Lean on Me chapter seven
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Last chapter was the conclusion of the introduction of the fiction you may be thinking (WHAT THE HELL 25K words for an introduction?) well what can I say, I got a little out of hand maybe? But I didn't want to rush things and allowed things to just flow.
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Living Together
Night fell quickly after Rei had gone to bed; Sasuke spotted Naru leaving Rei's room and saw a sad look on her face, "What's that all about?" Sasuke wondered curiously, but he decided not to talk about it. "Goodnight Naru" Sasuke called out to the woman who was retreating to her room.
Naru turned round and put a fake smile on and offered him a goodnight before walking into her room with her shoulders slumped. Sasuke not contented walked to her door and knocked but the woman didn't answer.
Sasuke didn't really want to ask her if she was ok, just in case Naru got the wrong idea, because of this he decided to try and get her attention first. "Hey Naru, do you have anything like a blanket or something? After all I'm sleeping on the sofa" Sasuke asked her and in mere moments the woman opened the door only slightly and held out a long pink blanket. "Umm… thanks Naru" Sasuke replied feeling rather put out.
"No problem" the woman said before closing the door on him, Sasuke was going to knock again but he suddenly decided not to, "probably not in the mood to talk, maybe she'll talk in the morning" Sasuke thought before walking to the sofa, "at least I have something to keep me warm now" he thought positively before removing his shirt then jumping onto the sofa and throwing the blanket over him. "This is rather comfortable actually" he thought as he slipped into unconsciousness.
The time was about 8:00am and Naru was the first to wake up, this was without the assistance of an alarm clock. Now there are many things that defines Naru, one of these is the fact that she hates mornings, an accurate description was that Naru detested mornings, she just couldn't function properly.
Yet today was different, she was on full alert, she was completely aware about everything, even if she looked like crap with her bed hair and slight tired look on her face. Naru just stared at the ceiling as she allowed herself to remain relaxed on the queen sized bed, thinking about yesterday's events only briefly.
As she continued to look at the ceiling she moved her hand from her side to her stomach, "hungry" she murmured painfully, "really hungry" she continued and then on the third rumble she willed herself out of bed, from there she walked over to her door to fetch her dressing gown. "Food first then shower" she muttered sleepily as she opened the door to her bedroom walking out into the dark living room.
Sighing to herself Naru walked slowly over to the large red curtains which were behind the piano and pulled them, to reveal a view of the city below, the city looked beautiful at nights, but she didn't like having the curtains open at those times. Now that the room was bright Naru turned around to see a sleeping Sasuke, whose hair was now just as messy as hers was, yet his was the more favourable kind of bed hair.
She spent a few minutes just standing there watching his sleeping form, it was so strange, she hadn't seen the man in years, she was sure her best friend from childhood had forgotten about her, she had kept the picture of her, Sasuke and Sakura for that very reason, she thought it would be the only time she could see him.
However she was wrong, through some twist of fate, she'd saved his life and now he was living in her home with his daughter who slept in the guest room, the mere thought was enough to bring a small smile to her face. "He's kind of cute when he's sleeping" she thought absentmindedly causing her to blush lightly, "should I make him breakfast or not?" she questioned herself, still rooted to the spot.
"How long are you going to stand there for?" Sasuke asked in a tired voice, she hadn't noticed him staring at her, now that was just embarrassing.
"S-sorry, I was just wondering if you wanted something to eat… but you looked so… cu… content sleeping that I wasn't sure what to do" Naru stuttered a reply before looking to her bare feet so she didn't have to look at the man.
Sasuke just groaned tiredly and rolled from his stomach to his side and gave her a once over, "no offense but you look like shit this morning" Sasuke commented in the most joking tone he could come up with.
Naru smiled slightly, she knew he didn't mean how it sounded. "I feel like it to" Naru replied with a grin before rubbing some sleep from her eyes and yawning, she then let out a childish giggle, "I could say the same for you Sasuke" she replied, causing him to smirk slightly.
"Yeah, yeah whatever" Sasuke replied in a tired tone before rolling over to his other side causing Naru to laugh happily.
"So do you want some breakfast or not?" Naru asked the sleepy man.
"What are you making?" Sasuke asked, now sounding a little bit more awake.
Naru let out an excited squeal like noise, "RAMEN!" she declared loudly, causing Sasuke to open his eyes wide.
"Ramen? For breakfast, are you insane?" Sasuke groaned, seriously how could people have ramen for breakfast?
Naru looked extremely offended by this for some reason Sasuke couldn't explain. "What's wrong with having ramen for breakfast? It's quick and it's tasty, I have it every single day" Naru declared passionately, Sasuke on the other hand found her stupid.
"You have ramen for breakfast every day?" he queried now waking up a little from the constant conversation.
"Yeah why?" she asked curiously.
Sasuke before answering her groaned loudly and rolled over twice, and got up off the sofa wearily, he suddenly felt chilly for some reason and when he turned to Naru and saw her blushing, he looked down to see he was only in his boxer shorts, which were rather tight, tight enough to get a good idea of the size, especially since he was experiencing 'morning glory' "Oh shit!" he shouted in frustration before pulling the blanket around him.
Whilst Sasuke was covering up his lower half Naru looked away but gave the occasional sideways glimpse to look him over before turning away again, "he looks better without clothes on" her mind told her, she didn't want to hear such things, but she couldn't deny it. "Mhmm" she murmured in a happy hum reluctantly, luckily Sasuke hadn't heard her.
"It's okay its fine to look now" Sasuke told the woman, who in response turned round to see Sasuke looking a little more modest, with the blanket wrapped around his waist so much that he must have locked down his little… big friend, yet despite this he made no effort to cover his excellently toned torso, which caused Naru to repeat the same thoughts over and over in her mind.
Naru after ten seconds of gawking snapped back to reality, "so you want breakfast?" she asked, making sure not making eye contact with the man, after all she was a rather innocent person. This mainly down to the fact that she didn't often become attracted to people in general, this made situations like this hard for her.
"Yeah sure" Sasuke replied but just as Naru was about to walk to the kitchen Sasuke stopped her, "I'll make it, I don't want Rei having something as unhealthy as ramen for breakfast" Sasuke told the woman seriously.
"I want ramen" Naru whined childishly, making sure not to turn around, she would have to slowly get used to this, but she was being thrown into the deep end with all this, how was her heart supposed to take this.
"Hn" Sasuke grunted and walked passed her "you got any bacon?" Sasuke asked as he walked to the kitchen ignoring her plea for ramen, slightly annoying her.
"Yeah why?" Naru asked, now feeling completely awake as she watched his well muscled back disappear from sight as Sasuke walked into the kitchen.
Naru swore she could hear Sasuke snort when she asked why "because that's amongst what we are having for breakfast" Sasuke said loudly so she could hear. Before Naru could protest Sasuke continued, "so whilst I'm doing this could you wake Rei up for me, and help her with having a shower or bath, perhaps you could help her get dressed too, that's if she lets you" Sasuke asked and for some reason Naru couldn't decline.
"O…ok" Naru called out to the man and he said a quick thank you and began to raid the kitchen, he needed to familiarise himself with this place, he didn't trust Naru to make anything other than ramen after all.
Naru approached the door and crept in to see the little angel sleeping soundly all snuggled up in the sheets, clinging onto what seemed to be a black stuffed rabbit, Naru wondered how she got it, but after she looked to the side to see the suitcase open with its contents all over the floor it became pretty obvious. "She must have opened it last night somehow" Naru told herself as she started picking up most of the little girls stuff and putting it back in the suitcase.
Once finished she looked at the sleeping Rei and asked her to get up in little more than a whisper, she repeated this about three times before finally deciding to shake her slightly, it worked a treat since Rei woke up rather fast, of course that didn't mean she was really awake it just meant her eyes were open.
As the girl looked into Naru's eyes with a questioning gaze Naru gave the child a small smile, "good morning sweetie, did you sleep well?" Naru asked in a soft voice and the little girl nodded and smiled back at her before stretching her tiny little arms out and yawning softly.
"You're the pretty lady from yesterday" the little girl stated as she looked at Naru as if she was trying to find something out. "Where's daddy?" she asked curiously, looking around to find her father.
"He's making you some breakfast" Naru replied before laughing slightly. "He asked me to help you with taking a shower or a bath; you don't mind me helping do you?" Naru asked hopefully and the little girl nodded happily.
"If daddy says so I'll do it!" the little girl exclaimed with a cheerful smile and stretched once again, dropping the rabbit on the floor, upon doing this she leaned over the bed to try and reach it but it was just out of grasp.
Naru seeing this kneeled down and picked the black rabbit up for her and handed it to her causing the little girl to giggle happily. "You really do what daddy says don't you" Naru commented and Rei hummed in agreement causing Naru to smile, "you're such a good girl Rei" Naru commented before picking her up, Rei didn't seem to mind, she actually laughed a little.
"What do you want a bath or a shower?" Naru asked curiously as she opened the door at the top left hand corner of the room this lead to the massive spa like bathroom, her room had a similar door, meaning it was a joined bathroom, on either side of the bathroom was an area with showers and one cubical like shower for guests who wanted privacy.
After a few seconds considering it, Rei shouted out "bath!" and pointed to the large hotspring like bath which was constantly being emptied and refilled with hot water so it never really got cold.
"Ok then" Naru joined in happily and put the little girl down "first of all we need to actually undress, can you do that yourself sweetie?" Naru asked as she began to strip off her dressing gown and her Pj's which consisted of some short grey shorts and a pink top.
"Yep" Rei exclaimed and tried to copy Naru and succeeded, Naru congratulated the little girl for this causing her to giggle happily. After quickly putting their discarded clothes in Rei's room, Naru then took the little girl's hand and went to the far corner of the bath where the water was a little shallower, after this she dipped one foot into the water to check the temperature.
"Hmm, not brilliant" Naru murmured to herself, she then took Rei over to this area at the far end of the bath where there was a heat control panel, Naru put it up to maximum temperature to heat the bath up enough so the bathroom would be extremely steamy later on.
Naru wanted the heat so she went over to one of the points where water came out, it was relatively shallow still so Rei could be in it, she then got in and lifted Rei in from the side afterwards who let out a small blissful sigh, Naru slightly wondered if this girl had ever been in a bath this size though she guessed not.
The duo's bath was quite eventful, it was mainly due to Rei's boundless energy and playfulness, she continuously splashed water everywhere, and even got into a 'water fight' with Naru, for Naru it was really fun and she guessed it was for Rei too. Occasionally Naru would help Rei wash, mainly just her back and her hair.
During the bath Naru got to know the little girl a little more, she learnt that Rei was extremely energetic and playful on top of that she held absolute adoration for her father and deceased mother, saying she loved her pink hair because her daddy said it made her beautiful like 'mommy' this is something that Naru agreed with.
Once out of the bath the two got dressed, with Naru assisting the little girl into her clothes, at Rei's request, that surprised Naru, once she was done dressing Rei, she took the little girl into the living room, and after telling Sasuke that Rei was done she went to her room to get dressed.
She came out wearing the same outfit she wore yesterday, this is due to the fact that she had worn it for only an hour, and she wasn't as petty as some people about that sort of thing, she had also done her hair the same way as yesterday.
When she reached the sofa she saw Rei kicking her legs back and forth just sitting there, Naru smiled at the girl and walked over to the television turning it on, she knew that at this time of day there was a lot of children's shows so it would have been perfect for the little girl and how right she was.
Rei acted like it was the first time she'd seen a television, now Naru knew that couldn't be the truth because everyone had seen a television, so Naru concluded that Rei was probably not used to television.
The next ten minutes flew by, Naru watched the show with Rei whose eyes were clearly fixed to the screen, her eyes showed many emotions all being either some form of happiness or some form of shock through amazement, and just when everything was going well, Sasuke had to ruin it, "Hey everyone breakfasts ready" the man shouted out tiredly and Rei instantly jumped off the sofa in response, she then looked side to side searching for her dad but to no avail.
After a few seconds she became confused and tugged at Naru's leg, Naru just looked down and took her by the hand and guided her to the kitchen door, but at that moment Sasuke walked out carrying three plates, one in each hand and the other he managed to somehow balance between his teeth. Naru suppressed a laugh and pointed to the coffee table; Sasuke nodded and put the food down before massaging his jaw.
"It's not much" Sasuke informed the woman before yawning, "But it's better than having ramen every morning, even if you're fine with it" Sasuke explained. Rei who was watching the whole scene snuck over to the table and pointed to the plate with the least food, but both of them didn't notice.
First of all she waved her hands hoping they'd look at her she then pouted, but no-one witnessed it, so she ended up poking her dad in the leg until he looked down at her. "Yes?" Sasuke questioned and once again Rei pointed to the plate, before looking back to the screen then back to the plate. "That one is yours" Sasuke told her, smiling at her and petting her head affectionately, but not enough to mess up her hair.
"Thank you" the little girl exclaimed with a giggle before eating, she didn't even bother sitting at the sofa, she just got on her knees and ate at the coffee table, mainly because it got her closer to the screen. As she did this Sasuke watched her with a small smile on his face, glad that she had adjusted so fast, Naru noticing this gave him a little poke.
"Softie" Naru said before walking over to one of the plates and picking it up, on the plate was two slices of bacon, some beans, two eggs, one sausage and some hashbrowns, Naru slightly winced at the plate catching the mans attention.
"What is it not good enough for you?" Sasuke asked before picking up his own plate and sitting down on one of the lounge chairs.
"I'll get fat from eating this" Naru moaned, causing Sasuke to scoff slightly, he felt like saying 'when did you become such a girl' but that was a redundant question in itself. "It's not funny, this'll go straight to my hips" she complained causing Sasuke to laugh.
"I'm surprised it hasn't already, you have been living off only ramen right, that's just as bad in large quantities" he replied smiling slightly when she went silent. "Victory" Sasuke thought, grinning cockily, "Rei has no complaints, stop being such a baby" Sasuke continued annoying the woman.
Naru decided to ignore Sasuke's little taunt before preaching about ramen. "Naru needs to learn about other foods." Sasuke thought as he looked at her untouched plate, ignoring her little rant about ramen superiority. "How about you eat some before you complain dobe" Sasuke offered, annoying the woman, but she made sure not to snap, there were children in the room.
"Hmph fine" Naru conceded she then with great hesitance she took a bite of the food, her eyes widened in shock and after swallowing she suddenly went quiet, causing Sasuke to grin triumphantly.
"You like it?" Sasuke asked and the woman nodded and turned to Rei who was still eating, slightly entranced by the television to care about her surroundings.
"Rei sweetie" Naru started with a sweet smile on her face getting the girls attention. "Do you like daddy's cooking?" she asked getting a dazed nod from the girl, obviously she was still interested in the television, "so how about he cooks every day" Naru suggested, "wouldn't that be good?" she finished and the little girl agreed before turning back to the television with a look of childish excitement on her face.
Sasuke watched the scene and realised that he had just got himself on cooking duty, he tried to protest but it was two against one, and he knew he had to pull his weight, so reluctantly he agreed to the woman.
"However you must have ramen on at least one day of the week" Naru told him, once again Sasuke agreed, this time more reluctantly. "Good" Naru said with a smile.
As dinner continued the conversation somehow slipped onto the subject of what everyone was doing that day. "So for today only I'll allow you to stay at the apartment all day whilst you get settled" Naru told the man, who nodded.
"So what about you got any plans?" Sasuke asked, he knew the answer would be yes, he was pretty sure that an idol would have a lot of jobs they had to do.
Naru merely nodded in agreement, not voicing what she was doing because to be honest she forgot after the drama that occurred last night, but she knew she had something important to do, so the best bet would be to call her manager after breakfast.
Breakfast continued like this, with a mixture of light hearted talking and Rei's entranced look which made Sasuke think she was going to become a tv-junkie or something, when they were all done Sasuke offered to clean up the plates for them whilst Naru called her manager, but before she got a chance she heard a knocking at the door, in response she ran to the door opening it to see her manager standing right in front of her.
Her manager was slightly taller than her, she wore her hair in a bun and wore office like clothes, the typical clothing you'd expect from a manager, she also wore some stylish glasses, she also wore a professional smile. "Morning TenTen" Naru greeted.
"Morning Naru, you ready to go?" the woman asked and Naru gave her a questioning gaze, TenTen wondered what was wrong since Naru was never like this in the mornings, she was always ready to go. "Is everything ok Naru?" the woman asked in concern but Naru simply shook her head.
"I'm fine let's go" Naru said, turning back to look at the apartment to memorise the layout just in case Sasuke did something stupid before she got back, however in the midst of this a large crash was heard followed by Sasuke cursing loudly before apologising to Rei.
"What was that?" the woman asked raising an eyebrow curiously.
"N-nothing" Naru stuttered, but she was instantly proven wrong when Sasuke just had to come to the door, topless and all, at least he was wearing trousers.
"Naru I kind of smashed the plates" Sasuke said angrily not noticing the woman at the door who began to grin at the sight of him.
"So this is why you weren't focused" the woman whispered into Naru's ear causing her to go bright red, TenTen assumed what she said was the truth because of this.
"N-no that's not it!" Naru protested weakly but the woman gave her an all knowing look annoying her.
"Hey Naru are you listening?" Sasuke asked and Naru turned around with an angry look.
"It doesn't matter; I'm going to work ok!" Naru said in an angry tone, this was probably due to embarrassment, she knew that TenTen liked to gossip and she didn't want something like this getting out.
Sasuke looked shocked and merely muttered "ok" and just as she walked off he said "bye" before walking away, Naru smiled slightly but didn't allow TenTen to see it, "it's kind of nice having someone say goodbye to you in the morning" Naru thought as she walked down the hallway with TenTen.
When the two reached the elevator Naru turned to see TenTen smiling deviously making her curious, "hey what's that look for?" Naru asked in an accusatory tone.
TenTen just turned to the young idol and said "nothing" in a singsong voice as a sly grin plastered her face, "I never thought I'd see the day when Naru was all flustered over a man" the woman thought as she and Naru walked into the elevator, she then looked back at Naru, "this is going to be interesting."
Wow sorry for the delay, I just got a game and I really want to play it, I also got kinda ill last night when typing this so I couldn't go on typing, this chapter was to show Naru, Rei and Sasuke living together, the true fiction starts after this since I have now established what I wanted too.
I am really happy with all the feedback this fiction has received, it's really nice to read your reviews and thoughts, especially on Naru's gender and just so you know, I won't reveal anything until you have conclusive evidence that it is correct lol, so it may be smart to wait, but I do like hearing speculations.
Well that's all for now.
Reviews would be appreciated, but what's more important is enjoying the story
-Aquilon
