Author's Note:
I'm writing it like American schooling
As always I own nothing
Enjoy
Chapter 2: Music
Sasuke woke up at six A.M., it was a Sunday, yet she still woke up at the same time she would if it was a school day. The raven was naturally an early riser; she felt sleeping in was a waste of a day. However, Iruka didn't know this little fact about Sasuke and so he was surprised to see the raven when she came into the kitchen. "You don't sleep in?" he asked, thinking it was the normal teenage thing to do.
"Why would I?" she asked as she poured herself some coffee. He decided that she was not a normal teenager at this point.
"I don't know," he said as he watched her drink it without sugar or cream, which confirmed for him that maybe she was just not a normal person. He knew it wasn't right to think that about people, however, he figured that if this was somebody who usually lived peacefully with Kakashi, he could make an exception.
"What?" she asked as she saw the look of shock he was giving her. He was staring at her as if she was some sort of alien and it was making her uncomfortable.
"Nothing," Iruka said as he looked away from the raven.
"Hn," was all she said before walking back to her room, where she would stay for the rest of the morning.
'Yep, she is definitely not the normal teenager,' Iruka thought as he watched her leave. These thoughts stopped though as he felt pair of arms wrap around his waist.
"K…Kakashi?" he asked in shock that the man would wrap his arms around him in the middle of the kitchen. Sure they had done that in private, but not where their kids could walk in at any second.
"Hm?" the silver haired man said as he gave a small kiss to Iruka's neck.
"I told you…not where they might see," Iruka said as he broke out of Kakashi's hold.
"They'll find out sooner or later," he said as he gave the brunette a bored expression.
"Let's make it later," Iruka said, with a look of warning.
Kakashi smirked, "But we'll be doing other things later." Iruka blushed at Kakashi's words, which caused him to smirk even more. He wondered how he was going still going be normal after living with Kakashi, or sane for that matter.
At about eleven A.M. Naruto finally woke up to the sound of his cell phone ringing.
'Falling for you
Falling for you
I fell for you
(I'm falling)
Falling for you
(I'm falling)
Falling for you
I fell for you'
Naruto's tired eyes scanned the caller I.D. before he answered in a tired voice, "What Kiba?"
"Morning to you too, sunshine, " Kiba said with a laugh.
"I was sleeping," Naruto said with a small growl. He had never liked mornings.
"Well, then it's a good thing I called," Kiba said and Naruto could tell he was smiling on the other end.
"And why is that?" Naruto asked with an annoyed tone.
"Did you forget about practice today at your place?" Kiba asked. "Again," he added after a though.
Naruto sat up quickly, "Oh, fuck, what time is it?"
"Eleven," Kiba laughed, as they were always waking him up.
"How close are you guys to being here?" Naruto asked as he quickly got out of bed.
"About ten minutes," Kiba said.
"I'll see you then," Naruto said as he hung up his phone and ran out of his room. Sasuke raised an eyebrow as she saw Naruto run past her as she made her way to the bathroom.
'Don't ask, whatever you do Sasuke, don't ask. The dobe will have a stupid answer and you don't really care to listen to him talk.' She shook it off and continued her way into the bathroom, which was unfortunately attached to the living room – where Naruto was making all the noise.
He continued to run around, setting up equipment, making sure everything was ready. He looked at the clock to see he had a few minutes and that's when he realized that he was hungry. The blonde put some water into a cup of instant ramen and set the microwave to the correct time. 'Can't go hungry.' He heard his stomach growl as the smell started to fill the room.
The microwave beeped as he heard his front door open, "Don't you ever knock?"
The blonde heard a laugh as he grabbed his food and shut the microwave door. Naruto was still in his sleep pants and wife beater that he wore to bed, his hair was messed up, but he didn't care, his friends were used to it. He walked out to see Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji sitting on his couch. The blonde sat down on the chair next to the couch and started devouring his ramen.
"Must you eat like that?" Shikamaru asked, obviously disgusted by his friend's mannerisms.
"Dude, how long have you known him?" Kiba asked as he best friend continued to devour the food like a wild animal.
"Years," Shikamaru sighed, as if it were unfortunate.
"And yet every time he eats you ask him the same question," Kiba laughed, knowing he wasn't going to stop asking, just as Naruto wasn't going to stop eating like an animal.
Shikamaru just rolled his eyes and said, "How troublesome."
The blonde slurped up the last of his ramen as he said, "Shut up and let's practice."
Naruto put the cup of ramen on the coffee table in front of him as he stood up. The rest of the band got up after him, though they weren't really a band, it was more of a past time for them. They would practice to pass the time and play at the talent show, but it was never something they saw themselves doing in the end. Naruto had the equipment set up in the living room, though he knew Iruka wouldn't be very happy with it, he did make sure that nothing breakable would fall as the speakers blasted the music.
Chouji was on the drums, Shikamaru was the bass, Kiba was the guitarist, and Naruto was the vocals. Shikamaru would just lean against the wall or couch as he played, while Kiba would be jumping around and Naruto would be dancing around as much as he could while still being able to sing.
Meanwhile, Sasuke walked into the bathroom. She could smell a distinct smell of men's cologne and aftershave; she hated the smell, though she was happy that there were at least no artificial fruit scents. She found the artificial smell of mangos or cucumbers to be rather unpleasant, she opted for a vanilla scent, which was rather subtle.
She took a deep breath, she needed to relax, and she knew a shower could do that for her. It had been a long week and she knew that it would be a long year, luckily, it seemed silent enough that morning as she leaned against the counter with her head resting in her hands, trying to get the headache that persisted to go away.
The raven placed her shampoo, conditioner, and soap in the shower before undressing. She could hear faint sounds of people talking and the smell of instant ramen fill the air, it was another combination she found rather unappealing, and she knew only one person in the house ate ramen and therefore knew that Naruto had his friends over.
She rolled her eyes at the thought of Naruto and his friends, as she got undressed. Sasuke was used to having her own shower, not having to share with some guys, and certainly not one so far away from her room.
The shower had always been her place to think and relax it reminded her of rain. Most people found rain depressing, but she always loved the rain, it made her feel like the world was riding itself of all the bad toxins. The rain reminded her of her tears that she's cried, and it was always able to cover it up when she cried.
She turned on the shower so that the water was to her liking before she stepped in. She felt the water being to fall on her as her muscles relaxed. Steam filled all around her, she wanted to sing as she normally did when she was in the shower, but with people in the next room, she decided against it.
Her relaxing moment was ruined as she heard the sound of an un-tuned guitar start to play, followed by the guys yelling at Naruto for not tuning it. The raven let out a growl as she became frustrated with her good hearing and their loud voices in the next room.
She poured some vanilla scented shampoo into her palm before rubbing her hands together and massaging them through her long hair. The headache persisted as her shampoo with a made to calm scent made its way into the air.
A few minutes later and she were washing the conditioner from her hair as she heard a now tuned guitar play. Immediately she recognized the somewhat off tune of the song as Puddle of Mudd's song Famous.
She listened to the voice, but she couldn't help but wonder who it was. The voice was rather good at singing, and didn't sound like Naruto's or Kiba's, 'Must be one of his other friends…maybe a friend I should meet.'
She chuckled to herself at the thought of her being even remotely interested in anyone the dobe knew, because he might actually be like the dobe and she would never date him, or at least that's what she told herself.
The raven finished her shower as the chorus to the song ended for the first time. She still couldn't help but want to know who was singing, but she knew when she walked out to go to her room, she'd find out soon enough.
Though, there was only one problem, she had forgotten the clothes she'd picked out in her room. She cursed herself loudly, though she knew no one else would have heard her.
'Just act like normal, and maybe they won't notice if you walk out in only a towel.' She wrapped the towel around her chest so that it covered all her "private" areas, before she walked out.
Naruto abruptly stopped singing as Sasuke walked out of the bathroom, their eyes locked and she had a light shade of pink cover her cheeks. She quickly looked away and started down to her room, when Kiba said, "Hey Sasuke, why are you leaving so soon?"
She turned and glared at him, only to be met with a smirk. Naruto was surprisingly silent as he just continued to stare at her. She was wrapped in a navy blue towel, though much of her legs were showing, her hair was down and wet, and water still lightly drizzled down her body, into places covered by her towel. Her cheeks were lightly painted pink from embarrassment of her position. The raven quickly made it into her room after saying, in her normal expressionless tone, "Shut up dog boy, and learn to play the guitar, I could hear you were off and it wasn't pleasing."
The boys laughed at her comment, except Kiba who pouted. Naruto could feel something inside him flutter as he watched the raven leave into her room. 'Why do I feel this way just by looking at her? Yeah she's hot, but Sakura never makes me feel like this…I can't like her…she's a bitch…she's from sound…I just met her…and Kiba likes her…Damn it what's going on with my life?'
"Earth to Naruto!" the blonde heard as he snapped out of his thoughts.
"What?" Naruto snapped out of his thoughts.
He heard them all let out little snickers as Kiba said, "You don't like her, my ass."
Naruto quickly tried to cover it up, "I already told you, I agree she's hot, but I definitely do not, nor will I ever, like her."
"Whatever, I'm gonna go for her if you're not," Kiba said with a smirk.
"As I said before, good luck with that," Naruto said as he rolled his eyes.
"How troublesome, Kiba thinks he actually has a chance," Shikamaru said in a bored tone.
Kiba growled at the other boy, "Why wouldn't I?"
"Naruto would have a better chance, she practically told you that you can't play guitar, that's hardly saying that she'd date you," he said, continuing his bored tone.
"She's just playing hard to get," he said, earning a laugh from the other boys.
Sasuke went into her room, and practically collapsed against the door after shutting it behind her. 'I can't believe I was even remotely embarrassed out there, it's just dobe and his friends.'
The raven got up with a sigh, and got dressed. She put on a short sleeve black shirt with a red skull on it, which looked like it was dripping blood off it, a black mesh undershirt that was long sleeves and black tight pants with chains connecting the belt hoop, which was on her right hip, with the pocket. Her hair was down straight, weighed down by water. She put on eyeliner and some mascara, though she didn't know why since she wasn't going anywhere. The raven's dark eyes scanned her room, there were boxes piled up and little room to walk, 'Might as well unpack.'
She eyed the box that held her iPod player and carefully made her way to it. Sasuke opened the box and pulled out the expensive player, as her eyes searched for a plug in. Once she found it, she made her way to it, managing not trip over the boxes. By the time she got to it, she was fed up with it; she angrily plugged it in, grabbed her iPod from her desk, and softly slammed it into the player. She scrolled the artist list until she got to the unknown band of Sharingan and pressed play, though she wasn't sure if listening to her old band would make her happy or sad.
Sasuke heard the lyrics play loudly, her eyes hardened as anger rose inside her. It was one for Suigetsu. It was true, though she wouldn't admit it, that she did love him at one time. And it was true when she walked in on him and Karin that she was heartbroken, but she didn't let it show, and maybe that was her problem, because at the moment she felt like she wanted to throw something.
The guys didn't finish playing as they heard Sasuke's music blasting from her room. "What band is that?" Chouji asked as he ate his chips.
"I've never heard it," Naruto said as he listened to it.
Kakashi ran out into the room, causing all the boys to give him a strange look and Naruto to say, "Kakashi?"
Said silver haired man stopped and looked over toward them, though they could tell he seemed to be in a hurry, "What?"
"What's going on?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke felt the anger build up inside her, as she opened the boxes in her room. Unfortunately, she opened a box that held old pictures and things that Karin, Suigetsu and Juugo gave her. She clutched a picture of the four of them; it was one of the rare times that Sasuke actually had a small smile on her face. The raven's pale hands gripped the picture tighter as the song continued to play. She tried to tell herself that it was fine, that he meant nothing to her, that Karin wasn't her best friend and that all of them never meant a thing to her, but she couldn't.
"I have to go before Sasuke breaks something," he said, causing them to give him more weird looks.
"Why…" Naruto started to ask, but was cut off by the sound of glass breaking against the wall in Sasuke's room.
"Guess I'm too late," he sighed as he started toward Sasuke's room. The four boys exchanged glances and quickly followed behind the silver haired man who was making his way to Sasuke's room as they heard more crashes.
Sasuke threw the picture against the wall as her anger got the best of her. 'FUCK!' She knew someone would have heard it, and soon someone would be there, but she really just didn't care. She smirked at how good it felt to hear the picture break, she decided that she liked the way it felt, so she picked up the next thing in the box and threw it at the wall. The raven could hear people coming down the hallway, toward her room, but she didn't care, something inside her took control and she continued to throw things at the wall.
"Sasuke!" Kakashi yelled over the music as he opened the door and made his way to her.
She just ignored him as she picked a mixed CD, that Suigetsu made her, out of the box and was about to throw it at the wall, when Kakashi grabbed her hand. "Sasuke, stop," he said calmly.
The four boys watched with wide eyes as Sasuke dropped the CD. Dark eyes bright blue as Sasuke glared at Naruto as if she was saying 'how dare you be here during a moment of my weakness.' Naruto just looked at Kakashi, who was calming the raven down.
"Boys, can you give a moment?" Kakashi asked as he gave them a 'that was an order' look.
"Come guys," Naruto said as he started towards the living room.
Sasuke watched as the boys walked away, she felt week as she collapsed in Kakashi's arms. "It's okay Sasuke," Kakashi said in a calming voice.
She hated feeling weak, but the song did it to her, she didn't want to think he affected her that much, but it did.
The silver haired man let her down as he made his way to her iPod player. He took the iPod out of the player and put it on the desk. "Come on, let's go for a walk," he said as he held out his hand to her.
Reluctantly, she took his hand. She didn't say anything to him, there was nothing she felt that could say to him.
"We'll clean up the glass later," he said, trying to comfort her.
They walked out of the room, all four of the boys watched as Kakashi and Sasuke walk through the living room. No one dared talked as they walked through the living room. Once Sasuke and Kakashi were out the door Kiba said, "That was crazy!"
"She's crazy," Chouji said, causing all the boys to laugh.
Naruto stared at the door, he didn't know why he was worried, but he couldn't help but worry about the raven.
"So, I take it, the break up affected you more than you said," Kakashi said.
Sasuke looked at the ground as they walked.
"Listen Sasuke, it's okay to admit it," he said as he looked over at her.
She bit her bottom lip, "I can't."
"Sasuke," he said as he stopped. "I know this move has been hard on you."
"You think?" she said harshly.
"Listen, I'm sorry, but you have to learn to control your anger," he said calmly.
"I know," she said, still not making eye contact.
"It'll get better, I promise," he said, trying to reassure her.
"I start school tomorrow, how could it possibly get better?" she frowned as she looked at the ground.
"It won't be so bad," he smiled.
"Kakashi, you aren't good at the comforting thing, so just stop," Sasuke said as she looked up at him.
Kakashi nodded, "Are you going to be okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine," she said, though she wasn't sure that she would. They quietly made their way back home. The silence wasn't awkward, it was rather comfortable, but it was walking in the house that was uncomfortable.
The four boys had stopped talking about what had just happened with Sasuke. Kakashi and Sasuke walked in and the room went silent. The raven glared at the boys whom were just staring as she walked into her room. The only thing that all of them knew was that it would be a long year ahead.
That night, Sasuke lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling. She pulled out her diary; it was the only thing that would clear her mind.
'Dear diary,
Today was not fun. There was nothing going right. It was completely embarrassing. I hated today. I start school tomorrow. It's going to be hell. I have to go to a rival school. I'm starting to think that Kakashi likes to see me suffer…but I know that's not true. I don't know why, but I don't find myself hating dobe. He's so annoying, yet I don't hate him. I should hate him, but I don't. What is going to happen? I have no idea. And it drives me insane.'
Sasuke sighed as she closed the book and set it on her nightstand. She decided that thinking wasn't the right thing to do; she decided to go to bed.
Meanwhile, Naruto lay on his bed looking at the ceiling. He felt horrible. He didn't know why but he couldn't help but feel bad for Sasuke. 'I don't understand why I feel like this! I hate how I feel…she is crazy…but I don't understand why I feel like I should protect her…Why does she make me feel like this?'
He was just very confused. He didn't know why he had the feelings he did toward her. Butterflies welled up in his stomach when he saw her, it as something he couldn't explain. He decided to go to bed; though his mind kept begging the question to why he felt the way, he did, when he'd only known her hardly two days.
TBC…
