Disclaimer: I don't own nor have I contributed to Naruto in any way! Nope! None!
2nd Disclaimer: The songs and lyrics mention in this fic do not belong to me! Nu-uh! The song in this chapter is: "Move Along" by the All-American Rejects
Sky-eyed Kitsune: To my reviewers, I LUV YOU ALL!!!
Gomi-kun: No comment.
Sky-eyed Kitsune: Good news! Gomi-kun has gotten less emo! Omg!
Gomi-kun: Oh shut it and read the updates.
Sky-eyed Kitsune: Yes, yes, updates! Of course! –looks at paper-- ……there are no updates! Kya! Read down for the important crap!
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Reviewer Replies:
To Gemstones: Wa! Another one of your lovely reviews Gemstones! I luv reading them:D A vote for Sasuke as Naruto's roommate! Yatta!
To ILoveItachihessohot: Yay! I was trying to make a different kind of fic, and I succeeded! Oh yes, who will Naruto pick!? OH TEH DRAMA!!! –swoons—
To Krissy7p: Woot! A Gaara supporter! XD Yes, I update very quickly because I don't have a life outside of college and work since my family and I live far away from each other. So expect very fast updates!!! A vote for Sai as Naru's roommate!
To HeyBabySoSad: Yes Gaara! Everyone is excited about Gaara!
To RepentshadowsGirl: Wow you read this all in one go? O.o Good lord! Hehehe, I converted someone to nejinaru! Yays!!! XD Another vote for Sasuke as Naru's roomie!!
To Arekkusu94: Wa! Thank you soooooo much!!! –cries from joy—T.T Another vote for Sasuke as Naru's roomie! Poor Sai and Itachi!
To karin85: Thank you!!! X3 Oooh, hold that thought! I'll be starting Naru's main suitor poles about ¼ into the story, so that's coming up!
To Destiny Writes: Wa! No biggie at all, review when you can!!! Thank you!
To Akaba Yuri: A vote for Sasuke as Naruto's roomie! Thank you for the review:D
To sulie: He's coming, be patient pleaseeeeee! T.T
To itachisgurl93: Omg! I made Gaara smile! Hell has frozen over!!! One more vote for Sasuke! And yes, Naruto is Cyclone's mommy. Yay mommy Naru!!! X3
To Mizuki's-Dream: Aw, a gaanaru fan! They are sooo cute aren't they! X3 Another vote for Sasuke! Wow! Keep rooting for your pairing! Omg, you luv my story!? Wa! runs around the room like a maniac and then passes out from happ-happy-joy-joy overload
Chapter Dedication: This one goes out to ILoveItachihessohot, RepentshadowsGirl and Gemstones! Loverly reviews!!! –flings cookies—
IMPORTANT CRAP!!!
Here's the final score so far for Naruto's roommate!
Sasuke: 6
Sai: 1
Itachi: 0
Go Sasuke! The winner by a landslide! XD Remember, this doesn't mean that he will be Naru's one true love, so keep rooting for your suitor! XD
I will from here on out be doing a point score with the good and bad things that happen with Naruto and his suitors, kind of like heart points for people who have played Harvest Moon. And so, this will be the Heart Point Tally! The story will be very long, so there will be several points to be added up, or taken away! You can help your favorite suitor gain points! How you may ask? Why by voting after certain scenes if I ask it, like at the end of this chapter! (So look at my blabber at the bottom! 'Tis very important!) The Heart Point Tally's will have x's for broken heart points (bad ones!) and o's for beating heart points. (good ones!) So far the Heart Point Tally stands as follows:
Gaara: O
Itachi:
Neji: OOOOOO
Sai:
Sasuke:
Neji has a huge lead since he and Naruto are apart! T.T –dramatic swoon—C'mon guys and help your suitors! When you finish the chappie you'll find out how you can do that at the end!
Chapter 8: My Roommate, the Bastard
Fire…there was fire everywhere.
Naruto sat huddled in a corner as the flames licked at his cheeks and charred his premature bright yellow mat of hair.
"Mommy! D-Daddy!" he cried out helplessly, curling up tighter as a part of the roof of his smoldering house fell and fed the flames below, the fire billowing out like a sheet.
"Naruto!"
Naruto lifted his head at the sound of his name and suddenly found himself scooped up in the arms of his father, his mother next to him. They were both burning and charred, but they didn't care they had to get Naruto out.
Naruto's father carefully walked his way through the flaming rubble, keeping low as his wife began to cough. Suddenly another piece of the roof was about to fall and completely box them in. Seeing this, Naruto's father threw Naruto as gently and quickly as possible while avoiding any flames, before the ceiling crashed in front of the couple and spread the flames in a wild frenzy.
Naruto had rolled across the floor a bit roughly, but didn't have a scratch on him from his father's careful throw. He scrambled to his hands and knees and looked behind him just as the flaming roof separated him from his family.
"Mama! Daddy!" Naruto cried, tears pouring down his cheeks.
"Naruto, go! Get out! Go to the front door!" his father cried from behind the flames.
"I- won't leave you!" Naruto screamed back over the roaring fire.
"Go Naruto!" this time his mother called. "Go honey, we'll be fine!"
Naruto hesitated, but finally ran through his red and smoldering house, trying to figure out where the front door would be if his surrounds weren't collapsing around him.
Naruto neared the front entrance, when suddenly the window near him exploded, and steaming shards of glass were thrown directly as Naruto. He cried out in pain as six separate shards made three gashes on each side of his cheeks. He fell to the ground, crimson blood staining his skin and dripping to the floor below. Naruto looked up and saw the front door ahead of him. He knew the handle would be hot, so he did the only thing he could- he scrambled up onto his feet shakily, ran to the door, and crashed right through it, falling on the cement steps below and toppling head over heels.
Naruto picked himself up yet again, the tears on his face mixing with the blood as he stared at the fire with wide azure eyes.
"MOM! DAD!" he shouted, but his only reply was the house exploding from the top. Naruto heard sirens echo in the distance as his vision became blurry and the world began to spin. He saw flashes of firefighters and doctors go past him, one nurse picking him up and rushing him into an emergency vehicle, before everything became dark.
Naruto opened his eyes and saw blinding white.
"He's waking up!" someone called, but it was a voice Naruto didn't recognize
"Doctor!"
"Get some water! He may be thirsty!"
"Yes sir! Right away!"
"Naruto, can you hear me?"
Naruto moved his eyes to voice and saw a blurry white figure. He blinked a few times and the blur focused in, becoming a person.
"Naruto, how do you feel?" the doctor in front of the young Naruto asked. Naruto sat up a little bit, ignoring the doctor's urges form him to stay down.
"Funny…I feel funny…" Naruto said slowly, trying to recall what had happened. He reached up to scratch his cheek and winced as he found three see-through medical band aids strapped over each of his cheeks.
"You got quite some nasty cuts and burns," the doctor said. "You should be healed in about a week and a half, but you may have some very bad scars on your cheeks and another large one on your back where you were burned."
Naruto shook his head.
"Where am I? Who are you? What burns?" he asked, questions pouring from him.
"Naruto, don't you remember the fire?" the doctor asked. The nurse returned with a cup of water and handed it to Naruto, who gulped it down.
"What fire?" Naruto asked.
"The one you were just in two nights ago," the doctor replied, and the nurse took on a look of shock.
"I kinda remember flames…but that's it."
"Your parents…" the doctor sighed. "The one your parents died in."
"Parents? I had parents? What were their names?" Naruto asked, his eyes growing big. The doctor's eyes grew wide and the nurse burst out sobbing.
"So a day when you've lost yourself completely could be the night when your life ends."
"Naruto, do you remember anything about your mother and father?" the doctor asked cautiously as he tried to comfort the nurse. Why was she crying, Naruto wondered?
"Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving."
"Nu-uh. Nothin."
"When all you've got to keep is strong, move along, move along, like I know you do."
"What about before now? Do you remember anything?"
"And even when your hope is gone, move along, move along, just to make it through."
"I go to school?"
"Right back what is wrong, we move along."
"Naruto, I'm sorry to say this but….I think that you've lost all memory of your life before this fire accident."
"
Naruto gasped and sat up in bed. He held a hand to his sweating forehead as he took in strangled breaths. He hadn't dreamed about his parent's death or his memory loss since…well, a long time.
"Sorry, did I wake you up?" a scornful voice said, and Naruto whipped his head to the right. His gaze met with cold onyx as he stared into the eyes of a beautiful junior.
He wore a pair of scuffed jeans with black tennis shoes, a long-sleeved navy tee-shirt with black rims on the hem of shirt and the cuffs. A small silver chain hung off his left jean side. His skin was a beautiful ashen color, looking almost too fragile to even touch. His hair was as black as Cyclone's fur, taking on a bluish sheen in the light. Sharp shreds of bangs framed the teen's face, and smoothed to stick out in the back. All in all he was so gorgeous that he competed with Naruto's looks.
Naruto finally tore his cobalt gaze from those black onyx eyes, and he heard the heartthrob teen smirk as he turned off the radio.
"Sorry moron but you were thrashing around in your sleep and annoying the hell out of me," he said in a smooth voice laced with disdain.
He stood up from where he was seated in front of his laptop as Naruto pulled Cyclone, obviously jarred by Naruto's rough sleep as well, into his lap and stroked him soothingly.
"Ok idiot, my name is Sasuke Uchiha. I'm going to lay down the rules now," the dark teen named Sasuke said, crossing his arms and standing defiantly over Naruto.
"Number one- stay on your side of the room. Number two- don't annoy me. Number three- don't come in drunk after partying all night. Number four- don't set you alarm to go off before 6am or there will be serious hell to pay. Number five- don't talk to me. I'm not interested in whatever you have to say. Got all that?"
Naruto nodded slowly, still not meeting Sasuke's gaze.
"Just stay out of my way and the next two years will go by fast."
Another nod.
Sasuke examined Naruto, scanning his eyes over him. Gods, he was the freaking reincarnation of an angel! Sasuke suddenly felt bad for practically acting like a drill sergeant towards him…what!?
Sasuke mentally slapped himself.
Why would he care!? He had told off plenty of good looking guys and girls, so why was this any different!?
"Hey, did you listen to anything I said?" Sasuke demanded, and thrust up Naruto's chin to look at him.
Big mistake.
Staring back at Sasuke were two of the biggest, most beautiful deep sapphire eyes he had ever seen. They churned and swirled like the ocean waves, rippling beneath the golden sun. Sasuke felt himself get pulled out into this sea, and was wrapped inside a world of blue.
But these eyes, why did they look so sad? So painful? So scared? Sasuke suddenly felt the need to calm those frightened ocean waves until they slowed and sparkled against the moonlight serenely.
Sasuke moved his hand subconsciously to caress the golden angel's cheek, softly brushing his thumbs over three of the scars on the side of his face.
"What's your name?" Sasuke suddenly asked, his voice much less scornful, and Naruto found it utterly soothing and beautiful.
"N-Naruto," Naruto said, willing his voice parched from his nightmare to work.
"Naruto…" Sasuke said, testing the name and rolling it off his tongue. Naruto even had a perfect voice…how much better could this guy get? Sasuke willed the thought away. In one day he would be like every other stuck up asshole in that God forsaken school. That's what Sasuke wanted to make himself believe, but he couldn't. This guy…why was he able to affect Sasuke so dramatically? Sasuke would normally cringe at the simple thought of human contact, and yet here he was with his hand on his roommate's cheek, rubbing it gently. Something inside Sasuke just positively screamed that Naruto was different, and looking into those eyes again, Sasuke was sure of it. Within those cobalt waves Naruto's soul was set out for display, all the hurt, the laughter, the sorrow, the joy, and the anguish spread over the ocean for Sasuke to see.
Naruto was definitely different.
Naruto suddenly felt his eyelids grow heavy and he closed his eyes. There it was again, that need for comfort, and there it was waiting for him. It was just like with Gaara. Naruto wanted comfort, to be told that it was alright, to just be held close. As hard as he tried to keep his emotions locked away in the cage, his sorrow somehow always managed to leak through. Why was he in so much pain?
Naruto felt his eyes sting, but he wouldn't cry. He wouldn't shed a tear in front of his new dorm roomie.
Naruto closed his eyes tighter and bit his lip as he turned his head left and away from Sasuke's hand. Yes, he wanted that soft touch, that comfort and reassurance, but he refused to let himself have it. He would keep himself in that cage.
Sasuke frowned a bit as Naruto turned his head away from his hand and watched as Naruto bit his lip, his eyes shut tightly as if trying to conceal some pain. Pain akin to what Sasuke himself had felt perhaps? Or maybe…more?
Sasuke's frown deepened as he saw Naruto bite down on his lip so hard that he drew blood. What pain had been so bad for him to defile those beautiful, soft pink angel lips of his?
Sasuke leaned in and brushed his own lips against Naruto's, the sensation sending warmth over his whole body. Suddenly Sasuke mentally slapped himself. What the hell was he doing? Number one, he hated human contact. Number two, he had just met this guy. Number three, he was straight, dammit! Well he had never gone out with any girls, but he was straight! He was! Right? Yes! But then why couldn't he pull away? Why did he want to kiss this angel of angels!?
"Back off."
Sasuke was thrust back into reality as he heard those words uttered, bitter and distant, and most of all, hostile.
Sasuke pulled back a bit and looked Naruto in the eyes. The waves now revealed nothing. They were deathly still, frozen it seemed, and Sasuke's blood ran cold at the sight.
"Get away," Naruto said, his voice now no longer angry, but almost as impassive as Sasuke's, and that was saying something!
Anger suddenly curled in Sasuke's stomach.
What the hell!? Here he was trying to comfort the noob, and he goes all dark and evil on Sasuke! What as with that? Sure Sasuke may have been intruding on his personal space a bit, but he was just trying to help for God's sake!
Sasuke stood up straight and crossed his arms, sending Naruto's blank and beautiful face a death glare.
"Did you get all those rules?" he said. "Even an idiot like yourself should be able to understand them."
Naruto nodded and Sasuke almost had a seizure.
Were his taunts and glares having no effect whatsoever!? Normal people would have been going of on a raging tangent about what a jerk he was and yelling at his face! Why the hell was this guy such an emotionless hottie!?
Sasuke's breath caught in his throat.
Hottie? Where had that come from!? Ok, so this guy was an angel incarnate, but still! Sasuke was straight! Right? Yes! Wait, no…argh!!!
"Teme…" Naruto said under his breath as he looked away from Sasuke. He had taken Japanese classes for two years at his old school for a long term culture project. If he was going to insult someone, at least he was going to do it in a way that they wouldn't understand.
Sasuke whipped his head around.
Finally a reaction!
"Dobe," he said.
Naruto looked at him incredulously and he simply smirked. Sasuke enjoyed getting a result from the blank face.
How the hell did Sasuke know Japanese?
Naruto grit his teeth and stood. He bent down to his suitcase, unzipping it, grabbed a pair of jeans, and some bottles, and walked to the door.
"Where are you going, dobe?" Sasuke sighed. He tried to not sound concerned. First Naruto had been all silent, then sad, then evil. How many emotion changes was he going to go through in the next five minutes?
"Shower," Naruto said impassively as he walked out of the room and to the one opposite in the hall, guessing it was the bathroom. He was right.
Sasuke collapsed into his computer chair as he heard the faint sound of water running emitting from the closed bathroom door.
Why was this Naruto character so different to him?
Sasuke suddenly felt something brush up against his pant leg and he looked down. A black kitten was rubbing up against his leg and purring. It looked up at Sasuke and mewed. Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"What're you doing here?" he said a bit scornfully, but the kitten just blinked its big blue eyes and sat in front of Sasuke patiently.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and picked up the kitten, who snuggled its head against his chest and purred happily. Sasuke stroked its fur as he sat on his bed.
"You're too cute for your own good," Sasuke sighed. The kitten mewed in response and purred more as Sasuke scratched behind its ears. Sasuke then heard a jingling and finally noticed that the kitten had a collar around its neck. He picked it up and held it in the air to face him as he looked for a tag on the collar.
It was orange with a little silver bell in the middle that chimed now and then when the little cat moved, but there was nothing else to identify the cat whatsoever.
Then Sasuke remembered that Naruto was wearing orange, and reasoned that it must have been his kitten.
"You've got his eyes," Sasuke told the kitten who faced him, referring to Naruto. The kitten bopped him on the nose with his paw and Sasuke couldn't help but smile a bit.
Sasuke stood up with the kitten in his arms, and suddenly notice that Naruto's suitcase was half unzipped.
Alright now, Sasuke had two choices.
One, he could be a good boy and not touch the suit case, or two, he could rifle through it like crazy looking for things that might say something about Naruto and then put everything back in and zip it up before he saw what he was doing.
Ok, no contest.
Sasuke placed the kitten on Naruto's bed, who mewed sadly, wanting to be held and pet again.
Sasuke leaned down to Naruto's suitcase, and hands shaking with the excitement at the thought of learning about the mysterious teen, he unzipped it the rest of the way.
Naruto sighed as the water hit his sun-kissed skin and the warmth ran through his body. Man, his roomie really was a bastard. What was with the whole face caress thing? Naruto would have never pinned Sasuke as the type to be all huggly wuggly.
Naruto felt a bit bad for getting ticked off like that. He was pretty sure that Sasuke was just trying to help, but brushing his lips against his own…it brought back the memory of Neji.
Suddenly Naruto really missed the ocean, and had the immense urge to grab his surf board and dive into the sea. Unfortunately, number one, he didn't have a car to drive. Number two, he left his surfboard at Iruka's new house. Finally number three, he didn't know how the hell to get to the beach.
Naruto sighed again as leaned his head against the white tile wall of the shower, the water pouring down his slender and well defined back.
The next two years were going to be hell.
Sasuke found all the standard things in Naruto's suitcase.
Shirts, jeans with chains hanging off a few, shoes…was that a laptop?
Naruto had stuffed his laptop between his clothing.
Sasuke merely moved it aside and assumed his ransack- er, careful investigating of Naruto's bag.
Sasuke came upon a pair of black boxers with several foxes on them, grinning evilly. Hm, Naruto in evil fox boxers….ah!!!!
Sasuke shut his eyes tight.
No! No no no no no! He was so NOT thinking of how smexy Naruto would look in those! NO!
Sasuke calmed himself before moving on.
Toothbrush, more clothes, some toys for the kitten…c'mon, where was the good stuff?!
Sasuke finally reached some framed pictures at the bottom of the bag and grinned.
Success!
The first he looked at was of a man in his late twenties to early thirties, his hair tied back and a scar across the bridge of his nose. He was smiling at the camera and waving with one hand, while the other was being held by…Naruto?
Sasuke squinted at the picture.
It was definitely Naruto, if not a shy and frightened one. He looked to be about nine, clutching onto the older man's pant leg and holding his hand, hidden half behind the brown-haired man shyly.
Sasuke guessed that he must have been Naruto's father, even though he didn't see the family resemblance.
Next he moved to a similar picture, but Naruto was much older, about a year younger than he was now. He had an arm slung over the brown-haired man's shoulder, being only a bit shorter than him, and held a peace sign up to the camera, grinning like a fox. The man had his mouth open as if reprimanding Naruto for something, paying no attention to the camera. Sasuke laughed a bit.
So the blond really did have a sense of humor, eh? But then Sasuke looked closer at Naruto in the picture. This Naruto…his eyes were amazing. They were the most sparkling sky blue that Sasuke had ever seen. Naruto's eyes were beautiful now too, but they looked so cold and full of pain. And in the picture they looked so carefree and utterly happy, putting the blue sky to shame in their glory. Why had Naruto lost those brilliant, joyful eyes?
Sasuke moved on. This was a very recent picture of Naruto as he was now. He was with three guys, all of them in front of a set of instruments. From left to right, there was a guy with a black cloak and sunglasses being pulled into the picture by another teen with brown hair and a dog collar around his neck, the latter of the two grinning like a maniac. The collared boy had his free arm slung around Naruto, who smiled at his friend. Then next to Naruto was a teen with long brown hair tied back in a loose ponytail. He was smiling softly at Naruto.
Sasuke examined Naruto in this picture. He was normal. Shorter than average, a thin and lithe frame but firm, tanned skin, slightly muscular arms…ok, nothing new. He was damn hot, but nothing new. Then Sasuke spotted the eyes again. They were the cold ocean blue they were now. Still utterly beautiful, but cold and distant. What had happened? Now Sasuke really had to figure out!
He moved to the final picture. This one wasn't framed. It was slightly torn on the sides and burned and singed in the corners. Sasuke wondered what it had been through. In the picture was a man that looked like a full grown Naruto, who had an ecstatic mini Naruto bouncing on his shoulders. His arms were wrapped around what Sasuke assumed to be his wife, who was a beautiful woman with long scarlet hair and soft green eyes. The couple were looking up at Naruto and smiling. Naruto was grinning from ear to ear, his hands in the air excitedly, and his sky blue eyes alight with joy.
Wait a minute…something was missing. Sasuke looked closer.
His scars! Those scars that looked like whiskers on Naruto's face- where were they!? And if these were Naruto's parent's, then who was that brown-haired dude?
Sasuke flipped through the pictures, trying to piece all of this new information together.
He came to a valid conclusion.
Naruto was happy when he was younger, then something must have happened to cause him to get those scars, and he got very reserved and shy. Then he became happy again as he grew older, then sad again as he stopped where he was now. Sasuke nodded to himself.
Damn he was good!
Sasuke lifted up that last picture and brushed his fingers over the burns and rips. What had happened?
"If you're looking for some embarrassing blackmail, I have none. I don't keep a journal or anything."
Sasuke froze and slowly turned around.
Oh shit.
Naruto turned off the water in the shower after rinsing his hair through and downing himself with body wash.
He stepped out of the shower, the tiles cold under his feet as he grabbed a towel from the rack.
He dried himself, considering apologizing to Sasuke for his little growl session.
He grabbed his jeans and boxers from the sink and slipped them on. Naruto looked in the full length mirror in the bathroom and cursed. He had grabbed the wrong pair of pants.
In his anger, instead of picking up his nice and comfy pair of orange cargos, he had grabbed his tight black jeans, ripped at the knees.
Naruto sighed and shook out his wet hair, sending droplets flying. Oh well. He'd just have to deal with having a tight ass for the rest of the day, considering that he really didn't feel like going through the trouble of changing.
He stepped out of the bathroom and back into the dorm room, and what did he find? Sasuke rifling through his things, that's what! No way was he apologizing to that bastard now!
Sasuke's jaw went slack.
He had been petrified when he heard Naruto suddenly speak behind him, basically indicating that he was busted, but now he was just utterly speechless.
There stood Naruto in all his glory, his hair wet and spilling down to brush against his shoulders, his skin a rippling golden. A light brush of pink was over the bridge of his nose from the heat of the shower, and his eyes were churning like the ocean waves. He was topless, revealing firm but not protruding muscles framing his lithe body. A necklace with a swirl of red at the end was about Naruto's neck, shining against his beautiful sunbathed skin. His jeans were black and tight, slit at the knees, and outlined his thin but firm legs.
In short, Sasuke thought he was the sexiest looking thing on the planet.
And you didn't need to be gay to admit that.
The black kitten came bounding up to Naruto, who leaned down and picked it up. It climbed onto Naruto's shoulders, purring as it rubbed under his chin.
"That your kitten?" Sasuke asked, hoping to avert Naruto's attention to anything but his rummaging through the blonde's suitcase.
"Yea," Naruto replied, and the kitten mewed.
"Oh…what's it's name?"
"Cyclone."
"I see…"
There was a long awkward pause, then Naruto sighed.
"Like I said Uchiha, you're not going to find any blackmail in there. I don't keep a jornal."
"I wasn't looking for blackmail," Sasuke said, glaring.
"Right, I forgot that it's normal to rummage through your roommate's things while he's in the shower. Oops, my bad," Naruto spat, returning back Sasuke's glare whole-heartedly.
"Dobe! I wasn't-"
"Then what? Is this some kind of new guy initiation? I knew this school was nuts…"
"For god's sake, listen to me Naruto!" Sasuke finally cried, standing up and gripping Naruto by his arms.
Sasuke had Naruto's attention as soon as he used his real name instead of Dobe as a substitute.
"Look, I wasn't….I don't…" Sasuke struggled to speak, looking at the ground now. What we he supposed to say? I want to know more about you because you interest me? Lord no! It sounded like he was hitting on the guy!
As Sasuke thought, his hands on Naruto's arms became limper, and they unconsciously slid down Naruto's soft tan arms, sending a shiver up the blonde's spine, until they rested on his hands, sunlight against moonlight.
Sasuke didn't even seem to notice, deep in thought of how to rephrase his sentence.
"Augh!" Sasuke finally shouted, throwing his hands up and turning his back on Naruto.
"Forget it!" he said.
Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Teme," he muttered
"Dobe," Sasuke shot back.
"Jerk."
"Dumbass."
"Asshole."
"Hn."
"Grrr…"
Naruto growled, grinding his teeth together and gripping his hands into fists. Sasuke smirked at the blond as he sat down in front of his laptop and began to type.
Naruto shook his head. What was this bastard's problem?
Naruto placed Cyclone on the bed from his shoulders as he grabbed a shirt from his suitcase, stuffing back everything inside that the Uchiha had pulled out while snooping. He stopped momentarily as he picked up the frayed and burnt picture, looking at it sadly. This didn't go unnoticed by Sasuke out of the corner of his eye.
Naruto stood up and threw on his shirt after righting his suitcase. It was a black shirt with two solid orange lines running down the sides. The top middle of the shirt said "Kiiler Fox" in orange slashed letters, a clawed fox paw between them.
Again, this was seen by the Uchiha, who fought down a blush. Naruto + wet hair + tight black pants + form fitting tee-shirt smexiness.
After giving Cyclone a quick scratch behind the ears and clipping his orange cell phone on the chains on one side of his jeans, Naruto was out the door in a flash of orange and black.
Sasuke sighed as he watched Naruto shut the door, and flopped down on his bed, looking up at the bare ceiling.
"There's got to be an easier way to do this," Sasuke thought aloud to himself. "How hard can it be to figure out one person?"
Cyclone, who thought that Sasuke was talking to him, mewed and hopped onto Sasuke's bed. He padded up on top of Sasuke's chest, his collar bell jingling gently, and spread out on top of him.
Sasuke looked down at Cyclone and smiled a bit at the big blue eyes staring at him. He stroked the kitten's jet black fur, and it purred appreciatively.
"You got any ideas?" Sasuke asked, addressing the cat now.
Cyclone dipped his head to one side, one ear up and the other down.
"Naruto I mean. I've got to find a way to get to know him. He's just so darn mysterious! Hn, that Dobe…"
Sasuke closed his eyes as pet Cyclone. He tried to imagine the brush of his lips against Naruto's again, the feeling of his tanned arms, and those deep blue eyes…
Sasuke mentally smacked himself again.
Straight! He was straight! Straight straight straight straight straight!
Sasuke needed to get to the bottom of this. Why was Naruto causing these thoughts? What made him tick? Most importantly, who was he? Sasuke was determined to find out.
Cyclone moved to snuggled into the crook up Sasuke's neck, curling up and purring softly.
Sasuke agreed that a nap would do him some good to clear his head and get him ready for his new mission.
Why was this school so huge?
Naruto had gone to the academic building to map it out so he wouldn't need to rely on Gaara all the time for classes, and five minutes in he was already lost.
Naruto walked with his hands in his pockets, looking down at the ground as he thought about how to get out, when suddenly his thoughts shifted to Sasuke.
That Teme! What a jerk!
But what was he trying to say before? Bah, what did Naruto care? The guy was an arrogant, egotistic, smug, handsome, had really black, beautiful eyes, dark hair, pale skin…
Naruto shook his head, spraying some water droplets here and there from his damp hair.
No! He was so not thinking about the Teme like that!
Ok, he was good looking, so what? That didn't out weigh his tightass attitude!
Ok, now Naruto had a headache…and why was the room spinning a bit?
Naruto put a hand to his head but pulled it away.
Good lord, he was steaming!
Naruto cursed to himself as he sneezed. He had caught a cold from being in the rain and staying in his wet clothes, despite Gaara's insistent towel-drying.
"Gaara…"
Naruto put a hand to his head and steadied himself against the wall as he tried to remember which room Gaara's was. Now he was really dizzy! Naruto pushed off the wall and walked aimlessly down one hallway after another, passed a roofed outside sidewalk where the rain was becoming a storm, and suddenly found himself back inside the junior and senior dorm building.
Thank God!
Naruto turned down the hall to the right where he remembered Gara's room being, when the room became off kilter and Naruto spilled against the wall, hitting his back against it hard. He slid down the wall to the floor, trying to keep his breathing steady, which all of the sudden felt constricted.
Naruto's eyes started to close, his body shutting down. He blinked, trying to keep awake as he saw a figure approach him and kneel down before him.
The figure said something, but Naruto couldn't make out what it was; everything sounded like an echo, so far away and distorted. He tried to speak, but all that came out was a broken,
"N-neh..."
Naruto was swallowed in a sea of black.
Sky-eyed Kitsune: Ahh! Chappie done:D What'd you think??? Oh my, we have a determined Sasuke and a silent and broody Naruto! Holy mother of cupcakes, has the world been flipped upside down!? o.O Who is the figure that found Naruto? Look below for details!
IMPORTANT CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Who is the mysterious figure that found Naruto as he passed out? Well the choice is yours, but there's a twist! It's none of the suitors!!! XD Ok, now the character you pick will in fact lead to a suitor and it will give them heart point(s) with Naru!
But be careful! The character you pick might not lead to who you think! For example: If you pick Shizune (who is not on the list) you could expect her to take Naruto to Sasuke because they share the same dorm and he could take care of Naru, when in reality she takes him to Gaara because he's Naru's guide and should help him! You could make or break your suitor here people! So choose wisely, and rack up those heart points! XD
The characters to choose from that could have found Naruto are:
Shikamaru
Deidara
Lee
Kankuro
They all lead to one suitor, but be careful! Things could turn out a lot different than you expect, and you could end up helping a rival suitor! Nonetheless, vote away!!!
-Sky-eyed Kitsune