Welcome to chapter one! We all get to find out who "he" is (Though I know you're all smart cookies and know who "he" is already). I feel like I rushed this a little bit, though I tried really hard to pace myself, but I don't know. I'll let you guys be the judge of that. Anyways, enjoy chapter one and I shall see you lovely people soon.
-Abbi
"Beginning"
Naruto sat at his usual desk in his literature class up at the back of the room. It was a tattered old thing with graffiti covering most of the worn out wood. The metal legs squeaked in protest if the table was bumped or too much weight was leaned on it and it was by one of the few windows that opened, so occasionally if it was a nice warm day Naruto would open the window and be the first to feel the warm breeze.
However, it was a cold and rainy day. The clouds hovered over Tokyo darkly, causing the streets to look deserted and empty as people rushed to find cover from the water droplets. In the distance, Naruto could hear thunder rolling and he inwardly sighed. Getting home would be fun. Two tram journeys and a bus ride for the young blond boy. The bus usually didn't arrive for twenty minutes after the second tram and there was no cover anywhere for Naruto to stand while watching for the bus. He'd once waited at the underground tram platform and ran to the bus stop when the time table had said the bus would be arriving, but it had arrived early that day and he had to wait in the rain for the next bus anyway which didn't even arrive for another 45 minutes.
A sudden hush fell over the class, which Naruto thought was quite odd, and everybody turned to look at the teacher at the front of the class. Beside the tall grey haired man stood a boy with black spiky hair that had a bluish tint to it. He had a bored expression as his onyx eyes scanned the room, briefly looking at the students that stared back in wonder. His gaze met Naruto's and lingered for a few seconds, causing Naruto's face to burn a deep red. The feeling passed a second later and the blond boy turned his gaze down to his trusty table. Though, his teacher's voice caused him to look back up so fast, he was sure he gave himself whiplash.
"What?" The blond asked dumbly, not having heard what the man had said. With a glare, the man repeated his words. "I said, Uzumaki, would you please show Sasuke around the school for the next few days?" Naruto nervously licked his lips and his eyes darted around to the other students who all stared back at him. Naruto looked back at Sasuke who was glaring at him dangerously. Receiving no reply, the teacher clapped his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "Okay, well thanks for volunteering for showing Uchiha around, Naruto."
Naruto's shoulders sagged and he dropped his gaze down, nodding slightly. "That's okay Sensei." He mumbled, watching the raven haired boy make his way up to the spare desk beside Naruto, his light blue slippers scuffing softly on the wooden floor. The teenage boy dropped his bag onto the empty desk and heavily sat down on the seat. From his backpack, Sasuke pulled out a writing book and a small bundle of pens. Opening the book to a blank page, Sasuke uncapped his pen and hovered it above the piece of paper. He looked up from the spot he was looking at and at the students who were carefully watching him. Most of them jumped and turned around in their seats to face the front of the room, the rest however continued to watch him. "I know you all want to fuck me, but could you at least make it less obvious?"
"Uchiha! No swearing in my class!" The teacher snapped angrily, slamming his open palm down on his desk. He relaxed his hand and straightened up, looking apologetic. "I'll let you off this time as it's your first day. Just don't do it again, okay Sasuke?"
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and looked back down at his notebook, carefully writing out something in the top corner. Naruto watched as Sasuke neatly wrote out the date in a red pen followed by the heading of the class they were about to have as soon as home group finished. The blond took a deep breath and turned in his seat toward his new classmate with a smile. "Hey, I'm Naruto." Sasuke looked up at him with his eyebrows raised and scoffed. "I know who you are idiot. I'm not stupid. Leave me alone."
Naruto's smile faltered slightly and the said boy turned to look out the window. More thunder boomed in the distance, but nobody took notice as they all chatted with their friends, still excited over the new student.
The bell rang across the school grounds and into the distance along with other schools in the area, signalling the start of the first period. As the roll marking teacher left, Naruto lowered his eyes to his desk and to his blank writing book. The next two periods proceeded to roll by slowly, too slow for Naruto's liking.
By the time the bell for morning break sounded, Naruto's writing book was covered in small sketches. A sunflower here and a bird over there. A little cartoon grim reaper sat in the top right hand corner holding his scythe with a black cloaked hand. Though the most noticeable drawing was a small dragon stomping around in a forest, flapping it's tiny wings which took up more than half of the ruled page. Naruto closed his notebook and packed away his belongings in his tattered book bag he refused to get rid of despite the many repairs it had. Naruto swung the strap onto his left shoulder and tightly held onto it as he joined the rushing crowd, attempting to leave the classroom from the small door.
Finally, the blond squeezed through and stepped out into the hallway filled with students rushing down to their lockers. Someone bumped against his shoulder and Naruto jerked forward, almost losing his grip on his bag. A girl, whom Naruto recognised to be in a year below him, turned slightly and shouted an apology over her shoulder while she kept walking toward the school cafeteria. Another person bumped into Naruto, but this person didn't apologise or ever recognise they'd bumped into him. The blond turned to glance over at the person and realised it was Sasuke. Putting on a bright smile, Naruto hurried up to Sasuke's side.
"Hey, need some help?" He asked, falling into step with the raven. Sasuke scoffed and kept his eyes forward. "Why would I need your help loser? Leave me alone or you'll get hurt." Sasuke stated coldly. The sunshine blond rolled his eyes but kept his walking speed the same. "You won't get rid of me that easy." Before the raven could even reply, Naruto started his explanation of where to find everything, which were the fastest routes between classes, who to avoid student wise and which teachers were the ones he thought should be avoided.
"To get to the cafeteria, you can turn left up here then take the staircase up to the third level and you'll be at the south entrance which is closest to the start of the line. Oh, and in the cafeteria you can't sit with just anyone. You have to be invited to sit with groups, but that's okay because you can sit with me until you join another group. I don't mind, I'm used to it. That's the cooking classroom on the right, but no one in our year does cooking so you don't need to worry about it. Down here you need to be careful, all the assholes hang around in this part of the corridor and they like to gang up on people walking by themselves." Naruto sharply gasped as a hand tightly grabbed the front of his white shirt and slammed him backwards into the white wall. His head painfully smacked the wooden wall, causing his skull to throb from the pain. Students halted and all gathered around the two teenagers, cheering for a fight to start.
"Hey loser. I missed out on seeing you yesterday for your daily 'hit'." A voice huskily snarled above Naruto. The blond sunk down in attempt to make himself smaller, his gaze flicking over to Sasuke who stood at the front of the crowd before flicking back to the boy in front of him. The taller boy, Kiba Inuzuka, a boy with spiky brown hair, smirked viciously, revealing his strangely sharp teeth, and pulled his fist back. Naruto closed his eyes tightly, turning his head away. The only thing he could hear was the loud cheers from the students. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Come on! Hit him! Fight!"
The hand was ripped away from Naruto's shirt and everybody suddenly fell silent. Slowly opening his ocean blue eyes in confusion, Naruto saw Sasuke chest to chest with Kiba, both glaring dangerously at each other. Small whispers flitted throughout the crowd which surrounded the three as everybody waited for the first fist to be thrown. As fast as lightning, Sasuke lifted his hands up and pushed Kiba in his chest with his palms into the wall beside where Naruto stood. Gasping in surprise, Naruto took a slight step back and watched as Sasuke scrunched both his fists up in the fabric of Kiba's grey hooded jacket that he always wore out of classes. Sasuke jerked Kiba forward sharply before shoving him back to the wall. Sasuke brought his face close to Kiba's and hissed in the brunette boy's ear, "I don't see why you should be picking on someone who didn't do anything to you in the first place, bastard."
Kiba snarled angrily and started bringing his hands up, but Sasuke took one hand away from Kiba's jacket and swung his elbow up sharply, hitting Kiba in the jaw. He buried his hand back into Kiba's jacket as the boy groaned in pain. A small trail of blood dripped from Kiba's lips and down his chin, having bit the inside of his mouth from the impact of the blow. Kiba licked his lips with a bloodied tongue, and bared his blood stained teeth in an animal like manner. "Wouldn't you like to know, jerk." A soft rumble of laugher rang through the crowd behind the three and Sasuke softly laughed alongside them, lowering his head, causing his fringe to fall over his eyes. Naruto frowned at Sasuke's strange behaviour, wondering what was going on. Suddenly, the raven lifted his head and jerked Kiba back once again, slamming him into the wall with even more force than the first time. The crowd's laughter suddenly stopped at the blow. Sasuke let go of Kiba's jacket with one hand and raised it up behind him before throwing a punch to the side of Kiba's head, hitting him straight in the cheek. Before Kiba could hit back in self-defence, Sasuke let go with his other hand and threw another punch to Kiba's stomach. Kiba fell forward with a cough, gasping for air and Sasuke jolted his knee upwards, hitting the brunette in the chin. Kiba fell to his hands and knees, gasping with blood dripping down his chin, and glared up at the newest student of the school.
Naruto stood, frozen in place, watching the glaring contest between the two older boys in front of him. Without warning, Sasuke turned away from Kiba and started walking in the same direction he was walking in the first place before Naruto was confronted by the bully. Naruto watched Sasuke in awe and intimidation as he walked toward the cafeteria. The crowd quickly parted, allowing Sasuke to walk through, but as he reached halfway through the crowd, Sasuke turned back around and stared right at Naruto. "Well, are you going to come or what, dobe?" He snapped. Naruto gaped at the raven for a moment before grinning. He tightened his grip on his book bag which still amazingly hung from his shoulder and hurried forward to Sasuke's side.
The hallway was silent as the two boys took their depart to the cafeteria. Neither saying a single word at all. Nothing about the fight. Nothing about classes. Nothing about themselves. And nothing about Sasuke's nickname for Naruto.