wasn't Iruka who walked in. It was none other than the Uchiha boy. "What the hell is he doing here so early? Don't tell me Iruka asked him to come, too…" Naruto thought to himself, glancing at Sasuke. "What are you doing here?" he asked him.

Sasuke peered at Naruto and said in a monotone voice, "I'm always here at this time. Why are you here?"

"Why the hell would anybody want to wake up at six in the morning to sit in a classroom when they could be sleeping?" Naruto questioned him, honestly confused.

"...That's not answering my question," the raven told him, moving to his seat and placing a text book, folder, and notebook on top.

"And that's not answering mine," Naruto growled.

Sasuke peered around at the room. He sighed before kneeling down and picking up books and papers alongside the blonde.

"Eh-what are you doing?" Naruto asked, slightly annoyed.

"Cleaning," Sasuke mumbled, "it'd take way more than an hour for one person to clean this all up alone." He placed a few books neatly ordered on a bookshelf.

Naruto smiled slightly, putting papers together. They went on for the next half hour, cleaning the room, but not once speaking to each other or making any contact whatsoever. By the time they finished, they could hear students starting to enter the school, running through the halls and slamming lockers open and shut. The two boys sat in their desks quietly and waited for the teacher and other students.

Naruto laid his head down once again, and began to drift off. Sasuke stared at the sleeping boy. "I've been in this situation before," he thought to himself. He kicked the leg of the chair the other boy was sleeping in, waking him up instantly. Right then, students started pouring into the classroom. Naruto assumed one of them must have bumped into his desk.

Iruka entered shortly after. The bell rang, he took attendance, and the day went on as normally.

After school, Naruto headed home as usual. At home, he saw his dad pacing around in the kitchen, holding a cell phone to his ear.

"Alright," Minato mumbled, "You too… bye." He hung up the phone, and turned to see Naruto standing in the doorway. "Oh, hey… welcome home.

"...Thanks. Who was that?" Naruto asked, dropping his school bag onto a chair and walking over to the fridge.

Minato hesitated before replying, "No one."

"That sure explains a lot. Oh yeah, Mom is coming home in two days, right? Are we going out to eat?" He pulled an apple out of the fridge and took a huge bite out of it. "We haven't seen her in so long, after all. We should get ramen!"

Minato had a troubled look on his face. "Ah, well… that's…" he began. He forced a smile. "We'll see."

Naruto smiled and jogged out of the room. "I'll be upstairs."

Minato sighed and looked at his phone before dropping it onto the counter. "Damn it…"

Naruto plopped down onto his bed, landing on his back. Bzzz Bzzz. His phone buzzed, and he pulled it out of his pocket. He glanced at the screen to see a text from Sakura. He smiled and blushed silently as he opened it and read it.

Naruto, want to hang out with Ino and me? We're also with Kiba and Hinata. ~ Sakura

He grinned as he replied:

Yeah! Where?

After a minute, Sakura replied.

Meet at the park by your house in ten minutes. ~ Sakura

Naruto jumped up from his bed and smiled. "Will do!" he shouted, running out his bedroom door, and out the front door.

After arriving at the park, Naruto sat in a swing, slightly swaying back and forth. He was the first one there. He hummed a random tune as he looked around, waiting for his friends. After sitting there for a couple minutes, he heard footsteps from behind him and jumped up, spinning around with a grin. "Saku—" he began, his face falling when he saw who it was. "Oh." He stared at the black-haired boy ahead of him, wondering why he was there.

"Hmph," he scoffed, turning his head away and walking toward a bench off to the side of the park.

"Ahem. Rude," Naruto mumbled, sitting back down on the swing. With the placement of the swing and the bench, he either had to face Sasuke or sit with his back to him, and Naruto did not exactly trust him, so he ended up looking right at the raven as he swung back and forth.

"Do you have to stare at me?" the annoyed-looking boy growled after a few moments of silence.

"Yep," was Naruto's simple answer, and Sasuke didn't look to happy with it.

"No, I believe you'll live. Stop staring at me."

"Nope."

Sasuke growled at the boy as he grew irritated.

"Does it bother you?" Naruto smirked.

"Clearly."

"I see…" Naruto smiled as he jumped off of the swing, "too bad." He sat sideways on the bench, right next to Sasuke, propping his head on his fist with his elbow on the back of the bench. He smiled at the boy as he sat there, staring.

"Stop," Sasuke growled, getting up and walking over to another bench.

Naruto followed, repeating what he did before. "Nope." They repeated this a few times before Sasuke gave up and attempted to ignore the other boy.

After about eight minutes of staring, Naruto finally stopped and pulled out his phone. "Where are they?" he mumbled to himself, sending a quick text to Sakura.

Where are you?

He sighed as he waited for a reply. After about two minutes, he got a text back.

Sorry, we can't come. In short, Hinata fell into a creek on the way here and Kiba insisted we take her to a hospital (carrying her the whole way). ~ Sakura

"Jeez…" Naruto sighed as he texted back.

Oh… alright. I hope she's okay.

Naruto sighed and frowned, shoving his phone back into his pocket. Sasuke glanced at the boy in confusion.

"What?" Sasuke questioned, turning to face the other guy.

"Welp, I've been ditched."

"Ditched? Not surprised."

"Shut it."

Sasuke smirked and crossed his arms. "Well, it's true. You don't seem very fun to be with. Just annoying." He shrugged.

"Nuh uh!" Naruto shouted as he jumped up from his seat, "I'm really fun!"

"Sure," Sasuke said, obviously not agreeing.

"I'll prove it!"

"Oh yeah, and how are you gonna do that?" Sasuke scoffed, before he was suddenly pulled forward. Naruto had grabbed onto his wrist and pulled him up from his seat, running off. "W-what?" Sasuke stuttered as he was dragged away. He wasn't exactly sure whether or not he wanted to admit he was actually waiting for somebody… but he decided against it.

"I'm fun, I'll show you!" Naruto told Sasuke, grinning as he pulled the boy along.

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