He stumbled back and then looked at Sasuke. His eyes then changed. They went from a friendly, soft blue to a cold and hard blue. He clenched his hands and then punched Sasuke back; Sasuke looked at him and threw another punch and soon I was witnessing my very own first fight. They had moved the tables and made trays fall down. People near to us crowded around to witness the fight and the ones sitting close moved to a nice distance so they wouldn’t get hit. I stared as Sasuke and Naruto were throwing punches and ducking against each other. I tried to move but couldn’t; I was frozen in place. When the police looked like they were about to get involved, Sai pulled Naruto away and Suigetsu pulled Sasuke away, both holding them down
“Let me go, Sai!” said Naruto, trying to break fee from Sai’s grasp. I noticed then how strong he really was. I could see his muscles through the sleeves of his shirt and quickly looked away.
“Calm down, Naruto!” Sai replied calmly.
“Let go!” Naruto shouted back.
Sasuke pulled away from Suigetsu’s grasp and fixed his sleeves and shirt, then glared back at Naruto. The girls around looked at Sasuke as if he was a piece of candy. What did the guy have that attracted so many girls? I kept asking myself. Was it the fact that he was a bad boy and girls love bad boys, especially when they’re hot?
“Listen dobe, don’t butt in where you’re not called,” he said coldly.
“I told you before; if you mess with my friends then it is my business, teme [1]!”spat Naruto.
Sasuke clenched his fist, ready to start another fight. Yumiko grabbed his right fist with her hands and he turned to look at her, his eyes containing nothing but coldness and rage. However, she looked at him with eyes that I never could’ve even imagined she could have: loving eyes. They were warm and soft.
“Don’t Sasuke, don’t waist your time on these amateurs,” she said softly. Her voice was as warm as honey and it was in a tone I had never heard her use or thought that she could use. Her voice was always cold and mean, not a single hint of friendliness in it. So I was really surprised. Sasuke closed his eyes and took a deep breath and let it out, he turned his attention back to Naruto, opening his eyes. He snatched his hand free from Yumiko’s hands and walked out of the food court. The others glared at us and soon joined Sasuke. There was an odd silence then. I looked around and noticed the police starting to back away. The tables were out of place and the chairs turned over. The floor was full of trays of food and drinks, and the people looked around at each other.
“Ow,” said Naruto, breaking the silence and soon the food court was filled with voices of teenagers talking about what just happened. I turned to look at Naruto. His right cheek and left temple were red. I suppose from where Sasuke had hit him? “I got a headache now,” he said.
“Naruto!” replied Sakura madly, and we turned to see her stand and walk over to Naruto and punch him in the head. “Don’t ever start a fight with Sasuke-kun!” she said madly.
“Sakura-Chan, why did you hit me? That only made it worse,” whined Naruto, he rubbed the place where she had punched him.
“He did not start the fight, Sakura,” interfered Shikamaru. “Sasuke’s the one starting crap. You know he is and the only reason why you defend him is because you like him.” He stood to be at her eye-level.
“Yeah, and so what? I like him and I will defend him any time I want and how many times I want!”
“Just shut up, Sakura, we’re not in a mood to hear you scream about Sasuke!” snapped Ino. Sakura glared at her and left the food court. Ino sighed and stood along with the others to tell everyone around that everything was alright and that the show was over. Naruto sat beside me, still rubbing his head.
“Gomennasai[2], Naomi-Chan,” he apologized and I turned to look at him.
“For what?” I asked him.
“For the fight, it’s just that…” he kept rubbing his head. I asked Ino for her purse then took it and handed him some pain pills.
“Ino gets sudden headaches at times and is too lazy to go to the nurse.” I explained, he smiled and took them from my hand.
“Arigato, Naomi!” he gave me a friendly smile and popped the pills in his mouth before gulping it down with his drink that managed to survive the fight. My heart fluttered for some reason when he had smiled at me.
“Alright, we have to go back to school grounds. I do not want to be in the middle of anther fight,” said Ino and we turned to look at her.
“OK!” Naruto jumped up as if his head had never hurt. “Let’s go, Naomi.” He grabbed my hand and pulled me up to my feet. “Then I guess I’ll see you Monday?” he asked me.
“Yep, first block if not lunch” I answered.
“Alright, bye guys, bye Gaara!” Ino said and pulled me away then led me back to the car, with Hinata and Tenten not far behind. I rode shotgun again and went back to campus.
“Ino?” I asked her while she drove.
“Yeah?” she answered not taking her eyes off the road while Tenten and Hinata talked about what had just happened.
“What about Sakura?” I asked her.
“She’s gonna call her mom and tell her to pick her up. This isn’t the first time this happens, both the fight and Sakura getting upset for being told to shut the fuck up about Sasuke,” she replied madly.
“I hope Naruto didn’t get hurt badly,” said Hinata all of the sudden.
“He’s fine, don’t worry,” I answered her.
“You sure?”
I twisted around the seat so I could face her. “Hai, you can trust me.” I gave her a reassuring smile.
“Girl, you know Naruto has had worse fights than that. That was nothing compared to the other fights those two had had,” Tenten said and Hinata turned to look at her.
I shuddered at that thought. They had worse fights? I thought this one was bad but then again, Naruto didn’t really get hurt other than getting a major headache. I wondered how many fights those two have had so far. We arrived at campus and Ino parked the car where it was when we left, Hinata and Tenten walked away together talking about stuff that I didn’t know about. We said bye to Tenten and walked into our dorm, and both Hinata and Ino slumped in their beds while I sat down on mine.
“Ugh, that did not go like I had planned it!” groaned Ino.
“Don’t blame yourself Ino,” said Hinata.
“I know but…” she let out a long sigh. “Never mind, I should’ve known they would’ve start a fight. They always start a fight if they’re not on campus.” She grabbed her brown teddy bear and nuzzled her face into it. She pulled away and turned to look at me. “What a nice way to relax huh, Naomi?” I shrugged my shoulders “I’m really sorry but it’s just that… Naruto and Sasuke don’t exactly get along. In fact they’ve been enemies since I can remember.”
“Why?” I asked, hoping I could get some information about their relationship.
Ino turned to look at me “Because Sasuke was always popular and Naruto was jealous because he didn’t have a lot of friends at first. Sasuke always picked on him, because Naruto wasn’t as bright and didn’t get things the first time around.”
I just listened closely. After they both had gone to sleep I was still awake, looking up at the ceiling that had glow in the dark stars and started thinking of them both: Sasuke and Naruto. Naruto was always friendly, hyper, kind, sweet, and everything a friend should had. My thoughts went to Sasuke then; he was the complete opposite of Naruto. He was cold, mean, rude, and serious. I noticed the difference and shuddered a bit. I don’t know when or how but I fell into a deep sleep. The next day Ino woke me up.
“Wake up, Naomi,” she said and I looked up at her.
“Hmm?” I asked her half asleep.
“Come on, tomorrow its Sai’s and my fourth anniversary. I want you to come with me to go get him a gift!” she clapped her hands together and I could see her giving me a cheerful smile.
I sat up and rubbed my eyes “Why doesn’t Hinata go?” I asked her and glanced at Hinata’s bed and noticed that the dark indigo-haired girl was gone.
“Because she had to go with Neji to go visit their parents.” She explained and that made me wake up. I reached for my phone but fell in the process with the sheets tangled around my legs.
Ino giggled “What’s up with you?” she asked me.
I let out a disappointed sigh when I noticed I didn’t have any form of message. No voice or text message. “Mom and dad said they were gonna call or at least send a message to see how I was but didn’t,” I answered her and sat on the bed.
“Why don’t they just come?”
“They’re on a business trip.”
“Oh, well that explains a lot. So, are you coming?”
I rubbed my head. “Why not?” I didn’t have anything better to do.
“KYA! Arigato, arigato, arigato!” she pulled me into a friendly hug. “Tenten went shopping really early and Sakura is still pissed about yesterday. Take a shower, get ready and wait for me outside!” I laughed a bit and did as she told me. I walked out wearing a cute white sundress with brown flip flops, and I sat down on a marbled white bench.
“Hey, Naomi!” I jumped when I felt someone hug me from behind. I looked back and smiled.
“Ohayou gozaimasu [3] Naruto-kun!”
He jumped over the bench and sat next to me, he was wearing a grey shirt with a few white designs on it along with some jeans. “What are you doing up?” he asked.
“Ino wants me to go with her to choose something for Sai since she said tomorrow is their anniversary,” I explained.
“So that’s why he had to leave early.”
“Huh?”
“Sai, he left really early this morning.”
“Why didn’t…”
“Asleep.”
“Oh.”
“But I have nothing to do. Do you think I could come with you guys?
“I don’t know, but then again you are friends with Sai so…… yeah.”
He smiled and hugged me, and a light shade of red formed in my cheeks. “Arigato!”
I laughed a bit. “But don’t you wanna go see your parents?” I asked then he let go and fell silent. It hit me a few minutes later that I had hit a sensitive subject.
Idiot, idiot, idiot! I kept saying in my head, slapping myself.
“I don’t have parent, they died a long time ago,” he answered.
“Gomennasai, I didn’t mean to…” I started to apologize.
“Don’t be, you’re new here so you didn’t know. It’s alright, really.” I looked at him and he took out a green crystal necklace from underneath his white shirt. It was simple but pretty, and it had a black thick string. “My father, he gave it to me when I was a kid. A few weeks before he died.” He looked at the crystal and I saw sadness in his eyes. For some reason my heartache at how sad his eyes were made me want to take that sadness away but didn’t know how or why. Maybe because he was my friend? “I never take it off.” he finished his sentence and let me look at it. I gently took the green crystal in between my fingers and looked at it.
“It’s pretty,” I commented and the smile that I love came back. There was something off though, I couldn’t tell what but there was. I then noticed his eyes. They were a sad blue; they weren’t happy like his voice or smile.
“Aww what a cute couple!” said another female voice and we both jumped then turned to look at Ino. I blushed twenty different colors.
“I-Ino! Why would you say that!” stuttered Naruto.
She giggled. “I know you two just met like five days ago but now that I think about it, you two would make a cute couple.”
“I-Ino, don’t say that…” Naruto whispered.
“I’m just teasing ya!” she smiled at him and Naruto smiled back.
That’s when I noticed; he was smiling but not his eyes. Couldn’t Ino see that? Couldn’t Ino see that he was in reality sad and not happy? I stared more deeply into his eyes and wondered, did the others see it too or was I the only one that could see through his smile? My guess would be that it involved his parents, but I didn’t want to ask anymore. A pain in my heart throbbed, I wanted to take that sadness away, I wanted to see those happy eyes that made my mind go blank for some reason and made me zone out. Why though? I could never understand why exactly but I didn’t really care because all I really cared about was to take the sadness away or to at least make him forget what caused him pain.
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