Chapter 3: 'Your life with him begins tonight'
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Naruto was driving around town and making jokes with Sakura in the passenger side. "Naruto, if you keep this up all my eye makeup is going to smear." She chuckled and checked her makeup with her portable mirror that she kept in her purse. Naruto grinned, he always loved to make people smile and laugh, especially his best friend.
Naruto looked down at his car's clock quickly to check the current time, '8:25' it read.
"The party starts around 9 o'clock right?" The blonde asked the pinkette.
"Um, I think so." Sakura shrugged and put her compact back in her purse.
"Since we already got some food, what should we do for 40 minutes?"
"We could talk about Sasuke." Sakura winked.
"You have Ino to talk about Sasuke to."
"Ino doesn't know anything about him and I know you know at least one thing about him." Sakura whined.
"Fine, fine. He is in English class?"
Sakura groaned at how idiotic the blonde was being. "I mean like a skill or talent or something!"
"He's in my two-hour Arts classes. I guess he plays the piano and he's really good at drawing."
"Oh my god! You two are perfect for each other!" Sakura cooed.
"Calm down. We don't even know each other and I'm-" Naruto stuttered
"You're what? Straight? As if, Naruto." Sakura snorted and leaned back into her seat more.
Naruto rolled his eyes and nervously played with his thumbs on the steering wheel.
"Is he even going to the party?" Sakura crossed her legs and wiped imaginary dust off her dark jeans.
"I told him to come to the party since everyone is going to be there. But, he said it depends on his brother, Itachi or whatever."
"So he might show up? This is perfect, Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed and faced Naruto with wide, excited eyes.
"And why is this 'perfect'?" Naruto glanced at her.
"The artistic, soccer captain stud goes to a party with his new mysterious classmate that he has helped out on his first day, the two go to a party together, kiss. That makes them confused about their feelings and butt heads but end up falling in love with each other. But, I'm only predicting the outcome of tonight's party and the future." Sakura grinned wickedly at Naruto.
Naruto gave an amused snort to the pink haired girl in the seat beside him.
"Sasuke, are you sure you want to go to this party? I bet the kid doesn't even remember you." Itachi gave a glance to his brother.
"I don't care if he doesn't remember me. I just want to see what he's about." Sasuke pointed out.
"He seems too good to be true. He has to have some thing flaws to him."
"That's exactly why I want to know more about him. He interests me, Itachi."
"Whatever. Do what you like, but you better not get drunk or get anyone else drunk. I don't feel like dealing with your shit." Itachi mumbled as he turned right.
Sasuke waved him off and watched the city lights go past his window. "Are we almost there?"
"The guy having the party gave me his address and this is the right street so we'll be there soon enough."
Sasuke nodded and continued to admire the lights outside.
Naruto listened to Sakura's fangirling as he made a couple turns leading to Kisame's house party.
"Naruto, are you even listening? I'm planning out your future with Sasuke!" Sakura pouted as Naruto parked his car.
"There's nothing going on between me and the Uchiha. He's new to the school so he asked me for some help. I helped and it just happens we have a couple of things in common. It's not a big deal." The blonde pulled the keys from the car and unlocked the car doors.
Sakura and Naruto both got out and looked at all the cars outside the Hoshigaki home. Naruto parked across from the party and looked around for some familiar faces.
"Listen here, Uzumaki. This night is the beginning of yours and Sasuke's life!" Sakura exclaimed and threw her hands up in the air.
"What are you doing, Sakura?" Ino giggled as she and Sai walked up to Sakura and Naruto.
Sakura blushed and slowly put her hands to the side and looked away from the three. Naruto chuckled and locked the car doors, he patted his car and placed the keys in his left jean pocket.
"You guys seen anyone else around?" Naruto asked Sai and Ino.
"I saw Temari and Shikamaru parking somewhere down the street and I think I saw Neji and Tenten walking up to the house." Ino shrugged and tidied up her purple tank top.
"Anyways, we should get to partying." Sakura began walking across the street ahead of the three. Naruto sighed and walked after her and kept looking around for his friends before walking inside.
Itachi parked down the street from the party house that was filling up with more and more teenagers. Itachi sighed and got out of his car and locked it after Sasuke got out. Sasuke placed his hands in his black pants pockets and strolled down the street with his older brother a bit behind him.
Sasuke could hear music being blasted all the way down the street, it was a good thing he had a couple of pills of Ibuprofen in his wallet. Itachi was already rubbing his temples and taking deep breaths, trying to ready himself for a headache.
Sasuke walked into the house first and his nose was assaulted by the smell of alcohol and a mixture of pizza and tacos in the house. Before Sasuke could go find the blue-eyed blonde that piqued his interest his brother placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Give me a text or call when you're done. Got it?"
"Yeah." Sasuke waved his brother off and searched the house in search of the blonde.
So far Naruto wasn't in the kitchen or in the guest bedroom that was inhabited by couples making out on the floor and the bed or any surface in that room. Sasuke decided to look for the pink haired girl who Naruto was talking to in their history class earlier today. He figured it would be easy since pink hair wasn't very common, but at this party there were multiple girls with dyed pink hair.
Sasuke leaned against an empty wall near the end of the living room and took a sip of beer from the bottle in his hand that he found in the kitchen. Sasuke usually would drink some vodka right away but he wanted to be a bit sober so he figured drinking a bit of beer should give him a nice buzz for the night.
Naruto was in the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face to keep him awake after his two-hour long soccer practice. Sakura was with him but was checking herself out in the mirror in front of them.
Sakura took a swig of beer and handed the bottle to Naruto next.
"I'm not going to drink tonight. I'm driving you and maybe some others tonight and plus my parents will probably smell the alcohol."
"Come on, Naru. Just a couple sips won't hurt. Just a buzz then it'll be gone before we leave tonight and I made sure to throw some of your cologne into the car in case."
Naruto gave in and took a couple sips and handed the bottle back to her.
"Now, go find Sasuke!" Sakura teased as Naruto let them both out of the bathroom.
"No way. I need to find Kiba instead."
"You're no fun. I'm going to go dance." Sakura stuck her tongue out and went to living room where the music was the loudest.
Naruto grabbed a couple of chips from the chip bowl in the kitchen and watched the door waiting for Kiba and more of his friends to show up.
Sasuke watched the people dancing near the stereo and chuckled at how some of them danced. Suddenly a pink haired girl began dancing with a blonde haired girl in a purple top. Sasuke remembered the pinkette that talked to Naruto earlier and knew that the girl dancing was her. Sasuke pushed his way through people, his beer spilling slightly on the floor, but he didn't care. He needed to know where the blonde was.
Sasuke tapped on Sakura's shoulder and watched as the girl's eyes went wide for a moment.
"Hey, you're Naruto's friend, right?" Sasuke scowled at her.
"Oh, um yeah! Totally!" Sakura tried to hold onto her squeal.
"Have you seen him tonight?" Sasuke raised his voice as the music seemed to get louder.
"Mhm, we came here together." Sakura smiled.
Sasuke's brows furrowed a bit with slight disappointment for a reason unknown to him.
"Well not as a couple, as friends. But he's over in the kitchen I think." Sakura continued and pointed out the blonde spiky hair in the kitchen near the chip bowl.
Sasuke nodded to her and followed the girl's pointed finger to the kitchen to where Naruto was. Sasuke silently cleared his throat as he walked up to the blonde. Naruto turned around as he felt someone walk up to him in a swift movement.
"Sasuke, you showed up!"