Started: 4:40 PM 6/7/2009
Finished: 11:51 PM 6/17/2009
Posted: 12:55 PM 6/18/2009
Edited: 12:09 AM 6/18/2009

A/n: My brother's a jerk! Alright I had six double stuffed Oreo cookies right, and I went to the bathroom. When I was done he walked into his room (where the comp is and I usually hang out cuz he has cool games and a mini-fridge and a coffee maker) and yells, "Yay! A Cookie!!~" To which I responded "HEY!" I ran out of the bathroom once I was finished washing my hands to see him taking a bite out of each of my cookies T-T!! He didn't finish them but still the horror!! I nearly cried!!

Anyways, here is the next chapter of Hidden Talent, Please enjoy.

Dedications: Congradulations to the two people who said the right place that the quote came from. Ladies and Gentlemen put your hands together for EmbaYuuen and AuphePuck girl!!! Woo!!! Do the wave!!

Chapter 6- Hidden Hostility

Naruto cradled his head in his hand, trying to massage away the headache that had come from arguing with the Uchiha. He wasn't looking forward to the next class with the teme, and he felt as though he was right in his feelings that morning. It was turning out to be a long day.

He was just happy that at least Gaara and Kiba knew who 'Kyuubi-sensei' was and Naruto didn't have to live a lie with either of them. Though because of this, the blonde felt guilty that Gaara had to lie to his boyfriend, and Kiba had to lie to the guy he had a crush on.

Yes, he already found out who Kiba-kun had a crush on, he was just surprised no one else knew. It's not like his friend was being secretive. He just needed to confirm it with dog breath, and then they were home free. He was already thinking up a plan to get those two together.

On the other hand, that was only half of what was giving him the headache. The other half was because Kyuubi was being an asshole and pulling up scenes from his dream every time he met Sasuke. He was also making him blush by pulling up memories from the day before, or to be more specific, how Sasuke felt against him when the raven pinned Naruto between his body and the door, and how good his lips felt against the blonde's.

All in all, it was making him frustrated, because he couldn't figure out these emotions, and because he couldn't figure them out, he was resorting to the anger that he was very familiar with. Therefore he usually resorted to argueing with the raven haired heart throb, which led to more drama, because of the Fan club dedicated to the CEO and the irritation that Gaara had every time his 'brother' argued with Sasuke. Honestly, Naruto actually enjoyed the bikering, as he had no one that paid him enough attention that they would fight with him. After all the only people his age that he usually got along with were Gaara and Kiba because they grew up with him.

They were the only ones other than Deidara that knew his secrets, and shared his fears. This is why he felt guilty that Gaara had to lie to Neji to protect him. He had been ecstatic to learn that his insomniac 'Nii-san' had conceded and was going out with someone, therefore glomped the pale brunette, but now he only felt guilty because he could tell that Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru were intelligent and would probably find out his secret before long. No matter what, he wanted to keep it from them, from everyone and live normally.

He sighed, it was really too complicated, and of course Kyuubi wasn't helping with his comments that just confused him more. Like the fox was given a queue, Kyuubi started up again...

'Give it up Kit; admit that you like the Uchiha.' Kyuubi said calmly waving his tails around. Naruto almost stopped in the middle of his step, but continued regardless of the off-guardedness that the question had inspired.

'I don't Kyuu. It's just your imagination.' The blonde sighed, he felt as though every one of his and Kyuubi's conversations ended up like how this one started.

'Then why do you blush every time he's near?' The kitsune delighted in the fact that once this question was asked, he felt Naruto blush in embarrassment. After all, he had nothing better to do in his prison than to make his host irritated.

If the blonde could he would have beat the demon down to the ground, but alas he couldn't, so he just glared at nothing, and hoped to god that Gaara was still waiting for him by his locker. He really didn't need to get hit again. It hurt, because even though Gaara looked to be weak, the red-head was actually rather strong and he used to protect Naruto when they were younger.

Kyuubi chuckled and took Naruto's silence as defeat, so he laid his head down to rest, soon falling asleep. Naruto was still blushing when he finally made his way back to his locker.

Gaara raised an invisible eyebrow when Naruto approached, red in the face after his talk with Kyuubi, silently asking a question, that the blonde didn't want to say. Instead he shook his head silently, before Kiba bounded over grinning.

"Hey foxy, what's up?" Naruto brightened at the question, and grinned evilly. Kiba recognized this expression, but still couldn't help asking, "You thought of a prank didn't you?" The blonde nodded, smirking.

Gaara shook his head; he totally didn't want to get involved in this. Right now, seeing how irritated he knew his friend was with the Uchiha guaranteed that it would involve the Raven haired bastard some how. So he quite plainly said in a calm voice, "I'm not participating." He was expecting for both of them to back off and then continue planning else where, of course they just had to go against his expectations by looking at him with puppy eyes. Of course, he could refuse Kiba's or Naruto's alone, it's just when they're together they kind of looked sadder and more pathetic. So he sighed, beaten after the stare down, while the two immature idiots cheered in the background. "What do you need me to do?" Gaara winced as he heard the question come from his mouth.

Naruto smiled, "Well, nothing yet, we'll go over the details tomorrow, Kay?"

Before any of them could nod or go over the specifics of the prank they were interrupted by Neji who draped his arm over his little red-head, "You guys ready for lunch? We were thinking of hanging out outside." Now, don't get confused, the brunette didn't like Kiba and he didn't know Naruto well enough to make a judgment on him, but he was willing to make sacrifices for Gaara. It didn't matter how much he disliked the immaturity, it matter to him more that the redhead was finally enjoying himself instead of being worried about his blonde friend.

Therefore he could make the sacrifices. He cast a look down at Gaara and his red-head's pouting lips, oh yeah, defiantly could make the sacrifices.

Naruto smiled sweetly at the show of affection that the white-eyed brunette showered on the emerald eyed redhead, which Gaara tried so hard to pretend he was immune to, by struggling in his boyfriend's grip. He tensed and let the smile fade off of his face when he realized that the raven Naruto could not keep his mind off of was standing next to him, with his hand on the blonde's shoulder.

Unfortunately, for Naruto's head-ache, he went from blissfully ecstatic, to irritatedly angry in no time flat, and at the same time, unfortunately for Naruto himself, Kyuubi decided that this time was as good as any to bring up a fantasy that Naruto hadn't the time to think about, yet. Naruto went bright red from both anger and embarrassment.

Gaara noticed this from where he was trying to persuade Neji off of him. He locked eyes with Kiba to see if he noticed the bi-polarness that seemed to have been gripping Naruto since he came back into their lives to fill that hole he had left, and wasn't surprised to see that the dog loving brunette didn't in fact notice anything. Kiba was too occupied with staring at Shikamaru like a lost puppy (lol). Seriously, how do they not notice the attraction between them? Before Gaara was lost in another inner argument about how dumb the brunette genius and the brunette dog lover were, he looked back at Naruto.

The blonde seemed to be having an inner battle of wills against his demon. Suddenly, Gaara was happy that his own demon was usually asleep, and left him alone after waking up in the middle of sex with Neji. He smirked at it, because Shukaku, in a fit, screamed, freaked out and locked himself away in the demon's cell. This had caused him to burst out laughing, and Neji himself freaked out as well, you know still in the middle of it, causing a whole new mess.

Anyway, back to what was at hand, Naruto blushed horribly as Kyuubi brought up fantasies and the dream. Soon he found he couldn't breathe because of the many emotions coursing through him, confusing the small blonde. Kiba seemed to remember something and all of a sudden, he distracted Naruto from his confusion, as well as Gaara from his struggle when he asked, "Hey aren't we gonna eat soon? I'm sure Blondie's starved cuz I sure am."

Everyone stopped at the same time; it was like a light bulb went off in all their heads at the same time, for they all stopped. "Oh yeah, it's lunch," Naruto said softly.

"Dobe." Even if they all just realized it as well, Sasuke wasn't going to let the idiotic comment go.

Naruto looked back toward him with anger in his eyes. "Bastard!" Kiba reached out and caught the arm that had come up with that statement, and pulled Naruto away from the raven, laughing.

"Ne Chibi, stop flirting with your boyfriend and come on let's go get some grub, and you meet our other friends!" For once both Naruto and Sasuke's head shot up in obvious agreement of indignatation, and they glared at the laughing teenager. Said teen, just shrugged his shoulders, released his friends arm, and looked toward Gaara as if to ask, 'Am I right?' Gaara hid a smile and nodded imperceptivity. Naruto noticed this and shot a glare toward his red-headed friend. 'At least they all started walking, though,' thought Kiba, ignoring the growing hostility from both the blonde and the raven, but just to be on the safe side, he still avoided being between those two.

'Ne, Kit, See I'm not the only one who thinks so,' Kyuubi said, and before Naruto could react the fox was snoring, dead to the world.

Once they arrived at the oak tree that everyone wanted to eat at, Naruto looked around him. Of course he knew the layout of the landscape, as well as memorized the school's original blueprints, he was still shocked to see his vision come to life. He was so into studying his surroundings he didn't even look up when Kiba called him therefore caused his friend to childishly yank his hair in order to get his attention.

"What the hell Dog breath!" Naruto shouted out loud, rubbing his head, Kiba leveled him with a glare, while Gaara shook his head disdainfully. The others stared as though they never seen someone act so childishly before.

"You weren't paying attention, is your hair color interfering with your IQ and ability to think?" Kiba said, slightly fed up with the inability to think on his blonde friend's part.

Naruto's eyes narrowed and he shouted back at the dog lover, "At least, I'm not following some random guy around looking like a lost puppy, and at the same time fiercely denying I'm attracted to him, Right Ki-Ba?" The other boy looked furious and at the same time mortified, going a bright fire engine red. Anyone who missed the look that the dog loving brunette shoot Shikamaru was either blind or just plain oblivious. Apparently said genius was one of the two; because he was too busy glaring at Naruto for upsetting his dog boy.

Of course the artisan recognized this, and smirked, his plan was going to be easier than he thought to accomplish. After all his friends deserved happiness for just being there for him throughout the death of his father, the death of his grandfather and grandmother, and the abandonment that Deidara inflicted. Yes, they deserved the ultimate happiness, and Naruto would do anything in his power to help them.

"Boys, boys, please lower the dose of 'Roids you take, it's starting to scare us," a brunette with twin buns on her head said softly. Both Naruto and Kiba glared at her.

"Shut up, Tenten, it was your fault I had to break into my room at the hotel." Naruto said calmly running his hand over his face.

Everyone looked toward the female who blushed slightly. She shook herself out of it when she remembered something, and grinned, "That's old news, but I'll forgive you for bringing it up if you let me borrow "To Love a Witch" by Kyuubi-sensei! I haven't read that one yet; it just came out and is already nominated for 7 awards!" Tenten smiled lightly, remembering what came in the box.

Naruto flushed at the newly acquired attention on himself, and then he remembered how she phrased the question, "You'll forgive me? I thought it was the other way around especially cuz of the girls running after me trying to get me to sell the books to them. They nearly KILLED me and if Sasuke wasn't there they probably would have. Also why the hell do you want that piece of shit novel? He probably pulled it out of his ass when 'sensei' wrote it!" Naruto shouted at her. He was not having a good day, between the Uchiha bastard CEO, starting at a new school, and now to top it all off, Tenten had to go and bring up 'Kyuubi-sensei.' He was really starting to regret creating the penname, honestly, he just needed some quick cash to help pay off his hospital bills. He never thought that his lame-ass stories would sell, much less be this popular.

He still remembered what Kyuubi had said when he first got an award for his first book, "Time Flies When You're Finding Magic," 'I guess it just goes to show how ignorant people are, kit.' He really hated all his work, and the only reason he kept the painting Sasuke had seen him pack away earlier or his copies of his own books were in memory of his Grandma, who loved his work.

He glared darkly at her when someone smacked him across the back of his head. "Don't insult Kyuubi-sensei; he's amazing like Sasuke-kun." Naruto quickly turned his head to catch a glimpse of the girl talking. Her hair was pink, (an unusual color) cut short with what looked to have been a kitchen knife, (an unusual cut) eyes green, (odd combination with her hair) slightly taller than an average girl, (taller than him, basically) and she was kind of pretty in an exotic feeling way even with her giant fore head (not Naruto's type because she lacked an very important organ, her brain). He realized he had been staring when her emerald eyes narrowed and she spoke, "It's kind of rude for a loser like you to stare at me."

"Aww, leave him alone, Forehead, he must be trying not to be blinded by the shine below your receding hairline," another girl added, Naruto shifted his eyes toward the voice, and was surprised to see another blued blonde looking him up and down. He decided to study her in kind, noticing she had long blonde hair, (Kind of odd on a Japanese girl) blue eyes, (must be a foreigner or has foreign in her, might be contacts) same height as the other girl, (need not explain this one) and she was pretty in the traditional way. The blonde boy decided he liked her when she started to argue with the pink haired girl he took an immediate dislike to (1).

Another girl came between them and Naruto was surprised to see her almost white eyes. He glanced at her, and then at Neji who seemed to be glaring at the small female. 'This is interesting, sibling rivalry perhaps.' He shook his head out of his thoughts, before turning toward Kiba for more introductions, which came from Tenten, "Alright Naruto-kun, I'm sorry. I know as an apology, I'll introduce you to everyone here!" The brunette girl smiled, and motioned to the pink haired girl, "This is Sakura Haruno, the blonde haired girl next to her is Ino Yamanaka, the small girl with white eyes is Neji-kun's cousin Hinata Hyuuga, the guy in the green spandex suit is Rock Lee, and the guy with the high collar is Shino Aburame, and the other guy is Choji Akamichi." Naruto sized each person up, finally noticing the last three guys.

He stared at them until he heard Tenten mention who he was and how they met. He shook his head and then moved his stare to the tabletop. He studied the cracks and the words carved into the surface.

"So Chibi, How'd you meet the bastard over there?" asked Kiba. He was genuinely curious, because they didn't run in the same circles, and Naruto had trust issues.

"I don't want to talk about it," the blonde said calmly staring his friend in the eyes. Kiba's eyes widened at the anger in his friend's voice.

"Okay, what's your beef with Kyuubi-sensei, though?" asked Sakura. She glared at him darkly. It was the kind of look Naruto imagined hell was afraid of. He stared straight into her angered green eyes and pictured her as medusa, which made him start laughing hysterically.

She didn't appreciate being laughed at too much, as proven in her attack on the back of his head. "Ow what the hell was that for?" She just gave him an even darker look that made him grin foxily and duck her next oncoming hand. He dodged her, and took cover behind Gaara, who glared at her stopping her in her tracks. "I'm just kidding Haruno-san. Really."

She gave him a dark glare but dropped her fist. "Answer my question."

"Honestly, I think that everything that Kyuubi-sensei does is less than adequate, and mostly horrible. His work is half ass, and it burns my eyes," (2) Naruto said these words with barely even a shred of emotion in his voice.

Most of the girls under the oak tree glared at him, when Sasuke spoke up, "Then why do you collect all of Kyuubi's works as well as own one of his paintings?"

Naruto glared at him, "I told you the answer to that question yesterday. I only have the books because of my Grandmother. She subscribed me to the web-site of the publishing company that distributes them. I only have the "Faithful Mother" because she won it off of the contest that the publishing company threw to make 'Kyuubi-sensei' more popular." His eyes darkened slightly, "I only keep the books because that was what she wanted. I only keep the painting because it was her favorite."

Everyone was silent at his words, but something stood out in Ino's mind. "You own one of Kyuubi-sensei's Paintings? Seriously?" She stared straight into azure eyes, unwavering at the emotion she found there. He nodded, lightly and she let out a squeal of excited-ness. "Awesome!!! I wanna see!!!" Naruto was slightly taken aback by the bubbliness ability that every blonde (and Fangirl especially yaoi fangirls) had to overwhelm their chosen victim. "I know where I'm going after school today!!" Ino sing-songed. She was practically on cloud nine; finally she had a friend who had one of Kyuubi-sensei's paintings!

There was a chorus of agreements that went around the lunch table that made Naruto push his bento away. It was really starting to scare him on how many fans he had encountered within the last few days. In the background Sasuke was making a mental note to cancel a few meetings so that he could visit the home of his adorable blonde again. A smirk blossomed over his handsome face, 'It's not like I'm meeting with anyone important today.'

Naruto sweat dropped at the hungry faces in front of him. It was just his luck that Kiba and Gaara's friends were crazy and fans of Kyuubi-sensei. 'Kami-sama, how the hell do I get my self into these messes?'

1- In this story Naruto really has no reason to like Sakura, because he thinks everyone who likes his works are ignorant and stupid. Therefore, she really doesn't stand out in his mind as an individual worthy of his time, regardless of her interesting appearance. Plus he's like a little kid and is childishly holding a grudge against her for touching him without his permission. Something he has certain abhorrence for.

2- Actually I feel this way about most things I do so I felt it right to allow my feelings come off as Naruto's own on his work.

A/n: I'm sorry I had to cut it off there or else I never would have reached my self-imposed deadline. But rejoice friends! This chapter was a super special extra long one! All for you because I love you! (*makes heart sign with fingers*) Now a super special thing for some of you because a couple of people wanted me to do a banter between me and one of my friends, so I decided instead of doing it with Miran (*The obvious choice,) I'd do it with my good friend, and person who keeps me occupied so I don't go over the edge, Erika Kira Shibella!! *Insert Applause here*

Now she's not here with me, but I am texting her along with typing this story (also baking cookies and doing my chores, I like mutitasking ^-^). So everything from here out is our texted conversation. And just fyi, most of my friends in life think I act like a cat, so they usually treat me like one, albeit one who they're convinced will rule the world one day, but still a cat. Honestly, I don't want to rule the world, just Australia. It calls to me. niways, enjoy.

Erika: My food is trying to kill me.

Nette: Dear, Everything is trying to kill you.

Erika: True...

Nette: You know I would totally give you a cookie, but unless I master the teleportation skill my grandmother has I can't.

Erika: Lol. That's easy. I'm just to tired to do it.

Nette: Damn! Someone else knows that skill, I must have the power someday!!!

Erika: Lol You will.

Nette: One day DAMMIT!!

Erika: You will master it.

Nette: When master Yoda?

Erika: In time young one.

Nette: So what do I work on till it's my time? Tacos?

Erika: Um ya go for it. Lol.

Nette: YAY! Tacos!

Erika: Lol.

Nette: Meow.

Erika: So what you doing?

Nette: Typing our conversation into my computer so I can post it on the internet on the 18th... why?

Erika: Just asking and why?

Nette: Because it would make a great author's note. To find out which part you'd just have to wait till I post it.

Erika: Ok.

Nette: Ok? That's all you can say? ...Good to know I make you speechless.

Erika: ...

A/n: ... Yeah I get really weird at night. =^-^= Seriously though, I get really weird at night, and I start flirting with everyone!! I totally switch from being quiet, serious, and emo (Unless I have my mask on which is bubbily and blonde) into this weirdo who likes to flirt with random people. It's kinda odd. Just a warning though never, ever give me OrangeJuice at night. Then all hell breaks loose.

Anyways, Review please?