My Senses
Smell
A/N: Sorry about the long gap between chapters, but Fu got grounded, but she's back now. Wahoo, in case you need a recap, Sasuke has officially admitted he's gay, and things are getting juice-ay! ;D
Disclaimer: I don't own Romeo and Juliet, Aida, or Naruto! Kthnx
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Whispers still radiated through the halls on Monday. A person couldn't move an inch without hearing some other person whispering something to their friend. I felt awkwardly sick to my stomach. It's not like I'm the one who's just come out, but seriously, if this is the way they're treating Sasuke, I'm scared to come out. I shuffled through crowds of kids waiting by there until its time to go to first period.
I finally reached my locker, seeing and obnoxious blonde (no not me), next to me chatting away on her cell phone. "Ohmigosh, totally! I, like, knew it all along! Well no wonder he would hardly ever flirt with you." The blonde Yamanaka girl practically shouted into her phone. "Uhm, Ino, could you please get out of in front of my locker?" I asked her. "Ugh! Private conversation, Uzamaki!" she exclaimed, retreating to a different area.
I rolled my eyes as I opened my locker. First period was the dreaded language arts and literature class. Taught by none other than the pervy hentai reader himself, Kakashi Hatake. Of course due to his awkward perverted ness, he makes us read… interesting books. Thankfully not as strong has his 'Come Come Paradise' but probably equally weird.
I walked down the hallway, deciding to arrive at class early. "Morning." Gaara said, coming out of nowhere. "AAAAHH!" I squealed, in a girl like manner. Flushing as I saw that everybody noticed me I quickly coughed to cover it up. "Don't scare me like that!" I told him. "Sorry. You heading over to reading-slash-English, I assume." "Yep."
When I reached the classroom it was near empty, except Kakashi was talking to a certain raven haired boy. My face tinged a light shade of pink as he turned around to look at me. "Oh, Naruto, you're a bit early." Sensei said. Sasuke smiled at me with a blunt, "Hey." "Why so early?" Sensei asked. "I just had nothing better to do…" I started. "Why don't you just sit with us, people probably won't start walking to class for at least another ten minutes…" Kakashi said.
I clumsily sat on the desk next to the one Sasuke sat on. "As I was saying, I was thinking of having you guys read a new novel, I think you're mature and-"Sensei started. "Please, for the sake of our class's sanity, not another mature one." Sasuke said casually, rolling his eyes. "Seriously I thought I was going to kill myself after reading that story about that one kid who… Oh yeah, he killed himself." I stated.
"Well this one is about tragedy, and romance, a forbidden love between to people who love each other. You see, they want to hook up, but their family, society, and religion, would shun them if they showed true love for each other. Then they die together." Kakashi said, in a dramatic manner. "You mean Romeo and Juliet?" Sasuke asked. "Yeah, it's kind of like one of those stories that's like Romeo and Juliet, but isn't it, you know, like Aida." Sensei told us. "How is it different?" I asked him, not very satisfied with the explanation.
"Well, simply this: the book takes place in modern time, and the two lovers are gay guys." Kakashi told us flatly. Suddenly my light pink blush darkened into a deep red tone, as I looked down to my feet to hide my face. Sasuke stayed silent, though it was obvious that the whole school knew he was gay, I don't think the teachers got the memo. It appeared that Sasuke was a bit touchy on the subject, but he spoke anyway, "Well, I don't think the class will like that type of story…" he said.
"Well, that's the reason I'm assigning it, because this story is in first person and the narrator says how they feel. The class should realize that if somebody gay is in love they feel the same things that straight people do when they're in love. They go through the same grief and pain as any other. Being gay is like having silver hair, a person is born with it, they don't choose it." Kakashi said. I smiled a bit, thinking of how well put and insightful it was. Though I wonder where he achieved his insight, I didn't have enough time to ponder since the bell rang. People poured into the classroom filing into their isles and sitting in their seats.
The period didn't go well, after the English lesson he handed out the books and people immedietly argued about a book that had "fags" in it. There was an especially heated argument between Sensei and Ino, who started to call out sensei and accuse him of being gay himself. After that disastrous period I had Art, which made me feel relieved.
Suddenly I heard a voice, actually a lot of voices, ranting and raving, it sounded rather out of control. I ran out of the hallway to see a large crowd of people, harassing whoever was in the middle of the crowd. They shouted mean things like "Faggot!", "EWWW GROSS!", "Please make out with a guy so I can post pictures on the internet!"(A/N: THAT WAS ALL US BABY xD!) "Go to hell!", "GROSS!", "Go suck somebody's cock!", and other mean things, some to crude to mention.
I quickly filed through all the people ranting and saw Sasuke in the middle. His teeth were clenched and his hand in the shape of a fist. He tried to get through the crowd but people kept on pushing him, shoving him, some even hurt punched and kicked him. I could see a mark or two on his face from people punching him. I hated to see him like this! He looked so miserable and angry. I wish I could just kiss every wound on him better. I began to feel tears in my eyes, tears for Sasuke.
Out of nowhere the next bell rang, and people scattered everywhere trying to get to class. The next thing I know everybody had filed out of there, including Sasuke, but there still wasn't something right…. Suddenly I picked up something, it was a… Smell. A vaguely dank smell, it was very heavy and I could smell a bit of salt in there. I followed the smell towards the hallway leading to the Art room.
I followed the smell to a locker and then I was shocked when I found the source. There he was, cutting deep wounds into himself, slashing away carelessly. Sasuke. Sasuke, my love. It killed me to see him do this to myself. He looked up to see me and immedietly stopped, dropping the blade he had used. A red blush spread across his face. "I, uhm… I don't know what to say," he told me, not making eye contact. "I-it's okay… Please just calm down. I-I know that sometimes misery is a bit much to cope with…" I said, tears welling up in my eyes. Damn, I'm such a crybaby. Must… Not…. Cry… "I'm just feeling sorry for myself." He said.
"I'd better go to the n-nurse's off-" he suddenly fell to his knees, his wounds bleeding horribly. "Let me take you there!" I told him. Though he didn't like the idea he accepted my help. He put his arm around my shoulder, causing me to blush. I escorted him to the nurse's office, and our (coughpsycoticcough) nurse, Anko, took care of him. I personally wouldn't trust her dealing with bleeding wounds, but the school hired her, what can I do about it…
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The rest of the morning was a bit of a blur, all I could think about was Sasuke. Is he okay? Will he thank me? What's going to happen? Lunch came not a minute to soon. Gaara met me in the hall, "You smell like blood." He said. Well, what a hello… "Yeah I escorted somebody to the nurse's today." I said rather dreamily. "Sasuke, right." He said casually. I sighed and nodded.
We entered the lunchroom and got into the line, and got our usual. Me: pizza, an orange, and juice; Gaara: nothing. We sat at our own table, yet something seemed amiss. Gaara didn't seem so concentrated on what was currently happening, but something else. "Mind if we sit with you?" a voice came out of nowhere. It belonged to the cream eyed brunette known as Neji Hyuuga. I could only imagine the grief that Hinata went through since her own cousin is gay. Behind Neji was a bandaged Sasuke.
"Sit." Gaara told them. Sasuke took a seat next to me as Neji sat next to Gaara, who was blushing so much that his whole pale face lit up. "Are you alright?" I asked Sasuke meekly. He nodded and smiled at me, making me feel an awkward flurry rise in my stomach. "What happened?" Gaara asked. "I uh, got cut." He said, embarrassed. Neji smiled at Gaara, "You know, your face is all red, if you want I could escort you to the nurse's office." He offered. Gaara's face, in result, turned even redder. "I, uh, uhm, well, I'm uhm, well… S-sure." He said, nervously. Neji and Gaara stood up and left.
GO GAARA! Way to get some alone time with the guy you like! I had a secret smile hidden on my face. I wonder what Gaara will do. I'm surprised he even got as far as speaking full sentences to Neji, but I'm surprised he faked sick just to get some attention from Neji. "About what happened…" Sasuke started. "It's fine, I'll keep quiet." I said, already knowing what he wanted. He raised an eye brow but then smiled. I smiled back.
Then for a second our eyes met. I looked into his dark eyes, and he looked into my blue ones. I felt more flurries in my stomach as a pink tint on my face turned into deep crimson red. I was caught in his eyes for what felt like forever, until the bell rang and forced me to tear my eyes from his. Though our eyes were linked for what felt like forever, it still wasn't enough.
"I, uh, we, better get to class." Sasuke finally said. He walked out through the kitchen, avoiding any potential bullies, I guess. "W-wait, Sasuke!" I shouted. He turned around looking surprised. Why did I shout his name? I had nothing to say to him. Nothing I needed to do. I guess I just wanted to see his face. My cheeks tinged pink, as I said "I, uhm… Don't harm yourself anymore!" I thought of that off the top of my head, but I think it was good advice. He smiled at me, "Thanks for caring." The warmth and sweetness of his smile could've melted me at the spot, but I decided to stay in one piece today. He then turned around and headed back to class.
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After lunch I usually met Gaara by the gym for free period, but he wasn't there today. Today had been rather awkward, but this takes the cake for the weird stuff happening today. Gaara was usually the one who was waiting impatiently anywhere we were supposed to meet, bitching me out if I arrived a second later than the designated time.
He finally walked towards me, avoiding eye contact. It was finally my turn to lay down the bitching. "Where have you been? You're late! You're lucky it's our free period or else you'd be in big trouble with a teacher right now!" I nagged. He gave me an icy cold look which caused me to stop. "Sorry." He said. "It's okay, I was just kidding. But really? Usually you're the early one… Why so late." I asked him. He immedietly blushed and attempted to not let me see.
I smirked asking, "What happened, did it not go well?" He shook his head. "It did go well?" I asked. He had a smirk on his face, ear to ear. "What happened?" I asked. He just smiled and walked towards his locker. "Hey, why won't you tell me?" I asked, annoyed, "HEY!" "I don't kiss and tell." He stated plainly. My eyes widened, "KISS! You kissed! NO WAY!!" I gawked. "Heh, no, but I had you going. Didn't I?" he told me. I sighed at my stupidity and went on, "So how did it really go?" "We went to the nurse's office, asked if I had any bleeding wounds, I said no and she dismissed me. Neji escorted me to my next class and yeah…" he told me.
"Ouch. Why didn't you make a move?" I asked him. His cheeks flushed as he looked away. I smiled and let it go. "So, about you and the Uchiha…" he started. I immedietly remembered when we looked into each other's eyes and my face turned bright red.
o.o! ANO… Emergency Eject Button…
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Fu: I'm currently typing this, but I have to stop immedietly, I have a small issue at the time. I'm so sorry about the emergency stop, but I promise you I'll get the rest of the chapter soon, I swear!!! (So sorry!!!!)
