Rivals (sasunaru/narusasu)

1. New Year

^*This is a cute fanart I wanted to share. (Not my art!!)*

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It was a new year of school, a fresh start. For some it was their first year in high school, and for others it was just another year. People filled with excitement all over the campus, meeting their friends, getting their schedules, all that bull crap.

Naruto Uzumaki, the obnoxiously loud and friendly blond, had just woken up from his long nap. "Naruto! Wake up, you're gonna be late for the first day!" His roommate Shikamaru shook him, growing frustrated. The blond rubbed his eyes, yawning as if he had no worries. "Goodmorning, Shikamaru!" He exclaimed, hopping out of the bed excitedly. His friend rolled his eyes, "Me and Kiba are making breakfast, hurry up." He groaned and walked out, too lazy to converse with his sleepy blond friend.

Naruto quickly hopped in the shower, and did all the necessities. He wasn't all that excited to go to school but he was looking forward to seeing his friends and all the 'start of the year parties' the school held. He wore black pants and a peach orange shirt that fitted a little big on him. He grabbed his backpack, running down for a quick breakfast.

He greeted his friends, as they all sat around for dinner. "We have a lot of time, eat slowly." Shikamaru spoke looking at Kiba. "Huh? A lot of time? We only have 10 minutes.." Kiba looked confused, "Shika's right, they changed the whole schedule this year. We have over 40 minutes." Naruto scrolled through his phone, looking at the schedule. "Great! We can find our classes in time then!" They finished up breakfast, heading out.

They didn't live too far so it easy to get to school fast. They reached the school grounds, 'So many freshmens..' The blond thought, they received a lot of stares which wasn't rare since the trio were quite popular, because they had been caught into a few fights and of course, their charming looks and persona's. They got their class schedules from the office, they walked back outside, debriefing about their shared classes.

"No way all of us share 3 classes together!" Kiba exclaimed, being the energetic one. "I know! This is so exciting!" Naruto jumped and put his arm around Kiba's shoulder. "What a drag." Shikamaru rolled his eyes, leaning on a wall. Suddenly, they were swarmed with students as the bell rang. The trio waved each other off, heading to their classes.

Naruto took a seat in an empty desk, close to the window. The classroom was mostly empty as the hallways were filled of nervous students. In front of Naruto, sat Sakura and Hinata. Naruto was familiar with both of them as they all used to be part of the same friend group back in middle school, but drifted apart as they settled in high school.

"Hey, Naruto!" Sakura spoke as her and Hinata turned around to chat. "Hey guys! Long time no see." He smiled at the girls, "Haven't seen you in a while, how've you been?" Sakura smiled, she was always talkative when it came to Naruto. They had always maintained a good friendship even if they went a long time without talking to each other. Life had gotten busy, they exchanged quick smiles whenever they did meet.

Hinata and Naruto's friendship was very low on both ends, they were respectful and polite to one another.

The room got crowded with students settling in, and soon enough the class began. Some students were late as they had trouble getting around the big campus, I mean it was their first day after all. A few students walked in, among them was Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto's rival. The students quickly took the few seats there were left, and unfortunately, fate had decided for the two rivals to be desk mates.

"Alright! Now that everyone's here, please introduce yourself to your desk mates." The teacher spoke, loud and clear. The classroom that was deadly quiet, filled with chatter. Naruto sighed, turning towards Sasuke. "I'm Naruto." He spoke with a nonchalant tone, Sasuke returned his energy back. "Yeah, I know." Sasuke rolled his eyes, the blond gave him a nasty look. "You can at least try to be civil, we're gonna be sitting next to each other for the whole year after all." Naruto mumbled, diverting his attention out the window.

"I have no interest in being civil with annoying douchebags like you." Sasuke gave a snide remark. The blond spoke no further, having to talk with Sasuke meant losing the few braincells he had. Sasuke had always been like this, resulting in him getting stuck up with a lousy group of people who had bad influence on him. Of course he was intelligent, but only to some extent. Actually, he was street smart instead of book smart, but he knew the basics.

"Since today was your first day, I want you all to pair up with your desk mates for a fun activity." The teacher spoke, as she wrote on the board. "You and your partner will be making dragon babies!" She exclaimed as people gave her weird looks. "You all have to take the X and Y chromosomes (DNA) and combine it with these traits!" She held up a paper. 'Of course, this was bound to happen.. I mean this is a science class, right?' The blond sighed.

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"Stick this on top." Naruto pointed, Sasuke instead stuck it to the bottom. "Are you dense? I said top." The blond was getting infuriated. "Then why the fuck are you pointing to the bottom?" Sasuke glared at the blond. Quickly realizing his mistake, Naruto pointed to the top. "I'm pointing at the top, what are you saying?" He was messing with the raven, and Sasuke knew that. "dumbass." Sasuke muttered under his breath.

Naruto sighed as Sasuke kept messing around with their dragon baby. "Why is my child's hair fucked up?" He looked bummed. Sasuke glared at Naruto and spoke, "Guess you two have something in common then." Naruto gasped, getting tired of this. "Hey! He's your child too!" The two fought as the class stared at them, giggling.

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"I don't know why he was acting like my hair was bad when he looks like an angry chihuahua! His hair literally sticks up from the back like he was electrocuted!" Naruto distressed as he spoke with his best friends. The trio had gone out of the campus in a nearby coffee shop to grab lunch. They sat, debriefing about their morning classes as Shikamaru caught a glimpse of a tall figure. "Isn't that..?" He pointed towards the man, "What is he doing here?" Kiba asked, confused. "Wasn't there an investigation transpiring on him?" The blond questioned. "Y'know what, I have an idea.." Naruto smirked as he got up, making his way to the man who seems to be ordering food.

"Excuse me, Can I get-" He chatted up the counter girl, and proceeded to act shocked when he made eye contact with the figure he had been eyeing. "Itachi.. funny seeing you here." Naruto smirked, Itachi looked at him with a devious grin. "Naruto,. what a coincidence."

"You were under investigation, right? How was it? Were they too harsh on you?" Naruto questioned, Itachi shook his head. "That's cute, are you worried for me?" He teased the blond, Naruto was taken aback and a little flustered because he was caught off guard. "I-I was just curious, don't think too highly of yourself, Itachi." Naruto avoided looking in his eyes.