Sasuke checked his watch again. He was running late for school. His brother would not be happy if he was late to school even if he had a good reason, which he didn't. He forgot to turn on his alarm the morning before so he woke up late. Now he was 10 minutes away from the school with only five minutes to get there. He was so screwed.
Suddenly, Sasuke ran into another person and they both fell to the floor. "Great!" he growled. "Could this day get any worse?"
"I'm sorry," said the other person who was now standing and offering a hand to Sasuke. "I wasn't watching where I was going."
"That's kind of obvious dumbass," Sasuke growled as he stood up without the other person's help.
"Well sorry you ungrateful bastard," growled the stranger. "You're the one who came running around the corner without looking. It's not my fault that you ran into me. And I was just trying to be nice."
Sasuke went to glare at the boy, but his eyes widened at the sight before him. The person before him looked like a god. He had a perfectly curved body to be tantalizingly attractive to either male or female. The three scars on each sculpted cheek were the only things that marred the perfect appearance of the boy, but they almost seemed to make him look even more innocent and cute than he would have without them. His skin was the perfect shade of tan that was picked by the sun itself. Sasuke almost wondered why the sun would give the boy such a gift when his hair challenged its golden beauty. But the loveliest thing that Sasuke could not take his eyes off of when they landed there was the most amazing blue eyes that neither the sky nor the sea could ever hope to compete with.
"Hey!" growled the boy. "It's rude to stare."
"Sorry," Sasuke shook his head. "You're just so beautiful." Sasuke clamped his mouth shut when the word drifted out of them. He had not meant to say that out loud. Now this person was going to think he was weird.
The boy blushed and looked away. "I'm not a girl," he mumbled under his breath.
"I didn't think you were," Sasuke sighed. He already started might as well finish. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," the boy mumbled, "Why?"
"I knocked you over," Sasuke explained. "I wanted to make sure that I didn't hurt you."
"I'm fine," the boy repeated. "What about you? You were knocked over too."
"I'm unimportant," Sasuke said.
"What?" asked the boy.
"As long as you're okay than I am unimportant," Sasuke clarified.
"You're kind of weird," the boy said.
"Right," Sasuke nodded. He had made enough of a fool of himself so now it was time to go. He slipped past the boy and was just about to take off to running so that he would at least make it somewhat on time even though there was definitely no hope of him actually making it on time, but the boy grabbed onto his sleeve quickly stopping him before he could start.
"Sorry," said the boy. "I didn't mean to offend you. I actually think its kind of nice that you keep complimenting me. I'm just not used to it. I'm not exactly mister popular wherever I go."
"Seriously?" Sasuke asked with surprise evident in his voice. He winced when he realized how much emotion he let out, but at the moment he didn't really care about Uchiha pride. It's amazing, he only knew the boy for a few minutes and he was already throwing something that his father had ingrained into his very being off to the side.
"Seriously," the boy nodded with his eyes downcast.
"They don't know what they're missing," Sasuke growled. He didn't know why the thought of people not treating this boy right made him angry, but then again everything about this new person was making him think differently than what he usually does.
The boy looked up with a relieved smile then he downcast his eyes once again as a blush crept up to his cheeks. "Can I ask you a favor?" he said quietly.
"Anything," Sasuke answered immediately.
"Can you show me how to get to the school?"
It was only then that Sasuke realized that the boy was wearing the exact same uniform as him. "On one condition," he said.
The boy looked up with a shocked expression and bit his lip. "What do you want?"
"A name," Sasuke said.
"What?" asked the boy.
"I want your name," Sasuke clarified, "and your number, but that can be held off until another time."
"Oh," the boy smiled as he held out his hand for Sasuke to shake. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto."
"Naruto?" Sasuke tested the name on his lips as he took Naruto's hand lightly into his own and found that he actually really enjoyed using it.
"Yea," Naruto pouted. "What about it?"
"I like it," Sasuke smiled. "It suits you."
Naruto took a moment to smile at Sasuke's compliment before he spoke again. "What about you?" he asked. "What's your name?"
"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke answered as he took the offered hand and held it up to his face so that he could kiss it gingerly. The blush returned to Naruto's face immediately, but he did not rip his hand away from Sasuke's lips. "I will be your guide around the school."
"Are you sure that's okay?" Naruto asked nervously. "You looked like you were kind of in a hurry earlier."
"It'll be fine," Sasuke said. "It wasn't that important anyway."
"Thank you," Naruto said with a blinding smile that Sasuke couldn't help but want to see all the time.
Sasuke stood impatiently outside of the restaurant that he had been to only a few hours ago with his now ex-girlfriend. It was 4:50 and he only had to wait another ten minutes for Naruto to finally get off of his shift so that he could talk to him. The only problem was that he had arrived at 4:30 and now his nerves were getting to him. Questions and doubts were running through his head so quickly that he almost couldn't process them. How would Naruto react to seeing him outside of the restaurant? Would Naruto think that he was stalking him? What if Naruto didn't even remember him or had already moved on to some one else? The Gaara guy seemed to be pretty close to Naruto. What if they were dating now?
"Excuse me?" a woman said from just inside of the little cafe. Sasuke jumping thinking that maybe it was Naruto, but he immediately realized that he was wrong so instead he just stared at her as she continued. "I was told by the boss to tell you that you can't loiter outside of the restaurant."
"I'm waiting for someone," he answered.
"You've been here for twenty minutes already," the girl frowned.
"His shift hasn't ended yet," Sasuke answered.
"I really must ask you to leave," the girl said. "You can come back when there shift ends."
"I don't know when their shift is going to end," Sasuke lied. "I've been waiting here for twenty minutes. At least let me have ten more. If he doesn't come out by then than I will leave you alone."
The girl's frown deepened slightly, but she nodded and went back inside. After all, what harm could a random man standing outside the café do when it was a slow hour anyway?
Sasuke sighed. He was afraid that she was actually going to force him to go away. Then he wouldn't be able to see Naruto today and he would probably lose all of the nerve that he had built up just to see him. He couldn't allow that to happen. He had to talk to Naruto no matter what. He had to beg Naruto to take him back because he knew now that he couldn't live without Naruto. He never should have given up so easily back then. He should have begged for them to remain together. He should have tried to find a way that they could see each other more often, but he didn't and now he was regretting it.
"Excuse me sir." Sasuke recognized that voice. It belonged to his first waiter for the day. It belonged to Naruto.
Sasuke whipped around and saw Naruto's eyes widen. He hadn't realized that Sasuke was the one standing outside of the restaurant. "Naruto," Sasuke breathed out as he stepped forward to get closer to the man that he had lost all those years ago.
"I-" Naruto began, but he couldn't think of anything else to say past that. He had been the one to break up with Sasuke and now he regretted it, but he never thought that he would see Sasuke again. He had no clue what to think now that Sasuke was standing right in front of him.
"I didn't know that you were my waiter," Sasuke said.
"Oh," Naruto muttered awkwardly, "it's okay. It doesn't matter anyway."
"It does matter," Sasuke, said, "If I had known that it was you I wouldn't have let Ino talk to you like that."
"I'm used to it," Naruto said under his breath.
"What?" growled Sasuke. How dare anyone treat his Naruto like that? He was going to find whoever did it and beat them to a bloody pulp.
"It comes with the job," Naruto said quickly. He knew Sasuke too well to not know what he was thinking. As much as he was flattered that Sasuke would still stand up for him, he didn't want him to get in trouble or anything. "I don't think that you can find any waiter that hasn't been disrespected in some way. Gaara has had drinks thrown at him quite a few times."
The explanation made Sasuke calm down slightly only to tense back up at the mention of Gaara. "Are you dating?" he asked. He was aware that it was probably none of his business, but he had to know. He had to know if he still had a chance to get the love of his life back.
"Am I dating who?" Naruto asked confusedly.
"That Gaara guy," Sasuke clarified. "Are you dating him?"
Naruto shook his head quickly. "Gaara and I are just friends. We met in college and he's like a brother to me. Not to mention he's already dating someone else." Naruto stopped only to begin again when a thought seemed to occur to him. "Not that I want to date him even if he was single. I only want to date you." Naruto gasped suddenly when he realized what he had just said. They had only seen each other one or two minutes before and he was already asking Sasuke to take him back. That wasn't fair to Sasuke. He shouldn't try to capture a man whose heart he had broken all those years ago.
Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by a warm pair of arms wrapping around him and pulling him tight against a firm chest that he would never forget. "Thank god," Sasuke sighed as he nuzzled his face into the wide-eyed Naruto's neck. "I thought you didn't want me anymore."
"I wanted you back the moment I broke up with you," Naruto whispered as he leaned into the embrace that he had long been missing.
Sasuke hugged Naruto even closer. He knew now that there was no way that he was ever going to let this lovely man before him go. Never again. "Go on a date with me?" he whispered into Naruto's ear. "Tonight."
Naruto only nodded. He couldn't remember if he had any plans for that night, but, if he did, he would cancel.
here's the second chapter. unfortunately i haven't finished the next chapter yet so i will post it as soon as i finish it