Naruto's Wish

Chapter Two

"Naruto! Sasuke! That's where you've been! Come on your missing the party!" A girl with long pink hair showed up in the doorway of the classroom. She was wearing a dark red dress which stopped short of her knees, along with red high-heel shoes, and a red ribbon tied to her right wrist.

As usual, it's Sakura interrupting us… For once, I'm glad she showed up. Sasuke thought to himself, knowing full well what it would mean to say those words out loud. "Sakura! How did you find us?" Naruto looked up at Sakura with surprise when he said those words, though it was more the timing that caused the surprise. "Duh Naruto! We've only been going to this classroom to hang out since we started high school!" Sakura, of course, was referring to their little club, that they formed for themselves to have an excuse when cutting detention.

Naruto first meant Sakura when he was falling behind in… well… just about everything. The teacher at the time assigned Sakura to tutor him. Not that it was so bad to spend time after school with her and Sasuke, and of course thanks to her and Sasuke's work during their 'Club Meetings', Naruto was able to pass all his classes without any problems. But Sakura's timing was always… awkward… Naruto couldn't even count the number of times that she walked in on him when he was changing his clothes. Sasuke even had a running joke about it in fact, teasing Sakura, asking her to just admit that she does it on purpose. Although it was always a mistake when it happened, and Sakura is always as surprised as Naruto, However Naruto did always wonder why she never did it to Sasuke…

"I-I know that!" Naruto still not quite over the shock, sounded so stupid in his reply to Sakura. Sasuke just started laughing at that point, and Sakura sighed. "Really Naruto, how did you ever mange to pass high school." Sakura said while laying her right hand on her forehead. "That's an easy one! He just blew all the teachers!" Sasuke jumped into the conversation with that remark, causing Naruto to stand up and hit Sasuke over the head. "OH PLEASES SASUKE! YOU'RE THE MOST LIKELY OUT OF US TO DO THAT!" Sasuke returned with his own punch at Naruto. "Oh yeah, because I'm the slut of the group." At which time Sakura displayed seven emotions. Surprise. Shock. Sadness. Sorrow. Depression. Pissed offness. And the 'I'm going to kill you now' look. Naruto and Sasuke, upon realizing what Sasuke had done, just showed fear.

"W-W-W-WAIT! S-S-S-SAKURA! WE D-D-D-DIDN'T MEAN!" Naruto panicking, tried in vain to clam Sakura down. But what always happens, happened again. Sakura punched Naruto right in the jaw, sending him flying a few feet. "great….. yet again sasuke…. I get punched for your mistake…." As Naruto was trying to yell at Sasuke for what happened, Sakura stormed off.

Picking Naruto off the floor, Sasuke smiled and said. "Aren't you glad she's going off to nursing school?" Naruto just nodded at Sasuke while rubbing his jaw, which really hurt now… Ouch…

After stopping by the nurse's office to pick up some ice for Naruto, they headed outside for the big graduation party. You see the school decided that instead of letting all the students run their own parties, and ending up with twenty-six parties a day for the next few weeks, they would hold one large party for all the students on the last day of school, where all the students could invite all their family and friends to join. Or at least that was story, yeah, I'm sure the $50 charge to attend the party had nothing to do with it. Can anyone say next year's budget?

"NARUTO! What happened to you?" A red head boy ran up to Naruto and Sasuke. This boy had a tattoo on his head, 'Love' in Japanese, although many think he meant to have 'Hate' tattooed on himself instead. The red head wore nothing but black, black cargo pants that looked a little too much like Naruto's, along with what was pretty much a black version of Sasuke's shirt, only without the symbol on his back. This outfit was complete with black army boots. This red head boy also had make up on his face, black eyeliner, and some light red lipstick to match his hair.

"Gaara? What are you doing here? Your school is at the other end of the city." Naruto looked at Gaara, ignoring his question. "Well my school doesn't let out for another week, so I skipped class today to be here with you guys." Gaara said it so matter-of-factly that Naruto almost laughed at it. But instead he glared at Gaara. "What would Temari and Kankuro think of that?" Gaara tilted his head a little to the left, and had a half confused look on his face. "They helped me do it." At this point, Sasuke and Naruto started laughing about it.

It was common for Gaara to skip classes, or school all together quite often. Gaara was the bad boy of his school, no one dared to mess with him, because he'd always kick people's asses for no reason other than 'They looked at me the wrong way.' That is he was like this, until one day when he meant Naruto and Sasuke…

On that day, Gaara had cornered a kid from Naruto's school, a kid named Rock Lee. Now Rock Lee had always been the token dork of the school, always wearing that green jump-suit for some weird reason. But he was a dork that didn't do anything wrong.

"What do you think you're doing to him!" Naruto shouted at Gaara. "Leave him alone!" "Gladly" Gaara stared at Naruto, while sending two of his classmates to take Naruto down. Naruto dodged their first attack, getting around behind them, he easily knocked them out. Naruto was used to fighting, Gaara's school was always the one were all the bad kids got sent. So having to beat down some punk was nothing new to him.

Gaara took his chance and ran up behind Naruto, attacking him only to be kicked to the ground by Sasuke. "No one touches Naruto while I'm around punk!" Sasuke said, so proud of himself. "Sasuke! You didn't have to be so rough on the poor kid." Naruto of course shooting down Sasuke in his moment of victory, runs over to Gaara, kneels down beside him, and takes out a cloth to wipe the blood off of Gaara's face. Gaara just looked at Naruto, confused. "You know, whatever your name is, beating people up isn't the best way to make friends with someone. You have 'Love' tattooed on your head right? So why do you want to hate people so much. You should give them a chance. Take Sasuke for example! He may have a sour personality when you first see him, and he may go a bit too far in a fight, but he's a great friend who would never let you down." Sasuke rolled his eyes, pretending that he wasn't loving Naruto's praise of him. Gaara smiled at Naruto's words.

Even though back then Gaara left without a word, he changed his ways, trying to be more like Naruto. Trying to be friendly. After that Gaara visited both Sasuke and Naruto often, viewing them sort of like his big brothers.

After they stopped laughing, it hit Naruto like a ton of bricks. He never got to ask Sasuke about the student council, Sasuke had interrupted him before. "Sasuke, did you ever finish picking the next Student Council President?" Naruto turned to Sasuke smiling. "Umm…." Sasuke turned away with an 'whoops' kind of look on his face. "You didn't…. YOU FORGOT! DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS! You were Student council leader for three years! Not just anyone can handle that! That's why the Student council president always picks who will take over for him or her when they leave. YOU HAD THREE YEARS!" Naruto stared Sasuke down. "D-D-Don't worry Naruto! I've got this taken care of! I promise!" Sasuke started backing up and noting his exits. "SASUKE! THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID THREE MONTHS AGO!" Sasuke ran, and Naruto chased after, dropping his ice as he did so. Gaara on the other hand, just stared at Naruto's ass until he couldn't see Naruto anymore. "[i]Sigh.[/i] Such a great ass…." Gaara noted, not realizing that he said it out loud. Good thing no one was around to hear it. Huh?