Blue Christmas

Chapter 2 “Home sweet Rasengan”

“Thanks again sensei.” Naruto thanked his teacher as he got out of the car.

“Anytime Naruto. I’ll see you in class tomorrow.” The blond watched the car drive off in to the early evening before he headed into his apartment building.

“Home sweet Rasengan. I’m home! Anybody here?” Naruto yelled as he jogged up the stairs two at a time.

“No.” The blond came to a full stop. He turn to face a tall giant of a man with huge muscles and a deadly glare. “Shizune went into labor Haku had to drive her to the hospital. Kurenai is still gone at her sister’s and the rest are working or too lazy to get up.”

“If Shizune is at the hospital and Haku is with her then who has…”

“ANIKI!” a chibi size reddish blur came running out of the apartment behind the giant and headed straight for the whiskered scared teen.

“Kyu-chan!” Naruto caught the whiskered scared chibi tossing him in the air.

“He’s been with me. After Shizune went into later Haku called me and told me he was driving her in. So I closed up the shop and picked Kyubbi.”

“Uncle Zabu was so cool. He drive his army car!” Kyuubi beamed. Naruto’s eyes went wide at the thought of Zabuza Momochi former special forces/mercenary showing up at his brother’s kindergarten class in old army fatigues driving jeep from WWII. The teachers and parents must have thought they were being invaded.

“Thanks Zabuza I owe you one.”

“You’re a good kid, the brat’s not so bad either.”

“I not a brat!” pouted the redheaded-chibi.

“Well if Shizune and Kabuto are going to be at the hospital for a few days I’ll be able to fix the plumbing tonight. Good thing old man Sarutobi gave me the night off.”

“I’ll grab my tools and give you a hand.”

“You don’t have too Zabuza.”

“You’re a good landlord kid plus we don’t want to have to flush the toilet to turn on the sink again.” the former mercenary smirked.

“Once! That only happened once when I was fifteen! Fine, you can help I’ll put my stuff away and we’ll meet you in 10 minutes.” Naruto sighed and head down stairs with Kyuubi in arms to their apartment.

It had been three years since their parents died leaving the two brothers all alone. They all had been out celebrating Naruto’s acceptance and scholarship to Konoha academy that night and were on their way home when a drunken cab driver hit them head on killing his parents instantly. They were then rear ended by the car behind them shattering the glass around them; Naruto threw himself over Kyuubi in an effort to protect him from further injures.

Once taken to the hospital Naruto sustained deep lacerations to both sides his face from flying glass, once healed he would have three whisker like scared on both cheeks. Kyuubi had a broken leg from being pinned between his car seat and the pushed back driver’s seat. The doctors had to make two large cuts or both sides his face to retrieve all the shatter glass from the toddler’s cheeks leaving the chibi with two whisker like scars on each side of his face. Naruto stay by his brother’s bedside the whole time never leaving him but he knew if he didn’t get custody of his brother then he’d lose him forever in foster care system. He started making calls to Lawyers and friends and filing papers for emancipation, and custody papers. He also started filing lawsuit papers against the car company and the driver for the death and injury to his family. After two months of court battles laying his parents to rest and hospital visits Naruto was finally able to take his brother home to Rasengan.

Rasengan Estate Apartments was building his father had owned as a hobby venture well he worked for Hyuuga law-firms in the branch side. Minato was a lower end attorney made a decent life for him and his family and thought investing in the apartment would boost their income a little for a summer vacation now and then. After the accident Naruto sold the house to pay for his parents’ funeral the lawyers and moved into the apartments as landlord then used what ever money he got from lawsuits to pay for Kyuubi’s hospital bills and anything left over went to a trust for his brother’s schooling. Since then Rasengan has been home and the tenets had become their family they look out for one another and cared about each other. They encouraged Naruto to go to Konoha as he had planned and they would all pitch in to take care of the two year-old Kyuubi. He and Kyuubi wouldn’t be anywhere they are today without them and they both knew they were well loved.

“Okay Kyu-chan let get in to our work clothes we got a job to do.” Naruto smiled set his brother down in the living room.

“Okay Aniki!” the little red head saluted and ran off to change.

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“Time to get up Kyu-chan.” Naruto shouted as he passed his brother room.

“I don wanna!” came a muffled reply from the mountain of blankets on the bed.

“If you don’t get up and ready for school then Santa is going to put you on his naughty list.”

“I’m up! I’m up! I’m up! I’m up!” The chibi jumped out of bed and was racing to the bathroom. Naruto chuckled as he watched Kyuubi race around getting dressed and ready for school.

They finished the work on the plumbing with Zabuza’s help and Haku came home with News that Shizune had a baby girl and that Kabuto, her husband, would be staying with her. Kabuto was a doctor and had one year left on his internship and the he could transfer out of the ER and have regular hours. Shizune was a morning duty nurse and would often watch Kyuubi in the afternoons until Naruto got home from school. They lived on the second floor of Rasengan were like and older brother and sister, Naruto was happy for them and made a mental note to get a gift for the baby.

“Are you ready?” Naruto noticed the time and grabbed his keys and bag.

“Hai!” Kyuubi smiled all bundled up ready to go.

“Okay let’s go we’re taking the bike today.”

“Yippy!” Kyuubi raced to the closet to get his helmet then headed down to the underground parking garage. Their father had a passion for motorcycles but he didn’t have the money to indulge in it. Instead he had bought an old beat up non-working one from a junk yard for 20 bucks after he graduated Law school. Every weekend come Hell or high water he would work on it even had Naruto helping him sometimes but he never got to finish it. After his Father’s death Naruto was determined to get the old bike running. With some help from Zabuza, who was a metal fabricator and mechanic, he got it running and thanks to the mercenary’s lover Haku the Graphic artist Naruto now had a mint condition Hunter green, 1970 Triumph TR6R Tiger 650 with an attachable side car if he needed. Those two were the best friends Naruto could ever have he was glad they also lived on the second floor of Rasengan.

“I have to go to school after I drop you off, so we won’t be using the sidecar.” Naruto strapped on his helmet and the made sure Kyuubi’s was on tight. “You have to hold on tight cause it might be slippery okay?”

“Hai Aniki.” Once Naruto was sure his brother was secure he kick started the bike and let it roar. Soon they were zooming down the street to the Shuriken Elementary. Kyuubi whined as they pulled in to the school driveway. He didn’t want to got to school he wanted just ride the motorcycle with is big brother. Unfortunately he couldn’t and pouted as he was gently lifted from his seat and lowered to the sidewalk.

“No Pouting Kyu-chan or we won’t ride the bike tomorrow.”

“We get to ride tomorrow?”

“Yup it’s the last day before winter break so we can have a little fun. Now go on in its cold out here.” The chibi smiled and hugged his brother goodbye before heading on to class. Naruto was about to kick start the bike when someone called out to him.

“Mr. Uzumaki! Mr. Uzumaki!” Naruto groaned and slumped in his seat as the Principle Koharu Utatane came walking toward him. Ever since he had enrolled his brother into school she had been on his case; she even tried to get the state to take Kyuubi away from him. She lost because he made sure Kyuubi had everything he needed and was cared for and that he was a legal adult to the state.

“Hai, Mrs. Utatane.”

“I want to talk to you about Kyuubi and his behavior in class.”

“What’s wrong with his behavior? He is the happiest kid I know.”

“He has been withdrawn and unresponsive in class. Normally he is cheerful and a delight to have class but his teacher informs me that lately he has been getting into fights about the holidays.”

“It’s because our parents are dead isn’t it?”

“Well children can be unnecessarily cruel when it comes to family or lack there of, but I believe that your lack of participation in his life is also a factor.”

“I do My best for Kyuubi! I help him with his homework and spend as much time with him as I can! I don’t go to sleep until 3 sometimes 4 in the morning because I wait until after he is asleep to do my homework to make sure I am there for him when he needs me. I get up at 630 every morning and I make sure he gets up early and has a decent breakfast so he can be to school on time. Don’t say that I am neglecting him!”

“You do not attend his school functions or pick him up from school and you have unsavory characters like that man yesterday taking care of him. Kyuubi needs a stable family life at school as well as at home. This is why I insisted that the state place him in a more suitable family environment.”

“He’s got a suitable Family environment with me and our friends at Rasengan. I’ll talk to him tonight but you try to take him away from me and you’ll lose.”

“I am just looking out for Kyuubi best interest until I see you making an effort to support him here in school I will file again with the state.”

“Fine, when do you want me here I have to clear in with my teachers at Konoha.”

“Tomorrow morning is our Christmas pageant I expect to see you here at 8a.m. sharp. I’m sure they will understand you have other responsibilities.” The Principle glared. “Something Ms. Sannin should have thought of before accepting you into the academy. Then again her bad habits may have clouded her judgment.”

“Leave Obaa-chan out of this! This is between you and me. I’ll be here because I love my brother and I am not going to let an old hag like you try and have him taken away.” Naruto kick started the bike and it roared to life. “I’m late for school, see you tomorrow!” then the whisker-scared teen sped out of the parking lot and down the Highway to Konoha.

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Naruto was in a foul mood when he got to school he didn’t notice the looks of shock and envy over his bike. He practically stomped his way to biology even more pissed because he was running late and Orochimaru-sensei was a down right unbearable Bastard around the holidays. Even thought the bell hadn’t rung yet he knew that the snake-bastard had started class already.

“You are late Uzumaki. I do not tolerate tardiness.”

“The Bell hasn’t rung yet sensei!”

“I am the Teacher and class starts when I say it starts and sit down and stop wasting the class’s time!” Orochimaru hissed. Then the class waited for Naruto to take his seat before resuming the session.

After his morning torture was over Orochimaru, the kind bastard that his was, decided to rub salt in his wounds by giving them a hundred page report to do over the winter break covering everything thing they had cover since September. He was so beyond pissed he wasn’t looking where he was going and plowed right into his personal pain in the ass.

“Watch it Dobe.”

“Fuck off Teme I’m not in the mood to deal with you sorry ass today.” Yes it seemed like his hopes of having a White Christmas with joy and laughter were turning into a Blue Christmas with sarcasm and belittlement every where he turned. For here was Sasuke the most popular boy in school as well as the richest and a serious pain in the ass. Since Naruto had transferred to Konoha Sasuke has called him a dobe beat him in sports ace every test and was determined to break him because of one accidental kiss.

It was Naruto’s first day at Konoha and it was lunch time. He wanted to make friends so he went up to a table and ask if he could join them; all but one teen welcomed him, that one teen being the silently cool Sasuke. As he went to take his seat Kiba crash right into him and sent the blond flying over the table and onto the Uchiha. They landed on the floor with Naruto on Sasuke’s chest and their lips glued together until Naruto came to his senses and jump off of the school all star and ran away hoping that it would all be a nightmare and tomorrow would be just a dream. But no, the next day Ino had taken the picture she took with phone was plaster on the school website and Sasuke became his walking nightmare come true.

“Not in the mood what are you a girl?”

“I said Fuck off Uchiha!” Naruto pushed passed the raven teen into the auditorium.

“Why don’t you make me Uzumaki?” Sasuke was not one to be ignored so he got into the shorter teens face. It looked like the blond was going to take a swing at him be suddenly the drama teacher appeared.

“Uchiha, Uzumaki take your seats. There will be no brawling in here.”

“Hai Genma-sensei.” They mumble as they took seat far away from one another.

“Now as you all know the Christmas production is Saturday and will be sponsored by the Uchiha family. I expect all of you to perform with the Christmas Spirit.”

“Yosh! The Christmas Spirit will shine with our very youth!”

“Uh… thanks Lee… Now everyone but one of you seems to have already sign up for the Christmas Production. Uzumaki, can you tell me why you have not signed up?” the tooth pick chewing sensei asked as he glared at Naruto.

“I’ll be leaving Friday with my family for the holidays.”

“I’m sorry Naruto but you’ll be a day late in leaving. This is mandatory and counts as your Drama Midterm.”

“What?! But Sensei!”

“No ‘buts’ I want you to sign up before the end of class. Now everyone get into your groups and start rehearsing.” Genma smirked as the students got up to start practicing Naruto hit his head on the seat in front of him.

“Forget a Blue Christmas; this Christmas just went to hell in a hand basket.”

A/N: Christmas Angel has just been pushed off the muse cloud by the Grinch. Hopefully he’ll find his Christmas spirit before the next chapter. Thanks for reading Keep Reviewing.