Reaching For You

Chapter 4

Naruto got up, and began pacing, an anxious look in his eyes. Back and forth, he took a large strides to his desk and to the end of the room. The mans bright blue eyes were filled with dread and sudden tiredness, objective to his excited and rambunctious behavior from ten minutes ago.

"Ah... Naruto?" Sasuke called out, and the blonde snapped his head up, forehead creased.

"What? What do you want, Sasuke?" He practically shouted back, gripping his spiky short hair. His mouth trembled slightly, and he inhaled sharply, breathing in and out at a rapid, panicked speed.

"Vent. Just vent it, would you? Because you are definitely not okay." The black haired man sternly said. He leaned his arms on the sill of the couch, sinking into it. Naruto shot his head up, frenzed.

NOTHING IS WRONG, TEME! NOTHING!" He practically yelled, and Sasuke winced at the noise, arching his back slightly. Naruto started breathing harder, and rapidly blinked his eyes.

"Yeah... go look in a fucking mirror, would you?" Sasuke shot back, and stood up, guiding the crazed man roughly towards a full length mirror next to the T.V. There, a man with a painful look in his alert blue eyes, messed up blonde hair that scurried every which way, his black tie loose from his now slightly unbuttoned white. The dark blue suit coat he was was slipping off slightly from his shoulders.

Naruto let his shoulders go loose, and his eyes became exhaustive all off a sudden. He took of his suit coat and placed on a coat rack, then walked to a couch, putting his head into his hands. Sasuke leaned against the wall, arms crossed.

"Its been nine years... huh?" Sasuke softly said, and Naruto took a deep breath, nodding into his hands.

"Yeah... well... I've never met her in person since graduation."

"I remember. She asked to be transferred out of all your classes, completely segregated. Went into all the AP Honors classes. Only to see her in the halls, and the last day... graduation."

"I didn't need a fucking backstory, ass."

"Tch."

"You're at least lucky."

"Huh?"

"You got Sakura-chan back. I... I couldn't even go see her even if I tried, you know?"

Sasuke scoffed, and sighed. "That was because I tried."

"WHAT?" Sarada screeched, and turned to look at her parents. Sakura-san raised an eyebrow and Sasuke-sensei looked uncomfortable all of a sudden.

"DAD, YOU GOT MOM BACK?" She yelled, her eyes shining. I chuckled, and rolled my eyes. Sasuke-sensei cleared his throat and I could see a tint of a blush on his cheeks. I looked at Dad, who was smirking.

"Sarada... of course I did. You're here, aren't you?" He replied, and I take everything possible to laugh. Sarada's expression turned from excitement into disgust.

"Tch, Papa. I didn't know you were that pervy." She said, narrowing her eyes. Sakura-san frowned, and suddenly, the frightening "death look" he radiated in class went away, replacing it with a fearful face.

"Ah... Sarada... Tsuma..."

"Aww, has Teme lost for once? Against his lovely family?" Dad teased, but ended up with a pillow smacked straight into his face.

"CONTINUE, WOULD YOU?" Sasuke-sensei yelled, and Dad shrugged, nodding.

"I... I miss her. It was only one month, you know? Just a month and that's all it took to realize she's the only person I will love. Hinata," Naruto's voice cracked at her name, but he continued. "Hinata became so famous around the country. She's completely changed. Didn't you see her? She looks so confident and-,"