Rejection

Gazing into the mirror, Uzumaki Naruto grimaced at what she saw. Her hair was rough and messy, her skin too dark to match her golden hair. She wasn't the tallest or the thinnest in the class but she was still quite one nice characteristics of Naruto, were her cerulean blue eyes, even more blue than the purest of oceans.

"Naruto, hurry up or you'll be late for school!" Iruka informed.

"Oh, right." she replied.

Straightening out the ruffles in her skirt and placing her tie on, she dashed down the stairs and-as if it were rehearsed- Iruka held out a piece of toast on a plate in front of Naruto and she swiftly grabbed it and dashed out the door with a quick "Good-bye" to her guardian

xXx

Sasuke blankly stared out the window with his dark onyx eyes, matched with his classic, all too cool Uchiha pose, whilst all of his fan girls admiringly stared at the so called 'God like' boy, with hearts for eyes and twinkles around their heads. Sitting at her desk across the room from the Uchiha boy, Naruto stared at him with a curious and admiring look. For the past 5 years, the girl was in love with Sasuke, you could call it love at first sight. Still looking at the young man, Sasuke turned his head to face Naruto, not realizing quick enough to see that the Uchiha was staring right her, Sakura Haruno quickly remarked,
"Sasuke, why are you staring at Naruto?" Jealousy coated her voice.
Realizing that she was the target of Sasuke's eyes, she immediately spun her head the other direction, and let out a blush, hoping nobody would be able to notice. Unlike any other day, Naruto was extra cautious and paranoid. The reason for her unknown behaviour was that today, after weeks of planning, she was going to announce her love to Sasuke.

"Naruto-Chan, are you okay?" Naruto jumped in her seat. She was so focused on Sasuke that she forgot about her surroundings.

"Ah Hinata, I didn't see you there," Naruto admitted sheepishly "What is it you were saying?"

"Well you asked me if you could borrow my notes yesterday and well, I took the liberty of photocopying them for you" She raised the copy of notes in front of her, showing the proof of her boast.

"Wow thanks alot Hinata! That saves me alot of time." Naruto gave one of her foxish grins.

Man Hinata is so nice, I wonder why Shino and I are her only friends...

"Naruto, why don't you stop staring into space and start looking at chapter twelve in your textbook." Kakashi ordered

"Uh, yes sensei!" Geez why does Kakashi-sensei have to be such a jerk! And why does he have to be Iruka's best friend! God, if he ends up being some sort of relative to me I'm gonna kill myself...

xXx

After the last classes of the day, Naruto sped towards her locker, occasionally running into a student or two. Today was one of the very rare days where she wasn't in trouble for anything her teachers can come up with. Like the one time Sakura and her got in a fight and Naruto punched her in the face, which she claims to this day that her teacher was just seeing things and all she did was swat a fly from her face... but she hit the fly a little too hard and it's blood got on Sakura. She got a detention for two weeks.

The adrenaline rush came to her when she could see the ravens hair, making her go into a jog to get to the lockers. Five feet behind him, Sasuke turned his head to see none other than the blond Usuratonkachi speeding towards him. Their eyes connected and Naruto slowed down to a walk, embarrased that Sasuke saw her running towards him.

"Geez Naruto, why were you running at me? You trying to smash me into the lockers?"

"Umm no, I'm not... I was just...trying to..." Naruto stared at the ground as her face began to turn red.

"I...want to say..."

"Spit it out Usuratonkachi,"

"I just want to say...that..."

"Come on Naruto I don't have all day."

"I-I really like you!" She shouted at Sasuke, only loud enough for the two of them to hear.

The news hit Sasuke too hard, he didn't know how to react to a confession like this. Naruto was his childhood friend! He never knew she felt this way for him, or even got a hint of affection towards himself. Sasuke's mind was jumbled and clouded, he didn't know what to say to her. The only thing that he had left to do was pure Uchiha instinct,

"W-why would you say that here?! Especially where everyone can see us?! Are you trying to embarass yourself?"

"Well I-I was just...we don't really see eachother...anywhere else..." Naruto felt tears threatening to come out, she forced them back as hard as she could.

"That isn't an excuse Naruto! Just...just get away from me!" At the last instant, an inexplicable force slammed Sasuke's gut, making the boy regret what he said.

Naruto couldn't keep her tears in any longer.

"Atleast I had the guts to do this! The least you could do is say something nice for once!"

Before Sasuke could respond, Naruto was already half way across the hallway, rushing towards the crowded doors.

xXx

"How could that bastard Sasuke say that!"Naruto cried as she cradled her fox plushie.

"I'm sure he just wasn't ready to face that fact." Iruka assured.

"But he said it so naturally, so quickly as if he fucking planned it from the start!" Iruka grimaced at her choice of words.
She was heartbroken. She didn't want to go to that school anymore. It was a hell of a place already with all the girls who 'kept harassing her, all because of her past connections with Sasuke. The taunting and bullying lasted for years on end, only a few people accepted Naruto for herself. Iruka wanted to do this option for Naruto only as a last resort, but knowing her, she would just refuse to go to that school again. It was decided.

xXx

"I'm dissapointed to say this but, Uzumaki Naruto will no longer be attending this school. She moved to an all girls school and will not be coming back." Kakashi explained.

Shocked at the news, Sasuke's head shot up.

No way! Yesterday wasn't that bad, everyone gets rejected sometimes in their life...

The pain in the raven haired boys was similar from yesterday, only this time the pain was more in his heart than his stomach. He couldn't understand what the feeling was, it was asthough something was missing or he lost something on his own. He asked his mother the night before about the feeling. She turned to face the sky, smiling a beautiful, one that Sasuke rarely saw, and said "It's the same feeling I got when I saw you're father." Sasuke only had one theory in mind.

He was madly in love with Naruto Uzumaki.