Sorry about the long wait but here's chapter two to Behind Blue Eyes! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto I only own my made up characters and my ideas.
Two weeks had quickly flown by and Naomi was settling into her new life nicely. She was becoming good friends with the new group of people she hung out with, Shikamaru, Naruto, and Hinata were her now new best friends and it took awhile (and several attempts at revenge) but Sakura and Ino relaxed and started liking her as well. The only one she wasn't really getting to know was Gaara. Despite her attempts to be friendly he ignored her and glared at her constantly. Only on rare occasions did she manage to get him to talk to her and they were all short lived.
Still she felt a lot happier here. Her family was starting over and were trying to put everything behind them and she had great friends now (her old friends weren't so great). She hoped things would only get better and things won't go back to how they used to be.
Naomi headed to where she met up with some of her friends in the morning and not seeing Naruto she looked around for someone else she knew. She spotted Kiba and wandered over to him.
"Hey Kiba. Where's Naruto at?" She asked when she wandered up to him.
"He's with Sasuke and Gaara somewhere I think." Kiba answered shrugging.
"Alright then. So how's Akumaru?" She asked, last weekend a bunch of them had hung out at her house and Kiba brought along his huge dog. Who instantly hit it off with her own huge dogs.
"I think he misses your dogs." Kiba answered chuckling a bit.
"Well I'm sure they miss him too." She replied also chuckling.
They talked about their pets and other random things until the bell rang and then they headed to class.
Naomi went through her first two classes boredly. Talking to Naruto and Shikamaru to pass the time. Soon though it was third hour and she went into her chemistry class and took her seat. Once again her lab partner had decided to ditch. He seemed to do that a lot and Naomi was beginning to get annoyed with it.
"Gaara ditching again?" Orochimaru asked as he took attendance.
"Guess so." She answered annoyed.
"Come here." He called and she went over to him reluctantly.
"Yes?" She asked when she reached his desk.
"Go find him for me and bring him here. I need to talk to him about this behavior." He answered.
"Why me?" She complained; about to point out that several of his actual friends were in this class and they could go do it.
"You associate with him don't you?"
"Yes but we're not really friends."
"Still, you're his lab partner and you're already one of my top students. You can afford to miss a few things."
"......Fine....." She muttered in defeat and he wrote her a pass.
Naomi left the classroom grumbling to herself. "Two geniuses in the class and I still get to be the one who runs errands since I 'know so much'." She muttered. Science was her best subject she excelled in it (the exact opposite in math). "Now where the hell might he be?" She muttered, looking around and then heading off in a random direction.
After an annoyingly long search the last place she hadn't looked was on the roof. Figuring if he wasn't up there then he had enough brains to ditch off campus and went up there to check. She didn't see anyone there at first but walked around to check the other side of the roof and spotted him.
"There you are!" She exclaimed in relief when she reached him.
"What do you want?" He demanded, only looking at her for a quick second.
"Orochimaru-sensei made me come find you." She answered.
"Well you found me." He retorted; trying to think up a new hiding spot.
"I'm supposed to bring you back to him; he wants to talk to you." She explained, not backing down.
"I'm not going." He snapped.
"Then I'm not leaving." She retorted; sitting down beside him. He made no comment, only scooted farther away from her. "So why only ditch chemistry?" She asked attempting to start up a conversation since they might be there for awhile.
"I suck at science." He replied uncaring. "I don't understand it so no point in going." He added.
"Get tutoring?" She suggested helpfully.
"I don't need help." He hissed.
"Sure you do. It's ok to admit you have a weak spot."
"I'm not weak!"
"Ok you're not weak, but you are struggling. I'm the same way in math. I need help. Hell I completely bombed that last test we took."
"Am I supposed to care?"
"Well no, I'm just saying I'm bad in math."
"I'm fine in math."
"Ok then… Hey! How 'bout we do this: I'll help you in science and you can help me with math?"
"No." He replied shortly.
"Right little fucken ray of sunshine aren't ya?" She stated sarcastically and he merely grunted in annoyance. "Well why can't we help each other?" She pressed.
"Because I don't need nor do I want your help and because I don't help people unless I have to."
"You don't even help Naruto?"
"He's a different story. I mean it's your problem not mine. I don't feel like helping you."
"Jerk."
Gaara grunted in response and dove his hand into his pocket, pulling out a cell phone and flipping it open. She saw him start to text a reply to someone. She looked over his shoulder and read it.
Your annoying new friend is pestering me that's what.
She glared but then smirked; getting an idea. She watched him close his phone and snatched it; leaping up.
"What the hell!?!" He snarled leaping up as well.
"So I'm annoying huh?" She stated.
"Yes you are now give it back."
"Hmph and you're an ass. I don't feel like giving it back."
"Give me back my phone." He growled.
"Nope. You want annoying, I'll show you annoying."
Gaara made a swipe for it and she moved out of his way.
"Give it."
"Nope! Tell ya what, you come back to class with me and I'll give it back."
"Fine give it back and we'll go."
"I don't trust you, come with me first."
"Hmph not as dumb as you look." He sated making another swipe for it.
"Hey!" She snapped; ducking away from him and sticking it down her shirt.
Gaara glared and noticed her Watchmen cell phone charm hanging out of her jacket pocket. He smirked and dived for it, snatching it and hanging it over her head.
"Hey! Give that back it's mine!" She yelled reaching for it.
"That sounds familiar now doesn't it?" He retorted; moving it out of her reach.
"Give it back damn it!"
"Don't think so. Not until you give me back what's mine." By this point the lunch bell had rung but they had not heard it. They were too engrossed in their arguments to really pay attention to what was going on around them.
"No way! How do I know you'll give it back afterwards!?!"
"Then I guess we each got a new phone."
"Give it back!" She yelled lunging at him and he dodged her, smirked and dropped it down his pants.
"That's disgusting!" She snapped.
"Now I say we're even since mine seems to be hiding in your shirt."
"Don't think I won't go after it." She threatened.
"Don't think I won't either."
Both their eyes narrowed and they glared at each other for awhile. Then Naomi smirked and tackled him to the ground. Gaara's eyes widened in surprise at her latching onto him and after the initial shock of getting knocked to the ground they began to wrestle for their stuff.
"Gaara? Naomi? You guys up here?" Naruto called as he, Hinata, Shikamaru, and Sasuke came to the roof in search of them.
"Give it to me Gaara!" Naomi yelled; both herself and Gaara oblivious to the four hearing that outburst and now rushing to the sound.
"........Oh.......my.....God......" They all muttered finding them.
The four of them stared down at the pair. They were fighting but it looked like something else. They were rolling all over the place, trying to restrain each other, and so on. This resulting in them being tangled up together in a mess of limbs and their clothes to get messed up through all the movement. Their jackets were open, shirts untucked and getting unbuttoned through so much movement, Naomi's skirt was riding up from all her movement; though it was clear they were fighting the fact that made everyone think dirty was the simple fact that Naomi's shirt was half way unbuttoned, her skirt had been bunched up to the point that her legs and thighs were exposed (underwear thankfully not), Gaara was on top of her, hands pinning her arms down, straddling her hips, pants unbuttoned and clothes a mess. That and the fact that she shouted "Give it to me Gaara!" Made even Hinata's mind go into the gutter and blush.
"Uhh......" Shikamaru and Naruto sated, Hinata just blushed brightly and Sasuke was first to comment.
"So you two really hit it off I see." He commented and they both froze; turning to stare at the four with wide eyes.
"It's not what you think!" Naomi yelled; blushing brightly and knocking Gaara off her. She leapt up and Gaara jumped up with her. "He took my phone and stuck it down his pants!" She yelled.
"She took mine first and shoved it down her shirt. She started it." Gaara snapped.
"Ok then...." They all stated, unconvinced.
"Seriously, it's nothing dirty!" Naomi protested.
"Hmph." Gaara grunted and removed her phone from his pants, holding it out to her. "Now give me my damn phone back." He ordered.
"Fine." Naomi snapped back, pulling his out of her shirt and snatching her phone away from him while plopping his into his waiting hand. "See? This was what it was about." She told the four waving her phone in their faces before putting it back in her pocket and they both began to straighten themselves out.
"Well looks like you guys are getting along just fine." Naruto joked as he walked with Naomi to her car. The rest of the day Naomi and Gaara refused to even look at each other, let alone speak to one another and when they did look at one another it was quickly followed by a glare from the other.
"Shut up!" She snapped; blushing.
"Got to admit that was entertaining at lunch though."
"No it wasn't. It was embarrassing and aggravating."
"Well you started it apparently."
"You know what shut up!"
"Ha-ha, I'll see you tomorrow and talk to Gaara; see if I can get you two normal again." He stated waving as he headed off.
The next morning Naomi's sister dropped her off at school (her car was low on gas) and said she and a friend would pick her up later on after school. So Naomi met up with her friends and when she spotted Gaara he didn't glare at her as she expected but nodded his head once in greeting before turning away from her and ignoring her like usual (as he did to almost everyone else).This Naomi found to be an improvement and a step up; he was treating her like he did his other friends (aside from the few he was actually friendly with) and she smiled to herself, though she was curious about what Naruto actually said to him. Still she smiled and headed off to begin the school day in a slightly happier mood.
Hoping to avoid another repeat of yesterday Gaara decided it was best to go to class and went to chemistry that day. He walked into the classroom after Naomi got there and sat down beside her. The two of them sat at their desk in an uncomfortable silence. Both staring ahead of them and drumming their fingers awkwardly.
"Sooo.....Gaara. How are you?" Naomi asked in hopes of ending the awkward silence.
"You're not going to stick your hands down my pants again are you?" He demanded bluntly and what she suspected as humor.
Regardless of thinking he was attempting to be funny she still blushed but laughed lightly and smirked. "Only if you stick yours up my shirt again." She retorted and his mouth twitched as he fought a smirk.
"Do I even want to know?" Neji asked; hearing their conversation on his way back to his desk.
"No not really." Naomi replied causally.
"Ookk then…" He muttered.
"Move along now pretty boy. Just keep moving." She stated shooing him away with her hand and turning back to Gaara with a grin.
He gave a short nod in response before facing the board as the class began. Once Orochimaru-sensei had finished the lecture they were set to work on balancing complex equations and Gaara stared at it as if it was a foreign language. He looked over at Naomi's paper to see her breezing through the problems and scowled back at his blank paper; willing the answers to magically appear. 'Well if you showed up to class once in awhile maybe you'd have some idea how to do this…' the little nagging voice in the back of his head pointed out and he grumbled to himself.
Gaara looked back over at Naomi's paper again and then back at his own and cursed under his breath. Swallowing his pride he turned to look at her in the face and opened his mouth to speak. "How do I do this?" He muttered; looking and sounding like it almost caused him pain to ask for help.
"Huh? Oh! 'Kay I'll help ya." She stated eagerly and moved closer to him to help.
When the bell rang and everyone filed out of the classroom Naomi and Gaara were both held back by Orochimaru so they could be fussed at for not coming back to class yesterday. After pretending to listen to his lecture they both escaped and headed to lunch in silence (though not as uncomfortable as it had been before). They got to their lunch table and everyone stared at them as they took their seats.
"What?" They both demanded confused.
"So why were you late? On the roof again?" Naruto asked grinning and they both smacked him in the back of the head glaring (and Naomi blushing).
"Shut up! I told you it wasn't how it looked!" They both snapped.
"So why were you two late?" Lee asked.
"Orochimaru-sensei wanted to talk to us." Naomi answered.
"Lecturing you about not screwing on the roof?" Shikamaru joked.
"WE WEREN'T HAVING SEX!!!" They both screamed at the laughing table; both highly pissed now. The whole cafeteria fell silent and stared at the two (who promptly sunk low into their seats blushing and glaring) and then the room erupted into loud laughter (especially their friends) and they sunk even lower into their seats.
"Good job, most of the school now knows you didn't either." Naruto laughed and they glared darker.
"So yesterday was pretty much the first time you guys actually spent time together?" Tenten asked.
"Pretty much." Naomi muttered from her spot of nose level to the table.
"Talk about bad first impressions." Choji laughed.
"I read in a book that that kind of behavior; the teasing, is considered flirting." Sai stated and everyone started laughing again.
"We weren't flirting!" Gaara snarled as they both sat up straight again.
"He called me annoying so I was going to show him how annoying I could be." Naomi snapped.
"So you stick your hand down his pants?" Neji questioned.
"Thank God the fan girls haven't gotten that idea yet." Sasuke muttered.
Naomi tried to explain but they ignored her; talking over her. "I read that that kind of behavior signifies wanting the other person." Sai continued.
"What? No!" They both tried to counter.
"Ha! Barely even know each other and you already want to get into each others' pants." Sakura joked.
"No!" They tried again but nobody was listening.
"Literally in Naomi's case." Kiba joked.
"Gaara apparently likes to go for the boobs first." Shikamaru joined.
"You're not listening!" They both shouted; getting seriously peeved.
"Heh, so Gaara you're into the foreplay but Naomi you just want to get right to it?" Sasuke teased.
"Would you all shut up!!" They yelled and they stopped for a brief moment.
"When someone gets so defensive over a comment it implies that what was said was true." Shino chipped in.
"You shut up Shino." Gaara snarled.
"You're not denying any of it." Ino teased.
"Yes we are you're just not listening to us!" Naomi snapped.
"Ha-ha they're just embarrassed." Lee teased. "It's ok to admit your true youthful feelings." He added and everyone began laughing again.
"There aren't any 'youthful' feelings!" Naomi snapped.
"She's right." Gaara growled. "Beside's I'd never be attracted to her anyway." He added and Naomi stopped, turned and glared at him.
"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?" She demanded and everyone started snickering. "Not good enough for you?" She added insulted.
"You're not my type." He replied casually. "Too damn loud and annoying. You're not exceptionally good looking either; a little above average, Aside from your ass anyway. And even with that you'd get on my nerves to easily." He answered indifferently.
Several others around the table snickered quietly while others sat there shocked and Naomi sat frozen; not sure to feel insulted or violated. One thing she was sure on though was she was pissed.
"Wait didn't you tell me when you first saw her that you thought she was ho-" Naruto started but Gaara stomped on his foot and silenced him. He was pleased to find that Naomi was too engrossed with being angry to hear what Naruto had started to say.
"Well fuck you too then you eyebrowless fire crotch." She snapped as she recovered from her shock and anger and glared at him. He glared right back and they began shooting snide remarks back and forth.
"And now they fight like an old married couple." Kiba joked and the others laughed at them again.
Gaara glared at them all darkly and Naomi smacked herself in the face sighing. "I'm surrounded by idiots." She groaned, sliding her hand off her face; exasperated and still pissed.
After lunch had finally ended the day continued normally until school was over. When school got out Naomi wandered over to the library to sit and wait until her sister decided to show up and get her. She sat there reading books for about a half hour or so until she got a text saying her sister would be there in a few and so she decided to leave the library and wander around in the direction of the parking lot. As she walked around campus she passed the band room and heard music coming from it. Curiously she looked at it and slipped over to the open window; peeking inside.
Naomi was surprised to find Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, and Neji playing in what was clearly a band. Naruto was on drums, Sasuke was lead guitar, Neji base, and Gaara had vocals (she found that to be a bit ironic since he hardly ever talked). She crouched down in front of the window and just watched them play. They were actually really good and she figured this was what Naruto had to do all the time after school. She tilted her head to the side as she watched him play the drums then her gaze drifted over to Sasuke for a short while then to Neji and she enjoyed watching his hair go everywhere as he played (the long hair amused her), then her gaze finally landed on Gaara and stayed there as she listened to him sing.
"What we looking at?" A male voice asked from beside her; also looking into the window.
Naomi whirled around (falling onto her butt in the process) to see a blonde male with his hair half up and half down; bangs in his face. He was crouched down beside her and was now looking at her in amusement at her surprise.
"I think you scared her Deidara." Came her sister's voice and Naomi looked over her shoulder to see her sister with her short dark brown hair, gray eyes, and perfect figure (she recalled what Gaara had mentioned at lunch and scowled at her sisters obvious beauty). Her sister was standing next to a male with long black hair held into a ponytail, black eyes, and lines on his face. His clothes were in a dark style (but also rather sophisticated) and judging by the facial structure and hair/eye color she suspected him to be Sasuke's older brother. Beside him was another male with sleeked back silver hair, oddly colored eyes, and an arrogant look about him.
"These your college friends?" She asked.
"Mhm, this is Itachi." She nodded to the guy next to her with the black hair. "That's Hidan." She pointed to the silver haired one. "And you already met Deidara." She finished.
"Somehow I figured you'd have friends that were girls." Naomi stated. "Though Barbie's twin brother here could be mistaken for one." She added pointing at Deidara.
"Hey!" He snapped but it was ignored (aside from Hidan cracking up laughing).
"I have a few. These are my main guys though." She answered. "How many girl friends do you have?" She added.
"Umm....four." She replied thinking about it.
"And how many guy friends?"
"Umm....ten." She answered.
"Sheesh and you say I have a lot of guy friends."
"Yeah, whatever. Why'd you bring all them?"
"We're all hanging out at Itachi's house. So we're picking up you and Sasuke and heading to his place."
"Oh joy." She muttered.
"What are you all doing out here?" Came the energetic voice of Naruto from the window and they saw the boys standing in front of the window and watching them.
"We're here to pick up Sasuke and Naomi." Deidara answered.
"Why her?" Sasuke asked confused.
"Apparently they're all hanging out and are dragging us along with them." Naomi answered turning to look at him.
"Hn." Was his only response as he grabbed his backpack and hopped out the window standing next to her.
"Right well let's go." Megumi stated.
"Later Sasuke. Bye Naomi!" Naruto waved as they started walking off. "Heh, fan girls are going to love this." He laughed turning to the remaining two guys. Neji looked bored for a moment and then started putting stuff away and Gaara was scowling at their retreating heads, particularly a certain duckbutt head. "Hehehe, jealous?" Naruto laughed and Gaara scoffed.
"Not even. She's a pest." He snapped; turning away from the window.
"What's with the glare then?"
"Because he left in the middle of practice." He replied.
"Mhm sure." Naruto stated unconvinced. "That's why you were staring at her." He teased.
"I was not."
"Uh yeah you were." Naruto then grinned. "And here I thought you said you weren't attracted to her." He added.
"Just shut up Naruto." He hissed beginning to gather his things.
"Heh, I knew it." Naruto continued.
"Shut up Naruto. You've been following her around and waiting on her hand and foot since you met her." Neji stepped in.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's nothing like that! I don't like her like that." Naruto responded quickly.
"You're really friendly with her then." Neji retorted.
"No, I don't like her. I'm just trying to be nice and make her feel welcome. Help her fit in you know?"
"Mhm sure." Gaara quoted.
"I don't, I like someone else!"
"Oh? Who?" Neji asked now curious.
"Your cousin." Gaara answered for Naruto as he headed out the door.
"Gaara!?!" Naruto snapped as Neji rounded on him.
"Payback's a bitch." He responded from the hall and Naruto glared as he was left with a pissed off, over protective cousin.
Everyone piled into Megumi's car. It was a tight fit but they got in. Megumi and Itachi sat up front, Hidan took a window seat, Deidara in the middle, and then Sasuke got in.
"Where am I supposed to sit exactly?" Naomi demanded.
"Eh just sit in one of their laps." Megumi answered shrugging.
"What, you forgot you were picking the two of us up?" She asked.
"Well the idea of Hidan and Deidara coming over too wasn't planned." She answered.
"Just get in the damn fucking car." Hidan snapped.
"Uhg, fine." She groaned and climbed in, sitting on Sasuke's lap with arms crossed.
"Why do you have to sit on me?" He demanded.
"Because I know you and you're actually my age." She answered.
They headed off and Megumi and her friends all talked (Itachi remained silent mostly) and Naomi and Sasuke stared moodily out their window with their arms crossed and unamused expressions on their faces. As they rode on Naomi watched as they headed towards the richer part of the city. Yep she was right he was rich. Megumi turned into a housing development made of estates and mini mansions and drove through them until she turned down a street and headed to a huge estate.
"Damn." Naomi muttered; starring at the mini mansion.
"Well, you two have fun." Megumi stated as they entered the house and she made her way to the parlor with her friends.
"Wait! What was the point of bringing me here then if you're going to ditch me anyway?" Naomi demanded.
"Mom wanted me to watch you." She answered and Naomi glared.
"I'm sixteen I can watch myself." She retorted.
"Mom's orders, just deal with it and become friends with the younger of the emo brothers." She responded.
"Uhg." Naomi and Sasuke groaned together. "Fine." They both growled and Sasuke headed to his room; Naomi following.
Naomi sighed in annoyance. It was now twelve o'clock in the morning and she was still stuck at the Uchiha manor. Over the hours of being stuck with the oh so friendly Sasuke she passed her time doing homework, texting, going through his stuff, playing 20 questions (which all she got were monosyllabic answers), and finding one of his books to read and read that for several hours.
She did however discover some interesting things during her wonderfully exciting day. She discovered the Hyugas lived about a block away (and she was seriously contemplating going there and hanging with Hinata if it wasn't so late) and Gaara and his two older siblings lived in this rich neighborhood as well. She was a bit surprised about that, he didn't seem or act the rich type but now that she thought about it he did drive a next year's model of a kick ass sports car; black of course.
Naomi also managed to learn where most of her other new friends lived as well. Kiba lived in the same upper middle class housing development as she did, Shikamaru's family owned a deer ranch on the edge of the city near the forest, Choji's family also owned a lot of land at the edge of the city, Ino (who's family owned a huge flower store) and Shino lived in upper middle class as well (though a different housing community), Tenten, Lee, and Sakura lived in normal middle class homes, and Naruto and Sai lived in the poorer district in apartments by themselves (Naomi learned that they were orphans). Sai was taken care of by the city and Naruto's godfather (who was actually their English teacher) as well as the principle (Tsunade) look out for Naruto.
Naomi also learned that Sasuke and his brother were so rich due to family fortune and apparently his dad was in charge of his very own police force before he died and Itachi was going to take it over when he was done with college. She learned that both their parents died when Sasuke was seven (but he refused to go into detail and Naomi knew not to press the matter) and Itachi (as well as servants, nannies, etc) had been raising him since then.
Naomi thought as she did the math in her head. she had to give him points there, that was a heavy burden and he was a much better sibling then her sister had ever been.
'So Itachi's been taking care of duckbutt since he was thirteen?'
"So how long do your brother's friends usually stay?" She asked as she groaned in boredom, she really wanted to go home.
"Depends if they're drinking or not. By this time I'd say they're all passed out drunk on the floor." Sasuke answered in annoyance.
Naomi quickly shot up and headed to his door. "She better not be." She growled; storming out. Sasuke sighed and followed her out of the room. Sure enough they found them all passed out on the floor. "Damn it now I'm stuck here." She groaned.
"Yes I'm sure that will just kill you." Sasuke retorted; annoyed by the fact that she was staying as well.
"It might just, you're not exactly the funnest guy to be around and if the boredom doesn't kill me I'm sure your fan club will happily do the honors at school tomorrow once they find out I spent the night with their beloved Sasuke." she responded chuckling.
Naomi went into the room and grabbed the blanket off the couch to cover her sister with it. "I really hate it when she does this. It pisses me off." She muttered as she stepped back out of the room.
"What drink?"
"No; takes me somewhere, ditches me, acts stupid, gets drunk, and leaves me on my own." She answered.
"how'd she act stupid this time?"
"I'm not saying your brother or his friends are bad guys but getting drunk when you're the only girl with three also drunk guys is just not smart to me. She always does shit like this."
"Oh."
"Well I should at least be thankful that she's at a friend's house and not a bar or something. Once she ditched me outside a club and I was stuck in her car all night because she got wasted and went off somewhere with her friends. Forgetting about me and the car." She muttered.
"Why didn't you just drive home?"
"I was fourteen at the time."
"Hn."
"Dad was furious when he found out. He put her under house arrest for two month. She does try though I mean she's a good person and means well but sometimes she messes up. That was the only time she was that reckless with me. Usually she leaves me at a friend's house or when she goes to parties sends me up to the host's room to stay there during the party."
"Why does she bring you along?"
"Mom sticks her with me and when she has plans something like this happens. She tries to look after me and not have to cancel her plans but as you can see one of the two gets neglected."
"Why doesn't your mother let you stay home by yourself?"
"She does just not all the time. She doesn't trust me so..."
"Why not?"
".....It's complicated..." She answered hesitantly.
"Complicated?"
"....Let's just say we moved here to try and start over." Naomi concluded not wanting to talk about it to him just yet. "So Sasuke, got a spare bedroom in this place?" She asked, trying to change the subject and she was rather tired.
"....Follow me." He replied reluctantly accepting the fact that he'd be stuck with her overnight. Sasuke showed Naomi to the guest room and left her there; heading off to bed himself.