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Dont kill me.

I was writing this bit by bit on account of my horrible hand crippling-ness.

And because of an evil teacher and her need for RomeoxJuliet.

Here it is!

You better be damn greatful.

To Daitai Otonashii Ookami :Oh, and I love you for Beta-ing! I'll NEVER forget this. :3.

By the way, the reseptionists are not Naruto characters! They belong to meee.

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Sasuke was being bitchy again today, but it wasn't his fault.

No no, it was all that dog-boy's fault and that blonde too.

God would Kiba ever stop his ranting?

Sasuke was minding his own business trying on his school uniform, invisioning a tuck here and a fold their for maximum comfort. It didn't matter how god awful it was, Sasuke made everything look good.

(The damn sex god.)

His only post-notice to the oncoming slaughter: the open and slam shut of a door and a gentle breath, and off Kiba was telling Sasuke about his wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day. About how he and his blonde idiot for a friend went everywhere, about how they sneaked real quick into a bar, about how many drunk people there had been on the street that day, about the candy they ate...Even the color of his vomit after a ride around the amusment park.

That was a little too much for poor Sasuke, so he fell into a horrid mood. He disposed of his uniform like it was infected with the bubonic plauge and plasterd himself face first into the bed, groaning something about letting the desperation take him.

"I hate it when your in this mood, " Kiba says with a sort of exasperated sigh, "I mean, your usually not much fun, but when your like this you give a new meaning to the word..." Kiba trailed off, naming quite a few things that Sasuke wasn't so sure resided in a dictionary. He started to change, still muttering something or other from time to time in a haughty annoyed way, "Your like a piece of soggy shit on fresh grass that you don't notice and accidentaly step into." Ah yes, he remebered something like that happening before, only it was Sasuke's shoe that had the crap, and it was Akamaru's.

He sweared that dog had it in for him.

But that had been about three days ago, and now he found himself in the same state of being and position at that night, the suddenness of the thought struck him and he couldn't help but say something in more of a mumbly grumble.

"Deja'vu." (The spelling is wrong, I just know it. But you get me!)

"You say something?" A voice from the side, sounding rather absentminded met his ears and he fixed a glower on his face. He stood and heard a sigh, again from the other.

"Ah, I know, I know, were gonna be late, you don't have to tell me twice. It's not like I actually enjoy having Gaara open the door and herd us down like some damned German(1) Shepard, it's just way too early! There should be some sort of child labor law or something!"

"It's noon you idiot...come on, we've got to go practice."

"Yeah yeah..I know...still too early.."

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There was a variation of sounds, and Neji struggled not to gape, being pulled by the wrist by a springy bouncy blonde and led off to god knows where.

It didn't matter though, he was close to the blonde, they'd brush and smash into each other because of the crowd, and that was enough to send a little flutter through his system. Maybe little was a bit...erm of an understatment, but still, it was a state of being and it was powerful.

"N-naruto.." He stuttered, a person near-by had been a bit touchy feely with him at that instant toupled with that it seemed almost hiss-ish in it's manner of coming out.

However, the blonde could be densly cruel at times, and this was one of them, "Not now Neji, I told you, we are going to drop something off at my friend Kiba's hotel room before we go out on that little 'us time' I promised you."

'Us time' might have sounded like they had some sort of relation ship.

That 'lets get away for a little, just you and me' bit, but Naruto often changed words around until they didn't have the same meaning, and somehow get it through his head that people would understand just dandy.

Oh yes, real dandy.

One look around and Neji was getting a little apprehensive, it was about a block or two away from a red light district after all! "Naruto...are you sure it's around here?"

Naruto was searching quite throughly about, but he still found the time to answer enthusiasticly. "Yep! We passed by it once when me and him went out to catch up!"

Went out.

Catch up.

He did not like these words.

They were evil, unless they involved Neji in that sentence somehow. Yes, and then he'd like them very much.

"Neji..."

He suddenly noticed that they were not moving, and he turned to face the blonde with a quirked brow, "Yes?" Although there was a variety of crazy things going on in his head, not lewd things mind you.

Hyuuga's were /not/ lewd. Ever.

"Oh good! You were looking somewhere and you made a real funny face! So I got a little worried there for a moment." He seemed to have a sort of chirpy way of saying these words, as if there really had been some form of masked distress.

"Right, well, we should go!" And they zoomed off.

He knew he shounldn't be taking everything into too much account. He knew he would end up with an odd sort of welt on the inner lineings of his heart, but he couldn't help it.

With the blonde you could never tell when he was being serious, at least not in brief pionts in time like that.

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Somehow, some way Naruto and Neji had made it into the lobby of the hotel without being caught. Naruto liked to think of it as his own ingenuity, he walked over to the front desk and he told a brown haired male with a weasel like face that he needed to deliver something.

"To whom?" The male had an odd vioce, it didn't sit well with Naruto, but he continued on in his cheerful manner. "Inuzuka Kiba!"

"Ohh...I'm terribly sorry, he's not in right now."

"Oh I don't mind! I'll wait."

It was right around then that the man at the counter understood something. This boy was /not/ going to leave, his fingers fluttered desisivly over a small blue button, it was for hailing security. He however, did not press it just yet. He had an odd feeling this was not one of those people that the man named Jiraiya had talked to him about.

"May I ask what it is?" Asking this useless question would give him more time to think.

"Ah well, yes, he left something at my house the other day, so I came to return it before he died or something!"

The boy behind the blond, oh yes, the reseptionist couldn't help but smile, it seemed that the brunettes features had changed drasticly when the words 'at my house' were uttered.

"You will find him down the call in one of our many stage rooms, be sure to find the one with a number three on it." A female voice replied cooly from the side, she turned to give the male sitting next to her a knowing look before the boys departed.

"Your so cruel..."

"Maybe just a little."

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There was a sound, at first Naruto had been all but racing further into the hotel, but as he neared the door with the number three on it he felt the need to sneak in quietly, still clutching Neji's arm in what others might have mistaken for a possessive hold.

Upon opening the door a little he let go of the others hand and slipped languidly inside, plopping himself down.

And it was then that his ears caught the sweetest notes that he'd ever heard in his entire sad little life.

Neji sat next to him, but his eyes were not on the blond.

No, two pairs of eyes were locked onto the stage in rapt attention.

Words Naruto could not understand were let out into the air, and while he couldn't make sense of them, he knew them to be Japenese. The voice slithered and wafted into them, it was of a male, and Naruto could see the male before his eyes in his lightened glory, but his mind was not yet able to register that the boy scarcely a year older in front of him and the voice that enchanted him were of the same being.

There was no way...

No way that Sasuke could be that good.

Sasuke opened his eyes for a moment, they pinpointed him and Naruto involuntarily gasped, but as quick as they were on him they were off.

He didn't miss that smirk though.

The damn arrogant bastard!

Naruto would show him...

One of these days...

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Neji was awestruck, he decided he did not like this feeling he was getting.

Especially since it was not being directed at the blond.

Sure, it was more admiring than anything else, but Neji was not one to just admire someone.

He always liked to think he had an immensely good judge of character, maybe it was just that.

Yes yes! That was it, there was something in the redhead that intrested Neji, and there was nothing more to it.

"He's good." He heard Naruto say, and Neji had to agree, not realising that they were talking about two different poeple. He had his eyes on the base, and without really thinking on it he closed his eyes, a light and pleasant smile crossing over him. "Close your eyes and just listen, the base is exemplary."

"Wow, your right, the bassist /is/ good!" Naruto opened his eyes again to look up at the three on the minature sized stage, the redhead's eyes opened once, pin-pionted them both, evaluated then closed again.

Neji also didn't miss that Uchiha's smug grin turn to a frown. It seemed he didn't like attention being taken away from himself, that was a rather intresting bit of information.

"Yeah, better then the guitar thats for sure." He grinned and caught Sasuke's eyes as they narrowed, the coal eyed male seemed ready to jump off stage and tear Neji's limbs then shove them down his throat. Then

Naruto's vioce came into the picture, and that blondes utter naive words had a calming effect. He snorted then, "I don't pretend to know anything about instruments and music, but from what I can tell they've all been working hard at it for some time, they're better then I could ever be, and thats just there thing, it makes them happy, there's no need to judge them when it comes to being happy, does it Neji?"

It had also left him stumped, damn it to hell and as many levels as it had! What could you give as an answer to that that might justify you? "Well, I guess not..." He'd let Naruto win this round, but only because he didn't want to upset the blonde.

"Good! Then theres no need bad-mouthing then, it doesn't matter anyway, I'm sure there are a couple things I can be good at!" There was a sudden fire in his eyes, a determination that Neji had not seen outwardly for a while, and it was directed very intensly at the Uchiha.

"Naruto!"

That sounded familiar, yes, Neji was sure it was this infamous Inuzuka, and he mentally groaned, he had met him before, but...

Well, he just didn't see the big deal, why was that guy so special anyway?

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"Hey Kiba!" Naruto jumped from his seat, pregnant with the bag he carried, looking and feeling heavier then before it seemed. "You forgot this at my house!"

There were those words again, those words that seemed to make Naruto's friend frown, but the blonde didn't notice it at all, so blissfully aware was he that he threw himself at his dog-loving friend and laughed when they ended in a heap.

"Oi Naruto! Get your fat ass offa me!" Kiba sounded almost whiney, and definitely annoyed, he tried to roll away and only when Naruto extracted himself was Kiba able to stand. "So, what was it that I left at your house?"

"Well duh!" Only the blonde could make that face, as if it were the most obvious and simple thing in all the world. "When we ditched (NPC)Mark and went to the movies you told me to hold onto this." He thrust the bag towards Kiba, whom while puzzling to the bag.

"Holy crap!" He'd forgotten that he'd asked Naruto to hold something so trusted, a notebook where he wrote a few songs, some he made on his own and others grudgingly added in after suggested by Sasuke, that guy could write really well, but of course not as good a he. As well as the notebook he found a few instant ramen bowls and a suggestive look from Naruto, one that indicated that the three of them should imediatley go and eat the yummy ramen lest it go to waste.

"Aw Naruto...another time, sorry but we're rehersing."

"Oh, it's okay!" He smiled cheerfully and turned to Neji. "I guess we should go, since I promised to spend time with you and all."

"Ah Naruto...on second thought I guess we-" Kiba didn't much like Neji either, there was just something about him and when he tried to weasel his way back he was abruptly cut off, by the Uchiha.

"You can't stay idiot, can't you see we're rehearsing?" God damn...Sasuke was such an ass, and how a someone could be made to be so evil while making one all hot and bothered with Sasuke all sweaty like that, well only god knew the answer to that.

"We were just leaving asshole." Naruto looked over at him and narrowed his eyes. Yeah the bastard was good looking, yeah the bastard could sing and play guitar, but hell, he could hate him right? Actually, those were reasons to hate him /more/. "Me and Neji were going to go to the amusement park." His tone was biteing and he grabbed the Hyuuga's wrist, which oddly enough caused Sasuke to glower. Oh whatever, like he'd ever understand the raven haired bastard.

"Sorry Naruto." Kiba supplied a little sadly.

"No problem Kiba, don't worry about it, I'll see you in two days right?"

"Yeah I'll be there." Kiba grinned, around the blonde, it was hard to feel down, even when he was leaving.

"Yeah well we gotta go, bye!" And he tugged Neji away, speeding out the door.

"Why did he come here anyway?" Sasuke's tone was as icy as ever.

"He came to return my notebook, I left it there, and you had to be an asshole, thanks a lot." Kiba scoffed and turned to leave.

"Well, if you weren't so irresponsible he wouldn't have been here."

"Tch...whatever Sasuke, just whatever." Kiba stormed out of the room, leaving Sasuke alone in the audience.

"Neji huh?" His eyes narrowed momentarily and then grin, a little to cheerful for a Uchiha.

"Very well, I accept your challenge."

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1. I just noticed the unintentional pun, how lame. --

Note: Done. -dies- My fingers huuuurt.