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Chapter 2, An Institute to amity (a.k.a: A beginning to friendship)
Getting out of bed, Onyx-eyes gaped open to see the dark blue color of room walls. Unwrapping himself out of the sleep aid memory foam mattress, he cursed the suctioning comfort of the foam, but at least he finally got some sleep. Rubbing the sleepies out of his arms, Sasuke entered his private bathroom, taking off his silk boxers and getting into the shower.
After performing and completing his morning "ritual", he walked downstairs into the kitchen only to see his red-eyed, lethargic brother smirking wide-eyed over a bowl of cereal. The younger Uchiha was placed into confusion and fear as he thought his brother had finally cracked, for this was not a normal look his that Itachi gave off, actually…this was the first time he had ever seen his brother like this.
"Good Morning, brother…you look…weary and vice this morning." Sasuke freed two pop-tarts from their package and stuck them in the toaster.
Glaring over at his little brother, his smirk faded and reappeared in an instant. "I just stayed up late last night…nothing to worry about."
The younger raven scowled at his brother's incompetence of getting sleep. "I do have to worry. You are the one responsible to get money for the essentials. You need that memory foam mattress more than I do.
"It's not a sleeping problem, I just went out late."
"Well, just be able to still work, okay?" Looking over at the clock, he saw that it was 7:00 and he needed to walk to school. "I've got to go. Get to work, brother. Goodbye mom, Goodbye dad." He stared at the picture one last time, focusing in on his dads cold stare and his mom's caring face, then opened the door and left.
Since he was 7 years old, Sasuke had always said goodbye to the almost only memory of his parents. They had been in a car accident while traveling to Kyoto. Sasuke was mad at his dad that day from a beating he got and he took out his anger on his mom by yelling at her. When they started to leave he locked himself in his room and told them he hated them. He never thought those words to them would be the last.
Finally realizing it, the Raven found himself crying and rapidly wiped the tears away before finally reaching the school. Putting back on his "I don't care" face, he searched for Gaara, Neji, and the others. He hung out with the troublemakers although he, himself, had only once gotten into trouble with the school with his personality and all. He had smoked in the school bathroom with Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari, the "Gothic triplets", as everyone called them. He was suspended for a week and thought over about it. Since then he had always been quiet, calm, and a nasty demon only when he had to be, well at least more than he had used to be. The Gothic Triplets stayed the same though.
Composedly, the boy walked to the forming group of black, semi-standing out with his blue uniform. The other members never wore their uniforms since the first day of school, causing them, at first, to get in trouble with the school, until the faculty gave up on getting them to wear the uniforms.
Now at first glance most people would just say that the whole group was just made out of a bunch of rebels who thought it was cool to break the rules, but after a while you would learn all of their stories with the rumors of their lives floating around. Then you would understand that they did in fact have a reason to be act this way, although it never excused people from avoiding them at all costs.
Gaara got sent away from his real family for a while to his Uncle's house. There he met his cousins Temari and Kankuro for the first time. Unfortunately, his uncle went on a rampage against the red-head, trying to kill him, the rampage finally ending when Gaara instead had stabbed his uncle. So Gaara's dad adopted the orphan cousins and they became brothers and sister. Since then the three had done everything together.
Neji was brother to a shy popular girl named Hinata. Frowned down upon for breaking the streak of the Hyuuga popularity line, he ran away constantly and stayed at friends houses. The cause of his downfall of popularity was the fact that he had beaten up Ino when she had started to diss his sister falsely.
Shino was frowned down by society is because of his dad's drinking and drug abuse. At school though the reason was different, he had been pushed away by the populars by his creepy looks and the eerie feelings people got around him.
The last person in their group was Haku. Pushed away because he looked like a girl and he was a newbie who wouldn't talk to anyone. This made Sasuke think, 'Is Naruto going to be pushed away because of his looks?' He paused. 'What the fuck am I doing thinking of him? All I know is that we won't accept him even if he gets pushed away by the populars.'
That's when said Dobe walked serenely into the room…limping? Just a small limp that only people who paid attention to detail, such as Sasuke, could see. But there was another who noticed the blonde's pain, a (cough cough gay) perverted, artistic, popular boy named Sai. Because of his great eye for art, he knew Naruto was a work of art from Kami, and recognizing the throbbing of…something (he didn't know what)... he knew something was up.
Sitting down, a sharp pain ran up his spine from his coccyx, making him balk slightly. He pulled out his Pre-calculus book, finishing Asuma's 2 pages of homework.
'So he's a procrastinator…but such is the way in this private school.' Staring at the blonde who was now being approached by his look alike, Sai, he started to focus in on their conversation.
"You're the new student?" He, for once, structured a tangible smile, somewhat throwing Sasuke into shock and confusion. Sai always faked smiles, what was so special about this newbie? "Nice to meet you, My name is Sai."
A little shocked (and scared inside), he introduced himself to the teen. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto." Looking over at the door, he noticed Orochimaru glaring intently toward him. "Sai uhh…-kun, I have to go ask Orochimaru-sensei a question. I'll…um...it was nice to meet you." The boy ran off to his teacher leaving the other one confused, worried, and a little happy.
Biting his lower-lip while walking to the angry man, He gently bowed his head, clearing his voice and preparing himself for a disaster to arise. "Orochimaru-sensei." He looked around to see if anyone was in hearing distance, finally reassuring himself that it was not possible. "Orochimaru-sama…may I be friends with Sai-san?"
Focusing his glare at Sai for a brief and barely noticeable second, He gazed down back at the boy in front of him, letting out a sham smile that was only seen as false to Naruto, for no one had such an eye of truth as himself.
"I allow you too be friends with anyone you wish," The man smirked. "So I trust you know any action to accede information about your real life to him will be repaid by dismal consequences."
At this the blonde paused, thinking about the boy in which he asked to be befriended in. Sai seemed like a boy who meddles into such business as his own, but also one who would stop if asked. Plus, Naruto found himself in great confidence in not sharing the repayment to this snake, for he knew these "penalties" well from past experience and he wouldn't let anything like that happen again.
"I understand the consequences, Orochimaru-sama. Thank you." Falsely jotting down something on his science homework, He subsequently carried his semi-hurting form, not presenting the pain though, to the boy across the room.
Naruto sat back down to where the "imitation Sasuke" was, smiling. "Got my answer."
"Are you bad in science? 'Cause I can tutor you if you are."
Naruto's smile faded into his normal, somewhat purring face, tilting his head and blinking before depositing another huge grin fashionably onto his face. "Nah, Actually Orochimaru-Sensei is my Adoptive dad."
This took Sai into surprise while having a .00000000000000000001 (very small) second glimpse at the man leaning against the wall on the other side of the café. And even in that time the raven boy could observe the man's piercing glare at himself. He stared back at Naruto, taking in what the blonde had to say while thinking thoughts of his own. 'So this new teacher is Naruto's father? I thought there was a connection but dad? No…adoptive dad…but, that doesn't feel right. Why would that man foster someone like Naruto?'
He furrowed his brow slightly, pondering the possibilities and not even noticing the fact that Naruto had stopped talking, asked if he was listening twice, and even himself, having a furrow in his brow. 'I thought he would ponder this but it won't be a problem I won't let it be a problem.'
"Sai-kun…Sai?" Naruto practically yelled in his ear, awakening the raven from his thoughts. "What'cha thinkin' about?"
He stared somewhat shocked at his lack of detection to the other boys questioning statements. Recollecting himself, he composed his face back into amusement of the conversation. "How long ago did he adopt you?"
The blonde regained his smile once more, running through the lines going through his head. "I've been with him ever since I was four years old. He's very nice, much like any other parent."
Sai felt himself doubt this comment but dropped the thinking for now, now he would show Naruto everyone else.
"Hey I want you to meet everyone else." He stood up, and started walking to a group of laughing people, turning around occasionally to make sure the blonde was following him. Finally reaching the group, they fell silent before a brown-haired teen with a gray jacket broke it a second later.
"Yo! Wazzup Newbie?" His tongue hung out of his mouth underneath squinted eyes and he had his hand up to his head holding his ring finger with his thumb, letting the rest of them stick up (1).
Sai sensed a feeling of Uncomfortable(ness) radiating off of the blonde beside him. "His name is Naruto, Kiba.
"OOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhh….so you got a new boyfriend." At this point, it was apparent by the blush spreading across Naruto's face and the feeling of embarrassment in the air, that the joke affected the "poor newbie", And everyone in the group began to laugh.
At least they all did until A ball of Pink fruff came over. "KIBA! First you don't call me last night and now you're torturing a cute little noob." She pulled the blonde into her grasp, chocking him to death with her tightening hug all in the while still yelling at her boyfriend for ditching her.
Sai was staring down at poor Naruto with a face saying "hang on, she'll let go soon don't struggle that'll only increase your pain." But it failed to please the dying boy. 'How the hell can a girl be this strong? Damn it, she needs to let go!'
"Uhh….Sakura-chan, You're crushing him." Sai's monotone voice interrupted the earsplitting cat noises from the pink loving girl. She looked in confusion whilst the raven proceeded to point to said dying boy in her arms.
"Oh my god! I am like soooooooooo sorry! Are you okay noob?" She got in the blonde's face making him go cross-eyed. She started laughing. "Nice look noob suits you well, you're more innocent than I thought. What's your name?"
"My names Naruto." He bowed downward until his body was at a 120 degree angle and straightened back up, grinning widely. He, again, astonished the room with his masterpiece figure, making most girls cough cough and guys cough blush except the ones who were as straight as a ruler, then they just laughed at everyone's stupidity for blushing.
"We only have a few minutes until class, so we gotta run, don't get lost on your way to classes!" The group departed except a boy who had black hair sticking up in a pony-tail and army colored clothing and Sai.
"Let me see your class schedule." Sai ordered, looking over Naruto's classes. "Spanish III first, Drawing II second, CPEnglish11 third, Photography I fourth….." He continued to mumble down the list, until reading the boys last class for the day. "Anatomy and Psychology last period…" He gave the paper back to the blonde. "You have periods 1-7 and 10-12 with me plus, 8/9 period is close to mine so I'll be able to show you the way to your classes."
Naruto blinked for a few seconds before smiling and nodding. The warning bell rang and by the time they got their books out of their lockers the second warning bell rang. Of course, they didn't want to have to deal with any punishment so they rushed to Spanish, being able to greet the teacher and sit down before the class started.
There were few people in which Naruto actually knew in the class, those few being Sai, Sakura, Kiba, and the kid with the ponytail.
"You may sit in front of Sai since you know him already." Hagane Kotetsu, known as Senor Hagane, told the blonde. Sai led him to his seat and started to pull out the homework that he received yesterday.
Naruto bit his lip in worriment at this because Orochimaru had been in such a hurry to leave the school that he had not gotten a chance to grab it. 'Kuso.'
Sai, of course, noticed this and laughed slightly. "You forget your homework?"
Naruto pouted and placed his chin on Sai's desk, covering up everything below his eyes with crossed arms. "Oro…Dad was in such a rush to get out of here yesterday that I never had time to get my homework from any class before History." He noticed Sai's questioning glance and gave off the quickest excuse he could think of without making it look obvious. "There were too many students who kept running into his classroom looking asking him if he was the new teacher. It's kind of obvious that he was right?" Naruto smiled.
Sai chuckled at this, for it was obvious and odd that people would ask the only teacher they haven't seen if he was new? 'Humans are strange creatures.'
Naruto congratulated himself inwardly at his success to fool the other boy and now decided to ask his question, although he was a little to late to ask as the teacher started class.
By the time class ended, Naruto was cracking up at the silliness of the other students. During class Kiba grabbed a horde of sombreros and maracas, placing one on his head and shoving the rest on sakura's, Sai's, Shikamaru's, and on Naruto's own head.
Each one of them had a pair of maracas, Kiba and Sakura getting up and starting to dance and dragging the pony-tailed boy into it, who said it was to troublesome but still partook in it anyway. They tried to get Himself and Sai into the dance but failed as both felt it was amusing but never wanted to be embarrassed.
So walking downstairs to art Naruto finally got to ask his question. "So who are the people from this morning?"
"Oh, I guess I should've introduced you to them." Sai had tilted his head down in ignominy.
Naruto saw this pout on his face as his insides freaked out, thinking he did something bad. "No, it's not your fault, I mean, it's there faults for being so rude." He stuck out his tongue and made a snooty face to show he was joking.
Sai laughed at the well expressional face and thought about all the times he had been sorry when he had no need to. 'Naruto already makes me think a lot. He's very wise if you become his friend.'
Naruto sat down until the teacher walked in, then he introduced himself to her. Sitting back down, he listened to Sai as he started to make a list of who everyone was.
"Shikamaru- guy with black hair in a ponytail mostly. He always thinks everything is troublesome. His girlfriend is Ino."
"Ino- long, blond haired girl who is very gossipy. Shikamaru is boyfriend. She loves to shop. Is learning French and loves romantic expensive stuff. Her dad owns the Pepsi company so she's loaded."
"Chouji- brown spiky hair, "Chubby" and always eating something. He likes Ino but she doesn't like him.
"Hinata- short blue hair, very shy and kind. Her brother is Neji who is a Goth."
"Tenten- likes performing arts and drawing. She's Japanese and actually sitting right here."
Naruto looked over at the girl who had her brown hair in two pig-tails.
"She likes Rocklee isn't that right Tenten?"
She was suddenly very enraged and her face grew really red. "Shut up Sai-san before I get Sakura-chan on you!"
At this he flinched barely and went onto the last person in the group.
"Rocklee- A black haired boy who is very energetic and is obsessed with the youthful side of people. I think you'll like him."
The blonde chortled silently before the teacher, Deidara, began to give them their assignment.
"Now class, today we are going to start our assignment that actually takes the rest up the rest of the year. I will bring around this jar and you must pick out one folded piece of paper from it. On these papers will be a one worded subject in which you must make an expressional, emotional, and detailed drawing to represent it."
As the papers were selected, the three at the table could hear moans and squeals coming from the selectors. And as the jar drew near, Tenten drew her paper and a huge grin swept over her face. Now calm, she took out a scrap piece of paper and started drawing her ideas. From what the other two could tell she got either bamboo, or flowers.
Sai got next pick on a slip of paper, in which he seemed stunned but eventually pleased.
Naruto smiled and leaned over to see what the boy had gotten and smiled up at him. The subject on his card had been love. Naruto figured it wouldn't be too hard to represent, but still it was a powerful subject to describe.
At the picking of Naruto's slip, the blonde smiled while drawing then opened up the slip in his hand while Deidra walked away.
The Raven couldn't describe the facade he perceived on Naruto's face, for it seemed to be a mixture of fear, and sadness. It almost seemed that this was a different person. Or was this the real Naruto? Sasuke could only wonder this.
'Maybe this boy isn't as 'blonde' and jockish as I thought. But then again I shouldn't come to this conclusion so suddenly.' The Raven fell confused as he thought of his first impression of the boy from afar. 'It's too early in the morning to be worrying.' With that he began to sketch his word on the paper, but not easily.
He couldn't seem to get the expression of horror on the boys face out of his mind. He couldn't help but to think that this real Naruto, was a fake? This, of course, threw off his whole entire train of thought, making him incapable to think about what to do for his project.
At the next class he met his teacher Yondamie and Sakura there as well as Hinata. There was only one other person there completing the small class of four, a boy, barely taller than Naruto himself, with long black hair. He was very quiet and distanced himself from the rest of them. And when Naruto went to go and talk to him, he got a to few words out of the boy before Sakura grabbed onto the blonde's hair and dragged him away.
After that he had a major migraine and remained nearly speechless until lunch.
"Where are you going Naruto?" Sai asked as he saw the boy starting to leave the building.
"Huh? Oh," Naruto started, quickly thinking of an excuse, "I forgot my lunch at home so I'm just going to eat there."
Sai was somewhat suspicious about gave into the boys lie. " Alright, just be back in time for next class period."
"Alright." Naruto droned before opening the door and exiting.
"Yeah and I was like FUCK OFF!" the group began laughing until noticing the Raven of the group wasn't.
"Sasuke?" Kankuro questioned whilst said boy started walking out of the building. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to go out for lunch." And left, leaving half the group confused and the other half felt like it was fairly normal, even though he had not left the school for lunch once that year.
He followed the blonde from a distance seeing Naruto enter a train to Katakai Beach in Kujukuri-machi, Chiba. Sasuke scarcely made it on previous to its leaving and when getting off he almost lost sight of the shorter boy but managed to keep a glimpse of him at all times.
He sat down, watching the waves as they covered his feet and got sand stuck in between them and his black and red Mickey Mouse crocs (2.) The spray of the water got on his long black shirt and added more water to the already wet tips of his baggy green cami pants.
As he stared out he thought about the ocean and how much freedom it's creatures had to move anywhere. 'If only I had such freedom. What if he actually succeeded saving me?' He completely droned out and started thinking about school. 'I mean it's like, maybe I might be able to get really close friends here, I haven't had that since a long time ago, with- wait who was he?' He got token by surprise with these thoughts of the person, in which Naruto didn't remember but seemed to have him fresh in his head.
'What was his name?' All Naruto could remember was that he was brother to the man last night, who still "visited" him often, how he hated that man. But the boy, why couldn't he remember his name or what he looked like he was his only friend before now, so why couldn't he think.
"Oi, Dobe?" Sasuke stood watching the boy who sat on the floor. "What are you doing here?"
Naruto's shock subsided down on his answer and he couldn't think of a different excuse than what he had just been doing now. "I-" He stared down eyes wide at the water, heart now racing from the emptiness and the dull pain in his head. He let out a deep sigh, looking out at the ocean with the sun glimmering now in the only part of his eyes that could be seen under his eyelids. "I was just thinking." He looked up, smiled, and stuck out his tongue. "You know I could ask you the same question!"
"I guess you could." The smirking man responded. Naruto lifted his eyebrows and rolled his eyes for him to explain why he was there. "Honestly? I saw you leaving the building and I followed you."
Naruto looked a mix between confused, nervous, and glad. "Hmm…So you're… a stalker?" He chuckled.
Sasuke let out a barely audible laugh as well. The tan boy looked over at him grinning. "That's the first time I've actually heard you not in your monotone voice." He let out sarcastically.
"Ohh, blondie knows big words." The pale man countered.
"Teme!"
"Dobe!"
They suddenly got quiet and Sasuke took the opportunity to ask him what he got in art earlier that day.
"Only if you tell me first. Poke." He poked Sasuke's shoulder.
The raven lifted one eyebrow up in response and asked. "You don't have any respect for personal space do you?"
At this the blond look horrified while bowing down his head, causing his eyes to darken and scooting away from Sasuke.
The Uchiha automatically felt guilty for the comment although he didn't know why. "It was a joke." He laughed at himself. "Naru-chan."
Naruto pulled a girlish pout on his face and stuck out his tongue. "I'm not a girl!"
Sasuke burst out laughing in what seemed like the first time in forever. "With that girlish pout I would say you look more like one than you think." He got serious again. "I got the word Fan. Ironic since my last name is Uchiha."
"Heh, that is ironic." He smiled. "I got the word Illusion."
Sasuke automatically drew back into his mind and thought about the look on Naruto's face earlier that day. 'Because of that word? Why?'
The loud voice of the dobe beside him woke him out of his thoughts. "Sasuke-san," the raven wondered why Naruto was suddenly so formal. "We need to get back to school, next class is in 20 minutes."
They started walking back to the train station, until Naruto started walking on another path than the one that led to the station.
"Where are you going dobe?"
"It's a shortcut." He grinned. "I prefer to use the paths less taken." They walked for 3 minutes until Naruto looked around. "Now where the hell am I?"
At this Sasuke turned around and started backtracking and Naruto, knowing fighting would be pointless and scared of going on alone, followed.
The train ride back was only 10 minutes, but it felt like forever with the jokes the blonde had been spitting out. Jokes like: Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs. And other jokes like that. They seemed to be triggered as nervousness when a couple of guys were looking at the boy and laughing.
But over all it was one of the best days Sasuke and Naruto had.
1. Thaz de symbol off of Rockin' Roller Coaster (a ride in Disney World featuring Aerosmith.)
2. I own a long black jack skellington shirt with green cami pants and black and red Mickey mouse crocs that I love to wear! Naruto dresses just like me! Haha!
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