AN: Sooooo as you can see this is a longer chapter then the last one! Hope you guys are satisfied and what not because I am! :] Yay! More building plotline! Read and Review…
Chapter 3
The walls were bare, bleached white, and faded yellow in some areas. His footsteps echoed around him, making the hallway seem endless. No posters of encouragement were hanged, no Honor's or Principal's List. The whole schooled vibrated with Winter Break. He could feel the anticipation surround him, frustrating him.
Naruto was early today, hadn't gotten any sleep the night before. He pulled his orange hoodie closer to himself. The empty school was freezing with no one inside. He made his way to his first class of the day, Study Hall. He wasn't surprised to see Sasuke there, this early in the morning, but from a dark blue raised eyebrow aimed his way, he could tell the other was, if not surprised, amazed at how unusually early he was. He would've been to, if he was in Sasuke's place, seeing as how most days he never bothered to show up.
He shoved his hands in his pocket, nodded in greeting, and sat at the back of the classroom, next to the classroom's one-way mirrors. He couldn't help a smirk appear on his face as he remembered the night before, the reason why the bags underneath his eyes had gotten a shade darker. He knew that, even if Sasuke acted all high and mighty, something was wrong. Wrong enough for him to end up in his apartment building.
Naruto wasn't interested, or stupid, enough to question Sasuke why exactly he was there, but he knew that sooner or later he would find out. Rumors spread here like wildfire. He would know. For the meantime he pretended to look out the window, while he watched Sasuke from his peripheral vision.
His dark blue bangs framed his pale skin, his black eyes focused on the paper in front of him. His dark blue eyebrows were scrunched up in concentration, making his face look angry, Sasuke was leaning over his desk, his back hunched in work. But as Naruto looked closer, he could see the smaller details, like the way Sasuke's eyes were dilated and red with lack of sleep, or how the veins underneath his eyes were dark green, or how sickly pale Sasuke was looking recently. Naruto wondered why. Was it because he moved in to his apartment building? He couldn't move his blue eyes away from Sasuke, and his stomach felt queasy.
Suddenly the bell rang, followed by two squeals. That snapped Naruto out of whatever trance he was in. The squeals were followed by a girl with bright green eyes and dyed bubble-gum pink hair and a taller blonde with ice-cold blue eyes. They were Ino and Sakura, the bestest of friends. Behind them was the Gang. There was Lee, with his bowl-cut, raven-black hair and Gaara the antisocial creep with blood-red hair and teal eyes. Then there was Shikamaru, the laziest of them all, followed by Choji, with his bag of chips. Hinata and Neji, cousins with the exact same lavender eyes, except her hair was short and dark blue and Neji's was long and black, followed.
They all began crowding around Ssauke after Sakura and Ino sat behind him, giggling and blushing. Sasuke's body tensed, noticing how he had become surrounded. Naruto wanted to laugh at his expression but at the same time wanted to get up and yell. He had been part of that group and now he was behind them, watching them laugh and talk. He silently got up and left the room, slipping out the backdoor. None of them would notice, but silently he wished they did.