Chapter 10: 'Monday'

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Sunday night seemed to fly by for Naruto, and before he knew it he was waking up to the sunlight from Monday morning. Naruto gave a groan and rolled to the side of his bed, still wrapped up in his blanket. He sat near the end of his bed and slumped over with a sigh and a yawn. He got up and made his way downstairs with his bright orange blanket still wrapped around his newly awakened self.

Minato and Kushina were of course preparing breakfast and making morning coffee. "Good morning, sweetie!" Kushina grinned at her only son. Naruto nodded and grabbed a cup of coffee and a blueberry bagel that was sitting on a plate.

"Make sure you eat up quickly and shower, so you're not late to school since your mother and I have to be at the bakery early today." Minato reminded Naruto as he was washing dishes. "Got it." Naruto took one last bite of his bagel and a sip of his coffee.

"I'm taking a shower." He mumbled as he made his way to the bathroom.

"Naruto."

"Yeah?" Naruto turned his head.

"You might want to lose the blanket before you take your shower."

"Oh yeah." Naruto replied as he spun around, unwinding the blanket from him and placing it on the living room couch.

"You okay, Naruto?" Kushina gave a concerned look.

"Just tired." The blonde gave a weak smile before disappearing into the bathroom.

Naruto stood under the steaming water, ignoring the heat that was turning his tan skin to a slight pink. Water droplets rolled off his wheat colored hair and onto his scarred cheeks, he wiped away a few droplets and closed his eyes.

"Damn that Uchiha bastard." Naruto grumbled under his breath.

Naruto didn't want to deal with Sasuke today or ever. What if other people found out that Sasuke kissed and liked him?

Would kids make fun of him again like all those years ago at his last school before he moved back to Konoha? How do he keep everything a secret?

Naruto's breathing turned into short and loud pants, he felt like someone was choking him. He grabbed at his neck, trying to pry away the imaginary hands around his throat. Naruto sank down against the shower wall, his hands gripping at his blonde hair.

'Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why can't I just forget? Why?' Naruto kept that stance, his head lowered and his eyes shut. He let the shower drown out every memory floating around his mind.

'Damnit.'

Sasuke woke up with a smirk on his usual scowling face. He immediately got out of bed and slipped into a robe and put on some slippers before leaving his room and heading into the bathroom to ready himself for school. His perfect dark hair was a mess on his head and he frowned at the hair. He began trying to fix his hair, his tongue occasionally making it's way out of his mouth to rest on his pale lips as he began combing out his hair. He dabbled some hair gel onto his fingers and ran it through his raven locks of hair.

Sasuke gave a pleased look at his perfect hair and continued onto brushing his teeth. As he began applying toothpaste to the brush, his older brother came in; his eyes still glazed over in sleep and bags under his eyes.

Sasuke gave a smirk to the mess that his brother was in the morning. His usual perfect low ponytail was barely recognizable in the rat's nest of hair.

Itachi noticed his younger brother's smirk and gave him a glare as he too began to brush his teeth. Sasuke left immediately after so Itachi could take a shower. Sasuke decided to skip out on breakfast and just pick out his normally dark apparel of jeans and a long t-shirt.

Shortly after getting dressed, Sasuke grabbed his bag, cellphone, keys and gave a quick goodbye to his parents and brother.

"Aren't you going to drive to school with me?" Itachi asked before Sasuke rushed out the door.

"I got to get to school early."

"Oh..right." Itachi replied and continued to eat his orange slices that were currently dripping orange juice down his hand.

Sasuke gave a wave and made his way to his car, placing everything in the passenger seat and driving off towards the school.

Naruto was finished dressing and was preparing to leave the house, but not before sending a few text messages out. Naruto left a few minutes after his parents did before they left for work at the bakery. Naruto felt shaky as he got into his car and pulled out of the driveway and onto the road. He turned up the radio in the car to clear his thoughts of school and Sasuke for the few minutes before arrived at his so-called 'hell'. He decided that school was now the last place he'd ever wanted to be this morning as he got changed. Naruto pulled into his usual parking space and gave a sigh of relief as he saw a few cars in the parking lot and didn't see a Uchiha in sight.

Naruto walked into the school, whistling a happy tune as he made his way to his locker. He was stopped right in his tracks as he saw someone leaning against his locker. The blonde knew instantly who it was, just from the unimpressed face that a Sasuke Uchiha wore.

Naruto walked up sheepishly to his locker and tried to turn the lock on the locker that Sasuke was still leaning against. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the blonde who was blushing profusely and ignoring eye contact with him.

"Who knew you could be so awkward." Sasuke chuckled as he pushed himself off the locker, letting Naruto grab his books. Naruto tuned out Sasuke and focused rummaging through his locker to find his text books.

Sasuke didn't like to be ignored, especially by the blonde. He slammed his palm against the locker next to Naruto's and gave a death glare to the orange clad boy.

Naruto looked up at Sasuke and straightened up, his eyes not making contact with the dark ones glaring at him.

"If you think ignoring me will make me go away or lose this challenge, you're wrong." Sasuke stepped closer to the nervous blonde.

"You won't win, bastard." Naruto glanced at the dark-haired boy but eyes went directly to his shoes.

Sasuke gave a smirk at the blonde and stepped closer to the blonde.

"What I said was true. You can't escape fate, Naruto."

"Shut up, Uchiha! I don't like you, okay? I never will either!" Naruto raised his voice but kept it a raspy whisper so no one could hear them.

"Then tell me why you get nervous and blush when you see me?"

"I- I don't! I barely know you!" Naruto protested.

Naruto was getting more and more pissed off by every passing second. He really wanted his friends to text him or call him to let him escape this confrontation with Sasuke, but seems luck was not on his side this morning.

Sasuke knew he was messing with Naruto, but he needed Naruto to consider them together. It seemed though that he was pushing him away. Sasuke cussed to himself in his mind as he watched as the blonde's stunning blue eyes worriedly scanned the empty hallway they were in.

Sasuke gave a light huff and tugged on his messenger bag as he grabbed his cell phone from one of the outside pockets. Naruto was watching Sasuke from the corner of his eye as he watched the Uchiha scan his phone.

"What's your number?" Sasuke asked casually.

"Why in hell would I give you my number?" Naruto asked dumbfounded.

"Or else I'll ask someone else and the challenge might slip out of my mouth after talking about you." Sasuke shrugged.

Naruto's eyes went wide and his brow furrowed, knowing that the Uchiha would do that. Naruto tried to think of his other options but were all put to rest.

Naruto placed his hand out towards Sasuke's phone, signaling to hand it over. Sasuke gave it to him and watched as the boy typed up his number and handed the phone back.

"It better be the right number." Sasuke threw Naruto a glare.

Before Naruto could reply, Sasuke typed out a quick message and soon enough a text appeared on Naruto's phone.

Naruto sighed and looked at the text sent to him;

'You are truly adorable, idiot.' It read.

Naruto blushed and quickly shut his phone, forgetting to delete the text.

Sasuke smiled at the blonde's embarrassed face and brought his face up to Naruto's.

"Why the hell-" Naruto began to snap at Sasuke but was shut up from a pair of slim fingers guiding his chin up to Sasuke's mouth.

A light kissed was placed on Naruto's lips and before he could react and cuss at the bastard, the Uchiha already pulled away and was walking away, a smile spread against his porcelain cheeks.

Naruto placed his forehead against the cold metal of his locker, his face felt like it was on fire and his head was a mess of different emotions.

"Damnit!" Naruto shouted out.

"What are you pissed about?" Sakura asked as she arrived with their friends to the blonde's locker.

Naruto turned around and faced his friend's confused faces.

"Nothing. What's up?" Naruto tried to forget what happened and hoped none of them saw what occurred with Sasuke earlier.

"Tired as hell." Shikamaru yawned and leaned his head against Temari's sandy blonde hair.

Naruto nodded, glad that no one asked about Sasuke and decided to mess with Kiba to get his mind off the lip-virginity robber. Naruto gave Kiba a punch to the shoulder before they began talking about soccer practice later that afternoon.

Sakura began chatting with Ino about shopping and their project for one of their classes but in the back of Sakura's mind she knew something happened and she was determined to find out, one way or another before the day ended.

Sasuke walked down to his locker that was near the other end of the school. Sasuke knew that today would be a good day for sure. First, he got Naruto's number, then he got to kiss the blonde for a second time. He also had other plans for the day but decided not to inform the blonde about them so he could keep him guessing.

As Sasuke got to his locker he checked his phone and smiled at Naruto's number. He knew that Naruto was most likely never going to text him but a Uchiha could dream, right? He could always send the blonde messages just to mess with him. Even the one he sent the blonde earlier made Naruto blush and become embarrassed. Sasuke figured the blue-eyed boy even forgot that Sasuke called him an idiot since he never received an insult back.

Sasuke grabbed his books as he got to his locker and tucked his phone back into his bag around his shoulder. Sasuke grabbed a piece of paper from his back pocket, remembering why he had another reason to come to school early today. He smirked and made his way to the destination that was printed on the folded piece of paper.

'I'll show you, Naruto. I will make you mine.'