Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Naruto stuffies (but did you see? Sasuke's out of chakra! Go Itachi Go! Kill him while you have the chance! But it was so predictable now that I've rooted for Itachi that he would fall! WAHHH! (a.k.a. read the last chapters of the manga))
Only weapons, lies, and confusion lead to understanding
This was it. This was the punishment to be received for daring to ask for his first date and having the opportunity to agree to Sasuke's demand.
A new toy, like the whip that bruised his back with minimal bleeding, except different. No, this weapon had no use for bruising…Only gushing blood, redness, and swelling...at least, only on his back. Still there was a handle but heavy chains took the place of violent strings of leather, and at the end, a horizontal bar with three sharp claws jutting out, covered in the crimson liquid that filled Naruto's insides and temporarily covered his outsides.
Two blows to the face. Three scars on each cheek harshly cut into his face. Marks of Defiance, hope, but mostly friendship and love.
His body ached as he gently the aloe into his burning skin, helping to soothe the pain. He stripped and gently slid into his oatmeal bath, the warm water softening his already baby smooth skin and helping to release a long-awaiting sigh of relaxation and healing.
This cold weapon would surely keep the newly formed marks permanent. And as he thought it, but didn't know just yet, it would be present for the rest of his time on Earth. This proved to be dangerous to reveal the truth…too much for Naruto's liking. He couldn't let anyone worry now that they've only just met him.
That was the other set back found with the claws. Not even his makeup (which left no trace of his other bruises and scars (you know…that bare naturals and stuff)) covered up the deep cuts. Now a story need to be made for how he got them and why exactly he was trying to erase their existence with high-class makeup. He gazed at himself in the mirror.
'Well maybe I could get by without one…It's not that noticeable, right?'
Oro already went to school, leaving him behind that morning for a facility conference, causing a two-hour delay and one and a half of the hours were already gone, giving him thirty minutes to walk there and with it only being a fifteen minute walk, he had plenty of time left to converse, but more time to think up an excuse.
'Good…No one on the streets seem to notice.' He noted, seeing how no interest came to him from all who walked down the sun stained streets. But apparently there was a difference between people on the street and private school teenagers. Private schoolers noticed the differences in people's appearances.
"OH MY GOSH, NARUTO! WHAT HAPPENED!?" Ino and Sakura ran to the blonde and started to attempt to squeeze the answer out of him. Or, at least, that's how he felt with how hard they were constricting their arms around him.
"Dude! Noob! They look like whiskers!" Kiba shouted and all nodded their heads in agreement.
'Whiskers…?' "Well I was walking this morning I was attacked by a…" 'Cat?' "Dog." 'A cat is too weak for scars like these…' "I was hoping it wasn't too noticeable with all the stuff I tried to cover it up with, I didn't want you guy's to worry." 'Good pity party!'
"Did the dog have an owner? You could sue…" Sai pried worriedly in hopes that his excuse was truthful. He had a feeling that it wasn't to credible.
"It didn't have a collar...and no one was around so I guess it was a stray."
"Must've been a pretty big dog then for scars that huge! Don't let this take your youth, yosh!" Rock Lee clibed up on the table and burst into a rage of youthfulness, the male gym teacher Guy-sensei joining him in his youth rant.
"Yeah…I won't…" He lied. Oh how he hated lying but it was his only choice so they wouldn't fret. "Um…I got to go to tell Orochimaru I got here safe. He's so overprotective, you know how parents get." A grin and an exposed pink tongue.
The scarred-face boy started to walk away from the group and only after he was sure they were all focused on something else did he run over to the Goth spot, finding the raven of the group.
"SASUKE-SAN!" He glomped the boy and continued in a less loud pitched voice with a silly grin on his face. "How are you?"
Sasuke only frowned in return. "I think you should be the one telling how you feel, what happened to your face?"
"Is it that noticeable? I thought using Oro-san's make-up would cover it." He repeated is lie and seeing that the Raven wasn't buying it, he changed the subject. "But, guess what!?"
"What is it dobe?" He questioned if the change of subject meant he was lying.
"Oro-san said I can go with you to Winter formal!…that is, if you still want to go with me…" Truth be told, the blonde thought Sasuke wasn't going to be interested now that his face was ruined by the gashes.
"Of course I still want to go! Do you honestly think after you got those scars I wouldn't want to go with you anymore? You really are a dobe sometimes, Kitsune-chan." He patted his head.
"Oh God, Sasuke's…GAY!?" Kankuro fell back in surprise.
"I think he's more an idiot than Naruto is." Shino stated in a monotone voice.
"Figures the Uchiha would be that way with his current situation." Neji butted in.
"Eh? What situation Sasuke-san?" Naruto prodded in, sounding like a child. After minutes of ignored lecturing and the blonde tugging at Sasuke's shirt did he pay attention to the others wanting to know.
The Uchiha's guiding hand led them to an isolated staircase. "If I tell you, will you tell me what to your parents?"
"Wait…Are your parents-?"
He started to have a staring contest with the floor, raven hair covering his almost pitch-black eyes. "They died in a car crash a few years back, so I live alone with my brother."
"I'm…really sorry Sasuke…I hope you guys are getting through okay…" He gave a sad, but hopeful smile for support and wrapped his arms around Sasuke's shoulder blades, feeling the other's arms cling to the small of his back.
"We're fine Naruto. Don't worry about us. We inherited thier company so we have plenty of money to support ourselves."
Silence and a sigh.
"A plane crashed into the airport where my dad was and exploded. Later that day, I found my mom hanging in her room…it's alright though 'cause they're happy up in heaven together."
"Naruto…she…hung herself?" Naruto looked up at the concerned teen and decided to break his promise to the court.
"No. She heard the news and decided to pick me up early. Of course, we lived in a high crime area so when she was about to lock the door, a guy pushed her back inside and strangled her. He thought making it look like she committed suicide would get him off the hook but he forgot about autopsies."
"What a bastard. I'm sorry Naruto…I can't possibly imagine that sort of pain, happening to someone like you none the less…"
"Like I said, they're happy in heaven together, so it's fine with me. They wouldn't want me to be sad anyways." The blonde smiled and pulled away from Sasuke's grasp, laughing. "So what songs are they going to play at this so called dance?"
"Okay class, it's time to start our drama unit!" Tsunade, the English teacher, was very into drama. She said humans were drawn to it. Sasuke thought that was a crock of crap. "So let your sighs out now you little brats!"
Loud, obnoxious moans and groans filled the classroom like a contest of who could be the noisiest. The only ones not partaking in the contest were, Sai, Naruto, and Sasuke. (Although Sai did chuckle)
"That's enough! Now we're going to be reading the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet and you're whole semester grade depends on how you act."
"How we 'act'?" A teen with abnormally sharp teeth asked.
"Yes, Suigetsu. For this unit, you are all going to be assigned a character and at the end of the semester, perform the play. You will all be graded as a class so unless everyone in here wants an F, you guys better get along!" She smirked knowing about how nearly everyone in the class had an enemy student. "Now I've made two cups, one of them all the girls in the class, and one of them all the guys to minimize cross over parts. I'll start with the girl parts."
"Lady Capulet: Sakura (A cry in the background could be heard from the pink haired girl saying "I don't wanna be old!")
Lady Montague: Yugito Nii
Nurse: Temari
Rosaline: Kin
Musician #1/masker #1: Tayuya
Musician #2/masker #2: Tenten
Citizen #1/masker #3: Hinata
Citizen #2/masker #4: Karin
Attendant/masker #5: Ino-"
"Wait, Tsunade-sensei! That was all the girls in the class! What about Juliet? She has to be played out!" Ino called out, wondering what the teacher was thinking.
"Seems so…Well I guess we'll just have to improvise…who looks like a girl in this class?" She searched around the class, only able to find two candidates. "…Well looks like we have two choices so I'll let you guys pick, Haku or Naruto?" The room went quiet, all shocked at the two options. This barely fazed the girls but to the boys, this meant a possibility of having to kiss one of them, which could ruin their reputation forever depending on which one became Juliet.
"Wait! Naruto doesn't look like a girl!" Sakura jumped in, hoping to save her friend from the embarrasment he was going through as shown by his tan pigment being overthrown by red.
"He's more of a girl than any of you ladies are! Now all for Haku… one, two, three, seven,...eleven for Haku, and all for Naruto…five, ten...eighteen for Naruto…Alright Naruto is our Juliet. Now for the boy parts." Tsunade spoke casually as if it were the most obvious thing in the world even though most were still stunned by the decision.
"All right, our lead boy. Romeo: ...Itachi! What are you doing interrupting my class!?"
"I need to talk to Sasuke."
Naruto stiffened and felt a chill run down his spine. 'I've heard that voice before… But what does he want with Sasuke?' the blonde looked to the back of the room where a tall man resembling an older Sasuke stood. 'Are they...brothers?'
"Hn." The younger Uchiha started walking out after his elder, not caring about the protests coming from his teacher. They shut the door to prove it. There was silence in the hallway. "So?" The smaller raven asked impatiently, not liking his time being wasted.
"I just came to tell you that I'll be picking you up after school."
"Any reason why?"
Itachi hated how his brother needed a reason for everything but decided to tell him anyways. "I need to talk to a friend of the companies and he just happens to work here."
"Fine…Is that all?"
"Impatient little brother, you should really calm down, I haven't attacked you in anyway."
"Sorry that I'm weary about being near the brother who killed our parents!" He snapped back.
"They were the ones that left; they could've just stayed home and took the argument like parents are supposed to…" Silence. "Is your new friend you were talking about in your class?"
"Yeah…he's the blonde one." Sasuke motioned to Naruto who, when seeing the elder's eyes meet his, turned back to the front of the class and stare at his desk.
"I see. Looks like he'll be good for you."
"Hn. I'm going back inside, class is almost over." Just as quickly as he opened the door, it slammed shut and he went and took his seat, listening to the loads of homework now assigned to the class.
"So…Naruto's his little buddy, huh? No wonder…" He turned and started to leave. 'Looks like Orochimaru's been a little more rough since I last saw the kid.'
As they neared the door, Sasuke came to find who their "company's friend" was, and unlike his brother's thinking, he did care about what Itachi and the friend were about to talk about. This proved to be an more difficult task than the raven had hoped as Itachi told him to wait in the hall.
"Itachi!"
"Hello, Orochimaru." The door shut.
'They must've known each other for a while considering the familiarity in their voices… I'm being stupid, why should I care about them knowing each other? Although he's never mentioned Orochimaru to me before now…But then again there had to be some of our business partners I don't know about…' Sasuke cut off all his senses and focused all his attention to what they were saying on the other side of the door.
"So…" His brother's voice became low. "What happened to his face?"
"Like it? I think it's cute personally. I got a new toy…something sharp. It'll co-" The eavesdropping taking place was cut off by a hyper Naruto who decided, without the permission of the Uchiha, to sit on his lap, somewhat straddling the other to the wall.
"Sasuke-san! Whatcha' doing here?" He smiled and tilted his head.
"Itachi's talking to your foster dad so I'm waiting for him to get out."
Naruto got off of the Uchiha's lap, much to his hidden dismay, sitting beside him. The blonde's smile disappeared. "Is Itachi your brother?"
"Yeah, he's the one who interrupted class earlier today." 'I got a new toy…something sharp.' Sasuke frowned. "So are you going to tell me what happened?"
"Huh? …Oh, Yeah! You mean your part in the play? You're Mercutio!"
"Well, I guess that's good to know but I meant about the-" His question was interrupted by the door opening and both the adults exiting the classroom, looking at a smiling Naruto next to a frowning Sasuke.
"Ah, Naruto, Sasuke, hello. Naruto, you remember Itachi, don't you?" Orochimaru asked, not to pleased to see Sasuke casually outside of the door in which they were talking business together.
'I almost do…he can't be one of my buyers?' "Of course!" He put on his cutest smile even though most knew it wasn't a pleasant visit.
"You guys know eachother?" Sasuke asked the obvious, now questioning the two's relationship.
"We're business partners." Orochimaru replied for the blonde, silently suggesting him not to speak unless it supported secrecy.
"Really. What's your occupation for the company? Besides being a teacher I mean."
"I'm a scientist and a business man."
"What's your experiment?"
"Don't you think you're being a bit nosy? I'm sorry for my brother's rude behavior, Orochimaru." Itachi cut off any further conversation and stood in front of the two sitting boys. "Anyways, I'm sure Sasuke hadn't mentioned it, but we'd love to have you over sometime. Sasuke doesn't really invite many of his friends over." A growl came from the younger raven's mouth.
"I think Naruto would enjoy it, right?"
"Hai, Oro-san!"
"Then what about this Friday? You and Sasuke are going to the dance that night, am I correct?"
"That's perfect! I have some finances to catch up on so it would be easier to have him stay at your house for the night." The snake agreed for the blonde.
And just like that, Sasuke and Naruto had no choice but to have a sleepover.
Yayz! Just got back from a wedding/vacation and I like wrote all the chapter outlines and some of the scenes out 'til the end of this fic (which I found out will have a sequel! Awesomeness!) lolz so here's my thanks to the people who keep me going on to write more.
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Me: I think you all will really enjoy the next chapter a whole bunch! Especially the ones who love lemony (lemony-ish on this case, last chapter full of lemon I swear!) yaoi.
Itachi: I know I'm going to enjoy the next chapter
Sasuke: You never enjoy anything…why would you now?
Itachi: Because my little brother is having a friend over
Naruto: hehe Surprisingly enough, I'm going to enjoy the next chapter as well…well…not the yeah…but the end of it I will clings onto Sasuke
Sasuke: Wait a second am I the only one besides the readers that doesn't know what's going to happen next chapter
Me: hides behind couch You're not allowed to look…Deep…personal stuff in it about Naruto… whispers: of if you weren't going to get the pizza…
Sasuke: Wait…what's going to happen while I'm getting the pizza?
Me: Nothing, nothing sighs just be a good little brother and listen to your brother next chapter…cries in corner
Itachi: I wonder why she puts herself and us through this if it only makes her cry…
Me: Well I'm also crying about what's going to happen to you all in the last chapter…
Itachi: You didn't…
Me: I did
Naruto: smiles
Sasuke: WTF is going on here!?
Lol my little times with the characters if they could talk but yeah…It's a very emotional time for me when writing these fics…lol TTYL! R&R please! P.s. sorry about the whole youthfulness thing from Rock lee...i felt i hadn't really used him the entire time.