Penguins Go Splat

Just to let you know, this is Chapter 1, all of it!

**AU WARNING**
Wheee, and now I are back… and it’s actually me typing this up and not my beta. This is pretty obvious in that her grammar is a hundred fold better than mine… that is what I get for studying French, ne?

AN: To Mimi, thanks for the review, I am currently working on how to incorporate the title… yes, should be fun to see how this one plays out^_^ As for the length of the chapters, well I want longer chapters but my beta felt lazy rather like her fav Naruto char; Shikamaru) and only posted about half of what I had for the first chapter… as a teaser she said, lol. I hope that you’ll continue to read through to the end^_^


Penguins Go Splat

“Teme…” Naruto stormed out of the dorm slamming the door in his wake. He walked down the hall grumbling to himself about that damn Uchiha bastard.

I can’t stand him, the blonde growled and threw open the door to the common area startling the few students who were there.

“Sorry” he mumbled quietly, though he was shacking with barely controlled rage.

That ass, I can’t believe him, I am so going to get back at him. Naruto flopped onto one of the bean bag chairs, sank in deep and closed his eyes.

“Naru…” he cracked open an eye, Ah Sakura, not who he needed to see today, please just go away, he thought desperately.

“Hn?” not one o be rude, Naruto opened both his eyes and acknowledged her presence.

“Ne,” she smiled softly at him. “Are you alright?” Naruto raised an eyebrow, Sakura chuckled, “of course you’re not alright.” The blond gave her a grin; she had grown up a lot since they were kids, they both had. She had outgrown her infatuation with that Uchiha bastard, as he himself had outgrown his of her. The two were now friends, best friends. But still Naruto didn’t want to see the pink haired girl just now, not when he was angry. He didn’t like talking to her when he was angry, he always said things he regretted.

“Sakura I…” he sighed again. “I just don’t understand,” he dropped his head into his hands. “He makes me so angry.”

“You and me both,” she muttered. The door opened and they both looked up, Shikamaru came in.

“Ne Naruto, I’ll talk to you later.” Sakura hugged him and left, nodding at Shikamaru on her way out.

“Shika” Naruto said in greeting, he waved a hand at Sakura’s now vacated space, inviting the other to take a seat. Shikamaru nodded, a smile playing at his lips, his usually bored expression absent. He was tall, taller even than Naruto who had gone trough a major growth spurt his first year of college, tall, lean, and lazy. The brunette came to stand in front of Naruto and silently told him to move over, the blonde complied and shifted to allow space for his friend.

“Naru,” Shika’s voice sounded just as lazy as he looked. “Don’t let him get to you, I don’t like it when you get like this.” Naruto raised a questioning eyebrow at his friend. Shikamaru smirked, not saying anything.

“I can’t Shika,” the blonde shook his head sighing. Shikamaru flopped down beside him, causing the bean bag to shift and nearly toss Naruto to the floor.

“Well you’re just going to have to try,” Naruto looked over to Shika, the brunette raised a hand to the blondes cheek and traced the scars there. “if he knew, I’m sure he’d be different, but he doesn’t, so he’s not.” Naruto closed his eyes and moved his head to rest on the others shoulder, he fell asleep almost instantly. Shikamaru let a full out smile shine on his face and wrapped an arm around the blonde, he joined his friend in sleeping.

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Sasuke heard the slam as his roommate stormed out, the blonde was over reacting in his opinion and that was that. There was nothing that could be done, the dobe was out of control, and he’d been out of control since their childhood. Sasuke blamed the lack of proper guardianship over the blonde, others blamed Sasuke himself; though how he could be responsible for the out-of-control dobe’s actions he knew not. He sat on his bed and looked around the room, though bigger then most doubles, the room was still smaller than what he was used to. He and Naruto had worked hard to separate their sides and though that meant less space it meant they didn’t have to see each other. They had moved the closet/dressers into the middle of the room making a wall, their desks stood against the back of the other’s closet/dresser and their beds were pushed against the walls. There was a mini-fridge that the two had grudgingly agreed to share after a heated argument and a few bruises. Their mutual friend Shikamaru had told them to share or he was taking it for himself.

He sighed falling back to lie down on his bed; he and the dobe had never gotten along; even when his parents were alive Naruto always went out of his way to push Sasuke’s buttons.

“Stupid dobe,” he muttered and rolled onto his side, he fell asleep wondering if the dobe would wake him up out of spite upon his return to their room.

Sasuke was woken up by soft knocking at the door, he grumbled as he rolled out of his bed and ran a hand through his sleep-mused hair. He shuffled down the makeshift corridor in their dorm to the door, notching in passing that his roommate was absent from his bed.

“Dobe…” He muttered as he opened the door light from the hall flooding into the room, momentarily blinding him. Blinking, Sasuke was greeted with the sight of his friend Shikamaru carrying his blond roommate bridal style; being tired and his brain not having quite caught up to real-time; he stood looking at the brunette with a blank stare.

“I know he looks light,” the brunette’s voice was slightly strained. Sasuke shook his head dazedly and moved to the side to let Shikamaru through; his friend placed the blond on his bed close to the wall, proceeded to undress him then seemingly satisfied with the blonde’s comfort he pulled the covers over the sleeping form and tucked him in giving Naruto a kiss on the forehead.

Sasuke watched the scene quietly, surprised by Shikamaru’s actions. He had known about his friend’s hidden and caring nature but had never seen that nature in action, it was breathtaking to behold. Sasuke was startled from his wondering by a hand roughly grabbing his arm and yanking him out the door, he was pushed up against the wall and found himself face to face with Shikamaru, a very angry Shikamaru. (For normal angry he wouldn’t be so worked up, ne?)

“Play nice Sas’,” the brunette’s tone was nearly a growl.

“The hell?” Sasuke couldn’t understand why his usually lazy was so upset, it just didn’t make sense.

“Play nice,” he stated again. “You and Naru…to. I am truly blessed to have you two as friends, but for his sake and mine; just be nice, or even better just don’t talk to him.” He sighed in that ‘troublesome’ way that told Sasuke just how upset his friend really was.

“Shika I don’t understand,” Sasuke pushed his friend away a little for some breathing space. “When he’s around I always say things that I don’t mean, but there’s still…” Sasuke looked away, his eyes showing his confusion.

“Still what?” Shika’s voice had lost it’s edge, he was interested in how the Uchiha was going to explain something that everyone knew was there.

“I need to make him angry, I like it.” He sighed. “I go out of my way to accomplish it.” Sasuke shook hi head and Shikamaru grinned. The brunette pushed his friend back against the wall and leaned in close, so close that Sasuke could feel his breath ghosting on his cheek.

“Ah well, if that’s the case then that is quite alright,” the raven’s brows shot up in confusion.

“Wuah?” The usually verbose Sasuke’s dumbfounded words were cut off by Shikamaru’s lips pressing against Sasuke’s own. The kiss was short, but left them both breathless. Shikamaru pulled away and smirked at the raven’s current state.

“Maybe you should try to get his attention another way.” With that the brunette walked away, leaving a very confused Sasuke leaning against the wall still trying to catch his breath.

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A/N: My beta wanted a title… so I gave her one. As of yet it currently has absolutely nothing to do with the story. Let me know what you think!