Penguins Go Splat

AN: Sorry it took so long!! I got myself busy and well the poor story got lost in the shuffle. No worries, all shall continue!
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Penguins Go Splat -3


Naruto arrived to class with a few minutes to spare; he found his favourite seat unoccupied and sank into it with a sigh, what the hell is wrong with Sasuke-teme? The thought had been running through his mind since he’d run out of the dorm. Part of him was debating just returning to the room and demanding that the raven tell him just what exactly was going on; another part of him wondered why Shikamaru was involved.
His thoughts were interrupted as someone took the seat next to him, he looked up and smiled when he saw Sakura sitting beside him, he hadn’t been able to speak with her since that night he’d seen her in the common area. She smiled brightly at him,
“Hey, Naru-kun!”
“Ah, Sakura-chan.”
“Are you free for lunch?”
“Sure!” She smiled winningly and pointed to the front of the room: their professor had just entered, closely followed by a young man around their age about 5’10” with short messy moss-green/brown hair, and when he looked around the class he met eyes with each student before speaking.
“Hello,” his voice was deep and he reminded Naruto of Sasuke, he had piercing cobalt eyes, Kakashi sensei smiled and introduced him.
“Good morning class,” Kakashi-sensei smirked and half the class flinched, their professor’s smirks were notoriously bad news. “This is our guest teacher* today and for the rest of the week. He will be teaching the networking/computer security unit: please give him your full attention. He will have my office hours.” He turned to the young man, “Please introduce yourself to the class, if you have any questions I’ll be sitting over there.” He indicated a seat by the door, the brunette nodded and shrugged off his backpack, he pulled out his laptop and plugged it into the projector. While it was booting he turned to the class,
“I am Heero Yuy. Please pay attention to the screen.” All eyes darted to the screen and watched as it was suddenly filled with lines of code, code that kept changing; Naruto sighed, he’d have a tough time helping Sakura understand this unit. The young professor bent over and tapped a few keys and the code froze.
“Can anyone tell me what you make of what you just saw?” Dark eyes scanned the classroom, stopping when they got to Naruto, who apparently had a look of understanding in his eyes. “You, what was it?”
“Um, I’m pretty sure it was your security system, rotating code that changes in seemingly random patterns; pretty impressive.” Naruto was pretty much floored, I this guy had this much security on his laptop the blond wondered what the heck kind of system this guy had on his home computer.
“Excellent, can you tell what manufacturer programmed it?”
“Not any manufacturer I know of, I’m guessing you did though, you and maybe a partner. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“How did you know that I had a partner?” The whole class was staring at Naruto in open astonishment; none of them had known what the heck was going on.
“Well it was hard to see at first sir, but there were two distinct code signatures, they were pretty easy to see after a more thorough inspection”
“Perfect,” a small grin graced the man’s lips. “What is your name?”
“Uzumaki Naruto.”
“Well I’ll want to see you after class, I would like to talk some more with you later,” the blonde nodded and the rest of class passed without incident.
“Uzumaki-kun,” Professor Yuy called and the blonde looked up; he motioned for Naurto to come to the front of the class. Naruto nodded and looked over at Sakura.
“I’ll wait for you, kay?” At his grin she stood and made her way towards the exit. Naruto followed her and stopped once he got to Professor Yuy, he waited silently as the young man spoke with Kakashi-sensei.
“Ah, Uzumaki-kun” Naruto smiled and extended his hand to the man.
“Yuy-sensei, please call me Naruto,” the two shook hands.
“Naruto, you are truly brilliant; many of my colleagues took weeks to see what you discerned in mere seconds. I would like to meet with you and discuss your intentions for the future, if you wouldn’t mind.”
“That sounds great!” Naruto knew he was grinning like an idiot, but he couldn’t help it; maybe this wasn’t his least favourite class anymore.
“Excellent. Tomorrow 13h30, alright?”
“Sure.”
“Meet me here.”
“Okay”
“Good day, Naruto.”
“Bye, Yuy-sensei, Kakashi-sensei!” The blonde bounded from the room, he’d been told he was brilliant, by someone other than his legal guardians. He felt like he was floating.

“Heero,” Kakashi’s voice was low, dangerous. “Do you mean it?”
“Of course, I never say anything which is not true.” Heero’s tone was cold and to the point.
“Good.”
“Hn?”
“Well Naruto-kun is always trying to prove himself worthy, I am quite sure you just made his year, I was only ensuring your sincerity.”
“Hn, you must care for the boy.”
“He’s my son,” Kakashi smiled one of his rare smiles. Heero nodded and left the room, leaving Kakashi to ponder his sons’ future.

Naruto felt like he was flying, someone who didn’t know him or care about him had acknowledged him and the feeling was great; so great that he walked right past Sakura and her offer to treat for lunch. She finally got his attention by grabbing his arm and spinning him around.
“Huh?” his eyes widened, then light up in recognition. “Sakura-chan!”
“Come one Naruto,” she smiled warmly. “Come on you, time for lunch, I’m buying.” She pulled him down the hall towards the cafeteria.


Sasuke looked over at the clock, three hours had passed since Naruto had run from the room to go to class, he should have been back by now.
“You are going to give yourself wrinkles if you keep worrying like that,” the raven looked up and received a quick kiss on the lips.
“And I’m of the opinion that you,” he poked Shikamaru in the chest. “Don’t worry near often enough.”
“Maybe he went to lunch with Sakura,” Sasuke made a face. “They’re really good friends you know. Or,” the brunette pulled Sasuke chair from the desk and turned it so he could sit astride the raven’s lap. “Maybe he just doesn’t want to see you.”
“Hn,” Sasuke glowered and turned his head.
“Well I’m of the opinion that you,” the brunette imitated Sasuke’s earlier attack then continued. “Need to talk to him about your past, his past. He needs to talk to someone who understands, he needs you.”
“Hn.”
“Hn my ass.” The brunette snorted and stood, he didn’t need the raven’s attitude. As he turned to walk away Sasuke’s hand snaked out and grabbed his wrist.
“Don’t go, you know how I get… I can’t… Not with Naruto…” As close to an apology as he was likely to get, Shikamaru sighed.
“I know,” The brunette grinned suddenly. “If you’re going to beat me on that calc assignment you had better hurry and get started!” Sasuke growled and moved his chair back to his desk; Shika pecked him on the cheek.
“I’ll see you in Comp Eng,” he strolled from the room to go and get showered and ready for class.
“Che,” Sasuke knew that Shikamaru understood the relationship he and the blonde shared, probably understood it better than Sasuke himself. Sasuke could remember quite clearly his first fight with Naruto, it happened a year after they had both lost their parents.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*FLASHBACK*~*~*~*~*~*~*


Sasuke sat quietly in the director’s office, he was waiting for his guardian to finish his meeting; Sasuke was going to be starting school and his guardian was discussing particulars with the school’s director. The director looked a lot younger than she actually was, Sasuke didn’t like her much; she kept looking at him and smiling softly, but he could see the pity in her eyes. He didn’t want pity.
There was a soft knock at the door a man with brown hair and eyes holding the hand of his friend; Uzumaki Naruto. The young boy with sunshine blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes had once challenged everything Sasuke did, his energy driving the raven to excel, to try to be better than the blonde. The raven tried silently to get the blonde’s attention but Naruto’s eyes were fixed to the floor in-front of him. His hair seemed dull, eyes lifeless, the boy’s actions lacked all of his energy. Sasuke stood and ran at the boy, knocking him to the ground. Naruto looked up at the raven with the dull eyes, the sight tore at Sasuke’s chest.
“Naru…” the blonde continued to stare at him with a blank expression; the raven felt his anger rise though he couldn’t figure out why.
“What’s wrong with you?” He demanded angrily as Naruto continued to stare. Sasuke grabbed his shoulders and slammed him into the ground; and grinned when he saw a spark in those blue eyes.
“Get off me teme,” the growl that escaped the blonde’s lips was the only warning given . that he was going to retaliate. A fist flew at his face and he managed to dodge the brunt of the attack but Naruto still connected, and it still hurt.
“Dobe no baka” Sasuke punched him back, in seconds the two were rolling around o the floor throwing punches, kicks and insults at each other.
The man who had been holding Naruto’s hand grabbed the collar of the blondes now ruined dress shirt and pulled him away form the raven. Naruto was kicking and snarling, there was blood pouring from his nose.
“Naruto!” the blonde looked up at his guardian and grinned sheepishly.
“Iruka-san,” the brunette turned at the call of his name, Sasuke’s brother sighed. “Excuse him, he still hasn’t recovered from the shock.” Iruka nodded.
“Itachi-kun, I fear the same is true of my Naruto.”


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*END FLASHBACK*~*~*~*~*~*~*

As he thought about the memory he now understood what he was feeling; he was angry, not at Naruto, but at the world for taking the happiness from his blonde. Even when he was young he understood that it was wrong for Naruto to not have a mischievous glint in his eyes, to not be loudmouthed and obnoxious. Their rival-friendship had ended when Sasuke had used anger to get the blonde to react, it was his fault.
The raven sighed and stood, he grabbed his report from his printer and left for class; Intro to Computer Engineering.

Lunch with Sakura had been great they’d talked about everything and nothing all at once. Then they had been joined by their friends and soon all of them were laughing so hard that nearly all of them had tears in their eyes.
Naruto had left the cafeteria and he could still hear their laughter, he grinned and made his was to his assignment; teach Intro to Computer Engineering. The blonde sighed while he made his way to the classroom; today was going to be fun.
He arrived at the room a good twenty minutes early, leaving himself plenty of time to set up his computer. When he was ready and waiting, Naruto thought about Yuy-sensei and his amazing program; that was something that he definitely wanted to learn how to do, the thought of being able to do such a thing was exciting.
“Cool.” He said out loud.
“Dobe?” Blue eyes widened as they looked and saw Sasuke-teme standing at the door looking at him in confusion. “What are you doing? Where’s Yuy-sensei?”
“Yuy-sensei’s your professor?” the raven nodded and Naruto scrunched his brow, why the hell was Yuy-sensei teaching an intro-course?
“Why are you up here?”
“It’s his assignment for advanced comtech; he has to pass on his knowledge in a clear and comprehensible manner.” Yuy-sensei stood behind Sasuke waiting for the youth to move.
“Hn” Sasuke moved to a seat in the second row and began to unpack his things.

“Naruto-kun, I didn’t know that you were going to be my student teacher today.” Yuy-sensei conversed as the blonde nodded, grinning.
“What I don’t get is why you’re teaching an intro course” Naruto stated.
“I don’t like the students in the advanced program, they think they know everything.” At the blondes raised brow Yuy-sensei smirked. “Well most of them. I’m going to be evaluating you today, my partner and myself will both be watching how you handle interact with and teach students. Do your best.” His partner?
“Is this the same partner that helped you create your program?” the brunette nodded. Naruto grinned, he was going to meet the other mastermind. He looked to where Sasuke was sitting and caught the raven staring at him; black eyes were averted quickly.
“Oi Naru!” the blonde head swivelled to again look at the door, this time to see Shikamaru. The lazy youth walked up to him and kissed his cheek before taking a seat next to Sasuke; the blonde’s cheeks tinged pink.
The rest of the class filled in quickly, so many of Naruto’s genius friends were in the class; Neji, Shino, Kiba, even Tenten. If he didn’t calm down Naruto was sure he would pass out due to stress. (nerves…) Blue eyes looked to the clock 14h29, one more minute.
“Sorry!” A tall and lanky figure said breathlessly from the door, “I just got out of Robotic Science across campus, forgive me for being late.”
“Baka,” Yuy-sensei called from his seat in the front row, the man at the door entered the room fully. Naruto gasped quietly, the man had a braid that hung below his ass and had the most peculiar shade of eyes; he looked so cool! Violet eyes fixed upon Yuy-sensei and narrowed.
“Baka yourself Heero.” The man walked over to Naruto and held out a hand, the blonde grasped it tight in greeting.
“I’m Duo,” the man’s smile was infectious.
“Naruto”
“Pleased to meet ya.”
“You too.” Greeting completed, the man moved to sit next to Yuy-sensei leaving Naruto standing at the front of the class and the clock showing 14h31.
“Afternoon everyone,” he said with a smile. “My names Uzumaki Naruto and I’m enrolled in the advanced comtech course and today you are my assignment. Now I understand that you each have an assignment to hand in, if you’d pass them to the front please.
“Naru-kun,” Kiba
“Yes?”
“Are you marking them?” a student in the front row handed him the papers.
“Yes,” many eyes in the room went wide. “Of course, Yuy-sensei will be checking them to ensure that they are marked correctly.
“Oh”
“Alright, today we will be covering…” (A/N: I don’t know anything about computer engineering…) Naruto continued his lesson, answering every question to the best of his ability, overall the class went smoothly. When he was done Yuy-sensei stood and told the class their homework and what the plan for the nest class was, then the students began packing away their things and filing out of the room.
“Good job Naru-kun,” Kiba
“Thanks for the lesson,” Shino
“Surprising, good work,” Neji
“Naru-kun that was cool,” Tenten
“Dobe,” Sasuke-teme
“Naru,” kiss on the cheek, Shikamaru
“Naruto-kun” Yuy-sensei
“Yes?” His nerves returned full force, he new he hadn’t screwed up but he was still nervous about how the class had gone.
“Good work.” The brunette had moved to stand beside the desk that Naruto currently occupied.
“What he means is,” the man with the braid, Duo, slung his arm over Heero’s shoulder in a familiar manner. “That was fantastic!” His violet eyes twinkled with delight.
“Duo, this is the young man I told you about”
“Oo, The one that figured out our program?” Heero nodded. “I like him, can we keep him?”
“Maybe”
“Yay! Hey I have another class to teach, I’ll see you at dinner” he planted a kiss on Heero’s lips causing the brunette to smile.
“Hn” was all he said though, as his partner skipped from the room happily.
“Now, those papers, can you have them to me by Friday afternoon.”
“Yes.”
“Alright, then I’ll see you tomorrow at 13h30.” The blonde nodded.
“See you.” Naruto grinned and packed away his things, now it was time to go back to his dorm.