The next day Naruto slowly trudged into his first hour, Kiba still cautiously looking over his shoulder for a certain Hyuuga. Naruto turned to look when he heard Kiba groan and wasn't surprised to see Neji and Sasuke walking next to each other. Sasuke of course even with a black eye still managed to look perfect, instead igniting a crazy fire of revenge in his fangirls for whoever dared to hurt their precious Sasuke. Naruto gulped when he heard the threat of what exactly one of those fangirls would do once she found whoever did. Damn, girls were viscous.

Sasuke passed him without so much as an acknowledgment of his existence. Kiba was right, no matter what Sasuke would always be an asshole. Kiba also passed him, almost bumping into him because of the strange leer he was receiving from Neji. Naruto shook his head in disapproval and closed the door so Neji wouldn't try and enter to terrorize his best friend. Now the blond had to settle things with the raven. He let it bag drop to the floor and took a seat, before taking a deep breath and turning to face Sasuke.

"How's your...uh...eye?" Sasuke ignored him and continued looking out the window. Naruto shrugged, that's fine, he didn't care for small talk either. He scratched the back of his head, shit it was awkward talking to him after everything that happened. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's face with both hands, and turned it so Sasuke had no choice to look at him. There was only a moment of surprise before there was a glare that promised to send him to the depths of hell and even Naruto shuddered. At least now he had Sasuke's attention, and well quite frankly the rest of the people in the room.

"So, meet me, uh, fuck it." He grabbed Sasuke's hand and pulled the other out of his seat. Kiba watched with his mouth open as Naruto bravely led Sasuke out somewhere. After the door closed, curious whispering filled the room, possibly the start of problematic rumors. He sighed, not his business, Naruto could handle it himself.

Sasuke yanked his hand away as if he'd just been burned, "What could you possibly want?" Sasuke hissed with such venom it left Naruto temporarily speechless. He gulped, "We need to talk, believe it!"

"I tried to talk, I think we both know how that ended."

"You pissed me off."

"You piss me off every time I look at you, dobe."

"Ok, try and put yourself in my shoes, how would you feel if your ex-friend/tormenter suddenly asked for forgiveness after all they've done? Would you forgive them?" Sasuke's eyes narrowed, but he said nothing and turned to walk away. Naruto grabbed his shoulder, "Look, I'm not saying I can forgive you right this instant, but, maybe we can start over?" Sasuke frowned, eyebrows furrowing in thought, and put his hand on his neck rubbing the area he'd been marked unconsciously. Naruto averted his gaze when he saw the tattoo that was forever etched onto Sasuke's skin.

"Dobe, are you suggesting we be friends?" Naruto shrugged, "We don't have to be, I'd very much prefer not to be enemies, your kicks hurt like hell." Sasuke scoffed, rolling his eyes. "It's not like you haven't had martial arts training." Sasuke was right his Uncle Jiraiya had trained him after he found out he was being bullied. However, Sasuke had been a specialist in martial arts ever since he was young, even managing to break one of their kidnappers arms when they tried to escape.

"Why didn't you dodge my punches? You could have easily evaded and punched back."

"Did you want me to?" Naruto shook his head. "That's why," Sasuke said as he looked away.

"Gah! Why are you like that?!" Naruto stomped around in a circle and as usual Sasuke stared blankly at the scene. To onlookers Naruto was being an idiot again and Sasuke was having to put up with it again. Naruto stopped and turned to tell Sasuke off again and then there it was, the slight quiver of lips that made everyone in Konoha crazy, why the hell was Sasuke smiling like that?! Frankly that smile should be outlawed, nobody should have the power to render everyone to their knees with a small quirk of muscle.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed again and the trace of the smile was diminished from his face. "What? Why are you looking at me?"

"N-no reason, j-just trying to see why all of the girls are crazy about a moody guy like you, believe it!"

"Hn." Naruto's eye twitched, "Why do you do that? I already told you that's not a response!" Sasuke smirked, "Hn? Oh, I didn't know."

"Fuck you."

"I get that a lot, though usually different context." Sasuke smirked when Naruto blushed, "Pervert!" Sasuke raised a brow at Naruto who had crouched down and become some sort of human ball, "So, is this all you wanted to say?" Naruto nodded and Sasuke crouched down next to him with his hands in his pockets, "What are you doing, dobe?" Naruto peeked at him from the corners of his eyes ,"Bastard." Naruto got up, "Yeah, that was all I wanted to say, believe it! Take it or leave it, I don't care either way."

"Hn. I don't know how we can be friends."

"Neither do I. I guess we'll just have to work on it." Naruto grinned, "This is weird, me and you being friends." Sasuke nodded, "How did I end up being friends with such a loser?"

"I know, who wants to be friends with a bastard like you?" The two continued bantering all the way back to their classroom and for some reason Naruto couldn't wipe the grin off his face. When they walked into class everyone's eyes were on them, an uncomfortable situation for the former nerd, completely normal for the coolest kid in the school. They returned to their seats and at that moment Kakashi lazily walked into the classroom. A pleased look on his face and Naruto could tell it had everything to do with his step-dad, he almost felt like throwing up at the thought of what possibly happened after he left for school.

Kakashi sat down in his chair and let out a blissful, lovestruck sigh. Naruto grimaced. He still wasn't fully used to the whole dating thing between the two yet. Naruto was very accepting of the situation, but good gods he didn't want to see his teacher or whatever the hell he was look like he just had the best sex in the universe. Poor Iruka, he was probably going to be late because of that pervert.

"Congratulations, Sensei, but will you start the lesson or can I go home?"

"Hmm? Oh, thanks Sasuke-kun. I picked a book for the class to read, one of my personal favorites." Naruto groaned when Kakashi took out a little orange book and began reading it to the class. Naruto roughly poked Sasuke in the shoulder, "You bastard, why didn't you just let him sit there all hour?" Naruto whispered.

"His expression was disgusting me. I don't know why I could tell what he was thinking behind that mask but it definitely wasn't good."

"So letting him read romanticized porn out loud is better?"

"It's actually not that bad." Naruto rolled his eyes, "Pervert." Kakashi droned on about how the two characters celebrated their true love with two hours of sex and how the sex scene was a literary piece of art because it signified their love. Normally it wouldn't have been so bad to the normal hormonal teenage boy, well if it hadn't been written by their pervy Uncle. 'I'm surrounded by perverts!' Naruto was all too happy to leave when he heard the chime. He awkwardly waved goodbye to Sasuke and fist bumped Kiba on the way out.

The rest of the day went by as per usual, teachers going on and on about something that would be useless in real life but they still needed to know how to find the cos of triangle, and about what type of relationships occur between two animals. Naruto ate lunch by himself, figuring that it was still to early to eat lunch with Sasuke and his possy. He returned to class with a full belly and took a seat at his desk and watched lazily as Sasuke sauntered into the room, ever the epitome of coolness. Naruto humphed and laid his head on his arms to maybe catch up on some precious sleep.

It was the knock on the door and curious chatter that awoke him from Asuma talking about, well, whatever he'd been discussing, that caused him to poke his head up.

"Oh, it seems as if we have a new student," Asuma said happily. All Naruto saw was red, the natural blood red color of hair with the somewhat soulless green eyes and the tattoo on top of pale skin.

"Gaara."

I'm gonna just leave this here