Fringe

Naruto Uzumaki is your regular teenager. He's a senior in high school, he's on the football team, he has a girlfriend who's name is Sakura and really great friends Gaara, Kiba, Shikamaru and Temari. He has a dad, Minato who works as a CEO in a huge company and a mother, who works as a semi-famous baker. So with his dad not at home because of work and his mom at the kitchen or delivering food to people in different towns Naruto looked to his friends for company so it wouldn't be strange to see Naruto with at least two of his friends hanging out at the mall on Mondays like this day.

Naruto took a gulp of his Root Beer and belched very loudly making Kiba laugh and belch as well and Temari scowl at them both before taking a bit f her French dip. “You guys are disgusting.”

“So says Temari with her mouth full.” Naruto retorted and stuck his tongue out at her.

“So when the hell are we gonna go see Get Smart. I have ass to watch!” Kiba said before taking a huge bite of his pizza.

“I know! Anne Hathaway is so hot! I'd hit that!” Temari rolled her eyes and put down her sandwich.

“What in the world made me come out with two of the most obnoxious guys in school?” She put her fingers on her temples and semi-glared at Naruto. “And I'm telling Sakura what you said.” Naruto froze at the comment.

“You wouldn't dare! What, I'm not allowed to think celebs are hot!?” The blond panicked as Temari formed a sadistic smirk. The banter continued for a few minutes before it all winded down.

“Hey Naruto.” Kiba elbowed him.

“What?”

“That kid over there is eying you.” Kiba discretely pointed over to the table on the other side of the food court. Naruto glanced over till his eyes met up with dark eyes. The boy immediately looked away and started fidgeting. He had raven hair which looked like it should be straight but it was a little ratty, his clothes were wrinkled and his shoes looked old, really old. He looked back at the blond but found those blue eyes still focused on him so he looked away again and started mumbling to himself.

“Okay...Any of you know him?”

“Nope.”

“No, but he does look familiar.” Temari commented.

“Okay, this is making me nervous. Lets get some clothes or something.” Naruto said awkwardly getting up from the table, the others followed leaving their mess there. The trio slowly made their way to Urban Outfitters. “I needed something new to wear for the party Saturday anyway.” Naruto separated from Kiba and Temari. Searching on the racks Naruto came across a black shirt with an orange eagle diving from the left shoulder down to his chest. Grinning he checked the price tag and nodded to himself heading to the pants. Looking around the store his eyes scanned for his friends. He spotted Temari checking out a plaid mini skirt and Kiba was looking at hoodies and that kid from the food court was staring at his, pretending to look at t-shirts...wait what?

Naruto's eyes snapped back to when he was looking and spotted the black haired kid in the store. He was mumbling and talking to himself and glancing at Naruto. Pretending to pay him no mind Naruto pulled out his cell phone and texted Kiba.

“HES HERE!” - Sent

“Who?” - In

“That kid from the food court” - Sent

“R u srs??” - In

“Yeah, he's looking at me. What do I do?” Naruto looked back up but noticed the boy was gone. Relief flowed through his body and pocketed his phone and hurried back over to Kiba.

“Hey what happened?” Kiba said with a black hoodie under his arm.

“I dot know he left. He was right over there though.” He pointed over to where the t-shirts were hanging. Frowning Naruto made his way over there.

“What are you two girls doing?” Temari asked approaching them.

“Naruto's admirer was here.” He said while laughing.

“The kids creepy!” He exclaimed. “And he was right here!” It was then that Naruto noticed that something was out of place. There were a pair of pants sitting on the shelf. They were black with orange stitching and hem was orange. It went perfectly with the shirt Naruto had picked out. Hesitantly he grabbed them.

“Those would look pretty cute on you.” Temari commented off handedly. “Like what I got?” She held out her brown plaid skirt and a beige tank top with pink hearts on it.

“Hearts?” Kiba's eye look at her disbelievingly

“What!? I like hearts!” She defended. Naruto blocked out his two fighting friends and picked up the pants and put the under his arm along with the shirt.

“It just seems a little too girly for you.”

“This coming from the guy who wears hoodies and long sleeve shirts even in summer?

“I think its time for me to get going.” Naruto said a bit absentmindedly, and headed for the register.

“Its only Seven, why are you leaving so soon?”

“My dads coming home early today. I wanna be there.” He rubbed the back of his head and grinned at them both.

“Well I guess I have to take you home then since I drove you guys here...” She said as all of them bought their stuff and headed out the entrance.

“No thats fine! I'll just cut through the park and bam! I'm home. You guys stay here, I don't wanna cut your day short.”

“Alright if your sure...” Naruto nodded and head off in the opposite direction of his friends. With his head in the clouds Naruto exited the mall and headed for the park. The sun barely going down he decided to sit on a park bench and stare at the sky.

“Its a pretty nice day.” He heard someone mumble next to him which caused Naruto to jump a bit. Looking to the other end of the bench was that kid again.

“Where the hell did you come from?”

“I was sitting here before you.” The raven looked at him before looking away and muttered something. Now that Naruto was closer he could make it out. “I can tell he didn't notice me, why would he?” He started nibbling in his thumb.

“Uh...” To say the blond was unnerved would be a bit of an understatement.

“M-my name is Sasuke.” He held out his hand to the blond. Naruto just looked at it and then back at Sasuke's face. The black haired boy slowly retracted his hand and frowned slightly.

“I'm just here...looking at clouds...” Naruto said awkwardly turning away slightly.

“I thought you were sitting here because I was sitting here...” Sasuke twiddled his fingers in his lap as his eyes shifted everywhere as if unable to concentrate on anything for too long.

Naruto sat there for a couple of seconds before his conscience got the better of him. “I'm sorry, that was rude of me. My name is Naruto.”

“I-I know. I see you around a lot...” He trailed off following a squirrel as it ran across the grass.

“Really? So do you normally follow me around?” The blond cocked an eyebrow. 'He's so thin...' Naruto thought as he looked at the smaller boys neck. It was very thin and his collar bone could be seen clearly, he was sure he would be able to see ribs too...

“Oh, uh-no. Not normally...” He turned to Naruto after the squirrel disappeared up a tree. “You saw me in the store?”

“Yeah, I uh...got the pants you picked out for me...” He pulled out the black pants showing the raven. “They're nice.”

“Yeah, I was going to say you looked good in them but I didn't want you to think I was weird or anything...” The raven began twiddling with his fingers again. “He already thinks I'm weird...your not helping.” Sasuke muttered to himself.

“Oh...well thanks I guess...” Naruto looked around him, feeling like everyone in the park was looking at him. “I think I should get going...Home, I mean.”

“O-oh.” Sasuke nodded. The blond was about to walk away when his conscience reared its ugly head.

“So...Where do you live?”

“Me? Well I don't really have anywhere...” The raven looked at his feet while the blond studied him.

An internal war waged inside of Naruto's mind but he finally decided to to the right thing. “You can come home with me for a while...It's going to rain tonight...pretty hard.” Naruto rubbed the back of his head again. 'What is wrong with me?' He mentally scolded himself..

“That would be nice.” The raven tried to smile but it came out a little strange.

This took a me a while to come up with because I couldn't decide which boy would be the damaged vulnerable one but after much deliberation I finally decided on Sasuke since where I want this story to go Sasuke being himself wouldn't have been so nice to someone stalking you..

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