Hmm. This took awhile to post..... I regret nothing. Note: staying up all night to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion in one sitting is sooooooo worth it. Last two episodes make no sense by the time you get to them (not that they do anyway) but its still worth it. Thnx to those of you who have reviewed! If you havnt... Review. Nao. I command you!
"Naruto? Something wrong?" asked Sasuke. Of course there's something wrong, he told himself, but didn't say it aloud because he didn't want to make the situation worse. Sasuke had picked up on Naruto's the change of facial expression and was hoping he hadn't said the wrong thing. "Ya know, we could just forget about it. No one has to know except for those of us who were there and the other guys haven't said anything so…" Sasuke said in a rush, but trailed off as he noticed that Naruto wasn't listening to a word he was saying. The tan blonde had his big blue eyes glued firmly to Sasuke's face, but they weren't exactly making contact. Sasuke took a step forward and knelt down so he was eye level with Naruto.
Naruto continued to stare at Sasuke, not hearing the boy's attempts to draw a response from him. So…what does this mean? Is Sasuke actually a girl? Naruto, being a little slower than most, took a few seconds before he realized this couldn't be possible since Sasuke was sitting right in front of him without a shirt on.
A blush slowly grew on his face, when he finally got it, and he turned his face away from Sasuke. Sasuke, noticing the change in consciousness, immediately drew back from Naruto to give him space. The two boys sat on opposite ends of the small apartment and stared at anything but each other, not daring to break the awkward silence.
After a few minutes of quiet, Naruto raised his eyes to look at Sasuke. The black haired boy was staring at the carpet, and didn't notice Naruto's gaze. He had his chin resting on his knees; his arm wrapped around his legs, and his other hand picking at fuzz in the carpet.
As Naruto stared at Sasuke, he looked at him. Really looked at him, from his hair, so definitely black it nearly had blue highlights, to his skin, which was smooth and pale in contrast. Rather than feeling all fluttery inside though, he felt somewhat protective. Even though he knew that they had barely just met a week ago, Naruto felt sure that he kept getting closer and closer to Sasuke every time they talked, or did something together or whatever, and now he felt like he wanted to make sure that their relationship could grow so that he could be there to make sure no one ever hurt Sasuke. It was like all of his greatest fears had been rendered obsolete in comparison to the fear of seeing pain on that handsome face. Naruto shivered and looked away from the pale beauty.
Not wanting to waste anymore time, and now that he knew where he stood a bit more, Naruto exhaled audibly, and then stood up, drawing a look from Sasuke. Naruto met Sasuke's eyes seriously, and then smiled as he walked over to give him a hand up. Sasuke took the hand, returning Naruto's smile with one of his own, and the two shared a moment that only guys have. They don't really have to say anything; they just know that everything's all better. No words necessary. And though Sasuke was oblivious, or at least he was in Naruto's mind, Naruto would do his best to stay by Sasuke's side and make the most of this new affection he had towards the dark-haired boy.
The two went and sat on the couch again and turned on the TV to some movie. They spent hours just talking, laughing and watching television without any awkward feelings. Continuing until late in the night, it was about 1:00 in the morning when Naruto let out a deep yawn, drawing a chuckle from Sasuke.
"You tired?" he asked, voice full of teasing.
"Am not! I'm just… just… a little..." Sasuke's eyes grew wide and he almost jumped off the couch as Naruto's eyelids fluttered shut and his head fell against Sasuke's shoulder. Calm. I need to be calm. He fell asleep, this was not on purpose. We already sorted everything out so there's no reason for me to be so damn nervous! Sasuke wedged a hand between Naruto and himself, and pushed him until he flopped onto the couch, sleeping like a rock. Sasuke looked at Naruto sleeping and grinned. The boy lay haphazardly sprawled on the couch, one arm above his head, mouth open, and drool dripping down his cheek as he let out sporadic snores. Sasuke couldn't help but find it at least a little funny. Sasuke ran his fingers through his black hair and sighed as he got up to find a blanket and then cleared a spot on the floor to sleep.
Just as Sasuke reached up to turn off the light, he heard a murmur from behind him.
"… Did you say something?" asked Sasuke cautiously, not wanting to wake up Naruto if he was actually asleep.
"I said I lost the game." Mumbled Naruto, obviously pissed off and hardly aware of the words coming out of his mouth.
"What game?" asked Sasuke with a tone emphasizing his lack of understanding.
Naruto sat up a little and turned towards Sasuke with a look of shock. "THE game".
"WHAT game!?" Sasuke was letting irritation seep into his voice, but before Naruto did anything that would potentially spark violence, the boy waved his hand, as if to wipe the air clean, and rolled over to fall back asleep.
Sasuke sat still for a moment, thinking to himself about what Naruto just said, then realized he was trying to make logic of something the biggest idiot in their class had coughed up while half awake at approximately 1 am. Sasuke shook his head at the clear waste of time and turned off the light, settling into his borrowed pillow and blanket, to his discontent it was pink and had baby sloths sporadically throughout the fabric, which functioned as a makeshift Sasuke drifted off to sleep, among his last thoughts before dreams came, he reminded himself to ask Naruto why neither of them were sleeping in the bed.
Naruto… came a faraway voice. Naruto ignored it. Naruto the voice said, with a little more force. Why cant you just let me sleep!? I'm in such a wonderful sleep. Feels so good…
"NARUTO!" shouted Sasuke as he simultaneously dumped a bucket of water on Naruto.
"Oi! What the hell?!?" shrieked Naruto, who was standing faster than Sasuke had thought possible.
"YOU!" said Naruto with a low voice full of such heated anger that Sasuke had a moment to weigh the odds of loosing a fight with Naruto and/or if he could outrun him in the time it would take to get outside…
Naruto took a step forward and seemed to crouch, emulating the poise of a predator before it pounces, when Sasuke put a hand up, bucket at his side ready to be used as a weapon if necessary. "H-hold up! Naruto! Look at the time!" Naruto looked over at the clock and, noticing nothing unusual looked back at Sasuke with an empty look on his face.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and realized that he was going to have to explain most everything to this kid. "If we don't book it, we're going to be late for school!" Naruto looked back at the clock and then at Sasuke and finally, his face lit up with the full understanding of what Sasuke had just said.
"SHIT!" yelled Naruto as he ran for the bathroom, Sasuke threw down his bucket and began digging through the endless cups of old ramen, in search of his school things.
"Naruto, seriously! You need to clean up you shit once in awhile!" shouted Sasuke from across the small apartment. Naruto grunted in acknowledgment from behind the bathroom door and Sasuke rolled his eyes, guessing that it was a lost cause.
When the two of them had gotten all of their school things together and were somewhat presentable, they hit the door running and barely made the bus.
"Naruto! Sasuke! Wait a second… why are you guys wheezing?" asked Kiba, who also rode Naruto's bus.
"We woke up –wheeze- about 5 –wheeze- minutes ago…" Sasuke managed to get out before collapsing into the bench seat that Naruto already occupied half of.
Kiba just laughed and shook his head, sitting down across from them. "So why are you guys together anyway? Do you take this bus too, Sasuke?" asked Kiba, who hadn't missed the fact that they had gotten on at the same time.
"Oh yeah. Sasuke and I ran into each other yesterday and after talking for awhile he stayed over at my place" answered Naruto, fully recovered. After eyeing them suspiciously, Kiba left it alone, but not before Sasuke had seen the elongated look they had been given. Shit. He probably thinks it has something to do with the…party. Well if we ignore it maybe he won't say anything. Yeah. And maybe Naruto will clean up his apartment. Sasuke was carefully trying to read Kiba without being noticed, but luckily Kiba wasn't much smarter than Naruto, so that wasn't a likely possibility.
The bus had picked up a little later than usual so the first bell had already rung by the time the boys got to school, so they all ran to their classroom in hopes that they wouldn't be late. Luckily, they made it in just as the bell rang.
A relieved sigh escaped from all three of them, as they stood bent over in the doorway of the classroom trying to catch their breath. Sakura glanced over at them, and Naruto waved, but she turned her head away as if she hadn't seen him.
Slouching and befallen into instant depression, Naruto felt Sasuke pat his hunched back and say, "You can't win 'em all" or something close to that. He looked up but found Sasuke and Kiba already heading to their seats and hurried to catch up, immediately distracted from his depression.
When everyone was seated and quiet, Kakashi sensei put down the book he was reading, which was rare for him even though he was supposed to teach them, not spend all class reading, so he instantly held the fascination of every student in the room. Their teacher was a peculiar man with gray hair (not old gray but a gray he had been born with) that stuck out all over the place, a scar trailing down in a line from his left eye, and he wore a black mask that covered his mouth.
On the second day of school a kid asked where he had gotten the scar. He had told them that he had been out at a bar with a couple of his friends a few years back and after getting a little buzzed started hitting on this beautiful girl who had told him her name was Haku. She had tried to convince him she was a boy but he wouldn't believe her because 1) drunk people don't agree with logic 2) what would a boy be doing in a bar? Isn't that illegal? And 3) a few minutes later her boyfriend, Zabuza, who was quite large and seemed to insist on not wearing a shirt in public, came over and beat the shit out of him. Thus, how he got the scar.
Kakashi stood and walked to the center of the wood floor space he had to walk in while he taught. The classroom was built so that the door opened to a floor that was actually lower than the raised levels that had the students' desks on them. On the open floor in front of the raised levels were Kakashi's desk, a pulpit-like thing that teachers tend to have for when they teach, a bookshelf, and against the wall was a chalkboard.
The students listened intently as Kakashi sensei, who had set down his book (which he never does), stood behind his pulpit-like thing.
"I have an announcement." Said the strange man, drawing even more anticipation from the students. "Today you will not be going to your other classes. We are going on a field trip!" said Kakashi with more emotion than anything he had ever said to them before. The students erupted in talk of where they would be going, and how their teachers would know they were on a field trip, and so on. "Settle down", ordered Kakashi, "I have sent notice to all your other teachers ahead of time so they do not expect you today. We will be arriving back here by the time school ends so you shouldn't worry about getting home unusually late. And for those of you who buy lunch, I don't think you'll find much of a food shortage where we are going". And with that, Kakashi picked up his book and turned to the page he had been on as he walked out of the room.
The students, not knowing what to do about him leaving the classroom, simply sat there in silence until he poked his head back in, eyes glued to the book, and made an indication with his hand that they were supposed to follow.
Everyone grabbed their stuff and happily resumed pre-class conversations and spread the latest gossip and such as they hurried to follow their teacher.
"Hey Sasuke-kun, where do you think we're going?" asked Sakura who was practically glued to his side. Sasuke rolled his eyes and gave an "I don't know" that was dripping with annoyance. But that didn't discourage the girl. She kept fluttering about him as if he was the sun and she revolved around him, and he found it increasingly closer to molestation of personal space.
"I hope it's an instant ramen factory. Maybe they would give us free samples!" said Naruto, his face lighting up with the idea of getting to eat the salty deliciousness for free.
Sasuke just gave him a look and said, "You would" before ditching both him and the pink-haired girl to go ahead in the group.
"Sasuke?" the two said in-sync, and then ran to catch up with Sasuke before he found someone else to sit next to on the bus.