Believe it!

“Rubber?” She repeated as Naruto took a long stride ahead of her– the reason for which, completely flew over her head.

The title of the film was inconspicuous enough to fool the pinkette. It was one vague word and, admittedly, her first thought went straight to condoms. Was it one of those coming-of-age stories? She was getting Juno vibes already.

“Okay… Sure!” The pre-med student agreed with a shrug before she took larger steps to close the distance Naruto had put between them or some reason. 

“What’s so funny?” She asked upon noticing the way he had to bite down on his lip to prevent from grinning full-on like someone who’d just heard the funniest joke in the world. Had she missed something?…

“Are you making this up?” Sakura finally asked, deadpanning as she stared at him. 

“No way! Why would I even lie about a movie?”

Naruto quickly defended himself. He wasn’t lying about the movie existing, he was just hiding what it was about. He knew the moment she figured out the movie was about a killer tire and just how fucked up it was she would instantly turn it down. He wanted to see her honest reaction to the terrible movie, it was his favorite thing to do, Iruka had had the best reaction when he had shown him the movie.

“Just trust me on this alright? I was just remembering this great scene in the movie.” He wasn’t really lying since he was laughing at the entire movie. Sakura was going to hate him once she caught on or finished the whole movie.

Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

Looks like they could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll

Looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you

Looks like a cinnamon roll and is actually a cinnamon roll

Looks like they could kill you and could actually kill you

Could kill you, but is still a cinnamon roll

Would kill for a cinnamon roll

Lee smiled back at his new partner. “I hope your training has been as good as you say,” Lee said confidently.

Lee stared across to Naruto, their eyes locked, just waiting to jump right into the action. Lee waited in baited breath for Naruto to let his guard down for just a second.

“Well, Naruto…” Lee started, “Let’s see if you can dodge… this!” Lee saw a brief moment he thought he could capitalize on, and in an instant, he darted across the floor over to Naruto and stopped when he came to his right side. He jumped up and turned into a spinning back kick with his left leg aimed at Naruto’s head.

If there was one thing Naruto actually learned while taking small lessons with Tsunade, it was that he had to be patient and watch the other for their first move. Rushing into things never worked, and he learned that the hard way.

He had to admit, waiting was annoying. The two were in a stand still waiting for some sort of opening and it was agitating. The blond had to take a small breath to calm himself and that seemed to be the wrong move. Lee had saw an opening and went straight for it. He kept his eyes on the bushy browed kid as he darted for him and readied to block his right side when he suddenly jumped up.

“Oh please,” She groaned with a roll of her eyes as she locked her door, “…maybe The Notebook was a poor choice, but don’t even pretend you totally didn’t ugly cry at the end of Me Before You.”

The aforementioned list was mostly comprised of movies one or the other hadn’t seen yet, they had missed in the theaters, or just really, really, really wanted to watch once they arrived on Netflix. Sometimes they stuck to it and sometimes they surfed the app for poorly rated movies just because they were fun to make fun of.

“Well… If you don’t want to watch a romance, even though I have the best taste in romances, we could always just pick something random. Or! You can pick one of your movies that I haven’t seen yet.”

Sakura shoved her keys into her coat pocket and moved to walk beside Naruto as they made their way out of the dorm.

“I don’t really care what we watch, as long as it isn’t Sharknado again.”

Naruto fake gasped in offense at Sakuras accusation of him pretending. “I am offended that you think I’d even pretend, that movie deserved an Oscar!”

Once she let him pick the movie his mind quickly started to wander on exactly what movie he could torture her with. She was quick to ban Sharknado which meant all the other sequels were out of the question which made him sad. But he had an even better idea now, and she would probably hate him for a long time after they finished watching it.

“Alright, not Sharknado, but there’s this really cool indie movie that I recently found! You’ll love it, it’s called Rubber!”

Sasuke didn’t expect the giant lecture he received from Naruto. It was…. remarkable. The blond had so much to say about each person and every moment. He went on and on, it was as if he had a whole novel memorized and ready to recite. Except, it felt more natural than just a person reading lines from a book. Has Naruto always been this chatty?

From what he can remember, yes. Although Sasuke was sprightly as a kid, it was Naruto who had came up with all the crazy ideas and foreign topics of discussion. All the raven could offer is his undivided attention, and excited support and curiosity. His light had lost it’s spark a long time ago, but it seems like Naruto’s was only getting brighter.

Hard as he thought, he can’t remember having any kind of bond like those after leaving the orphanage. Sure, there were people he tried maintaining a relationship with in school. But, after he was pulled out, they all faded away. He didn’t even have a normal father/son relationship with Kakashi. What has he been doing wrong for so long? He’s never necessarily desired to get close to anyone. Yet, the blond made it look like a fairytale.

“Hm.” Once again, is all he could muster up as a response.

Sasuke examined the photos further. So, that was the guy who adopted Naruto. He remembers getting a brief glimpse of the man the day he took his friend away- he can clearly remember the scar that ran across his nose. Funny, for him to adopt Naruto with cat-whisker scars of his own.

Sasuke had a few pictures of him and his parents before they passed. Itachi had most of them in his possession, but the boy was able to get a hold of some before leaving. It was endearing to see that Naruto had a picture of his parents- but unfortunate to think it could be the only one he has.

And the girl in the photo was undoubtedly beautiful. Not that Sasuke has ever had a strong attraction toward anyone- but he can admit when someone catches his eye. The girl’s hair and eyes were so visually stunning. He can only assume this was Naruto’s girlfriend, but was hiding the fact for some reason.

All these thoughts occupied the raven’s mind. Why didn’t he know how to convey them aloud as easily as his roommate did? The one thing to surface, however, was:

“It looks like Iruka gave you a good life after the adoption.”

“Yeah, he really tried his best....I’m grateful he came for me even though he didn’t have to.”

He glanced over at the photo of his guardian as a small smile crossed his face. Naruto couldn’t help bu what Sasuke could have been thinking about after he had finished talking. He couldn’t help but wonder even more what his own life had been after he had been adopted, but he was worried about asking to much. If just asking about his brother had almost set him off, he was kinda worried what asking about his guardian would lead to, but it was worth a shot right?

He hadn’t shied away from mentioning him so it was probably a good sign. There wasn’t any visible bad vibes between him and whoever adopted him so it gave him hope that the raven haired teen also had a good life after, or at least something better than what the orphanage could have offered.

“What about you? Got any nice pictures to share of the people you grew up with after adoption?”