Author's note:
Sorry this wasn't updated sooner, I started a new story and it got a lot of reviews so I kinda have been updating a lot on that one, but now here's the new chapter for this one.
As always I own nothing…damn
Chapter 4: Absoulutely
The song ended and Sasuke immediately left the stage and went to the couch back stage.
"Hello Sasuke," a voice behind her said.
Sasuke's eyes widened as she saw the man of her nightmares standing behind her, well at least one of the men of her nightmares. It wasn't her brother, but rather her guardian, Orochimaru. 'Is everything going to go wrong today? Do I have to see everyone that I hate in one day?' she thought as she stared at the man. "How did you get back here?" she yelled angrily, getting up and backing away.
"What, aren't you happy to see me, Sasuke?" he asked playing innocent as he appeared behind her. "So this is where you spend your time?"
She stood there as if she were paralyzed, her legs wouldn't move, they couldn't. She wanted to scream, to run away, just get away from the man, but she felt like her feet were glued to the floor and her vocal ability seemed to disappear.
Luckily for her, a certain blonde boy was worried and came back stage. "Sasuke?" he said, unsure if it were okay to interrupt. The black haired man turned to see him and then vanished in worry of getting caught.
Naruto ran over to her as he saw her go unsteady, before she hit the ground he caught her and put her on the couch. "Sasuke are you okay?" he asked, somewhat panicked because he didn't understand the situation.
She opened her eyes and jumped up out of fear that it might be him. When she saw the blonde boy she let out a sigh of relief.
"Are you okay?" he asked, a look of worry filled his eyes as he looked at the girl, he never once took his eyes off her.
She didn't respond, she just sat next to him and cried into his chest. He figured it would be good not to ask questions; instead he just put his arm around her and hugged her. "It's okay, you're okay," he said, trying the comfort the girl. He had never seen her like this, only a few people ever see her cry and now he was one of them.
The band had decided to leave Sasuke alone, they knew she wouldn't want people there if she cried, so they went out in the lounge after their gig was done, they figured that they could take the instruments to the back afterwards.
Naruto realized that the sobs had ceased and he looked down to find a sleeping Sasuke. He didn't know it, but she hadn't slept much the night before, she couldn't, there was a certain guardian she had that wouldn't let her. He didn't move her, he just relaxed and let her sleep, she needed someone there and he wasn't going to abandon her.
About an hour later, Gaara came back stage to find the blonde and the raven sleeping. Sasuke's head was still lying on Naruto's chest and Naruto still had his arm around her.
'What the hell? How is it I'm dating her and he manages to sleep with her before me?' Gaara thought as he looked, angrily at the two. 'Oh, well I was going to dump her for Neji anyway.' Gaara cleared his throat and Sasuke, being the light sleeper she was, woke up.
She looked to see whom she was sleeping on and looked at Gaara, "Hey."
"That's all you have to say?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?" she asked, confused by his demeanor.
"Well you two look pretty comfortable there," Gaara said accusingly.
"Well Gaara, maybe if you would have come back here instead of Naruto you would have been the one to comfort me. It wouldn't have been like that with him. I needed someone, did you not care?" she glared, not liking the fact that he was accusing her of something she didn't even do.
Gaara rolled his eyes, "Look I was planning on doing this next week, but I'll just do it now, I'm breaking up with you."
Sasuke was not in a good mood, everything was now piling up, she needed to punch something and Gaara was just that something she felt she could. She went to punch him, but a tanned hand grabbed her hand, "Sasuke don't."
"Naruto let go of my arm," she demanded.
"No Sasuke, just calm down," he said, trying to stay calm, knowing that if he weren't calm, she wouldn't calm down either.
Sasuke relaxed her arm and Naruto let go, this made Gaara smirk. His smirk mad her angry and this time she did land a punch on him, "You're such an ass!"
Sasuke walked out leaving Naruto standing there dumbfounded as Gaara held his bleeding nose. When Sasuke walked out into the club she had look on her face that clearly stated, "I'm going to kill someone."
"Are you okay?" Suigetsu dared to ask.
"Actually I feel better now," she said sitting down at a table.
Suigetsu looked at her confused as she just smirked. 'Okay, she's gone crazy finally.'
Then Gaara and Naruto walked out and he saw Gaara's nose, all the sudden it all made sense. "You punched him?" he looked at her in shock.
"Yes," she shrugged.
Soon enough almost everyone was gone and Naruto and Sasuke were the only two sitting in the lounge. "Aren't you going to go home?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah…"she trailed off what she was going to say and her face went from passive to a frown.
"That didn't sound very happy to me," the blonde observed.
"Well…home's not my favorite place to go," she admitted.
"Why not?" he asked, trying to understand her better.
Sasuke sat there and thought over weather to tell him or not, "It's nothing."
"Don't lie," he said looking at her, she felt like her could see right through her.
"I just don't like my guardian," she said hoping he'd leave it at that.
"I didn't know you had a guardian," he said as he looked at her.
"Yeah…that man that was backstage when you came back there…that was him," she said, trying to keep her passive demeanor, but knowing that her emotions were probably showing on her face.
Naruto's eyes widened, "The one that made cry like that? That's your guardian?" His voice sounded like a mix of anger and concern.
"It was a mix of things that made me…cry," she said, though she hated the word cry, it made her feel weak.
"Well, what does he do?" he asked as he looked at her more intensely.
She just looked away; she couldn't look at him with his bright blue eyes staring at her.
"Don't turn away," he said as he gently turned her head toward him. He saw a tear forming in her right eye, "Please tell me."
She took a deep breath, "It's nothing…really." He looked at her; she knew that he didn't buy it, so he admitted, "He just sort of…beats me."
He pulled her into a hug, "Why don't you move out?"
"I don't really have a choice…I have no place to stay…I don't get my inheritance until I turn eighteen," she frowned.
"Do you want to stay with me?" he asked.
"What?" she said as she looked at him surprised by his offer.
"Well I have a guest bedroom," he explained.
"I don't want to impose," she turned away.
"You wouldn't be!" he assured her.
"Well…wouldn't it be kind of weird?" she asked.
"Well, just for tonight then…so you don't have to go back to him while you're having a bad night," he said, trying to convince her.
She smiled, a real smile, not the fake smile he's seen her smile, "Just for tonight would be fine I guess."
"Great, let's go," he said pulling her out to lounge door.
They got to Naruto's apartment, which wasn't as messy as she thought it would be. He pointed to a door on the left, "That's my room and the room across from it is the room you can stay in the door in the middle is the bathroom. Do you want something to drink?"
"No, I'm good," she said with a small smile.
"Wanna watch a movie?" he asked, hoping she'd say yes.
"Depends, which movie?" she asked.
"It's up to you, my movies are on the rack over there," he said pointing to the rack next to the TV.
She walked over and looked through his movie selection. He just sat down on the couch.
"Want to watch 30 Day's of Night?" She asked.
"If you want to," he smiled.
"Well, is it a good movie?" she asked.
"I don't know I got it as a birthday present," he shrugged.
"Oh, well then let's watch it," she said.
Naruto got up and put the DVD in. They started off at opposite ends of the couch, but somehow by the middle of the movie they were right next to each other. The supposedly suspenseful movie was instead quite boring and very gory.
Sasuke was getting bored and soon she had again fallen asleep on Naruto's shoulder. This made him smile, she looked so peaceful when she slept, and it was refreshing.
He turned off the movie and then picked her up and put her in the guest bedroom. 'Maybe I'm going too fast, but I really think I'm falling for her. She doesn't deserve the life she was dealt.'
He closed the door and went into his bedroom. He lay on his bed, but he couldn't get to sleep, he had songs he had to put onto paper, ones inspired by a certain raven.
Meanwhile Sasuke's bad day was quickly turning into a bad night.
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Sasuke was alone in her room she was only eight. She heard a scream come from somewhere in the house. She didn't even think that there could be real danger, she was just a child, and danger wasn't something associated with the home.
She ran down the stairs to investigate the scream, which was when she saw it, she saw the brother she idolized so much standing there, killing their parents. There was blood everywhere, he tried not to cry, to be strong like her father had taught her, but she couldn't.
That was when he saw her, she started to cry and he made his way to her. "Are…you…go-going…t-to kill...me?" she asked stuttering and shivering.
"No, I have a better idea of what to do with you," he said as a smirk came to his face.
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She woke up, sweating, in an unfamiliar room. At first she panicked, but then she remembered where she was, at Naruto's. She walked out of the room to see Naruto's light still on. She knocked on the door.
The knock startled him and he quickly put his notebook and guitar away, "Come in."
She walked in; she had a frown on her face, which made one appear on his.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I had a nightmare," she replied as she looked down.
He noticed she was slightly shaking. "Come here," he said as he made room for her next to him.
She walked over and laid next to him, putting her head on his chest.
"Do you want to stay in here with me tonight?" he asked somewhat cautiously. She didn't trust her voice so she just shook her head yes. "Okay," he said as he put his arm around her to comfort her.
"Thanks," she said quietly, before she fell asleep. 'I could get used to this,' Naruto thought as he looked at the sleeping girl.
The next morning Naruto woke up with Sasuke still lying in the same position she had fallen asleep in. Naruto tried to move with out waking up Sasuke, but the light sleeper woke up when he moved even an inch.
"Sorry I kind of fell asleep on you," she said diverting her eyes.
"Its fine, I don't mind," he said with a small smile.
"Well, I guess I should get home…I'll see you," she said, getting up.
"Wait!" he called.
She turned to him, "What is it?"
"Never mind I'll see you later," he sighed.
"Oh, okay. Bye," she said walking out.
Naruto collapsed on his bed, 'why can't I just say that I like her? Is it really this hard to do?'
Later that day, Sasuke was sitting on the edge of a small dock on a small lake. No one was around, she like the peaceful setting. She had her guitar and that's all that she needed. She strummed her guitar and started to sing.
I don't know what I ever saw in you
And I don't know why I ever fell for your game
Was this all just a game to you?
And do you like to see me cry?
I try to say that I will forget you
And I try to say that you didn't hurt me
But we both know the truth is I'll never forget you
I'm always going to be
Haunted by your memory
Hiding behind my walls of insecurity
I'm never going to be okay
At least not today
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe never
But not today
I'm trying to move on from the pain
But you keep coming around again
It's making it kind of hard to forget
I hadn't had that nightmare
Until you showed up
And now I'm tossing and turning
I'm not sleeping
I'm always going to be
Haunted by your memory
Hiding behind my walls of insecurity
I'm never going to be okay
At least not today
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe never
But not today
I wish I could fast forward into the future
Make it so you are out of my life, out of the picture
I was so young and carefree
Why did you have to do that to me?
I wish you were the rain and would go away
Just don't come back another day
And I'm always going to be
Haunted by your memory
Hiding behind my walls of insecurity
I'm never going to be okay
At least not today
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe never
But not today
Haunted, I'm haunted
Haunted, I'm haunted
By your memory
I'm always going to be
Haunted by your memory
Hiding behind my walls of insecurity
I'm never going to be okay
At least not today
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe never
But not today
She stopped playing and felt a tear roll down her cheek, wishing that she could make the demons go away.
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That week went by; Sasuke hadn't heard from Itachi, everything had seemed to go back to normal, or as normal as they could.
It was Friday, almost time for Naruto's band to play.
Sasuke walked into the lounge to see them setting up, "Hey boys."
She laughed a little when she startled Naruto, causing him to jump a little.
"Hey Sasuke, are you going to watch the show tonight?" Naruto asked.
"Don't I always?" she smirked.
"Yeah, just making conversation, gosh teme," he huffed.
"Dobe," she chuckled.
Naruto and Sasuke had been getting closer; they were almost like best friends. They liked to joke with each other, sometimes they wanted to strangle, or kiss, each other but they held back.
She jumped up on the stage and Naruto was pretty much just standing there telling everyone what to do. She grabbed a small towel off the stage and used it to slap his ass. "Stop telling people what to do and do it yourself," she said teasing the blonde.
"You better run, you're going to pay for that!" he called after her. He started chasing her as the rest of them just shook their heads, most thinking, 'Will they just get together already?'
He chased her back stage where she jumped on the couch and he pinned her down. They were panting and a small blush came across their faces at they looked at each other. Naruto got off her and said, "Well, I better go help them now."
"You mean boss them around?" she smirked.
He just rolled his eyes and walked back onto the stage where his band mates were all looking at him. "What?" he asked.
"Are you two together yet?" Kiba asked.
"No, I told you guys, we're just friends," Naruto said.
"Whatever, that's why we're playing those songs tonight right?" Kiba countered.
"Just shut up and set up," Naruto ordered, trying to avoid the topic.
A few hours later it was time for their show to start. The band came on and Naruto yelled, "Hey how is everyone tonight?" The crowd cheered.
"Great! Well our first song tonight is called face down," he said and then the music started. Naruto was moving around the stage, every now and then glancing at Sasuke, 'I hope she doesn't get mad at me…I don't think she would.'
Sasuke looked at Naruto, 'Is it a coincidence that he writes a song about a girl getting hit after I told him?' She thought about it and doubted that it was.
Sasuke caught the fact that Naruto nervously glanced at her, she just gave him small smile, which made him want to sigh in relief. Usually she would be mad, but she found that Naruto makes it hard to be mad at him sometimes.
The song ended and Kiba whispered to Naruto, "When do you want to play Absolutely?"
"Last," he replied.
Mid way through their set, Naruto said, "This is called Everything You Want." Naruto was sitting for this song and playing the acoustic.
Sasuke looked at him, 'Does he mean himself? Maybe I'm reading to much into it.'
Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, whom was sitting there staring at him. 'I wonder if she gets it…maybe not.'
The last part Naruto didn't take his eyes off Sasuke. Sasuke just looked away; she didn't know quite what it meant. 'Was he trying to say something?'
A little later Naruto said, "This is the last song of the night, called Absolutely." He looked at Sasuke, she rarely smiled, but he loved her smile when he got to see it.
Sasuke looked at him as he sang and gave him one of those rare smiles he so loved. This made him smile in return.
She looked away, 'Is he writing about me? Why? He really is a good guy…I can't like him like that can I? She looked at him; she loved to watch him perform. He looked so free, like nothing could touch him.
He was again looking at Sasuke; he hoped that even if she didn't realize the song was about her, that she liked it. They finished their set and Naruto walked back stage. He was putting away his things when he heard, "Hey, I really liked your set tonight."
TBC…
Sasuke's song: Haunted not by anyone since I wrote it
Songs of inspiration: Face Down by Red Jumpsuit apparatus, Everything you want by vertical horizon and Absolutely by nine days