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The sun was hot and high in the sky though it was on its way to setting. It being past noon and all. “Hurry up you two! We don’t got all day here!” Shikamaru yelled at the two knuckleheads.
“Damn man can you get off our backs for one second? We’re moving as fast as we can!” Complained Kiba as he moved like an infested zombie.
“Move faster. Do you two want to make it to the mall in time or no?”
Kiba and Naruto groaned in unison but moved faster cause in truth they did want to make it in time. It was the only thing that had motivated them enough to make sure all their notes were done on time.
“Soooooo… who has an extra five?” Naruto asked his two friends knowing that Shikamaru was the only one who had extra spending money.
The wild child’s both side eyed him in unison. He pretended not to see it.
“Huuuuu, I wish I had an extra fiveeeeeeee” Naruto breathed out.
Kiba snickered and Shikamaru let out an exasperated sigh.
“HERE!” He took the crumbled five dollar bill out of his back pocket and handed it to Naruto.
“Awwwww, thanks baby.” Naruto said with an enormous grin on his face.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever. Broke ass.”
The two idiots beside his started laughing. Clearly they found his annoyance to be funny.
They all stopped at the crosswalk, conversing as they waited for the light to turn red. And just as it did they saw them. Those two unmistakable vehicles.
The Aston Martin with windows so tinted they definitely weren’t legal, and the black Yamaha right next to it.
They all gave each other silent looks. But pretended to not see them and carried on with their walk. I mean the mall’s entrance was right in front of them.
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“Man these are good.” Kiba said as he stuffed more cheesy fries into his half full mouth.
They were sitting at one of the tables near the food court. Right in the middle so they could see which stalls were open or were about to close.
“You guys wanna come over after this?” The blond asked.
“You know it man!”
“No thanks. Unlike you two some of us plan to actually *study* for their exam tomorrow. What a drag.” Shika said with that tone of his again.
Naruto and Kiba felt a little discouraged now that they’ve remembered that they have to study and not just dilly dally the night away and a whole lot annoyed that they were still taking exams in the first place but it’s ok cause after tomorrow they’re summer bound.
“So you’ll come over tomorrow night instead?”
“Yeah, my mom would kill me if she found out I failed one of my exams cause I was to busy fucking around in your room.”
“How about you? You still comin’?”
“We’ll see.”
“So no? Alright Shika.” Naruto said slightly annoyed but not surprised as he chewed on his drink straw.
“You guys goin’ home now? My dad’s outside if y’all want a ride home.”
“Yeah sure, thanks.”
“Mn.”
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It’s 12:05 a.m and Naruto still hasn’t been able to fall asleep. He turns onto his back and lays there for a second….two…thr- and he’s on his phone. He’s swiping through Inos story when he gets a message. It’s from, Sasuke.
‘Hey, you up?’
Naruto looked at his phone for what felt like forever. It’s not like he didn’t know what to say he just didn’t understand why SASUKE of all people were texting him, in the middle of the night no less. His fingers hovered over the text like he unsure of what would happen if he opened their chat. Releasing a breath through his nose he opens their message.
‘Yeah, what’s up?’
He watched his screen, burning his eyes with its glow, it stayed still. So still that he checked the number to make sure he wasn’t dreaming this entire time and just as he was about to close the app he gets another message.
‘Nothing, I figured it out.’
‘Oh ok, good night.’
‘You 2.’
Weird but whatever. Naruto decided that he should really get to bed now because if he stayed up any later he wouldn’t wake up early enough to make it to school on time. Placing his phone on his wireless charger Kakashi gave him last Christmas he turned onto his stomach and closed his eyes. Slowly starting to feel less and less aware of his surroundings until he was out like a dead man.