Chapter One
Mutual Weirdness
AN: I forgot to mention, the theme song for this story is It's The Right Time by Daichi Muari. The songs mentioned in this chapter are, in order - The Drug in Me is You by Falling in Reverse, Centuries by Fall out Boy and Ever After by Marianas Trench.
《 We are all a little weird, and the world is weird, so when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible to ours, we fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.》
(Kushina's P.O.V.)
I drummed my fingers lazily on the counter, munching on some chocolate chip cookies and trying my best not to chop off all my hair and go bald in anticipation. Uchiha Sasuke sat across from me, his smoldering black eyes not leaving me for a nanosecond. I bet he even stopped blinking. Nervousness overwhelmed me as I pulled on my cotton shorts (although we were both sitting and he wouldn't see them, no matter how tall he was).
"Why are you so uncomfortable?" He chose to speak after ten long minutes of sitting there quietly since he arrived.
"When a guy you barely know comes into your home and stares at you unblinking, does that not call for discomfort?"
"You'd be surprised."
"Oh...'kay?"
"Hn."
And back to suffocating silence.
Five seconds later
"Where's Naruto?" Yup, couldn't handle it.
"Won't wake up." He looked away, uninterested and detached yet again. I got up and headed towards my brother's room and went inside without knocking. He didn't feel it though, but I couldn't blame him, over the loud snoring. I jumped and clutched my chest surprised when I saw Sasuke right next to me. He's so quiet, I didn't even hear him move! How are they friends again? He raised an amused eyebrow at me and shoved his hands in his pockets.
"Naruto!" I yelled at the top of my voice.
(Sasuke's P.O.V.)
She was definitely Naruto's sister, with her loud voice. Though a merit there since she knows when it's necessary unlike him. I glanced down at her lithe form as she climbed onto his bed while scrolling on her phone and quirked an eyebrow in confusion. What was she going to do now?
(Kushina's P.O.V.)
"Mmm..." Naruto mumbled incoherently (most probably ramen) and hugged his pillow. I climbed onto his bed, pulled out my phone and went to music playlist, put it on the loudest volume possible and played a song.
Hehe.
I HEARD A KNOCK UPON MY DOOR THE OTHER DAY!
I OPENED IT TO FIND DEATH STARING AT MY FACE!
THE FEEL OF IMMORAL STALKING STILL REVERBERATES!
EVERYWHERE I GO I DRAG THIS COFFIN JUST IN CASE!
~guitar~
Naruto fell off his bed in surprise and looked around alert as the guitar part stopped and I sang along.
"My body's trembling sends shivers down my spine." Naruto glared at me and I kicked away the pillow he was trying to grab.
"Adrenaline kicks in shifts in to overdrive." I turned to Sasuke and pointed, feeling the need to mess with him too.
"You're secrets keep you safe your lies keep you alive! Stake eyes every single time you roll with crooked dice ahh~ " I paused the song before it could get to the chorus and I probably looked mad to Sasuke, but like shit did I care.
"You going to make food, right?" He tried to make me feel guilty, but - oh, what the hay!
"I'll do it, but not because you told me so. Fix your bed before you come down." His blue eyes twinkled mischievously, before he looked determinedly at me.
"Why fix it if I'm going to sleep on it again?"
"Why should I feed you if you're going to die anyway?" I retaliated. He got on his feet quickly and started to fix his sheets as I left the room laughing.
(Sasuke's P.O.V.)
Naruto said he'd shower and get ready, so I was headed for the kitchen. I heard music being played and pots clanking and hid under the open window near the kitchen door. Lifting myself slightly up to get a better view, she was singing along and moving to the beat while getting stuff to cook. At that very moment, I knew she was a dancer by the way she moved so effortlessly and gracefully. She stopped to change the song.
I'm going to find my teen aged dream.
No there's nothing wrong with me.
The kids are all wrong.
The stories all wrong.
Heavy metal broke my, HEART!
Her songs were pretty upbeat and crazy mostly, just like her. But the next song she swayed to, left me wondering if there was more to her than her external demeanor.
Once upon a time.
I used to romanticize.
Use to be somebody never mind,
I don't miss it that much now.
I think it's sinking in
The days that I wonder where I've been
In picture perfect porcelain,
But I won't lose a pound.
You say I would make a better liar.
I never face the music when it's dire.
And I breath disaster, ever after,
Don't pull away from me now.
Don't you move!
Can't you stay where you are just for now?
I could be your perfect disaster.
You could be my ever after.
You!
Could be my ever after, after all
I could be your perfect disaster.
You could be my ever after.
I stopped paying attention to the music after that and paid more to her. She looked sad, like there was things she'd ironically rather cover up about herself when she seemed like an open and happy person.
"Kushina!" I got up abruptly from my hiding place and faced Naruto, who looked amused (just as he has been this past week).
"Keep your friend away from me, he was watching me dance." An unintended blush crossed my cheeks faster than I could push it away, making it seem like it wasn't there in the first place. I sighed deeply before following Naruto into the kitchen, where Naruto stood next to his sister, scrolling through her playlist until his eyes gleamed. He put on Hips Don't Lie and started to belly dance on a chair. Kushina laughed as she continued to sway around the counter, making who knows what, but all I could gather was that she was now inching towards full-on belly dancing herself, and just the quiet confidence in her movement indicated that she was more than a fucking dancer.
The house phone rang and she moved to answer it, but I was still a little bit not over her display seeing as I caught myself glaring at her back as if it was all her fault. Which it was.
"Aloha!" She chimed with a smile to the phone. Her eyes squinted as she paid close attention to whoever she was speaking to.
"Oh, fine." She bid the caller goodbye and turned towards Sasuke and Naruto.
"Sakura has invited the three of us to her house to watch a movie." Naruto excitedly punched the air and laughed, whereas I wondered how she even found out I was at their house to begin with. I noticed Naruto grinning at me, before I narrowed my eyes.
"No."
"Don't be so boring teme!"
"Hn." I closed my eyes in retaliation to what he calls his puppy dog eyes, which doesn't work, but just to be safe.
"Kushina.."
"What?" There was a moment of silence between them until Kushina sighed and shuffled closer.
"Could you please go with us?" I slowly opened my eyes and looked down at her. She looked so innocent, with her own version of pleading eyes, a little more intense than Naruto's.
"Aa." She smiled triumphantly and I felt it again, in my bowels. I didn't understand why I had agreed, but felt my instincts heighten when I did so I reluctantly went along.
"This is so messed up in so many ways."
"No it isn't. Now hush and pay attention."
Sakura wouldn't let her leave the house without admitting that Pride and Prejudice the movie was amazing. Kushina twirled a lock of her hair around her finger, not actually paying attention to the screen, Sakura forcing Naruto to keep quiet and to stop hogging the popcorn, or Sasuke silently brooding and occasionally glancing at her. He thinks she doesn't notice and is blind to these kinds of things, she almost smiles. She was no Naruto, whatever he thought.
After a few minutes, both Sakura and Naruto fell asleep, and Kushina was tempted to change the movie. She felt a soft tug on her sleeve and turned to face the young Uchiha, who gestured to follow him. Should I? He did come along when I asked... Seeing as it was the fairest thing to do, she followed him out of Sakura's fair mansion and to a nearby gazebo. She glanced at him in surprise when he walked as if he knew where he was going.
"I'm surprised you know you're way out. Have you been here before?" He grunted in affirmation and looked ahead, the wind playing with both of their hairs.
"You're sad...because your..." He didn't want to say what he was mulling over since he watched her dance around in the kitchen, since this was a touchy topic even to him, but he felt oddly relaxed around her, and therefore couldn't help it.
"Having your parents gone at a young age is traumatizing. And the nerve of some people, calling theirs annoying or nosy makes you wonder you know?" She mumbled softly, her fingers going to play with the potted plants on the ledge. "But that's Sakura, I guess, she can't really help it."
"Mine are...dead too..." She looked up at him surprised, before smiling bitterly.
"Sympathy is something I don't think you need, if you're anything like me." He nodded.
"Uchiha Sasuke."
"Huh?"
"Say it. My name."
"Sasuke...?" He felt those annoying butterflies again as he looked away, a little more relaxed than he was if that were possible, when he heard her clear her throat.
"Uzumaki Kushina." Their eyes met as she smiled cutely.
"Kushina..." he let it fall out of his lips smoothly. She rolled her eyes.
"You're really weird Sasuke."
"...aren't we all?"
