Just Another Pretty Face

School had let out a while ago and Naruto was waiting for Iruka to pick him up. Letting out a huge sigh Naruto kicked a pebble as he started to walk home. As he got to the corner a car stopped in front of him and rolled down the window, revealing Sasuke sitting in the passengers seat and Kakashi at the wheel.

“Naruto! I'm glad I caught you.”

“What are you guys doing here?” Naruto asked, Sasuke had yet to look at him.

“Iruka had asked me to pick you up from school along with Sasuke because he had to stay at work late but I came to get Sasuke and completely forgot about you.” Kakashi said like it was no big deal.

“You forgot...for two hours. And you just remembered now?” Naruto's eye twitched slightly.

“Well actually no, I was on my way to pick up my dog some food and spotted you, thats when I remembered.” Kakashi smiled and Naruto was about to start yelling for making him stand out in the sun for hours but was stopped when Sasuke spoke up.

“Just get in the car dobe.” The brunette muttered calming the blond down.

He seemed impressed by the way you came in.
"Tell us a story
I know you're not boring"

“Fine, fine.” Naruto grumbled and got in the back seat and crossed his arms before glaring holes into Kakashi's head. Sasuke glanced at Naruto through the rear view mirror and looked the blond over. Bright sunny hair, eyes as blue as the sky and perfect sun kissed skin with the exception of the strange whisker marks. Suddenly the conversation he had with Anthony came to mind.

I was afraid that you would not insist.
"You sound so sleepy
just take this, now leave me"

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Sasuke was writing the paper while Anthony was staring off into the distance even though they were in a small class room with nothing interesting in it.

“The least you can do is start your part of the assignment.” Sasuke muttered.

“Huh? Sorry I had cute blonds on my mind.” Anthony grinned at the brunet. Sasuke promptly rolled his eyes and continued writing. “Oh c'mon Sasuke. You cant tell me you don't think he's not cute...not to mention he's got an ass on him.” He licked his lips.

“I wouldn't know...” Sasuke sighed as he erased a couple words.

“What? You haven't even checked him out a little?” Anthony raised his eyebrow.

“Nope.” Sasuke sighed again and put his pencil down and looked at his friend with a serious look. “He's too...Childish and shy. Its kind of annoying.” He propped his head on his palm.

“Heh, I guess you just like 'em older then...” Anthony as well as Sasuke frowned before they both started to work.

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'I guess I can't disagree with him...He is cute.' Sasuke muses not noticing they had already gotten to the store and parked.

“Alright!” Kakashi said loudly breaking Sasuke's train of though...for the better in Sasuke's opinion. “Lets make this a quick one!” He smiled or thats what Naruto guessed since he was wearing a turtle neck even though it was eighty-nine degrees out. Looking up Naruto saw the huge sign that read “Pet Supreme”.

“So what kind of dog do you own Kakashi?” Naruto asked from behind the older two males. Kakashi pondered for a few seconds before turning his head to look at Naruto.

“I have no clue.” He stated simply. It was then Naruto remembered why he hadn't missed the man when he moved away from here. Looking from Kakashi to Sasuke Naruto huffed. The entire time he had been here Sasuke had only said one thing to him. He hadn't even glanced at him, or so he thought.

With his hands shoved in his pockets Sasuke turned and headed the opposite direction Kakashi was heading. Naruto stopped dead in his tracks looking at Sasuke and then to Kakashi, not knowing who to follow.

“Go with Sasuke Naruto, I'll be fine.” Kakashi called. With that Naruto headed the way Sasuke went. Soon he found himself in the reptile section of the animals and still he hadn't found the older boy. Stopping Naruto noticed a small mouse inside on of the snake tanks. He watched the small mouse oblivious to the extreme danger scurry closer and closer to the lounging snake until it was practically on top of it.


I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...

“Its not going to eat the mouse.” Naruto jumped and turned to find Sasuke looming over him 'How long has he been there?' Naruto asked himself. “It already ate this week.”

“You like snakes?” Naruto questioned, turning to face Sasuke. The brunet looked at all the tanks and shrugged.

“I guess. Kakashi wont let me get one though.” It went silent after, both of them just wondering around the reptile section. Naruto sighed, first it was kind of awkward small talk and now unnerving silence. If Naruto wanted to get the Uchiha to notice him he had to...to get Sasuke to talk to him.

Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,

“So.” Naruto broke the silence. “How long have you known Anthony?” Sasuke's brow twitched in annoyance. What annoyed him, he wasn't sure.

“About two years.” Sasuke said curtly, his voice saying he didn't want to take this matter any further. Thankfully for him Naruto could tell and let that particular subject die...for now at least.

“What do you like to do?” Naruto pushed another subject at the raven. Sasuke shrugged.

“I like writing.”

“Writing? What kind of writing?” Naruto asked. 'He seems a lot more talkative...' Naruto pondered.

“I write plays, short stories and novels.”

The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.

“Eh? Really! Thats so cool! Have you finished anything? Can I read some?” Sasuke smirked at the blonds sudden lack of shyness.

“I'll think about it.” He said slightly amused. Naruto stopped for a second. What was different here? Sasuke's talking back to him, he's not grunting or passing the blond off.

'Is he giving me a chance?' Naruto screamed in his head.

“Dobe, you coming?” Sasuke asked looking behind him at the blond who had fell behind.

“Oh yeah, sorry.” He scratched the back of his head as he caught up with the brunet.

“Lets find Kakashi.” Sasuke took a step forward before he stopped causing Naruto to run into him.

“S-sorry.” Naruto mumbled before he looked around the taller boy to see why he had stopped. Soon Naruto spotted Kakashi standing in front of them with a huge bag of dog food.

Now every time that I look at myself
"I thought I told you
this world is not for you"

“You think this is enough for Pakkun?” Kakashi asked Sasuke. The brunet frowned.

“Yeah, if your going to beat him with it...”

“Now now Sasuke, you know Pakkun eats a lot.”

The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
"you sound so angry
just calm down, you found me"

“He's getting fat...”

“Maybe you need to walk him more...”

“How is that my job!” Sasuke rose his voice.

“Now now Sasuke, no need to cause a seen, I'm just messing with you.” He smirked, glad that he could still get a rise out of the broody boy. Sasuke crossed his arms and walked passed Kakashi leaving Naruto there.

I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...

Looking from the retreating Uchiha to the confused blond Kakashi smiled. “C'mon Naruto, lets get back before Pakkun destroys my backyard.” With that Kakashi headed to where Sasuke had went off to. The blond shrugged and headed that way as well.

Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,

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Naruto tread cautiously into Kakashi's backyard, he wasn't a fan of dogs...Kakashi walked into the backyard with the blond with a silver bowl full of dog food and called out. “Pakkun!” Naruto twitched when he heard footsteps running his way. Turning around and looking down at his feet he spotted a small pug with a blue vest on. Pakkun walk up slowly to the blond and sniffed him.

“Naruto, this is Pakkun.” Naruto physically relaxed and let out a sigh.

“Hehe...I was expecting some huge dog...” It was then Sasuke walked into the backyard and sat down on a lawn chair pretending to read a book but secretly watching the blond.

The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.

'Sure, he's cute...in the naive kind of way. He's taking a couple of senior classes which means he's pretty smart...' Sasuke frowned. 'But the way he acts...like today when he started to go off...he doesn't act like that all the time...do I want him to?'

“Its not polite to stare.” Sasuke jumped when Kakashi whispered into his ear.

“I-I wasn't staring.” Sasuke grumbled, looking back at his book. The subtly looked back at Naruto who was playing with Pakkun.

“Isn't that cute...I wonder how long it takes Pakkun to start-”

“Ah!” Naruto yelled when Pakkun chomped onto Naruto's pant leg. “Let go!”

“Here we go.”

“Kakashi! Sasuke!” Naruto shook the pug off of him but it didn't take long for Pakkun to try again, Naruto barely dodging him. “Help!” Naruto yelled running away from the pug as the small dog kept trying to get a chunk of the poor boys pants. Sasuke made a move to get up and help the blond but stopped when Naruto tripped. “No!” Naruto let out a blood curdling scream which made Sasuke flinch.

“You'd think Pakkun was tearing him limb from limb...” Kakashi said with a laugh as he watched Pakkun lick Naruto's face while the blond tried to crawl away. “Eh, Sasuke?” The elder male looked toward Sasuke and rose an eyebrow when he heard something strange coming from him.

He was laughing, genuinely laughing. Sure it was at someone else's expense but it was something Kakashi hadn't heard in nearly two years.

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I'm going to level with you guys, I didn't like this chapter...to me it was something like a seg-way...A way for me to get Sasuke to lighten up Around Naruto to get the story moving. So I got ti out of the way.

By the way...the scene with Naruto and Pakkun actually happened a couple days ago with me and a friend...It was the funniest thing I had seen in a long time, not to mention cute.

Tell me what you guys think...and sorry about the awkward-ness of the song I put in there...Im kind of obsessed with it right now. Its “Reptilla” by The Strokes.