Under the Sun

 

            The sun beat down on the beach mercilessly making the sand scalding hot. Sasuke sat under a large umbrella that he had purchased after noticing how unbearably hot it was and the lack of shade. He peered out at the water and watched everyone else have fun in the water, laughing and splashing. Sasuke had chosen not to go into the water and instead had chosen to dig his toes into the sand and fetch him camera from his bag. He looked around for something to photograph, a huge wave, kids playing in the shallow water, a father and son working on a rather impressive sand castle. He took pictures of them all forgetting where he was for a moment as well as who he was with.

“Aren’t you coming to join us?” Sasuke almost jumped…almost. He put down his camera and looked up and the dripping wet glistening blond towering over him. The raven cleared his throat trying to find his voice.

“I don’t think so…” The blond frowned before grabbing his towel from the pile of stuff that belonged to all of them and started drying off his hair before taking a seat next to Sasuke.

“Then whats the point of coming to the beach? You know you don’t have to be embarrassed about your body…” the blond said warily as he eyed the brunette who was still wearing a shirt. Sasuke raised an eyebrow as he stared at the slightly taller blond.

“I have nothing to hide about my body.” Sasuke crossed his arms.

“Can’t swim?” Naruto kept trying.

“I can swim.” Sasuke said almost as if he were insulted.

“So then….?” His voice trailed off as if looking for Sasuke to answer.

“Nothing.” Naruto made a sour face before looking back at his friends who were having fun and back at Sasuke. He got up from under the umbrella and stood into from of the brunette and offered him his hand.

“Then come to the water and prove me wrong.” Sasuke frowned when he looked at the offered hand and then rolled his eyes. Taking the hand Naruto hoisted him up onto his feet and Sasuke quickly removed his shirt and tossed it on his towel. Naruto was surpised to say the least. He had expected the raven to be pale and he was but did not expect his to be so…defined. Sasuke crossed his arms over his chest and walked down to the water and Naruto followed with a triumphant grim plastered on his face.

 

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Sasuke glared. He glared harder than he had ever glared before. The malicious gaze was directed at the grinning blond sitting across from him on the train. Kiba was giggling in his seat next to the blond and Ino was trying her best not to laugh herself.

“I guess you weren’t kidding when you said you burn easily.” Kiba said between fits of laughter. Sasukes face was cherry red and his shoulders matched.

“You know, glaring at me won’t make it any better.” Sasuke huffed before looking out at the setting sun trying not to move around too much.

“I can’t believe school starts up again tomorrow. This was a short summer.” Ino sighed.

“Oh yeah that reminds me. Sasuke, what school are you going to?”

“Konoha Community College.”

“Community College? If I remember correctly didn’t you have a five point oh GPA all through high school?”

“It’s only for a year. My brother thought I should have a year of smooth sailing before I go to UCLA, I said I didn’t want to sit around doing nothing so this was the compromise.” Sasuke shrugged and them immediately regretted it.

“So you’re going to school with us for a year?” Naruto asked, Sasuke nodded. “Do you have your classes already?”

“English 240 with Kakashi, Physics 3 with Anko, Trig with Iruka, History 212 with Ebisu, Health 3 with Tsunade and Photography with Madara.” Kiba whistled.

“That’s smooth sailing?” The blonde asked, eyes almost popping out of his head.

“Ive already taken Trig, and English so they’re refreshers for me.” Sasuke shrugged again and winced.

“Well either way that’s good news for me.” Naruto grinned.

“Why’s that?” Sasuke’s eyebrow raised.

“Im taking Trig and English with you.”

“Your taking trig and your that far into English courses?”

“Why do you sound so surprised.” The blonds eyebrows creased.

“You just don’t look so…” Naruto crossed his arms and looked at the brunette expectantly. “Far along…” Sasuke chose his words carefully.

“So!” Kiba interjected trying defuse the situation. “What are you doing after this?” He asked Naruto. “Going to your girlfriends house?”

“Yeah, Sakura has been asking to me sleep over.” Naruto said with a huge smile. Sasuke returned his gaze outside.

 

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            Sasuke walked through the front door of his new home which was a modest two story five bedroom house. He wasn’t sure why his brother had chosen such a large house for just the two of them. He took off his shoes next to the door and headed toward the stairs.

“How was your day little brother?” Sasuke nearly jumped out of his skin. He whipped his head around and looked into the dark living room and spotted a silhouette of his brother sitting on the couch.

“Why the hell are you sitting here in the dark and nine o’ clock?”

“Trying to scare you.” Itachi stated and got up, cutting off his escape half way up the stairs. “You didn’t answer my question.”

“It was fine.”

“Did you make any friends? How are Ino and Kiba?”

“No, and fine.” Sasuke said clearly not interested in the conversation.

“Well its good to see you got some sun…I must say you and light really don’t mix.” Itachi chuckled at Sasuke’s sun burn.

“Go to hell.”

“How was your ex-girlfriend Hinata?” Sasuke bristled, Itachi smirked.

“I didn’t talk to her.” Sasuke said lowly not looking at his brother. Itachi nodded and stepped aside letting Sasuke run up the stairs to his room.

“Don’t slam the door.” The older brother called up to Sasuke which was responded with the sound of a door slamming.

            Sasuke marched over to his bed, throwing his bag over near his desk and plopped down and stayed there for a few seconds before he heard a sort of chirping sound. He then remembered his brother had forced him to leave his phone. Jumping up he opened the drawer to his nightstand and pulled out his phone. It read “87 text messages and 12 missed calls.” Sasuke rolled his eyes knowing who they were from. Instead of reading all of them or listening to his voice mail he deleted all of them and walked over to his computer desk, turning on the monitor since the computer had been left on.

Sitting down in his chair he fired up skype and immediately he was called. The screen flashed Karin. He answered the call.

“Where the hell have you been?” Karins angry face showed up on his screen. He looked at his webcam which also held his mic and readjusted it.

“My brother made me go to the beach with some old friends.”

“Is that why you’re so red?”

“Go to hell.”

“Someones feisty.” She laughed. “So how did the beach trip go? Any hot guys?”

“No…well one. A blond who’s friends with my old friends.” He reached down to his bag and retrieved his camera and connected it to his computer through the USB. Searching through the pictured while Karin chattered on about her day he found it. “Here.” He enlarged the picture and configured skype so show his screen and the picture of the blond who was wasn’t deep in water and smiling, not looking at the camera.

“Holy hell he’s hot. You gunna try and hit that?”

“No.” Sasuke said simply before closing the picture.

“Why the hell not?”

“He’s straight with a girlfriend and kind of obnoxious.”

“Aw, well that’s too bad, he is a hottie…” She trailed off.