DISCLAIMER; I’m a commoner and that’s all I have to say.
Chapter Five
“Sure you can, Naru-chan!” Naruto blinked at the hyper words and gave an awkward smile to
“Uh…” Naruto didn’t know what to say to that. He ignored the blush rising on his cheeks as he pretended not to see the sly smile. Suspicious, his mind cried out. He agreed anyway. “S-sure…” A pause, “Hey, wait a minute! Are you implying that I can’t protect myself?!”
The chairman looked clueless and said, “What does that mean again? Ah- that doesn’t matter,” Naruto looked at Cross weirdly during the self-mutterings, “I just want Kaname-kun with you!”
Naruto gave the man a look, raising one eyebrow and rolling his eyes. “Whatever.” The Headmaster seemed to be happy with his response.
“Good!” The Chairman clapped, smiling joyously. He skipped out from his desk and pounced on the unsuspecting Naruto, giving the blond his infamous glomps-from-hell. Naruto’s eyes bugged out for a minute –“The hell?!” – and he opened his mouth like a gaping fish, turning blue. His hands flapped spastically at his sides and before finally pushing the clingy Headmaster away.
“Dude, get off of me!” he shouted at the Headmaster. Cross’s lower lip trembled like a child and he started crying. Naruto looked at him, exasperated. He pushed the still-clutching Chairman off of him and stalked away, ignoring the “Why am I aloneeee!” wail from his opposite direction.
Che, what a weirdo.
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Naruto strode into the classroom, taking his seat in the fourth row as he waited impatiently for the rest of the students and the teacher to arrive. Sakura took the seat behind him –making him turn around- and he grinned at her.
“Yo!” he said cheerfully, making the pink-haired girl chuckle.
“Hello, Uzumaki-kun. Nice night, ne?”
“Hey!” Naruto frowned at her. “Didn’t I tell you to call me Naruto?” He gazed out the window with a smile. “All of the stars are shining so brilliantly tonight.” He felt quite poetic tonight.
Sakura gave her friend a smile. “Yes, the stars are wonderful on these types of nights. And how about I call you Uzu-chan? I don’t really like your name.” Naruto gaped at her as she laughed at his expression.
“That’s so meannnn, Sakura-chan! What did I do to deserve that?!” They were interrupted by a cold voice.
“Stop being so loud, bakayaro.”
Naruto turned to glare at the interrupter. “Didn’t your mother ever tell you that interrupting a conversation is rude?”
Adol gave him a gay look as he passed by, Kaname next to him. Kaname gave him a brief look that included a raised eyebrow – damnit, which meant Kaname was still half-ignoring him – before going to stand by the window like usual. Naruto scowled at both of them before seeing another girl come in almost shyly. He waved her over excitedly. A few other vampires looked at him strangely but he ignored them, grinning at the other Pure Blood.
“Yuki-sama! Yo!” He patted the seat next to him when she got there. “How are you?”
The girl gave him a kind smile as she sat beside him. “Nothing much. How about you, Naruto-kun?”
He gave her a big smile. “Just wondering about the asshole in this class,” he said. He ignored the “Why you little-!” from behind him and the giggles that came from Sakura. He didn’t see the brief smirk that fell upon the other Pure Blood’s lips before it disappeared. This was when he remembered something.
“Oh!” he said suddenly, turning toward Kaname. “Kaname-sama, I know that you’re trying to ignore me and all, but you’re coming with me to the ‘outside world’, ‘kay?”
Adol gave him a constipated look. “Stop talking like that to Kaname-sama!” Naruto and Kaname ignored him.
“And why are you going out there in the first place, Naruto-san?” Kaname asked him, giving him the raised eyebrow again.
“Because I want to!” Naruto said childishly, trying to not show that he was hiding a secret. He pouted when Sakura whispered “Baka,” behind him. Kaname seemed to consider this, watching him with cool eyes. Naruto squirmed in his seat, giving his own version of a peeved look to the other Pure Blood. Finally, Kaname cocked his head and nodded to show his agreement.
“Cool!” Naruto replied, noticing that Kaname had already went back to ignoring him. His heart stuttered erratically for a second before he frowned. Shit, going to town with Kaname was going to be a bucket load of fun.
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Naruto wandered around outside as the other Night Class students started going back to their dorms. He was bored, to put it bluntly. The blond would have been walking with the rest of his classmates but Adol hadn’t responded to any of his baits, which made it boring to stick around. It wasn’t like there was anyone else to bother in that big cluster of vamps. Kaname was cold. Akatsuki was the one who was able to put up with Adol the most, which meant he was practically infallible of attempts to annoy. Ichijo was too nice to Naruto – there wasn’t any way that Naruto would to ruin that. Yuki and Sakura just stared at him when he started talking to them. All the other vampires were just…blah…
He sighed, lifting his blue gaze up to the nighttime sky. Maybe it was time to call Gaara. That redhead friend of his always listened to what he had to say…but at the same time it felt like he was talking to a blank wall. Damnit.
A rustle in the bushes brought him out of his muses, and he lifted a golden eyebrow at the sight of a ruffled and scowling Uchiha. The hell was he doing here?
“Get back to the Night Dorms.” Sasuke said, glaring daggers at the blond. Naruto pouted at him.
“But no one wants to talk to me!” he said, his lower lip trembling. Sasuke snorted out something that suspiciously sounded like “Who would want to talk to you, dobe?” but Naruto had already turned back to the still-darkened sky. He frowned thoughtfully up at the fading stars.
“You know,” he said conversationally to the disturbed-looking Perfect. “I have this strange feeling like something bad is going to happen.” He looked back at the Uchiha, who now lost his scowl and was raising an eyebrow. He shrugged his shoulders at the unasked question in the Perfect’s black eyes. “I don’t know why. It’s just this nagging feeling in the back of my head.”
“Hn.”
Naruto scowled, wheeling around to face the other. His left hip jutted out in defiance as he put a hand on it, glaring. “Why do you always say that?” he ranted. “Do you not know how annoying that is?!”
“Dobe,” Sasuke scoffed. “As if you can tell me what’s annoying and what isn’t.” Naruto turned red.
“Teme…!”
They were interrupted when Naruto’s cell phone started to vibrate. The blond cocked his head to the side and blinked, rummaging in his pockets to find it. He looked at the screen and grinned, flipping it open. “Gaara! How are you, my best friend inthewholebigandentireworld?”
“Naruto, something’s happened again.” came the response. The Pure Blood stiffened slightly, cocking his head as his eyes darted to the Perfect looking at him then back to the sky.
“Oh?” he said, grinning and allowing his body to relax again. “I’m fine. How are you?” There was a small silence between them. Naruto knew Gaara had caught on that he wasn’t alone.
“Trying to clean up a big mess,” Gaara finally said. “There have been two murders that were exactly like the others.”
“Hmm,” Naruto said. “Well, lucky for you-” he paused for dramatic effect “-I’m going to the town tomorrow night, so let’s meet and greet, ‘kay?” The blue-eyed vampire watched Sasuke stiffen and scowl. “Oh, and I’m bringing along another Pure Blood.”
“I’ll brief you on the details when I see you.”
“Okay!” Naruto said cheerfully. “Bye, my little fledgling!”
“Hn.” Then Gaara hung up. Naruto kept his face cheerful as he pocketed his cell and looked at the bastard. He grinned at the seething face.
“Since when were you allowed to go out?” Sasuke said, his glare firmly back in place.
“Since your hair became a duck’s ass!” Naruto said, dancing away laughing. Sasuke ran after him when Naruto appeared behind Sasuke to pluck a black hair strand painfully from the Perfect. Naruto giggled all the way to the Night Class Dorms.
Poor Sasuke never even realized that Naruto had done that so he wouldn’t get too suspicious…or did he?
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Kaname casually watched the other Pure Blood out of the corner of his eyes. Naruto…was an enigma - that was for sure. Kaname knew that Naruto was hiding a lot of things behind that cheerful mask. He knew that one of them had to be about the past, but what were the others?
Not to mention the fact that the other Pure Blood made him feel alive for the first time in years. He was the only one, besides Adol, to make Kaname smile.
Currently, they were getting ready to go out into the town. And that bothered Kaname more than he let on because, well, he knew that something bad was going to happen.
He could taste blood in the back of his throat.
