Chapter 3
"Hello".
Neji forced his eyes away from Naruto's and focused on the schools young, pedophiliac secretary.
"You called me up?" He said with as much patience as he could. Honestly, the woman was useless.
"Ah, yes. Could you please escort Mister Uzumaki to class?" She turned her attention back to Naruto, who was sizing Neji up, trying to determine if he was a potential threat. Nope.
Neji smiled at Naruto and said "It would be my pleasure."
They exited the office and Naruto found his curiosity getting the better of him. "Why is your hair so long?" Neji laughed at the predictable question.
"Let's just say that I don't like my family, and they don't like long hair." Naruto had to laugh at that. He was starting to like this guy. Maybe this mission wouldn't be so bad after all.
"By the way, I don't think I caught you first name."
"Oh, it's Naruto, nice to meet you."
This time it was Neji's turn to laugh. "You're name is Fishcake?"
"Hey! Your one to talk, princess." They grinned at each other as they arrived at their classroom. Neji paused with his hand on the doorknob. "I'll go explain your arrival to Iruka-sensei."
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Neji walked to the Iruka-sensei's desk and explained about the new student. He even went so far as to ask if Naruto could sit next to him, instead of Ino. Iruka-sensei raised an eyebrow and consented, if only out if surprise. Neji was very picky when it came to friends.
Neji moved to his desk and awaited the blonde's entrance. If he played his cards right, he could seduce him before Sasuke came back. A catch like Naruto couldn't be left to chance.
Iruka opened the door and….Naruto fell through the opening, asleep. Iruka gave Naruto his "Great, another genius." look, and the entire class burst into laughter.
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Neji could be a valuable asset to his investigation; an easy source of information about the Uchiha. Yeah, that was it.
Naruto waited….and waited…..and…come on already! What was Neji doing? Telling his life's story? Sigh. Naruto leaned against the door and closed his eyes. ……more waiting……..Thud! He opened his eyes, only to be met with and angry looking man with a scar on his nose. He sat up and looked around to find an entire room of giggling students staring at him. He scratched his head in a way that would make him appear embarrassed, when, in fact, he had been trying to disarm them from the beginning.
He grinned and stood up, straightening out his clothes, which were admittedly a bit tight. Anko's doing, naturally. She was always going on about letting out his inner seme out. Actually, she just thought he needed to get laid. He was apparently 'to pure'. Realizing that he had spaced out, he looked up at the other students and put on a sexy smirk. Perhaps he should indulge himself a little.
"Ahem…Hi, I'm Naruto, and I just transferred here. It's nice to meet you. Dattebayo!"
He fought back a wince. Was that how people talked? He had spent his life training to be a ninja, so he didn't really have a point of reference for socialization.
Turning his attention back to the teacher, he noticed that the man was livid. He probably didn't appreciate his spectacle. Oh, well. Kakashi was the same way.
"Uhm…where am I supposed to sit?" Iruka pointed to Ino's seat and informed her that she would now be seated in the front.
Ino pouted but moved anyway. It wasn't fair. She had the perfect seat! She sat right in between Sasuke and Neji, the two hottest boy in school. When they passed notes they had to do it through her and she was able to learn all about them through their messages. Sakura was practically livid when she found out. Sighing, she watched as Naruto sat in HER seat and then focused her attention on Iruka-sensei.
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Bored…..bored….bored……uhg. School was so boring! How could people have chosen this over ninja training? Speaking of which, this mission is going to take forever. No one he had come across so far had been even close to a threat. That meant that Sasuke was being threatened by outside forces: Someone in his neighborhood or a competitor to his family's company.
That means there won't be any need for reconnaissance in the school. That also meant that he would be, as Baa-chan had said, babysitting Sasuke…..when had it become Sasuke? Probably around the time that Sakura started gushing over Sasuke, and Neji was stroking his thigh under the lunch table. Not that he minded. It was nice to have the small amount of affection from someone who wasn't completely crazy.
There was one silver lining. The ramen here was All You CAN EAT!
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You have got to be kidding me.
"Welcome class, I will be your substitute P.E. coach for the next month or so. Any questions?" Anko smile in a way that said, 'Don't even think about asking a question'. Apparently that was too subtle for one of the students…uhm…..Lee? Anyway it was the kid in green who looked like he was going to cry.
"What happened to Gai-sensei!?"
She smirked, enjoying the chance to give someone bad news. "Ahem, he accidentally fell down a flight of stairs and broke every bone in his body."
"Nooooooooo! Gai-sensei!"
With that, Lee was gone and all that remained in his place was a cloud of dust. Naruto and Anko exchanged glances. That wasn't normal. Lee would need to be put under surveillance.
"At any rate, you will all be running laps around the tracks, because I don't feel like doing anything today. Anyone who stops will be running laps everyday for the rest of my time here Any questions?" She turned a malicious grin to the students and raised a single eyebrow.
This time the class only groaned and begrudgingly made their way to the track. Naruto covertly handed his mission status report to Anko and followed the others.
Three laps in or so, most of the students had started walking while Naruto, Neji, and Shino had taken t he lead. Neji, never missing a chance, attempted to start a conversation with his newfound crush.
"Ha…ah….so…., where did you transfer from?"
Naruto paused for a moment before replying. "Suna….but I visited here often and found I liked it here." It was actually the opposite of the truth, but it would be the easiest to back up with falsified evidence.
"Ah…I see…." Neji paused before asking the next question "Is you……girlfriend….or boyfriend mad?"
Naruto laughed at the hopefulness he heard when Neji said boyfriend. So that's his game huh? Fine by me.
"Nope."
Neji, who had tensed up at Naruto's laughter, stared at the ground in disappointment.
"I don't have one of either….well….I had a friend I was really close to, but nothing romantic ever happened with him."
"I see…" Neji smiled at Naruto. "Would you like to come over today?"
Naruto grinned "Strait to the point aren't we?" His grin widened at Neji's blush. It should be ok to indulge himself a little. "I've got some unpacking to do, but I could probably spare a half hour. Is that ok?" Actually, he was supposed to spend the evening stalking….er, protecting Sasuke.
"That's fine!" Neji was lost in a daze until he ran into something….soft? He backed up only to realize that he had run into Anko. More specifically, he had collided with her chest. He only had enough time to let out a panicked squeak before he found himself jerked backwards and pressed into something warm and hard.
He opened his eyes, which he didn't remember closing and found himself staring at a bright orange t-shirt. Naruto was standing in front of him, and he and Anko were staring at each other warily.
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Well, this was new. Sure, Naruto always tried to stand up to me, but this was the first time he has tried to protect someone else from me…..Hn, Interesting.
"Good for you Naruto, you've made a friend. Better keep an eye on him. He seems to be good at making enemies."
Naruto looked at me, confused. I gestured to the bleachers and felt my smirk widen. I'm going to have to put some cameras up in Naruto's room. I could make a fortune with a porn video staring these two.
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Naruto looked at the bleachers and noticed that that there was a group of boys sitting at the top of the bleachers. They were glaring at him….no, not him, at Neji.
"I can handle it." He said and looked back at Neji, who was blushing furiously at this point. "Relax, Anko just likes to be scary."
The bell rang and the students shuffled into the locker rooms to change. Naruto hurried and changed wary of prying eyes. It would seem that hormones ran wild around here. Either that, or money really did corrupt kids. He was betting on the later.
When Neji finally came out, they walked to his car together. Naruto stared at it for a moment. Having never ridden in a car, he thought it was strange that a kid like Neji could operate it. Oh, well, it would be interesting to say the least.
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Neji was staring at Naruto like he had grown a second head. Why was he leaning out the window?
"Naruto? Are you alright?" Naruto, without missing a beat, sat forward in his seat and looked at Neji. "Yeah! I've never ridden in a car…..this nice before." Oops, he was pretty sure that it would be suspicious if he said he had never ridden in a car.
Grinning, he tried to sit still as Neji brought his focus back to the road. Naruto leaned out the window again as they pulled up to a large mansion, the second largest in the neighborhood. "Wow….".
"Hey, won't your parents mind if you bring someone home without their permission?" Neji blushed and looked away. He parked and handed the keys to a man in a penguin costume. "No," He said, "they're going to be out late tonight, so they won't care."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at that. The implications of being alone with Neji weren't lost on him, socially inept as he was. Would he be willing to do something like that with Neji? He supposed he would. Not until after the mission, of course, but it was a possibility. Naruto paused his musings as they entered the foyer.
Sitting on one of the plush chairs was a boy with spiky black hair, pale skin, and an angry scowl on his face. It was Sasuke Uchiha, the boy he was supposed to be protecting.
"You're early; I wasn't expecting you to break in until later Sasuke-chan."
Sasuke growled upon hearing this. "Hey, you're the one who…." Sasuke trailed off as he noticed the person who moved to stand next to Neji, as opposed to in the doorway.
"Hey."