Chapter three of Lean on Me
Ah what can I say, I just love writing this fiction, and I love each and every one of you. The readers ^_^ and especially the reviewers lol.
Let's see hmm, what is Naru? Well you'll find out soon, will she help Sasuke and Rei? Who knows, well that's enough of the vague questioning, now onto the story!
I hope you enjoy it.
Are you Naruto?
After pressing the doorbell Sasuke stood expectantly outside the door, what he was expecting to see was an overly energetic, blonde hair, blue eyed man, yet this wasn't what he received when the door finally opened.
In front of him was a rather petite red haired woman with blue eyes, something about her seemed so familiar to him, and then it hit him, he'd seen this woman before the time Sasuke went to visit Naruto after he moved, the woman at the time referred to herself as Naruto's cousin, but this was obviously not the case. "Sneaky little bastard, hiding a girlfriend from me was he?" Sasuke thought humorously, ignoring the woman who had just spoke.
Whilst Sasuke lost himself in his own misunderstandings, the woman slowly got rather irritated. "Well if you're not even going to introduce yourself I'll just close the door!" the woman shouted angrily, catching the raven haired man's attention.
Sasuke now feeling rather embarrassed turned slightly red, feeling stupid for just standing gormlessly in front of the young woman. "S-sorry" Sasuke apologised before clearing his throat. "I'm not sure if you remember me, but we met around eight years ago, you're Naruto's 'cousin' right?" Sasuke asked politely, for now he'd play along with the little lie she made eight years ago.
"Shit" the woman whispered quickly, Sasuke raised an eyebrow in confusion, the woman in response to this just smiled at him, trying to keep her composure. "Sorry my memories a little…. Hazy, I don't think we've met before" the woman lied as she directed her eyes away from the handsome man, finding the floor a much more 'favourable' sight.
Sasuke merely laughed slightly, "of course she wouldn't remember me, we only met once, how vain can I be?" Sasuke thought, still misunderstanding the situation. "Then I'll introduce myself again to you, I'm Sasuke Uchiha an old friend of your 'cousin' I was wondering if you knew where to find Naruto?" Sasuke asked, in the most gentlemanly way possible, after all it usually yielded the best results in the end.
The moment Sasuke mentioned his name the woman winced, this was bad, she'd need to try and steer him away, it'd be too embarrassing for her if Sasuke of all people found out. "I'm sorry Naruto's not in right now" the woman started "would you like me to give him a message?" she asked, sounding completely genuine in her request.
Sasuke went silent for a second before sighing and looking at the woman 'sadly' "I'm sorry but there is something I'd like to speak to him about personally, would you mind if I waited for him to get back?" Sasuke asked causing the woman to flinch slightly.
As the woman looked up at the raven haired man she suddenly felt very guilty, after all Sasuke was always good at convincing 'her' into doing anything, this wasn't good, she knew he wouldn't leave without a very good reason.
"Umm, well…. He won't be umm home today so waiting is out of the question" the woman replied, sounding rather unconvincing to Sasuke, this made him feel awfully suspicious about what was going on.
"Why is she being so difficult?" he thought in confusion as he stared into her blue eyes, at that moment he noticed her cheeks starting to turn red. "Hmm wonder why she's going red?" Sasuke thought, feeling rather curious, at this moment he looked down on the form of the woman, noticing that she wasn't fully in view, rather only the upper half of her body was covered, and then he got a stupid idea.
"Could it be that" Sasuke started before smiling slyly, "Naruto is here right now?" he queried, causing the woman to gasp, this made Sasuke believe his theory was correct. "Geez Naruto the time I finally come over your doing inappropriate things whilst it's not even dark?" he thought to himself, completely missing the true reason why 'Naruto' wasn't here by miles.
Sasuke laughed slightly and the woman thought, for some reason, that the man standing in front of her had solved the secret regarding Naruto. "I-it's not what you think, I-I didn't mean to lie, a-all of those y-years a-go" the woman stuttered, causing Sasuke to laugh.
"Ah no worries, I was rather suspicious about you being his 'cousin' anyways" Sasuke offered her some help. "I mean it's obvious, Naruto is still in there right?" the woman nodded, thinking Sasuke meant, that despite the physical difference, 'Naruto' was still here, yup now even she was misunderstanding things.
"OI NARUTO GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE, YOUR CUTE LITTLE 'COUSIN' IS GETTING EMBARRASED OUT HERE!" Sasuke shouted jokingly, this caused the woman in front of him to kick him in the shins.
"Shh don't shout like that!" the woman scolded, she couldn't have people hearing her real name, it wouldn't be hard to put two and two together.
"Hey why'd you kick me?" Sasuke asked angrily, the woman not allowing Sasuke to make any more noise grabbed him and tried to pull him into the apartment, before she realised she didn't have the strength to do so, Sasuke noticing this walked into the apartment, guessing she didn't mind him inside the apartment, she then quickly shut the door.
"Why the hell are you shouting so loud in the corridor!" the woman hissed, slightly unnerving Sasuke, who now got a full view of her body, he then became rather confused, she wasn't partially clothed, so was he misunderstanding things?
"S-sorry I just assumed that you and Naruto were up to some umm…. Bedroom business and I unfortunately interrupted something" Sasuke replied in an unnaturally calm voice.
"Why would you think that?" the woman asked, eye twitching slightly, did she just reveal her secret to him just to realise that he was misunderstanding the situation?
"Well why else would you try and push me away so desperately? What other reason could you have?" Sasuke replied, he was now getting serious, he wasn't going to let this go easily, something was suspicious about this whole situation.
"Umm" the woman started "maybe I didn't want someone suspicious around Naruto" the woman muttered pitifully, it was a blatant lie and even Sasuke knew this.
"Could you be a bit more creative next time you lie to me?" Sasuke asked in a cocky manner, he didn't know why but he felt strangely at ease around this person who was relatively a stranger to him, it was strange because he wasn't forward with strangers usually.
"W-who say's I'm lying?" the woman shot back.
"Well throughout this conversation all you've done is lie, what makes you think I'll believe what you say now?" Sasuke asked, and to be honest, it did sound logical.
The woman was completely stumped, just like when they were teenagers; she still couldn't win, never with words, never at anything else, Naru had lost once again to Sasuke, at least he didn't call her what he always used to when they were younger.
"Geez you're as bad as lying as the Dobe" Sasuke muttered, sounding rather bored now, however that one word was the last straw for Naru.
"Oh yeah at least I'm not an asshole Teme!" Naru shouted back, completely forgetting that she had to not act like 'Naruto' at all, "Shit!" she screamed angrily, whilst at the same time Sasuke stared at her, slightly in a daze.
"Only one person has ever referred to me as Teme… that was the nickname Naruto gave me in high school, but how would this girl know?" Sasuke was now confused, and Naru was very, very worried, if Sasuke just used his head, he'd realise everything.
"Oi how do you know that nickname?" Sasuke asked in a suspicious tone, "for someone who claimed to not know me, you seem to know my 'nickname' could you explain that to me, because only one person knows of that and it's Naruto!" Sasuke continued, sounding rather angry for some reason.
"N-N-Naruto called you it once when I was around, I must have remembered it somehow" Naru stuttered lamely, stepping back slightly, this wasn't looking good; Sasuke was the one person she didn't want looking down on her.
"Sorry, that isn't going to work" Sasuke said with an arrogant smile on his face, "You and Naruto have never been in the same room with me at the same time, so I know you just lied to me, explain" Sasuke ordered, he was through with being calm, was this woman purposefully trying to keep him from Naruto?
"Umm, umm" Naru stuttered as she stepped backwards a little more, but the Sasuke threw his hand forward and caught her wrist.
"Don't think you can just run from me, why don't you explain yourself, I have no time for this, if I don't speak with Naruto soon, my daughter and I could end up on the streets!" Sasuke shouted angrily, causing the woman to quiver slightly.
"S-st-streets?" Naru stuttered, "why would not talking to Naruto put you on the streets?" the woman asked now she was confused as well.
"Let's just say Naruto is the last person I can turn to" Sasuke said in a serious tone, this made the woman start remembering a conversation she had on the phone last night.
"It can't be" she whispered, but loud enough for Sasuke to hear.
"Hm, what can't be?" Sasuke asked, still gripping her wrist.
Naru stood there contemplating what she should say, but then she decided to just go with it, she was losing and he was bound to find out at this rate. "Do you have a daughter named Rei?" Naru asked in a quiet voice, but the words were strong enough to cause Sasuke to let go of her wrist, mainly from confusion.
"How do you know that?" Sasuke asked, his eyes suddenly became sharp looking, this and the mixture of shock from hearing Sasuke's answer caused her to gasp.
"Last night I received a call, the caller's name was Sasuke, and he was on the verge of killing himself" Naru started, suddenly she held all the cards. "The man was going to kill himself whilst his daughter was in the house, the daughter saw him and what do you think the man did?" Naru asked, waiting for an answer, but the man made a guilty looking face.
"Yes that man shouted at his concerned daughter, he then talked about how if he died everything would be better for everyone, funny right, that same man is standing right in front of me right now, kind of poetic don't you think?" Naru asked, having enough of all the crap, at this rate Sasuke had no right to look down on her.
"You're Naru, the girl from suicide hotline? Why would you be in Naruto's apartment" Sasuke started, and then it hit him. "Naru and Naruto are very similar names don't you think?" Sasuke said out loud, as if he finally understood.
"Indeed, too familiar don't ya think?" Naru replied sarcastically, she then grinned in the exact way that Naruto used to when they were only teenagers "kind of suspicious don't you think?" she asked as Sasuke's face contorted from shock to horror to some other unreadable emotions.
"You… you have got to be kidding me right?" Sasuke asked with wide eyes, this couldn't be possible, no way, this really couldn't be true could it, for some reason everything started to get a little blurry, as Naru just smiled at him.
At the exact same time Kushina was at her home, and had somehow been dragged into playing hide and seek with Rei, and for some reason, the girl was unnaturally good at hiding, it was as if she had disappeared into thin air.
"Rei where arrre you" the middle aged beauty asked, feeling rather worried now, it had been around twenty minutes and she still couldn't find the infant, there was no way that a little child could be so good at hiding, could there?
"Kushina I'm home!" shouted Minato as he walked through the door to see Kushina crawling across the floor searching for something. "Umm honey, I'm afraid to ask, but why are you on your knees?" Minato asked in a wary voice, to get a glare in return.
"Don't even try to make jokes, I've lost her Minato!" Kushina randomly blurted out confusing the blonde haired man.
"Lost…. Her?" Minato asked as he walked over to the woman.
"Rei" Kushina said quickly as she opened the recliner of the sofa and looked inside of it.
Once again Minato was left confused as to what the hell his wife meant, "Honey didn't I tell you to stop taking those pills, you know they make you all umm confused" he said trying to not mock his wife, because he was bound to get hurt if he did.
"Haha Minato, I bet you think you're soo funny, but this time it's true, there's a little girl called Rei inside this house and I've lost her" Kushina replied angrily, yet Minato still wasn't convinced.
"Kushina, honey, little girls don't appear out of thin air" Minato reasoned, in return he got a kick to the gut.
"If you must know I'm looking after her for someone" Kushina replied angrily as Minato lay on the floor feeling rather winded.
"Tell me that sooner next time, it'll save you time and it'll save me a few beatings" Minato whinged as he gasped for air.
"Oh don't act like you don't enjoy it" Kushina taunted her husband, she then stood up off the floor and decided to look somewhere else for the little girl, at the same time Minato got to his feet.
"Kushina, I have a question for you" Minato shouted out loudly, catching her attention from the other room, "Who exactly are you looking after this child for? None of our friends have small children after all" Minato reasoned, and then all of a sudden Kushina went completely silent meaning it was something Minato probably wouldn't want to know.
"Umm about that, how about I just keep that secret for you" Kushina offered after all Minato disliked Sasuke more than she did, so she doubted he would react well.
"Kushina, who is it?" Minato asked again, this time a little more forcefully.
"Sasuke Uchiha" Kushina said rather quietly, but Minato heard it loud and clear and it wasn't something he liked hearing either.
"What! Why would you look after his child for him?" Minato asked feeling rather annoyed, "that child was always a good for nothing anyway, always getting Naru into trouble!" Minato said angrily, and at that moment he felt something hit him in the side.
"Don't talk about Daddy that way!" shouted a little girl, Minato turned around to see Rei looking up at him with an 'angry' face, which looked more like the mixture of puppy dog eyes and a pout.
"Oh thank god you're alright Rei" Kushina said happily, but the little girl just ignored her and continued staring at her husband 'angrily.'
As the little girl stared at Minato angrily he decided to give her his own 'angry' look, but he couldn't do it the little girl was too cute, before he knew it he was nearly, 'aww-ing' at her.
Minato then turned around with an unreadable look on his face, directed towards Kushina. "Can we keep her?" Minato joked, causing Kushina to nearly agree, before she gave him a strict no.
This is how Rei became an always welcomed guest at the Namikaze Household.
"You… you have got to be kidding me right?" Sasuke stuttered slightly causing Naru to smile slyly at him.
"Oh I'm sorry, let me introduce myself again" Naru started, they were the same now, both of them had no right to look down on each other, this gave Naru the courage to do what she was about to do. "I'm Naru Namikaze, but you know me as Naruto Namikaze, nice to meet you Sasuke" and with that everything went black and Sasuke hit the floor.
"For some reason that wasn't the reaction I was expecting" Naru joked as she looked at the unconscious form of her childhood friend.
(End of Chapter)
Hmm I decided to split the Revealing to Sasuke and the Reaction to the information, it'll continue next chapter, meanwhile I wanted to show some Kushina and Minato and also some of little Rei.
Reason's for the fainting, hmm, let's see, Sasuke has just thought of Naruto as his last life line and now he realises he's a complete different person (physically at least or to him physically at least I'll let you think about that one) so he's kinda lost hope again, let's see how he acts towards Naru now, maybe it'll be a little comical who knows.
Shockingly enough this didn't take me long to write, in fact I spent nearly all day on the Wii today playing Gamecube Games, It only took me a few hours to write this chapter I hope you enjoyed it!
Reviews would be appreciated, but what's more important is enjoying the story :)
-Aquilon