After twenty minutes Iruka spotted bright green glasses on a blondes face and said blonde wasn't paying any attention at all.
'' Naruto are you drawing again? '' Iruka asked.
'' I am certainly not sensei … I am taking notes? '' Naruto asked, a silly grin on his face. Iruka sighed.
'' What are you drawing? '' Sakura asked.
Naruto looked at Sakura, confusion written all over his face, didn't she accuse him of being a drug addict as well.
'' I am drawing a portrait of Ino at this moment. '' Naruto replied.
'' A portrait … of me, can I see? '' Ino asked, suddenly interested. Naruto turned around his small sketchpad and showed it to Ino. It was by the way a perfect drawing of her … Nice and quiet.
'' Wait … are you one of those creepy people … who attack girls in the middle of the night? '' Ino asked. Naruto looked at her.
'' Seriously … me attacking you … not even if you were the last women in the universe … besides I'm gay. '' Naruto said with as shrug, completely serious. Beside him Kiba chuckled and Sasuke smirked, while Iruka was trying very hard not to laugh.
'' Alright lets continue the lesson. '' Iruka said, his eyes sparkling with amusement.
Ino just sat there, her mouth almost hanging on the table. Fifteen minutes later the bell rang, indicating the end of this lesson. Everyone packed their bags and headed to their next lesson.
Iruka now surveyed the empty classroom, he saw an envelope on the table where Naruto had been sitting just a few minutes ago. Iruka got up and picked up the envelope and then he returned to his desk. Iruka just stared at the creamy white envelope, his name on it written in beautiful black calligraphy letters, he opened the envelope.
It was a drawing of Kakashi without his mask, it looked absolutely realistic, as if Kakashi could just walk of that piece of paper. Iruka looked over the black and white drawing he looked over Kakashi's face starting with the eyes one dark bleu and the other red, which were the only colors on the page. Iruka then looked at the nose, mouth, chin and neck. Then the noticed something weird, because he was sure this came from Naruto, but the bottom was signed N.N not U.N. Iruka thought about it for a while, but when new students filled his classroom and he put if away for later.
Sasuke sat behind the piano, Kiba tried to play the cello and Naruto just watched everyone, not sure of what he should do. Gaara walked up to Naruto, but when he was there he said nothing.
'' You are Gaara, right? '' Naruto asked.
'' Yes, I have a question. '' Gaara said.
'' Ooookaaay. '' Naruto said, slowly stretching the word.
'' Play a duet with me. On the violin. '' Gaara said, rather than asked. Naruto just looked at him, all he remembered where the false notes the boy played.
As if reading Naruto's mind Gaara added: '' I can play without hurting your ears. Although I am nowhere near as good as you. ''
'' Okay, but will you wait a minute? I need to get something. '' Naruto said. Gaara nodded. Naruto walked to Kakashi, who was at his desk.
'' Kakashi-sensei? '' Naruto asked, Kakashi looked up to the blonde boy in front of him.
'' Can I get something from my room? '' Naruto asked. Kakashi seemed to think about it, but it was hard to tell for Naruto with only one eye visible.
'' Is it for this class? '' He asked.
'' Yes, Sensei. '' Naruto replied.
'' Alright, but hurry up you don't want to get caught in the hallways. '' Kakashi said.
Naruto smiled at his sensei and then ran to his room. Not even ten minutes later Naruto returned with two violin cases, one black and the other Bordeaux red. He walked to Gaara and opened his black suitcase, getting out his own red/brown violin.
'' I am ready, play something and I will jump in, I know most of the songs. '' Naruto said.
Gaara started playing: 'La cumparsita' and after a few seconds Naruto jumped in perfectly. Everyone in the room stopped with what they were doing and stared at the two violinists.
Several minutes later Gaara and Naruto stopped, some of the class applauded.
'' Magnificent, it was an honor to play with you. '' Gaara said. Naruto looked at Gaara shock evident on his face, while Gaara just had a knowing smirk covering his features.
'' Uhm … Yes that went great. '' Naruto said. Then Naruto heard Sasuke continue on the piano, he listened for a minute and recognized the song. Sasuke played his version of: 'My heart will go on. '. Then Naruto quickly readied his violin and jumped in with Sasuke.
When Sasuke heard a violin he quickly turned around, to see who was playing with him, without stopping his music. When he saw it was Naruto he smiled a bit. Without practicing, their music fit well together.
Kakashi looked at the two boys playing Titanic. He was surprise to hear the improvisations, but he liked it very much. It showed how great they both were and how much they both suited each other, even if they didn't notice it themselves.
The whole class was silent as they looked at Sasuke and Naruto, the whole class was surprised when Naruto jumped in, but they couldn't stop staring at them.
After a few minutes they stopped playing and looked at each other. They themselves were surprised at how well that went.
'' I like your version of Titanic very much. '' Naruto complimented.
'' I liked it better when you jumped in. '' Sasuke said, a small un-Uchiha like smile covered his lips.
The class was still silent and Kakashi grinned underneath his mask, silently thanking Iruka for pushing him to buy a new one, they could have deposited his old one at a museum. Kakashi had recorded the duet of Sasuke and Naruto and he was going to show it to Iruka when they were done. Kakashi looked up surprised when he heard Naruto say: '' I have my own version of titanic do you want to hear it? ''
'' Yes. '' Sasuke said.
Naruto ran around and prepared the things he needed. After a short while he opened his Bordeaux red violin case and pulled out a black electric violin. After a short while he started playing his own version of 'My heard will go on'.
Kakashi had his phone ready again and recorded it all. They all had looked at Naruto and his electric violin. It sounded beautiful, they also noticed that he always closed his eyes for some reason.
A minute after he started playing students from the hall entered the classroom. They had to see for themselves if this was not a recording. They had heard many wonderful musicians in this school, but this one was by far the best.
Over a hundred people stood in front and inside the class room, soon teachers also sought their way to the music.
Iruka down the hall could hear it and he also left his class room to find out who it was, but he had his suspicions, he was followed by his students. Iruka pushed his way through the crowd and into the classroom of Kakashi. His suspicions were right it was Naruto. Iruka walked to Kakashi and sat on his desk. They were all silent … if they had to ever again silence a crowd this big they would just let Naruto play.
After Naruto's song ended, everyone clapped and whispers went through the classroom.
'' Did you see, he played with his eyes closed. '' One whispered.
'' He is … Magnificent. '' The other whispered.
Naruto opened his eyes, a surprised look in his eyes as he heard so many people applauding for him. He looked around and saw over a hundred people in the class and in front of it. Naruto smiled a huge true smile and bowed for his unsuspected public. Sasuke decided he wanted to see that smile more often, but he needed a strategy first. A short while after Naruto had bowed, the sensei's began ushering the students back to their classes.
Naruto put away his electric violin and cleaned the mess he had made. Sasuke looked at the retreating public, a smile graced his features.
'' The blonde is fantastic. '' Sasuke thought.
The rest of the class was somewhere between scared and flabbergasted, scared because Sasuke smiled for the first time in … ever, they had never seen him smile on this school. They were flabbergasted because of Naruto's amazing performance. While Kakashi could only think of his once best friend, who he hadn't seen in years, he also could play the violin perfectly. The bell rang, shaking everyone out of their daze. Naruto walked to Kakashi and handed him an envelope. Kakashi stared at the envelope and the familiar calligraphy hand writing on it.
'' Combine them. '' Naruto said, as he picked up his bags and violin cases again and then left the room.
Kakashi stood there envelope in hand, thinking what he should combine. He opened the envelope and pulled out and black and white drawing of Iruka, the only color on the page were Iruka's hazel brown eyes. But when he took in the whole picture he noticed that is was signed as N.N and not U.N as it should have been.
It was Kakashi's last period, he packed his post man bag and then took his phone and walked down the hall to Iruka's classroom. If Kakashi was correct he would be on break right now.
Kakashi peeked through the window seeing and empty room and at the end he saw Iruka sandwich in one hand and a red pen in the other, a bottle of water on his desk as well as the forms he was checking. Kakashi walked inside the room and to Iruka, who was absolutely oblivious to Kakashi until he felt lips on his cheeks. Iruka looked up startled.
'' Oh, hi. '' Iruka said as he spotted Kakashi.
'' Hello, so I got something from Naruto, but I don't understand what he said. '' Kakashi said.
'' What did he say? '' Iruka asked, laying his pen down.
'' 'Combine them' he said. '' Kakashi replied.
Iruka looked thoughtful for a moment, then he asked: '' What did he give you? ''
Kakashi searched through his bag and got out an envelope. '' A drawing of you. '' He said.
Iruka smiled and got a similar envelope out of his drawer.
'' Give me yours. '' Iruka said, he looked at the drawing and laid it in front of him, on his desk. Iruka picked up his own and laid it behind Kakashi's drawing. When they combined the two drawings it became a portrait of them, Iruka leaning against Kakashi.
Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba walked to Sasuke's room. They all took of their shoes, Sasuke sat his backpack on his bed and sat down, Kiba did the same but he put his bag on Naruto's bed. Then Kiba sat on a pouf. Naruto put away his violin cases and then unpacked his schoolbag and when that was done he started unpacking his boxes.
'' Hm … didn't even bring a duffle bag … baka. '' Naruto mumbled to himself, but that wasn't all that he just didn't brought with him, he didn't bring sports clothes or any camping gear. Mostly because he had chosen the classes he liked and Tsunade had made it possible.
'' Sorry, what did you say? '' Kiba asked. Naruto looked up, pulled away from his thoughts.
'' Hm? … Oh I said that I didn't even bring a bag … or sports clothes, I guess I should buy some. '' Naruto said. '' Do you want to join me? '' he asked.
'' Yeah, sure … wait we're not going 'girl shopping' are we? '' Kiba asked.
Naruto laughed. '' Girl shopping. '' He said while laughing, when he finally could stop laughing he said.
'' No, I don't like girl shopping, I don't want to be in a mall any longer than necessary. '' He said.
'' Then I'll come. '' Kiba said.
'' Will you come too Sasuke? '' Naruto asked.
'' Yes, I need to pick up several things as well. '' Sasuke said. Naruto smiled, he was glad Sasuke joined them.
Naruto got a small post man bag and put in his phones, keys, glasses, wallet and a tiny metal case. Sasuke got his wallet and keys and put them in his back pocket. Kiba ran to his room to get some money, he didn't like wallets. When they were all ready they headed towards the mall. Their walk to the mall was a pleasant one, the sun was high in the sky, with only a few clouds covering the bright blue air.
They went to several stores, Naruto bought a black and an orange duffle bag, some thin black sweatpants and several different brightly colored t-shirts. He also got a mosquito net, soap towels, a flashlight and several other things he thought that could come in handy. When they had everything they needed, they decided that it was time to eat, they each voted, Kiba and Naruto chose ramen and Sasuke … he didn't really have a choice because Naruto was already dragging him to a food stand called Ichiraku ramen.
Naruto ordered some ramen for all of them, he happily slurped away his noodles. After a few minutes he stopped, covered his eyes with his hand, with his other he searched his post man bag and pulled out his bright green glasses and set them on top of his nose.
'' What time is it? '' Naruto asked.
'' Thirty minutes past five. '' Sasuke replied.
Naruto nodded, he took out a small metal case, from that he took a small bottle of pills, he took one and then returned to his ramen. Naruto stopped eating his ramen once more, he took several deep breaths, he opened and closed his eyes several times, at first he thought it was related to his medication, but he already tried that nothing seemed to help.
'' I'm going to get some fresh air … I'll meet you outside, okay? '' Naruto asked, but he was already half way out of the food stand. Naruto quickly walked out of the mall.
He leaned his back against the wall, he looked up to the sky for a moment before he closed his eyes. He had stood there for a while, when he heard.
'' Well, well, well if it isn't our blonde dobe. ''