The tone in his voice when he said that seemed meaningless, but in his eyes he meant it.
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After an hour of doing nothing productive, Naruto's phone finally rings. Seeing the caller ID he answers it with a sigh. "Hello?"
"Naruto," comes Sasuke's familiar monotone.
"Oh, hey," He greeted carelessly.
"I just got home. Can I come over?"
'I guess he has time for me now.'
"Sure." He muttered.
It only took a couple minutes for him to arrive only because, unfortunately, Sasuke didn't live to far away from him. If he were to walk it would take him at least 15 minutes.
"Here we go" He whispered once he heard the knock on the door. Naruto walked to the door in a slower pace then normal.
'Don't want to look like I'm eager or anything'
When he opens the door, he gave a small glare to the raven emitting a small laugh to come out of him. The blonds stomach tightens at the sound.
"What's so funny?" He asked, his voice sounding fed up.
"When you called me," he starts, "You sounded pretty fucking angry."
"Well I wasn't exactly excited to be talking to you while you were getting railed." Naruto opened the door wider to let him in.
He smirks. "Why, you jealous?"
Naruto raised his eyebrows at him. "Not one bit."
"Whatever let's just get started."
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"How did you even get that answer..?"
"Hm? What are you talking about?"
"Are you sure your even trying? That has nothing to do with what we're even reading."
"Well maybe if you actually taught me instead making me do it all on my own, I could understand this better." Naruto said starting to get frustrated.
"You're an idiot."
"You're an asshole." Naruto retorted back.
"You want me to stop tutoring you?"
"Are you threatening me Uchiha?"
"Does it not seem that obvious to you Uzumaki?" He asked, full of sarcasm in his voice.
"Doesn't matter, I'm not scared of you."
"You should be."
The tone in his voice when he said that seemed meaningless, but in his eyes he meant it. For some reason it looked like he was scared of himself. But Sasuke had suddenly looked away and down to the books, not allowing Naruto to analyze him any further.
They got back to the books but this time Sasuke walked him through one question for each section. The rest he allowed Naruto to do on his own.
"Alright wake me up when you get done with that, im taking a nap." Sasuke only happened to be tired because the other day he was too scared to sleep, but now it seemed like he couldn't stay awake.
"Okay got it." He said unbothered and continued on with his work.
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Finally, with a drop of Naruto's pencil, he gave out an exasperated sigh but smiled a little because he was now finished.
He looked at Sasukes figure on his bed and wondered if he should wake him up so he could review his answers. But he honestly didn't feel like dealing with him at the moment so instead he got up to go get a drink of water in the meantime.
When he came back he quietly walked to place a cup of water on his nightstand for when the Uchiha decided to wake up. Naruto decided to let him sleep, he figured the raven was tired from getting railed earlier today.
Bored, Naruto sat back on the chair and spun himself round and round. Each time he stole a glance at Sasuke.
He suddenly heard groans from the blond. He stopped spinning and put his full attention on the raven. He noticed how he was sweating, his eyeballs were moving side to side underneath his eyelids as a pained expression was visible on his face. He saw Sasuke gripping tightly on his bedsheet as his breaths became heavy.
He started to shift toward him by getting up
from his chair, placing the book on his table.
He started to grow worried when suddenly, he saw the raven inhaling sharply and sitting up on the bed in panic. His eyes were glossed with tears. He'd just had another nightmare where he tried so hard to wake up from and finally, he did. He looked around the room, left to right, and realized he wasn't in the house he recognized.
"Fuck." His voice sounding weak as he put his hands on his face.
"Hey, are you okay?" Sasuke heard Narutos voice beside him. It was a gentle tone, and it kinda sounded like he cared.
Sasuke shut his eyes tightly, "Yeah I'm fine." he lied. "God that one felt so real.." He whispered.
"Bad dream?"
Sasuke turned his head to the left and up to Naruto only to glare at him.
'Right, of course it was a nightmare.'
"Um, here have some water." He said unsure of what he should do.
"Thanks.." Sasuke looked at him weirdly, it felt strange that he was being nice to him.
"What was your dream about?" He blurted out. It was just a thought that had popped into his head. He didn't mean to say it, but it seemed his mouth had a mind of its own.
Naruto noticed his body stiffen a bit. He had definitely had crossed some sort of line.
"Thats none of your business." His tone harsh. Sasuke put the glass on the night stand and started to get off the bed.
Naruto just nodded, there was no use in forcing him to admit something he wasn't ready to admit.
"You finished the packet?" He asked walking over to the desk.
"Yeah." Naruto noticed Sasukes hand trembling as he picked the papers up and got curious about what had happened in that nightmare that had so much affect on him.
"I'll take this with me, I'm going home. I'll check it and give it back to you tomorrow." He said as he walked towards the door.
"Um yeah okay that-.." he saw Sasuke walk out with the slam of the door. "works."
'I wonder if he's gonna be okay.' He felt crazy just thinking that, but its not like it was wrong, it was normal for Naruto to care for someone even if he hated them.
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The school grounds started to fill up with students, and the more students the louder the noise became.
It always gave Sasuke a headache, sometimes he wondered why he even bothered going to school sometimes. Maybe it was because he loved all the attention people gave him but other times he wasn't in the mood for attention, he still gets those moods where he wanted to be alone.
Today was one of those days.
Sasuke now entered the school and stood in front of his locker. He started placing some things from his bookbag into his locker but when he pulled out the packet him and Naruto worked on the other day, he looked around in search of the blond. Seeing him enter the school grounds he threw his bookbag into his locker and walked over to him.
"Here." He slapped the paper against his chest, "You did pretty good for an idiot, come over to my place and we'll review the ones you got wrong."
"Fine by me." His voice sounding strained with frustration as he walked over to Shikamaru.
Shikamaru and Naruto had been friends their entire highschool years. He remembered how they met, it was because of a fight he had gotten into with Sasuke. The fight led to then being pulled apart by several teachers and students. Though the exact reason for the fight had escaped his memory, he remembered one kind hand lifting him up.
Naruto was guided to the boys' bathroom and had toilet paper stuffed up his bloodied nose by some stranger.
"You're an idiot, you know," he had muttered.
"You'll get expelled if you keep picking fights with that douchebag."
Naruto could faintly smell the cigarette that dangled from his lips through the wadded up tissue paper in his nose. "Says the one smoking in a school bathroom," The blond grumbled through his swollen lips.
"Fair point," he smirked, pressing the cigarette tight between his lips. "I'm Shikamaru, by the way."
"Naruto," He half-smiled.
Despite the big fight, Naruto was able to meet his best friend that day. His world became a little less lonely after that. Shikamaru had introduced him to his friend group, and it was able to distract him from Sasuke a lot, meaning they didnt fight as frequently. Though they still definitely had a rivalry, they could walk past each other without fists flying. It was progress.
"How'd tutoring go yesterday?"
"Mm, interesting." He handed the packet to him.
"Why's that?" He asked going through it and seeing scolding comments on the ones he got wrong, somehow he even got some on the ones Naruto got right.
"No reason." Naruto grinned causing Shikamaru to roll his eyes.
Naruto looked over to where the loud noise was coming from.
"How could you reject me over text!" A girl whined, but she wasn't just some girl she was one of the most attractive girls in school.
"Why would you confess to me over text?" Sasuke said with an eye roll.
"I thought you liked me!"
"Well maybe if you confessed to me in person I wouldve considered going out with you."
"You told me to only talk to you over text." She reasoned.
Sasuke smirked at her. "Whats wrong with texting, I even sent an emoji this time." There was nothing wrong with the girl, she seemed nice. Only problem was Sasuke is always in control when it comes to interactions with people. He chose that she wasn't the one to fit his needs.
Sasuke felt eyes on him which caused him to turn towards its direction. It led him to Naruto, he decided to ignore Naruto's disapproving glance and walk up the stairs to his class leaving the girl behind mid sentence.
Sasuke had played another person, he could've swore he saw him making out with her in the janitors closet a few days ago, but like another one of his toys, she was thrown to the side. She was now someone that didn't entertain him anymore and that's what angered him, it was how he played with peoples feelings.