His Undying Will

The wind was brisky and the snow was freezing as a young blond made his way to Konoha High. He was an english teacher there and he absolutely adored his job. He loved teaching and the students participation in the classroom.

There was one student he was trying to get to participate, but he just continued to sulk in the back of the room and he wasn't sure why. Running a hand through his short, messy blond locks, Uzumaki Naruto walked through the doors of the high school and headed towards his classroom for the first period English.

He wasn't surprised when he saw the student that he was trying to get to participate in class was already there. He had short jet black hair and eyes that resembled charcoal. The young teen sat in his chair with his arms crossed and his head down.

The usual scowl that was across his face was there, and Naruto smiled as he entered his classroom as though he hadn't even noticed it. He carried a brief case with him and sat it down on the desk in front of the classroom, standing behind the said desk. The blond haired teacher then turned around and began to erase everything that was on the chalk board behind him.

As he erased the material that they had previously covered the day before off the chalk board, he could feel the student's eyes on him. It was as though his eyes were burning through his back. The blond ignored it, though and erased everything from the board.

Once he was finished with that, he turned to the brief case on the desk and opened it, unlatching the locks on it with his fingers. Naruto then pulled out the assignments that the students had turned in the previous day and sat it down in front of him on the desk.

He thought of striking a conversation with the student but he wasn't sure what he should talk about. This was the first time they had been in school since winter break. He knew that would be a good starter for a conversation but he wasn't sure if the boy wanted to talk or not.

He seemed to be in his own little world until the english teacher had walked into the room. He was unsure of what to speak about until the idea of the winter break had come to his mind. He supposed that would have to work for a conversation until the other students started piling into the room.

"So how was your break Mr. Uchiha?" he asked, looking over at him as he leaned back in his chair.

"It was...all right..." the boy said in a low tone, as though he wasn't too interested in talking at the moment.

"I see. Care to share what you did?"

Images flashed through his mind of his brother raping him. He bit his lower lip and shook his head. He really didn't want to talk about it. His brother's words, and the touches. He almost wanted to feel them again, but he would stop himself before that happened.

"Um...just the usual." he finally replied after what seemed like an hour or so with those images rushing through his mind.

He tried to shake them off. He really did, but they just kept coming back. He didn't realize it, but the pain was showing on his face plain as day. The teacher in the front of the room noticed this and walked towards him.

"Are you sure? You seem a little upset about it..." he said with a worried tone in his voice.

Sasuke flinched away from him and backed against the seat that had such little room in it, and stared up at him with wide eyes. The raven's heart was beating so fast against his chest that he feared that it would pop from his body.

He didn't know why he allowed his emotions to show. He wasn't supposed to do that and especially not in front of teachers. The blond haired man had caught him off guard, that was all, he told himself.

"Y-yeah. I'm fine. Just a little jumpy today for some reason."

It was an easy lie since he did jump when the teacher got close. He just hoped that he wouldn't read into it anymore than he should. The reason behind his jumpyness was because he didn't like being touched by others. His brother had shown him things that no teen at his age should have to witness.

He would take them to the grave - he didn't want anyone knowing about his dark secrets that he kept hidden in his mind. He was thankful when another student walked into the room diverting Mr. Uzumaki from his attention on Sasuke. The student was none other than Sakura Haruno.

She had a crush on him since the third grade, but he never paid any attention to her or anyone else for that matter. The pink haired girl walked in and gasped when she had seen that he was there first. She squealed and immediately went over to hug him.

He attempted to push her away and looked at Naruto with a displeased expression, almost as though he was asking for help out of the situation.

"Get off!" Sasuke scowled as he pushed her off.

Sakura stared at him in disbelief.

"S-Sasuke...what's wrong?" she asked.

She attempted to place a hand on his back but he slapped her away.

"I DON'T LIKE YOU. AND I NEVER WILL!" he screamed looking at her with piercing charcoal eyes, and frowned at her. "Now leave me alone!"

Naruto winced as Sakura began to cry and the other students began to walk into the room. That was when the class started, and Sasuke fell asleep right after that - he saw no point in listening since he was preoccupied with people staring at him for his outburst anyway.