Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Not-so-Wrong Wrong Connection ❯ A Pair of Matching Rings ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Naruto is © to Kishimoto, a Japanese mangaka

 

Warning: Naruto stupidity.

 

 

Chapter 2: A Pair of Matching Rings

 

 

“Hey, freak. What stepped on your tail yesterday, huh? You shrieked like a girl.”

That was Kiba, the loudmouth of the class. This was the first time he talked to Naruto directly like that. Though, he still kept his fair distance when he did that; the dog-boy would never confess it to anyone but he was afraid of Naruto. He heard the rumour: Naruto was able to see ghost.

 

 

 

Naruto looked shock at Kiba's insult whilst Kiba looked nervous, worried if maybe he had made Naruto angry. Naruto might suddenly decide to curse him (like warlock does!).

 

“Who? Are you talking to me?”

If Kiba knew what Naruto was feeling right now, he wouldn't worry because Naruto was not angry. Far from that, actually. He was ecstatic! Somebody in class had willingly talked to him! Wohoo, that was the achievement of the century to Naruto. This was somewhat a miracle.

 

“Yea—yeah you. I was talking to you, blondie!”

 

 

Blondie? Had he just called him blondie? Was it some kind of nick name? Cool!! Not only had someone willingly talked to him, he had gotten a nick name as well! Naruto couldn't be happier. Oh, today was looking very bright indeed.

 

 

“Eheheh…thank you.” Naruto scratched the back of his head bashfully, grinning his heart out.

 

 

Looking at Naruto's grin, Kiba reflectively gave out his own grin.

This guy is weird. Why did he look so happy at my insult?

 

And Kiba thought, Naruto's grinning face was somewhat not scary at all (unlike the rumours he had heard about him) and he thought maybe - just maybe - Naruto was an okay guy. He looked like a nice guy grinning like that.

 

 

Kiba was about to continue their somewhat non-existent conversation when a low-tone voice spoke from behind him.

“Move. You're blocking my way.”

 

 

Two pairs of eyes turned to look at the newcomer simultaneously.

Ahh…Naruto groaned inwardly.

The Uchiha Sasuke had arrived. He had almost forgotten about that boy for a minute there. The harsh reality that lingered in his mind all of last night and this morning (on the way to school) came rushing back. Naruto tried not to hit his head on the table - he had done enough head bashing at home yesterday.

 

 

Yeah, yesterday was disaster. He fainted! The great Uzumaki Naruto fainted! Who ever heard such a ridiculous thing? On top of that, his jiji - his ero-jiji - had to come to school to pick him up. Aghh…what an embarrassment. But he was a bit glad he could go back early. He didn't know what he would have done if he had had to stay.

 

 

Because as soon as he reached home, Naruto jumped out of the car and ran at full speed to his room and banged his head on the nearest hard surface. He couldn't believe he had such a fate. Why, God, why?!! Why him? He must have done something really bad in his previous life to get such a fate. It was clearly a karma thing.

 

 

 

But Naruto couldn't give up - the blond boy stood up straight at this; his face was full of hard determination. He was sure there was some kind of mistake here. If he prayed hard enough, it might be changed. So he prayed hard, all night long until he fell asleep; hoping that when he woke up tomorrow morning and got to school, the red thread connecting him and that new boy would have disappeared.

 

 

 

It did not.

 

 

There was Sasuke, sitting next to his table, looking compose as if the girls stares didn't bother him in the least. He reminded Naruto of a porcelain statue. There was also a red thread, dangling carelessly between them: Naruto's right pinkie was connected to Sasuke's left pinkie.

 

 

Naruto foolishly tried to snap the thread by moving his pinkie in a sharp fast movement. Sadly, nothing happened. Sasuke's pinkie didn't even twitch. Using a scissor didn't have much result either. It was like cutting a stream of water flow; it just didn't cut.

 

 

“What are trying to do, stupid? Trying to cut my finger?”

 

 

Uh-huh, the porcelain statue talked. And it called Naruto stupid! How dare he…eh wait. What did he say? Cut of his finger? His finger? Cut?

 

 

Instead of getting angry at Sasuke's insult, Naruto gave him an evil smile.

“That, maybe I do.”

 

 

Sasuke raised a brow of confusion at Naruto's puzzling answer. This guy was weird. No wonder no one wanted to sit beside him - that's why Sasuke got to sit beside Naruto, there was no other empty seat.

 

 

Yeah, weird indeed.

 

 

Yesterday, when Iruka-sensei was introducing him to the class, this weird boy had suddenly shrieked - very loud too - and fainted. What the hell was wrong with this fella? Was he nuts? Was it a good choice for him to enter this class? Sasuke might have to re-evaluate his option. But nahh…that would be too much trouble. It was not like, people shrieking when they saw him was something weird. It happened all the time.

 

 

Because you see, for Sasuke who had good looks and a high social standing, people shrieking when they saw him was a normal thing. It was always `Sasuke-kun, so handsome!!' or `He's sooooo cool' or at the very least a sigh of longing but never `No way!!'. That was certainly weird and hurt his ego a little bit. He didn't even know this idiotic blond and already the boy seemed to hate him.

 

 

Not to mention that evil smile that Naruto was giving him was a bit scary.

 

 

The smile might be full out scary if Sasuke had known about the rumours circulating about one Uzumaki Naruto. But alas, he didn't. You see, Sasuke was really popular at school (especially to the girls) but he didn't give a damn about people around him; too many people always lingered around him, he didn't want to add more by showing any interest. Needless to say, Sasuke was out of the gossip loop.

 

 

 

Err…when I said Sasuke was popular, it was not entirely true. He was super popular. As popular as Hyugaa Neji - who was elected to be the Council President by the majority. The only reason he wasn't the President was because he was already busy with sport activities. He had also been the captain of the kendo club and the basketball team once upon a time (before he took his leave of absent) and really did excel in everything he did.

 

 

Even someone as socially inept a person as Naruto had heard about him but he never knew the guy personally. He only heard what the girls gossiped about the guy and since Sasuke was absent for so long and in different class-year from him, he never got a chance to see the popular guy. Until yesterday.

 

 

 

Oh he was handsome, alright - just like what the girls said; he had to admit that. Sasuke was tall too, maybe him playing basketball was the reason why he was tall. But then again, almost all the boys in his class were taller than Naruto. It was a little disheartened to say this but Naruto was short for a boy but he believed he would grow taller in this two years time. Just wait and see-tebba!

 

 

 

Hmm… I think we're getting a little sidetracked here. Back to the main story. The finger. I'm supposed to elaborate about the finger.

 

 

 

After giving Sasuke his evil smile, Naruto had made up his mind. He would cut off this black-haired guy's pinkie. Wahahahaha….if Sasuke lost his pinkie the red thread would disappear and his problem would be solved. Naruto patted his back imaginatively at his brilliant plan, grinning like mad all the way to recess.

 

 

 

Under the tree, Shikamaru felt the creepiness oozing off of the Uzumaki boy. He shivered a little; after all, he heard the rumours about Naruto.

 

“Are you planning to do something troublesome?”

 

“Eh, how do you know, Shika-sempai? You are truly a genius!”

 

 

Shikamaru was about to retort with `with that evil grin on your face, everybody can guess' but kept quiet instead. That was too much trouble to say and he preferred to continue gazing at the cloud.

 

 

 

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Naruto came back to class from recess a bit early. As he thought, there was no one in the classroom. Ah-hah…except Sasuke. He must have hid himself here from people. Or maybe an honourable student like Sasuke just really loves to study.

 

 

 

Quickly, Naruto glanced around, making sure nobody was nearby and made a dash to Sasuke table. With a rushed `Sasuke' as a warning, he took Sasuke pinkie into his mouth and bit it hard.

 

 

His plan was to literally bite Sasuke's pinkie off.

 

 

“Oww owww…stop it you idiot. It hurt! Let go!” Sasuke tried to pull off his finger from Naruto's mouth to no avail.

 

“Shit, if you wanted to take off a finger so badly, why don't you bite your own finger, stupid!” This time, Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hair and yanked him off of his finger. Naruto looked flabbergasted. Why didn't he think of that? If it was too difficult to cut off Sasuke's finger, he could bite his own!

 

 

 

Swiftly, Naruto changed finger; this time it was his pinkie. Sasuke looked at this turn of events with horror. This guy was really stupid, wasn't he? Really, really stupid. He didn't think this blond would take his `advice' literally and bite his finger. Guilty of being the one who suggested it, he tried to stop Naruto from doing that.

 

 

 

“Hey, hey! Stop that. You're gonna hurt yourself.” Sasuke tried to yank Naruto's finger from Naruto's mouth. He didn't think he would succeed because Naruto wouldn't let go until a loud shout of,

“Sensei!! Sasuke-kun and Naruto are fighting!”

 

 

In a flash, both boys were separated from each other. Iruka-sensei looked down at them with murder in his eyes. Both of them were sent to principal's office by Iruka not without giving them a lecture about school and it's `sacredness' beforehand.

 

 

 

They solemnly went to the principal office. On the way there, Naruto still stared longingly at his and Sasuke's pinkie; thinking he might as well continue where he was interrupted.

 

“Don't even think about it. Are you stupid? It clearly hurt. What are you trying to do, usuratonkachi?”

 

 

 

Sasuke looked mad. He must be because the bite had really hurt. Naruto sighed. Maybe he didn't have the courage to go through with his plan after all; cutting off his finger hurt like hell. His pinkie still hurt. There were teeth marks circling the finger; the dent of the skin was deep, it almost looked like Naruto was wearing a ring.

 

 

 

He took a glance at Sasuke's pinkie. Sasuke also showed the same mark. Since he was paler than Naruto, the marks were more visible than Naruto's. He could clearly see the ring-look-alike marks on Sasuke's pinkie. That must have hurt because Naruto was sure he bit Sasuke harder than he bit himself. But he refused to apologize. He did that for a reason; he was sure Sasuke would appreciate what he was trying to do later.

 

 

 

“I'm really disappointed to hear that you two have the guts to fight in class. Don't you have any respect?”

 

Both boys were quiet; Naruto because he felt guilty and Sasuke because he didn't really gave a damn what Tsunade - the principal - had to say.

 

 

“No one wants to explain anything to me? Fine. You two, detention. Tomorrow evening. I expect you to hand me an essay about respect the day after. Understood?”

 

 

Both boys nodded simultaneously and went back to class. They never exchanged anymore words after that, it was as if nothing had ever happened. They preferred to keep what had happened to themselves. School was full of gossipers; if they didn't want this to get out of hand, they should just keep quiet - even Naruto knew that.

 

But if anyone looked closely, both boys' pinkie were twitching in pain. The marks were still visible like a pair of matching rings on their fingers.

 

 

 

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Chapter 2 end. This is fast because the idea is still fresh and the chapter is short.

 

 

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Chapter 3: An Evening with You