Well I'm here and writing a new fanfic! YAY:cheers and does the moonwalk: Any way! Now that my victory dance is over, I'm here to announce that... I DO NOT own Naruto or the song "Modern Myth" By 30 Seconds To Mars... so ... please! R&R!!!!

Sleeping With Death

Rain pelted harshly against the ground, painting an array of colors with the vanishing chalk drawings outside the apartment building. Thunder clashed overhead, shaking the heavens into a cowering fear. Unknown to the people of the city, a fire burned in the sky, eating away at the clouds of hope and the beings of wings as lightning lit up the sky in a triumphant cry.

One figure dared stand alone in the storm, wind beating against his seemingly frail frame. Blood red locks of hair whirled around his head and into teal eyes surrounded by dark, heavy, black lines. His pale skin glittered with the cold, almost needle sharp rain. A red tattoo, the color of his hair, rested above his left eye, symbolizing love. As lightning flashed and another roar of the thunder sounded directly above him, he cracked a small, twisted smirk.

Did we create a modern myth
Did we imagine half of it
What happened in a thought from now
Save yourself, save yourself

A secret is out
A secret is out

To buy the truth and sell a lie
The last mistake before you die
So don't forget to breath tonight
Tonight's the last so say goodbye

A secret is out
A secret is out
A secret is out
A secret is out

Goodbye

Letting out a laugh that sounded like bells, Sakura watched as Sasuke tackled Naruto, trying to restrain the flailing blond as he laughed out insults to the raven haired teen. It was a normal summer day for the three friends. Everything was calm, other kids were off laughing and running around. Dogs were barking and their owners were yelling insults at them as they chased their kid's favorite pet down the street.

"Alright! Sasuke! Get off my boyfriend! I think he's had enough!" Sakura finally laughed out, standing and walking over to the two boys. Sasuke frowned and got off Naruto, letting the cowering, but still hysterically laughing blond up from the ground.

"Dobe..." he muttered.

"Aw! What's wrong, Teme?" Naruto cooed back, smirking. Sasuke glared.

"Don't make me kill you."

"Oh would you two grow up." Sakura said, stepping in and saving the blond from a massive beating. "Hey, Naruto... shouldn't we be going if we're going to catch that movie?" She asked. Naruto blinked and then gasped.

"You're right! Sorry, Teme! We'll have to settle this some other time! I've got a date with Sakura! See ya tomorrow at school!" He said, waving and dragging Sakura off behind him. Sasuke watched them go and rolled his eyes, shaking his head and walking off towards his house. Itachi would probably be at home, baking and getting ready to torture his little brother into taste testing every last one of the sweet treats. Yeah right, like that was torture.

It was funny, really. Sasuke and his brother got along perfectly after their parents had died. He never really under stood it, but it seemed to make sense.

As Sasuke walked home, he began to dream of a lazy summer weekend before he had to return to school the next day. Man, why did it have to be September already?

Approaching his house, he found his brother leaning against the fence of their yard, talking to some blond chick he'd never seen before. Glancing around, he noticed the moving van parked just outside their house. It was then that he groaned.

Rolling his black eyes, he went over to greet who ever it was that was unlucky enough to live next door to the Uchiha siblings.

The woman his brother was talking to was nearly as tall as Itachi, some where around 5'10". She was built well and well endowed, any man could see that. Brown eyes smiled back at Itachi from beneath her blond bangs. The rest of her hair was tied back into four ponytails. As Sasuke approached she looked over at him and waved. Sasuke nodded and Itachi turned to see his brother approaching. He nearly squealed and glomped his brother right then and there.

"Sasuke!!!!! Sasuke! Come meet our new neighbors!" He cried, shoving the shorter boy forward. Sasuke nearly tripped but kept his footing and glared back at his brother sightly before offering a small smile to the woman.

"Hi! I'm Temari! Just moved in next door. I'm guessing you're Sasuke?" she asked, shaking his hand.

"Gee, how'd you know?" He asked slightly sarcastically. Temari only laughed. It wasn't a giggle like most girls, it was a true laugh.

"You'd like my little brother!" She stopped and glanced over her shoulder, her grin widening.

"Well... speak of the devil and he shall come! HEY! HEY! GAARA! COME HERE!" she called, waving over a red head. He looked at her flatly and sighed, setting down the box in his arms and walking over.

"What?" He asked, a slight growl in his voice. Sasuke stopped and took in the newcomer's appearance. Pale skin, blood red hair and love tattoo to match, teal eyes, thick black eyeliner, no eyebrows, but still... dead sexy.

"This is Sasuke, Itachi's little brother!" Temari said, shoving Gaara forward and nodding to Sasuke. The raven fought a blush as Gaara's eyes locked with his. Gaara blinked and then nodded. Sasuke gave a faint smile and said a quiet hello. It was then that Itachi finally DID squeal and glomp Sasuke.

"AW! SO CUTE! MY BROTHER'S GOTTA CRUSH!" At this, Sasuke flailed and tried frantically to get his brother off him.

"SHUT UP ASS HOLE! I DO NOT! GET THE FUCK OFF ME! RAPE! RAPE!" He yelled, now lying flat on the ground and struggling to get his teasing brother off his smaller frame. Gaara just raised a non existent eye brow and watched the scene unfold. Temari smirked.

"Love at first sight! You're so cute Gaara! I wonder if you two will get married!?" She gasped, suddenly looking hopeful. Gaara glared at her.

"I'm leaving now... Oh... and you breathe a word of this to Kankuro..." He said, walking away and looking over his shoulder, smirking. "I'll kill you... I love big sister..."

Sasuke spent the rest of that night and most of the morning listening to Itachi sing in his ear about he and Gaara. Arriving at the bus stop the next morning, Sasuke twitched as he thought of the lack of sleep the night before and his brother's new mental problems. Now he knew that Itachi wasn't normal, he'd proven that years ago when he'd started wearing nail polish and singing show tunes while out in the garden.

'What the hell is his problem!?!' Sasuke screamed in his head, thinking over different death scenes for his older sibling. He sighed.

"Oh well.. at least I don't have to put up with him in school anymore..."

"Your brother?" A deeper voice sounded, suddenly beside the young Uchiha. Sasuke jumped and looked over at Gaara as he walked up. Sasuke blinked and nodded in greeting, Gaara doing the same.

"Heh.. yeah... sorry about yesterday... his antics are..."

"Unique?" Sasuke flinched slightly.

"To sugar coat it, yes..." Gaara shrugged his messenger bag farther onto his shoulder and grunted a soft reply.

"Don't worry. Temari's the same. Just be glad you haven't met Kankuro yet. He cross dresses." He said, a slight smirk tugging at his lips. Sasuke returned the smirk and bit back a laugh.

"You're kidding me..."

"Yes. But he is worse than Temari and most likely your brother... Itachi right?" Sasuke nodded. 'And you're Sasuke?" again the raven nodded. Gaara sighed.

"So... where did you move from?" Gaara looked back at him and heaved another heavy sigh.

"Suna." Sasuke nearly choked on his own tongue.

"Why'd you leave?! It's get fucking cold here!" Gaara merely chuckled.

"Temari got a good paying job. It's kind of important for her to keep a steady paycheck seeing as she's the main support in our family." Sasuke tilted his head.

"What about your parents?"

"Dead. Well... our mother is anyway. Our father just up and left one day." He shrugged. "but hey... I could care less. He never really cared anyway." Sasuke fell silent and looked at the ground, slightly ashamed for having brought up the subject.

"Seems to be the new fad." He finally said. Gaara gave him a questioning look. "Kids being orphaned. I have an idea of what you mean. When I was five my parents died in a car crash." Gaara nodded. "But hey... at least we've got our siblings." Gaara snorted in amusement.

"Can you really admit that you're related to Itachi?" Sasuke laughed slightly and shrugged ever so little.

"Sadly... we look alike so it's kind of hard to denounce him as my brother." Gaara nodded.

"I know the feelin-"

"HEY! LITTLE BRO!" Gaara visibly cringed at the voice of his older brother.

"Please let me be imagining this... please let him not be here..." He quietly begged. Sasuke quirked a brow as teen seeming only three years older pulled Gaara into a bone breaking hug. Gaara gasped and started cursing in a string of words so colorful that even a sailor would have been embarrassed. The teen finally dropped him when he spotted Sasuke.

"Gaara! Is this the boy Temari was telling me about?" He asked, looking Sasuke over. Gaara twitched as the teen nudged him with his elbow and winked.

"He's quite the catch..."

"Kankuro... go die... a slow and painful death in a dark secluded corner." he growled.

"So this... is Kankuro?" He asked, nodding towards the russet haired teen. Brown eyes smiled back, resembling Temari's in an almost frightening way. His wolfish grin turned from Sasuke to his little brother as he ruffled the red head's hair affectionately. Gaara merely crossed his arms and huffed.

"Sadly..." He finally replied. The young Uchiha nodded and kept looking at Kankuro as if he would bite. The raven's only saving grace was the bus pulling up.

The school day slipped by with little problem. Naruto and Sakura had taken to Gaara rather quickly. No incident had happened on the first day of school and that was how it had been for the first week. It had only been that Friday as Sasuke was walking home from a late practice that he noticed Gaara walking down the streets towards the cemetery. Looking around, Sasuke dropped his bag in the front yard and followed him, keeping silent as he slipped in the gate.

Gaara walked among the stones of the grave markers for a good hour as silence rang out among the dead atmosphere. Sasuke was seriously contemplating leaving when another figure showed up behind him. With a yelp, Sasuke was thrown to the ground, a hand clamping down on his throat.

Looking around, he searched desperately for something to use as a weapon. Anything would do. He found a rock but it was just out of his reach. If only he could move a little to the right. As he trying to move over just that centimeter, the weight atop him disappeared and he looked up only to find his attacker being encased in sand, sand that was being controlled by none other than Gaara. With a blood curdling scream, blood soaked through the sand before Gaara pulled back and nothing but a few drops of red liquid fell to the parched ground beneath his feet. Sasuke stared wide eyed, mouth agape, and gasping for air. It was then that Gaara looked over at him and frowned.

"You followed me?" He said, in more of a statement than question. Sasuke stuttered before forming an actual sentence.

"Y-you-you... you killed him!?!" He finally screeched, jumping up and backing away from Gaara a step or so. Gaara sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Yes... But I killed a demon... that had the intent to kill YOU." He stressed. Sasuke stopped and slumped slightly.

'Who the hell are you?" He demanded. Gaara once again sighed and looked around before squaring his shoulders.

"Gaara Subaku, demon slayer and sand bender... happy?" Sasuke blinked and sat down, trying to process this.

"I'm dreaming... or else I'm cracked up."

"You're neither." Gaara replied calmly. "but you are quite fucked."

"How so?!" Sasuke growled. "I can take care of myself."

"Well... you just stumbled into a whole new world of belief and laws." Sasuke looked at him, not even bothering to hide his confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"You're no longer safe in the normal ways of people. You know the truth now without even realizing it. You die now... you'll have no where to go except down." Gaara said, leaning against a grave stone and crossing his arms.

"To Hell? What about Heaven?" Sasuke questioned, not liking the serious tone and impending doom in Gaara's voice.

"Heaven's a myth, my dear Uchiha..."

"Why's that?" Sasuke asked, looking at the red head before him.

"Because I burned it..." Gaara replied in a silky smooth, almost demonic voice of his own, sand starting to swirl around him in the slight breeze. "There's no place to go but Hell..." It was then that Sasuke noticed his mind slipping into unconsciousness. Trying to fight the urge to close his eyes, Sasuke shook his head, but failed in his futile attempt. He soon slipped off into sleep, falling over to the ground, his face pressed into the grass just inches from a black boot.