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So people seemed to like it so I'll continue :)

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The song of inspiration: You Don't Mean Anything by Simple Plan

Again I suggest listening to it while reading parts of this chapter

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Chapter 2: You Don't Mean Anything

A week later and Naruto and Sasuke haven't talked. Sasuke knew that's how it would go. He wasn't stupid; he knew that's how it should be. Sasuke went back to the park he had been at the week before, again after work. He had his guitar once more and was playing it aimlessly.

"Well, isn't this scene familiar?" Sasuke heard a familiar voice from behind him. Sasuke turned to see Naruto standing there.

"Aren't you supposed to be in a tree?" Sasuke smirked.

"Well then it'd be kind of weird don't you think?" Naruto laughed.

"It still is kind of weird...what do you want?" the dark haired teen asked in a serious tone.

"Just walking through the park, that's all," the blonde shrugged.

"And you came to talk to me why?" Sasuke asked. He'd just wanted to be alone, yet the blonde seemed to be messing that up, again.

"Umm...well, I don't know," Naruto said. It was true he wasn't sure what had drawn him to the raven.

Sasuke looked at him; the bright blue eyes of the other boy were staring at him. "Well then just leave me alone," he responded. Sasuke didn't want to talk to him. Naruto was popular, Sasuke was not, they couldn't be friends and he didn't need something to make him feel worse about himself.

"And what if I don't?" Naruto asked in a playful tone.

Sasuke glared at him, his glare looked like it could kill. "Just stop it!" Sasuke practically yelled.

Naruto was taken back by the other boy's reaction, "Stop what?"

"I don't know what you're up to, but stop pretending to want to be my friend, I don't need this," Sasuke said, frustrated with the blonde.

"I'm not pretending!" Naruto said defensively.

"Just leave me alone," the raven said as he calmed down a little. Sasuke grabbed his guitar and ran to his house.

Naruto looked in the direction the Uchiha had run off in and sighed. 'Why would he think I'm pretending? I'm just trying to be his friend. Why does he push everyone away? Stupid teme,' Naruto frowned as he thought.

The next day Sasuke was sitting in his first period when Naruto walked into the room and sat next to him. "What do you want?" Sasuke asked, it came out almost as a hiss.

"I told you, to be your friend," Naruto said with a smile.

"I told you stop it," Sasuke replied.

Kiba walked in and saw Naruto sitting by Sasuke. He walked over, "Hey Naruto, why are you by Sasu-dork?"

"Well," he looked from Kiba to Sasuke. "It's nothing, just looking for someone to mess with while I waited for you to get here," he made an excuse.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, 'I knew it.' He just sighed as he said, "Well now that he's here, you can leave me alone, dobe." Sasuke's voice had a tone of anger in it that Naruto had never heard.

Naruto felt bad to say the least, but Kiba is his best friend, what was he supposed to do? But he knew that wasn't an excuse. He would have to talk to Sasuke later.

Just before the bell rang for their next class the teacher, Iruka, said, "Naruto, Sasuke could you two see me after class?"

Sasuke's eyes went wide; he didn't understand why on earth the teacher would need to see him. "Yes sensei," Sasuke replied.

"Yeah," Naruto said casually.

'Ugh he said maybe we're not different, but we are extremely different.' Sasuke thought.

The bell rang and Sasuke and Naruto stayed after. "What is it sensei?" Sasuke asked.

"Well, Naruto, you have horrendous grades and we teachers got together and we've decided you need a tutor," Iruka smiled. He saw Naruto as a pseudo-son; he wanted him to do better in school.

"What does this have to do with me?" Sasuke asked. He had a feeling that he wouldn't like the answer.

"Well Sasuke you have the highest grades, so we wanted you to tutor Naruto," the teacher replied.

Sasuke mentally cursed, "You can't be serious." He really couldn't believe what bad luck he had.

"I'm very serious," the man said with a smile.

"See you gotta spend time with me now Sasuke," Naruto said throwing his arm around Sasuke's shoulders.

He pushed it off, "Just because I have to spend time with you, doesn't mean I'll have to enjoy it."

"You two get along," their teacher said as they walked out.

"So when can we get together, so you can help me?" Naruto asked once Iruka walked away.

"I don't care, just not today," Sasuke responded, wanting to get away from the blonde.

"Okay how's tomorrow?" he asked with a smile.

"Fine, when?" Sasuke gave in, not wanting to but he did.

"At four, we'll meet in the park, you know since we always run into each other there," Naruto said as he ran off to catch up with his friends.

'I already feel the headache,' Sasuke thought as he let out a sigh and walked out of the classroom.

"Hey Naruto, what did the teacher want to talk to you about?" Kiba asked.

"Well my grades are not too good apparently; he wants me to have a tutor," the blonde shrugged.

"You mean Sasu-dork?" Kiba laughed.

"Yeah," Naruto responded.

Kiba started laughing, "Sucks to be you!"

"Yeah," Naruto laughed, but it was more a half laugh.

Shikamaru caught this and pulled Naruto over to the side, "Normally I wouldn't care, but this seems interesting, so why are you acting so funny about this Uchiha thing?"

"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked.

"Well you would normally make fun of him that was a half-assed," Shikamaru pointed out.

"It's nothing; I just think we shouldn't be so mean to him," Naruto said shrugging.

Shikamaru looked at him like he wasn't thinking right, "Where is this coming from?"

"Well everyone just makes fun of him, we just judge him with out knowing him," Naruto explained.

"So?" Shikamaru asked, he'd never seen the blonde act like he was.

"How would you feel if everyone was like that toward you? No wonder he's a jerk," Naruto said. He knew Shikamaru was one of their few friends he could talk to about Sasuke.

Shikamaru looked at him, "Right, well probably good not to say that to Kiba."

"I know. Why does he hate him so much?" Naruto asked.

"Not sure," the other responded..

"Hey guys I have an idea!" Kiba yelled.

"That's a first," Shikamaru said.

"SHUT UP!" Kiba growled.

"What's the idea?" Naruto asked.

"Well since Sasu-dork has to tutor you, we should at least make it interesting," he said, as a conniving smile spread across his face.

"How so?" Naruto asked, not sure he'd like the idea.

"Well you pretend to try to be friends with Sasu-dork, then humiliate him and knock him down a few pegs," Kiba laughed at the idea.

Chouji laughed, "You should!"

Naruto looked at Shikamaru, who said, "It's up to you Naruto."

"Yeah, okay," he said giving another half-assed response.

Later that day in the park just a little after school, Sasuke sat in the park with his guitar. He had on his work clothes and was trying to kill time before work. His work outfit was a button up shirt and some jeans, he didn't understand why but Orochimaru liked button ups, the creep. Right now he had the red shirt unbuttoned and there was a black wife beater under it.

He was just sitting there playing is guitar, like always, when a new song came to his head.

There again in his tree was the blue-eyed blonde. He listened to the song, and wondered just who it was for. There could be many possibilities. For some reason he loved the way Sasuke sang, it was sort of hypnotizing. 'Maybe that's why I fell out of the tree that time,' Naruto thought.

Really, he was kind of happy that he fell out of the tree that day. It gave him a chance to talk to Sasuke. Not that he would admit it, but Naruto always wanted to talk to Sasuke, he always found him to be interesting.

After hearing Sasuke's words he thought maybe that the song was about him and his friends. Naruto felt the lyrics kind of fit what Sasuke thought about him; it was about a person not meaning anything to him. But then why put he word baby in there? Did it just sound better to him? Why was he over thinking this? Sasuke wasn't going to write a song about him weather good or bad context. He hated him and wanted him to stay away.

Naruto started to feel kind of bad that he had always picked on Sasuke and never really met him. He didn't know why after one conversation with the boy he couldn't stop thinking about him, but that's how it was. Sasuke was all that was on his mind lately.

Okay maybe the song was partly for him. Really it kind of suited at times to what Sasuke thought of Naruto. He sighed as he thought, 'Stupid teme.' Naruto hated how all of the sudden the tree in the park was Naruto's favorite place to go, he hated that he couldn't stop thinking about Sasuke. Yet somehow he couldn't help think that it wasn't Sasuke's fault but instead Naruto's. If Naruto would have just left him alone and not have gone on prying into his life, nothing would be different right now; he'd be at home relaxing instead of thinking about the dark haired classmate.

After Sasuke finished the song, Naruto saw him look at his watch and then hurry to button and tuck in the shirt he was wearing. His mind couldn't help but wander as he stared at the raven, 'Red looks good on him he should wear it more. What am I thinking, bad thoughts, don't even think about Sasuke that way.' Naruto felt very nervous now for some reason.

"Hey, dobe, are you always going to sit up there and listen to me play? Are you stalking me?" Sasuke called up to him.

Naruto's eyes widened, "You knew I was up here?"

"Yes, now stop stalking me," the raven responded.

"I'm not stalking you! I just like the tree," Naruto said and he knew it was a lame excuse.

"Hn," was all Sasuke said before walking away.

TBC…

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