TheLadyWolf: I am back, come on people, post! Please!? Alright here is chapter two of my story. Got suggestions, opinions, and random comments? I want to hear them! So tell me what you think of this chapter! Hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer: no, I don't own them, stop reminding me. –Huff-
Sasuke- 17
Naruto- 17
Itachi- 26
Fugaku- 47
Mikoto- 42
Iruka- 30
Kakashi- 30
Gai- 30
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 2. Meeting you
What is one suppose to say to that? 'Oh sorry your blind?' 'Oh, well that explains the cane?' not the best thing to say, that's for sure. Luckily Naruto defused the situation.
"I would like to see the house please." He said as he leaned on his cane, smiling. He didn't seem to have any problem talking about it.
"Sasuke, will you please show Naruto around?" his mother asked him. Normal, Sasuke would protest, but decide that he wouldn't this time; he could see the pleading in his mother's eyes.
"-sigh- alright Naruto, follow me" he turned to go and realized what he had said; before he could alter his sentence Naruto took a step towards him, his cane sweeping the area before him.
"Go on" he said and I just shrugged my shoulders and went on. What else was I to do? I could hear him behind me, the sound tap tap tap as the tip of his cane hit the floor and walls as I lead him around, showing him my room, Itachi's and my parents room, and of course his.
He was counting the whole time, as if laying out a number map in his mind.
"Whets it like being blind?" I asked. It wasn't to be rude that I asked, I was just genualy curious.
He paused in his walking of the room; same as he had done in the others, then walked over to the bed and sat down.
"Well, it is different then seeing, I used to be able to see, when I was younger. So I know what color looks like, but I think I like being blind, hearing what people truly mean in there voices, sounds are different, more intense. But I like it mostly because it gave me my music." He said as he looked to where he thought I was, he seemed to be looking at my face, and if I hadn't seen him with his cane and his movements, I would have thought he could see it.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"My music, I hear it in my head, I know that sounds strange, but…ever since I lost my sight I have heard it, and it's so beautiful. The songs I hear, I try to play them, but I can only put it into the piano so much…" his voice died off as he said this.
"How did you get that piano anyway?" I asked, from what I heard from my parents Iruka wasn't very rich, and that piano wasn't cheap by any means.
Naruto smiled, "when I was ten, I found it all alone, it was crying inside, in this store, I could hear it." He tapped his head with his fingers, "Dead, broken, unwanted, I could feel it yearning for life. So I went to the store and started to play it, the strings were all out of tune, but I didn't care. My fingers seemed to know what to push, though at that time in my life I didn't know the notes I was playing. Iruka taught me the notes, or basically he just gave me the names for them. There was this old man who owned the shop, he didn't really care if I played, as long as I didn't break anything thing I could play on it."
"So everyday I would come and play on it. I learned how to tune it, and slowly I started to fix it. I would do little things for people for a couple of dollars and I slowly earned enough to get the strings replaced and the wood on the outside fixed. Before I knew it, people were coming to the shop just to hear me play. This brought that old man a lot of business, so he started to pay me to play in his shop." He smiled, but then it faded off his face.
"Then one day I came to the shop and the old man wasn't there, I came the next day and he still wasn't there. I found out later that he had died in his sleep. I was devastated. We had become good friends me and him, he told me how his daughter was off in the world traveling, while his son was a police officer who had a wife and children. He said I reminded him of them, so he was happy to have me there. It was funny, a few days after the funeral, I got a call from a lawyer, saying that in his will I had been given the piano. It's funny; I found out that, in that entire shop that piano was the most expensive thing there, 50,000 dollars, one of a kind the paper said. Last one in the world, I didn't know what to say, so I accepted it and I have taken care of it ever since.
"You make it sound like a living thing" Sasuke said, a smirk on his face.
"It is, the music it makes, it must have a soul to make it." Naruto stated his face serious.
"What's that piano called anyway? I wasn't able to find its name on it." Sasuke asked.
"That's because it's on the inside of the piano, and its name is a symbol, a swirl. It's called a kyuubi. Last one ever found, they say the creator only made 3 in the whole world. It must be worth a whole lot more now that it's fixed up." Naruto said as he chuckled and rubbed the back of his head.
I found the act endearing, he was very cute when he smiled.
"So why are you coming to my school anyway? Whets wrong with the one over there?" I asked.
"The only way I can earn a music scholarship is if I go to Konoha high school. So I talked to Iruka and he talked to your parents, so they agreed to let me stay here. Sorry if I'm intruding on your personal space." He said.
"No, no, it's no at all problem." What was I saying? Just yesterday I was annoyed by this very matter. So why was it ok all of a sudden? I didn't understand what was wrong with me, so I decide to wait till later to think it over.
This Naruto was an interesting fellow to say the least.
"Sasuke, Naruto! Dinner time!" I heard my mother yell from downstairs. Naruto and I had been talking about each others likes and dislikes and found out we had a lot in common, though Naruto said that he wanted to be the best piano player ever, while I still wasn't sure what I wanted to be just yet.
We walked down the stairs, Naruto seemed to know his way around already and I led him to a seat next to mine. He folded up his cane and set it in his lap.
It was then that a problem was presented before us. How was Naruto to eat? It's not like we could feed him like a baby, he would most likely feel embarrassed and pityd if we did that. So what were we to do?
Strangely enough, Itachi solved the problem for us.
He grabbed Naruto's plate and just started to put food on it, and then he stuck some chopsticks in his hand and said, "Eat" and then proceeds to eat his own food.
Naruto waggled the chopsticks in his hand, then careful brought it to down to his plate and tried to grab something. He seemed to be doing well so everyone just ate there own food.
"So Naruto, are you looking forward to school tomorrow?" Fugaku asked.
"Yes, but from what they said, there is to be a try out for those possible who can win the scholarship, so that will be interesting to find out who my competition will be. Though I hear my main opponent is this Hyuuga Neji person. So it will be nice to meet him, I hope we can be friends." He seemed to genuinely want to meet Neji, though Sasuke had met the boy, he was very stuck up, and was all into this fate crapt.
"What will you play?" Mikoto asked.
Naruto played with the food on his plate, almost knocking some onto his lap. "I don't know, but I am sure it will be wonderful." He said this with such conviction, that there was no way to doubt him.
I woke up early and got ready for school, when I was on my way to the bathroom to brush my hair and teeth, I decided to check on Naruto to see if he was up yet.
I peeked into his room, "Naruto" I said as I looked around and saw a pile of moving blankets. I poked the pile with my finger and got a grunt, so I poked it again and got another grunt.
"Naruto…" I whispered, shaking his shoulder. I sighed and pulled his blanket from his head and took a deep breath. "WAKE UP DOBE!" Naruto jumped from his bed as if it was on fire.
"What!? I'm up, I'm up." I smirked as I left the room, but I could have sworn he said "teme" as I left the room.
We rode in my car to the school, Naruto just sat in the passenger seat, it was strange, and I noticed that his fingers were moving, like they were on a piano or something.
"Naruto, what are you doing?" I asked after ten minutes of the finger movement.
"I'm playing the piano" he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"But how can you be when you don't even have one to play on?" I asked, confounded.
He smiled, his fingers moving on a piano I could neither see nor hear, "remember, I told you, the music's in my head," and with that went back to his playing.
And left me to my wondering.
"Class we have a new student today, this is Naruto, please introduce yourself to the class please." The teacher said.
Naruto bowed and then lifted his head, "I am Naruto Uzumaki, it is a pleasure to meet you all, and I hope to make many friends."
The class murmured amongst themselves as the saw the cane that Naruto held.
"So Naruto, tell us why you are here at this school?" the teacher asked.
"To win the piano scholarship so that I can become the greatest piano player ever." There was a snort from the back of the class room, and people turned there heads to see who had made it. Neji sat there, arms crossed on his chest. The teacher just sent him a look and told Naruto to take the last seat in the first row, she led him to the row, and Naruto said that he could find the rest on his own.
Naruto was almost there when some kid thought it was be funny to trip Naruto. But just when Naruto was going to hit the leg, he paused in front of the leg that was in front of him. The smacked it with his cane.
"Ow!" the kid yelped from the hit.
"Could you move your leg please? I really wouldn't like to trip on my first day if I could help it, also, just for your information, tripping the blind kid? Geez, that's, a sure way to impress the ladies." Naruto had his eyes closed as he said this, though Sasuke was pretty sure that if they had been open he would have rolled them at the last statement. The kid just blushed and moved his leg, acting like nothing happened. That class snickered at the embarrassed kid, and Naruto took his seat.
Sasuke wondered how he knew it was there with out seeing it.
"Naruto" Sasuke said as he walked beside Naruto to there next class, which was math next.
"How did you know that kid had stuck out his leg?" he really wanted to know, he could tell that Neji had wanted to know too, from the look on his face in class.
"Oh that's easy; I just sensed it before I hit it." He said, as if that was the most natural response in the world, like saying "I breathe air, the sky is blue, penguins like fish" like it was nothing.
"But how could you do that?" Sasuke did not get Naruto at all sometimes.
"Well it's just something that happens when you go blind is all." He had turned his head when he had said this and didn't focus on his movements, so he practically crashed into another kid. Both of them crashed to the ground, books hit the floor and Naruto sprawled there, eyes wide open from the surprise, his cane skidding across the floor.
He scrambled to get up, picking up the papers that the other kid had spilled.
Sasuke looked at the kid that Naruto had crashed into as he went and got his cane.
'Gaara' he thought, 'just what we need, Naruto to get into a fight with him. On his first day here too.' He shook his head at the thought.
"I'm sooooo sorry!!!" Naruto said as he grabbed papers and shuffled them together, "I wasn't focusing on where I was going."
"Idiot" the boy snapped. Naruto titled his head to the side, like a fox would do.
"Hi! I'm Naruto, nice to meet you, want to be friends?" he suddenly asked.
Gaara looked at the blond kid in front of him, what the hell was wrong with him? First he had crashed into him, then Gaara had insulted him, and now he wanted to be friends with him? Everyone avoided him, they were freaked out by his eyes, and his loner attitude, not to mention the fact that he got into a lot of fights.
Sasuke also wondered what was wrong with Naruto, everyone seemed to avoid Gaara, if not because of his attitude, then because Gaara could really hurt you.
"Why would you ask me that? I just called you an idiot." Gaara said, trying to figure this kid out.
"Your voice" Naruto said, opening his eyes again, the blue in them seemed to draw you in till you felt that you were drowning in them, pulling you under to their control. "It's so sad, and lonely, plus, I was an idiot, not being more aware, so you have every right to say what you did, but I still want to be your friend, you seem like a nice person." Naruto held his hand out, his eyes still open, facing Gaara.
Gaara wasn't sure what to do, everyone avoided him, no one wanted to be his friend, so he wasn't sure what to do, but this boy seemed special, so Gaara decided to take a risk.
Sasuke watched as one of the toughest kids in school reached out and shook hands with Naruto.
"Great! I can't wait till we meet again Gaara, lets have lunch together ok?" Naruto said, a big smile on his face.
"Ok" Gaara said, nodding his head.
Suddenly the bell wrung. "Oh crud!" Naruto rushed up, and stuck out a hand to Sasuke, who placed the cane in his searching hand. "Sorry Gaara but I got to go, see you at lunch, or sooner!" then Naruto grabbed Sasuke's shirt sleeve and let him be led to his next class, leaving a shocked Gaara behind them in the hall.
P.E. was interesting, even Gaara was in the class, though he really didn't talk much to Naruto, he was still standing beside him though. Naruto was doing most of the talking, eyes closed and hands moving as he talked about this place he went to. It was something about the sound effects that they had. Sasuke figured it would have to deal with music.
"So what's your favorite music?" Naruto asked. They were leaning against the wall waiting for the teacher to show up, Sasuke just leaned beside Naruto, listening.
Gaara really didn't say anything at first; he still wasn't sure how to act. As far as he knew, Naruto was his first friend ever.
"Um… I guess I like all kinds of music" Gaara said, for lack of a better answer.
"Really? Then do you want to come to my try out today? Please Gaara it will be soooo cool if you came! Even Sasuke is goanna come, so if I have two of my friends there that would make me so happy." Naruto had opened his eyes as he said this, so Gaara was unable to say no. Sasuke who was going to say that if Naruto didn't need him to take him there he wouldn't be going, but he was also silenced by those eyes and just sighed. Though he did like that fact that Naruto depended on him to get around.
"Well I guess if it is that important to you-"Gaara started to say.
"Yes it is!" Naruto interrupted.
But before anymore could be said, the teacher came in.
"HELLO MY YOUTHFUL CLASS!" Their teacher Gai shouted, even Naruto flinched at the loudness; the class had kind of built a tolerance for this, though some still jumped from the yell.
"Where is my new youthful student Naruto!?" Naruto tried to hide behind Sasuke, but the teacher spotted him before he could get away.
"Aha! Don't be shy Naruto! Come over here so we can meet!" Naruto sighed and gripped Sasuke's sleeve as he led him over to their teacher.
"Ah Sasuke! Thank you for leading my new youthful student here." Sasuke just Hn'd and stood beside Naruto.
"Class this is Naruto! But he is a special student of ours, he is blind, so be sure to help him out and be kind to him." Naruto waved happily to them, all as if he was used to people being told that he was blind this way.
"Alright, now that you have met him, lets pair up and do some sit ups!" Gai pumped his fist into the air, as if he had just won a prize. "So PAIR UP!" He pointed into the sky, as if he saw something, some of the students even turned to see what the hell he was pointing to.
"Hey Naruto want to-"Gaara started to ask.
"Naruto want to-"Sasuke started to say.
"Want to pair up?" they both asked. They turned to look at each other and glared.
"Ok" Naruto said and sat down getting in the sit-up position. Gaara and Sasuke glared as the each held a foot down.
Sasuke didn't like having to share Naruto with another person.
Lunch was nice, if you ignored the two boys who were glaring at each other and the blond sitting between them who was inhaling his ramen. It was during lunch that Naruto was introduced to Sakura and Ino.
"Sasuke!" they both screamed as the raced towards their table, trying to sit in front of Sasuke, shoving each other to have the seat in front on him.
"Move over pig!" Sakura yelled.
"Shut up and move forehead girl!" Ino shouted.
Naruto paused in his eating and turned to Sasuke, "is this normal?" he asked.
Sadly Sasuke nodded his head even though Naruto couldn't see it, "yeah, but I'm used to it."
"Oh, ok. Hey girls" Naruto said.
They paused in there struggle, "what!?" they snapped.
"Your annoying and loud, and incase you didn't notice, Sasuke doesn't seem to want to talk to you." Naruto said, still eating.
They opened and closed there mouths like fish out of water, shocked at the bluntness of what Naruto said.
"What gives you the right to say that?!"
"Who do you think you are!?" they both yelled.
"Sasuke's friend and you're bugging him, and from what I hear in his voice, he is very annoyed. So go bother some other boys with you mindless obsession." Sasuke smirked and even Gaara smiled a little. It was about time someone told those girls off.
They left off in a huff. That was one of the best lunch's Sasuke ever had.
TLW: Next is the piano try out! How will they turn out? Well tell me what you think, give suggestions, hate it? Love it? Let me know, hope to write more soon!