Bestfriends chapter 2

A buzzing of my alarm woke me up at 8, just like it did every Saturday. I rubbed my eyes and stretched, knowing I had to get up or I'd be late for my shift at 9. I got up out of bed and went to the kitchen to make some coffee. After my coffee was made and I had a few sips I remembered what happened the night before. Sasuke had kicked me out because I had brought up, the apparently, touchy subject of his family. Dammit, Greg told me not to bring it up! Why did my drunk self have to forget about that. I should probably apologize to him soon, I was had no place in asking about his personal life like that. I still wanted to be his friend though, we had a great night listening to music and talking, except for the fight though. My head throbbed as I got into the shower, I still had a hangover from last night. I turned off the lights and continued my shower in the dark. I should probably go apologize to him today, maybe I'll do it after work. I thought as I shampooed my head.I got out of the shower and dried myself off. I threw on a pair of pants and my work shirt, had a banana and was out the door at 8:40.

I got to work at 8:55, punching myself in. I nodded hello to my coworkers, not trying to talk to them too much, my head still hurt a ton and I didn't really feel like talking much. I was in a bad mood after what happened last night. God why did I have to be so stupid? I thought to myself as I rang up a customer's order. A few of the usuals were in already, typing away on their laptops. It was pretty slow this morning, usual on Saturdays we're pretty busy, but today was not the case. I made myself a breakfast sandwich and that seemed to help my headache. I went over and started talking to my coworkers, I felt bad for not being so cheerful earlier. We talked about our previous weeks, and one of my coworkers told us that she got engaged last night. Well, at least someone had a nice night I guess. It was dreadfully slow, I swear I must have told my coworkers my entire life story before another customer came in. It was 11 by now and the only person that came in was the first customer I helped. The usuals had left already, and the only people in the store was me, my three coworkers and my boss, who we all considered a coworker because we were all close and he still always helped out with stuff. My shift wasn't supposed to be over for another four hours, but god, I wanted to leave.

All of a sudden, we all turned our heads as we heard the jingle of the door opening and in came Sasuke, geez that guy was full of coincidences. I didn't want to see him really, he was probably still really mad at me and I didn't want to make anything awkward between us. I put my head down and went to go sweep the back, but I was too late, and heard him call out my name.

"Naruto? Is that you?" He asked.

I turned around and headed over to him, if I just ignored him then it would have just made things worse, "Hey Sasuke," I said trying to smile.

"You work here I'm guessing?" He asked.

"Yeah, you know, I'm sorry about last night. I really didn't mean to bring up any touchy subjects." I said, rubbing the back of my head nervously. I really didn't want him mad at me, so I figured it'd be best to just apologize right away.

"It's alright Naruto, I felt bad about kicking you out last night. I just wasn't prepared for any of those kinds of questions and I just got mad at the subject, not at you. I should be the one apologizing, not you. So, I'm sorry." He said, looking glum.

"Hey, It's alright man! No harm no foul!" I said cheering up at the fact that he wasn't mad, "So did you want to order something?" I asked as I remembered that I was at work, even if it was dreadfully slow.

"Uh yeah, I'll take a dark roast house blend with caramel." Sasuke said getting out out his billfold.

"No no no, you don't have to pay, I got you on this!" I said smiling at him while I made him his drink, "The dark roast house blend is my favorite actually, but instead of caramel, I make my own type and put some of the chocolate that we put into our mochas in it, and I put whipped cream with caramel and nuts on the top. It's so good!" I said, getting way too excited for a drink...

"Yeah that sounds good, except for the nuts, I hate nuts."

"Oh I love nuts, I could eat them all day!" I said, before realizing what I just said and blushing a very dark shade of red. Sasuke apparently noticed too as I saw him blush and get awkward as well.

"Yeah... uhm so anyways," Sasuke said diverting the subject from me eating nuts, "I was going to ask you at school, since I thought that'd be the next time I saw you, but I was wondering if you'd show me around the city? I don't know the area at all and it'd be nice to get to know my surroundings better. Plus I was going to use that time to apologize to you about last night, with some food." He said. It was kind of surprising to hear him say that, it didn't seem like he'd be the type of person to ask to go out and do something. But I was game for it. Plus there was food involved so of course I was down.

"Yeah sure, that'd be cool. This place is actually attached to an art gallery, we could check that out then I could show you around town!" I said while handing him his drink.

"What are you doing the rest of the day when you get off?" He asked, as he put a cardboard sleeve around the cup and put some sugar in his coffee.

"Nothing, I was actually going to do some homework, but that can wait, I get off at 3 that'd give us enough time to see the city." I checked my watch and I didn't get off for another three and a half hours. It felt like an eternity to me. Sasuke said he'd be back when I got off and went to go sit down in one of the comfy chairs, got his laptop out and started typing. He must have been doing homework.

"Hey Naruto!" My boss called from the back, he came up to the front to talk to me, "If you want to hang out with your friend, you can leave at noon. It's so slow today, I think the others and I can handle this mad house on our own."

"Oh are you sure...?" I asked verifying his proposal.

"Yeah go ahead! I insist." He said

"Well alright, I'll just start cleaning up and doing what I can to help you guys out." I said, as I grabbed the broom.

"Alright fine by me." He said as he walked back into the back room.

"Hey did you hear that Sasuke? My boss is letting me go here at noon, is half an hour alright with you?" I asked as I began sweeping the floor up front by him.

"Yeah sure I don't have anything going on today anyways, I'll just stay here until you're off then." He said, taking a sip out of his cup and continuing to type on his laptop.

"Alright cool." I said smiling at him again.

"You know, you smile too much at me dobe." He said as he gave me a smirk.

"You know, you smirk at me too much Uchiha," I retorted back at him, "But I actually have to get some work done before I leave here today so let me finish." I said actually needing to get some cleaning done. I swept the rest of the floor and started some of the dishes. There weren't that many since it wasn't too busy today, but there were still many plates and cups from people earlier in the day, so I finished cleaning those. And I wiped down the machines and the ovens. I restocked the food, and refilled the empty sandwiches that people had ordered in the morning. And soon enough it was 12:05 and I said goodbye to everyone, clocked out and was on my way.

"So we're checking out the art gallery first right?" He asked.

"Yeah, it's just right over here, it's actually attached to this building." I told him as he got up from the chair and started to follow me. I lead him down a few hallways and through some doors, "So this is pretty much it, there's new pieces here all the time. You can also buy the art here so every time I come here, new stuff is always here." I told him. The art gallery wasn't big, it was only probably about five rooms, but there was a ton of stuff in those few rooms. One room was dedicated to paintings, there was hundreds of paintings in rotating shelves, and on the walls, and even the room itself. On every wall there was a mural, even the floor and the ceiling. It was actually a pretty cool places. And in the other rooms, there were usually sculptures and other cool forms of art, things made out of clay and stuff like that. But since all of it was different ever time, I couldn't really explain what it all was. Honestly it was just cool art.

We went to the paintings room first, and one of the main paintings they had was this beautiful sunset overlooking what seemed like a rainforest. It was so cool, the oranges in the paintings were so beautiful and the view point seemed like you were on a cliff looking down at all of it. And there was almost no red in the painting at all, just deep blood oranges and sunny yellows that molded into violets and blues higher up in the sky. It was a really nice painting.

"You like that one, don't you?" Sasuke asked, "You seem to like orange a lot, every time I've seen you, you've had at least some orange on, is it your favorite color?"

"Yeah I do actually it is my favorite color. It's all over my apartment, and I guess most of my clothes do have orange on them, hehe. And I do love this painting, it's really cool. I love the colors and how many shades of them the artist used, plus the point of view and the forest really add to it." I said, still raving over it.

"Yeah, it is pretty nice, I like it too." He said as he checked out the price tag, "Woah, it's a bit expensive though…" He said sneering away from the hideousness of the price.

"How much?" I asked.

"$1099.99. It's a lot just for this painting, the author must be pretty famous or something. Although it is really nice, just out of my range."

"Yeah that's about a billion times out of my range!" I said, and we both laughed at our own poorness. We checked out the rest of the gallery, there were lots of interesting sculptures and things made out different materials. But to me, nothing stood out as much as that painting, and for some reason I kept finding myself working my way back to it. My eyes were glued on it and despite the price, I did really want it. We had been there for about an hour now and I felt my stomach grumble and wanted to get going. I went to find Sasuke and found him looking at some clay pots, :Hey Sasuke, wanna get going, there's a lot to see and learn about the city. Pus I'm getting hungry!" And as if on cue, my stomach made the grumble of all grumbles and people actually turned and gave me concerning looks. I hid my face sheepishly and Sasuke agreed on leaving.

As we got outside, the temperature had dropped severely since the morning and it was really brisk outside. During this time of the year, the sun was really weak and whenever the clouds hid it, you could really feel the change. Living with this my whole life, I was prepared, I had my work shirt, a hoodie and a coat on. But for Sasuke, he barely even had on a light jacket and he was clearly shivering.

"Here, take this you need it more than I do." I said, as I took off my coat and put it around his shoulders.

"Thanks man," He said wrapping himself in it, "So where are we even headed to anyways?" He asked.

"Well this is one of the busiest places in the city, this area is really the heart of downtown. Plus there's a great noodle place about a mile away from here, and that's where we can eat! If that's cool with you?"

"Yeah sure, I could go for some warm pork fried ramen!" He said, lighting up at the thought of something warm.

As we continued to walk, we talked about school and I showed him cool things in the city and tried my best to teach him how to navigate the city. As we talked, I found out we actually had a lot in common, our music tastes were similar, our food preferences were similar, I was just a little more gung ho for ramen than he was, and our pasts were similar as well. After a while a silence fell between us and Sasuke talked about his family. I knew it was a touchy subject for him, but he brought it up anyways. He told me that his parents died when he was eight. They got in a car accident and were hit by a drunk driver. And after that, he stayed nearby, just with a family friend that took him in up until now. Apparently his aunt wanted custody of him, and he went to go stay with her here. But he actually lives alone. His aunt lives in the building but is pretty rich and rented him out his own room there. He told me that he never really wanted to go stay with his aunt but, since she's rich and is related to him, she won custody over him. Even though he's seventeen and soon will be able to choose where he lives when he turns eighteen next May.

"I'm sorry to hear about your parents and your situation right now," I said, trying to lighten the mood, "actually my parents are both dead too. My mom dies during childbirth and my dad fell ill when I was about 6 months old and died when I was around two. Ever since then, I've stayed with my uncle here in the apartment, but again, when I was thirteen my uncle got sick with the same illness that killed my dad and he died half a year later. But the landlord of the building was close with my uncle and I so he lets me stay there rent free. I've been living there alone for four years now." I confessed.

"Wow, that's sad, sorry about that mna. Sometimes life bites you, and like the way you taste. And decides to bite you some more." He said trying to reassure me.

After our confessions, we made it to the restaurant and sat down at a table. After a bit we ordered our food, and were sitting there silently sipping our drinks, "Thanks for talking to me yesterday. I know it didn't seem like it, but I appreciated that you talked to me on my first day. I'm glad I at least have one friend here now." He said, half smiling and looking down at his drink before he took another sip.

"Yeah no problem! I just didn't want you to feel alone, I know how that can be, besides, you're awesome! I'm glad I met you!" I said smiling back at him.

Our orders came and we both devoured our bowls of ramen. Soon we were back on the streets walking around the city.

"So who's your love interest Naruto? A big dobe like you ha got to have a chick," He asked.

"Actually no, no love interest for this dobe. My only loves are ramen and swimming." I said laughing at myself, "What about you, you got a girl back home?"

"Hn, no. I've had a few girlfriend, but they never satisfied me, they were all short term." He said.

"Ha, got that right! I've had a few girls ask me out before and I have but nothing ever too serious. I don't know, I guess the right one just hasn't come along yet." I said, sighing a little.

"So you swim though?"

"Yeah, It's literally my life. I don't know where I'd be without it.

"Makes sense, I was wondering how you were so good damn huge, the first time you talked to me I thought you were going to beat me up or something!" He laughed.

"Oh my god no! I'm not the type of person! Haha that's hilarious though!" I looked at him and smiled, we both laughed at Sasuke's thought. And I wondered how Sasuke was in such good shape. I mean when he opened the door all glistening and wet and shirtless, he was in great shape. His abs were tight, and he even had that sexy 'v' on him. His arms were really nice and I could tell right now, by the way that he walked, that his body was toned all over. I remember when he went to his bedroom to change, I noticed his back was extremely muscular and toned. His shoulder blades were great, he was almost like a god all over. Even his looks, I mean he was extremely hot… Wait, wait a minute… I didn't just think that he had that sexy 'V'' shape, did I? And did I just think he was hot? I mean gross… but the way his jaw line clenched when he smirked and smiled wasn't… wait what the fuck?!

I was suddenly abruptly brought back to reality when Sasuke asked what I was staring at, apparently I was staring at him when I was just thinking about… that.

"Oh yeah, haha, I must have just blanked out there for a second! Oops sorry!" I said trying to cover up my perverted thoughts about him.

"Haha alright, whatever dobe!"

"Teme! Stop, don't call me that!" I said, diverting my thoughts from Sasuke in that way. We continued to argue about him calling me dobe all the way back to the apartment complex. And somehow we found ourselves at my door. I invited him in and he came in. We continued to fight about the name, and ultimately my efforts were fruitless, he was determined to call me a dobe I guess.

I got out my own bottle of sake and poured a glass for him and I, we sat and talked for a while, and eventually I turned on the t.v. Law and Order was still on from the last time I watched t.v. yesterday. We sat and watched a few episodes before Sasuke went back to him apartment to get his backpack so that we could do some homework together. I help him with a Japanese assignment Mr. Akiyama introduced to us yesterday. The day flew by and eventually I found my ordering us some pizza for dinner.

By the time the pizza arrived it was already 7:30, Sasuke and I both had all of our homework done and the Law and Order marathon was still going. It felt like the day was here and gone in an instant.

"It's getting late, I should probably get out of your hair." Sasuke said as he started to get up off the couch we had both been glued to for hours. I looked at the clock and it was already 10 o'clock. But it didn't feel that late and I really enjoyed the day with Sasuke. i didn't mind if he wanted to stay over, in fact, I don't know why but I just kind of assumed he was going to.

"You can stay the night if you want to," I offered to him, "It's getting late and we've both had some sake and I don't know how comfortable I am with you having to go all the way to your apartment, two floors down, without serious injury." We both laughed at that, but I was actually serious about it, I mean I knew he wouldn't get hurt obviously, but I did want him to stay. I guess that part I was serious about.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Yeah totally! I want you to stay," I said, "You can have the couch and I'll take the chair." I said smiling at him.

"Alright, alright! Geez don't twist my arm into it.."

"Shut up teme! I'll go get some blankets." I said as I ran off to the closets in the hall to grab some blankets out of them. I also snagged a few pillows from my bed and brought it all out to where we were. I plopped everything on the couch and sat back down on it, getting comfy with all the blankets.

"I thought I was getting the couch?" Sasuke questioned.

"Yeah I'll move over when I feel like going to bed, it's just that the couch is a lot more comfy."

"Oh okay, alright." He said as he too got comfortable with the blankets.