I know….I took a good amount of time on the next chapter…

I apologize –cries-

Shit won't stop happening to me!! First my laptop broke…then we got a new one with Windows Vista on it, and the last time I attempted writing this demon chapter, the evil new version of Word decides to test me….so far…it's winning -.-

Evil!

Anyway, I finally conquered the battle and am somewhat getting the hang of the new Word…so meh…here is the chappie :0

Disclaimer: What? Did you think in this short time I'd own Naruto?…psh, ya right…not mine –pouts-

"You need to learn to concentrate in school, Naruto-kun. You can't afford another suspension."

The blonde teen blinked cerulean eyes at the principal with a sigh. He'd been here so many times, you could ask him the color of the napkin balled up in the trashcan from last Tuesday and he'd probably know it off the top of his head. It was a miracle that he and the principal were pretty close. She had been friends with his own mom when he was just a baby…before she died. The principal he saw as somewhat of his aunt. She looked out for him…most of the time.

"No problem, Haruhi-sensei." He said with a rather bored tone, bowing to her regardless. He didn't quite expect a fan to wake him in the back of the head, to which he stumbled forward surprised.

He shot his gaze up to the principal with a quirked brow, seeing her superior smirk with said fan now completely fanned out and blowing small gusts of wind onto her face.

"What would you do without me, Naru-chan?" She said with a defeated sigh. This kid was a regular bomb ready to explode at any moment.

The blonde gave her an innocent glare before turning around with a pursed lip, heading to the doorway with his trademark, 8 yr old pout. "Be able to finish off my stupid pizza…" he mumbled, to which she chuckled slightly, returning to her work.

It was then, an idea hit the blonde. A rare moment indeed.

He whipped his body back around and stood right in front of her desk again, thus scaring the hell out of the young woman, not expecting his random act. Fast little bugger.

"Naru-?" The remainder of her sentence went unheard by the explosionist.

"I wanna ask you something…since you are the most awesome, amazing, outstanding principal in all the history of Kodama High!"

The woman looked into ocean blue eyes, before her own closed with a sigh. "What do you want?"

The blonde smiled at her before eyes adverted downwards. "I need to figure something out…about a friend. I haven't known him too long…but things are a bit suspiscious…and I'm kinda worried about him…Ya'think I could ask a few questions that you can answer from your records on him?"

Haruhi tilted her head slightly to the side, confused a bit by this seemingly random request. She hoped deep down it was nothing serious about the boy.

"Naruto…I can't allow that. It's against the rules to disclose information about one student to another…even if they are friends."

Naruto sighed, his smile slowly faded away before his gaze returned to the brunette. "Please. I'm really worried."

She looked into the eyes of the boy she saw as her relative, seeing the need in his eyes she sighed and finally smiled. "Fine Naruto…but it's our-" Yet again, the young woman's remaining sentence went unheard, being drowned out by a loud 'Woohoo' from the blonde. She sweatdropped.

"Secret…"

Slowly, the raven haired teen stepped out of his car, looking up at the hell that was the house that lay before him.

Unfortunately…he lived there.

He sighed. "If I could ever pick a time to be lucky…please be now." He said as if praying an unheard wish to the God above.

A second of mental preparation was taken before he continued to the front door of the one-story home, slowly pushing the key into the lock and opening the door. He stepped in, being sure to close the door behind him, tossing his bag aside along with shoes and his hoodie before continuing, thinking a quick dash to his room would avoid interaction with his sadistic brother. Of course, he was wrong.

"Home late, Otouto?" Was what was heard deeper into the house amongst the noises from the t.v, to be precise the living room.

Sasuke swallowed back that slight fear that was trapped deep in his subconscious, managing to answer back with strength in his voice. "Yes."

There was a slight pause before the older responded. "I see. Do you need anything?"

Without even realizing it, Sasuke had another emotion to swallow back. Surprise. Was that just a caring comment directed to him? By Itachi no less?

"N-no, I'm fine." He stuttered out before taking off to his room with no other communication between the two, sitting down on his mattress and staring at the floor, thinking over that brief moment with his brother.

How could something so simple like asking if he needed something seem like such a loving thing to say? "Itachi…you're really confusing…" he said with a defeated sigh.

And there we are. Still short isn't it?

T.T I tried!!! Meh, take what you get….I have this stupid habit when writing, at that's that somewhere in my head I see that shorter chapters means the story has more chapters...thus it gives off the impression of the story being longer...I think I'm just rambling...heh, another habit -.-; I promise on my life, I will make the next stupid chapter longer!!

Hope you like, all!

R&R as usual…my personal goal is for at least 10 total reviews in a week…

C'mon people! 3 more in 7 days! That's all I want!

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