Song used: Gangasta's paradise by Coollio
Hello people,
Alright. First things first.
What took me so long to post? Well. I actually finished this chapter WEEKS ago, BUT, when I tried to upload, my usb failed, I needed to reformat it which as you might know means deleting ALL. MY. DOCUMANTS. TT^TT
and THEN I started again, I was up to my second page when I needed to reformat. AGAIN.
so that put me off writing for awhile, but here it is~!
And also, yes, I changed the title.
I never liked it tbh, and yes. The song DID inspire me to change it.
This chapters not as long as other chapters, but its been long awaited, plus theres a funny thingo at the bottom. Next will be longer, promise!
Sorry for grammatical/spelling mistakes I might've made
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. . .
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,
That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
. . .
Sasuke wiped the sweat of his brow with the back of his long sleeved shirt, Naruto next to him leant his arms on his knees while panting violently. He rolled his eyes at the blonde, even though the Uchiha himself was panting slightly. Gai (their crazy p.e teacher had made them do laps around the school). Usually most of them stopped about halfway way and just hung out, which was what they planned, but things got competitive between the two boys. They had stopped on their fourth lap and were still tied.
"You two are crazy"
Both teenagers snapped their attention behind them where Shikamaru walked slowly, hands in his pockets, still on his first lap.
"Some of us actually care about exercise" Naruto said with a 'matter of fact' expression
"The only thing you care about is winning" Shikamaru retorted
"Unlike you?" It was Sasuke
"Caring about Shogi and sports are two different things" Shikamaru shrugged "C'mon, sit with me before your kidney's burst"
Naruto was about to reject his offer and continue racing when Sasuke surprisingly gave in and went with the Nara boy, towards the bench under the long line of trees bordering the school gate. The blonde followed shortly afterwards, there's no point racing if you have no one to race.
The bench thumped loudly as Sasuke let his weight fall, he would never admit (especially in front of Naruto) but he was in need of a good rest.
"You free this weekend?" Shikamaru asked after a long silence
"Who?"
"Both"
"Distant relatives or something are coming over" Naruto grunted "I have to be a good host. You hanging with Neji again?"
"No, I just hate weekends alone"
"Forever alone" Naruto joked
"You?" Shikamaru rolled his eyes then looked to Sasuke
"Maybe, I might get grounded again" The Uchiha answered leaning one arm on the back of the bench
"YO!" A loud voice interrupted
Sure enough when they looked the dog lover was jogging towards them, he looked to be in twice as worst shape than both Naruto and Sasuke combined. Yet it was only his second lap. The Inuzuka didn't bother to ask when throwing himself onto the bench near them and holding onto it as if for dear life. Sweat clung onto his face along with loose, wet hairs. It was like he aged ten years.
Naruto laughed "You look like you're dying!"
"Shut up" Kiba flipped him off "we don't all take fucking steroids"
"It's called being healthy!" Naruto poked his tongue out
"Bullshit being healthy with all the fucking ramen you shove down your throat!" Kiba exclaimed his voice tightening due to saying it all in one breathe "anyway, what were you guys on about before I came?"
"Teme might get grounded again" Naruto informed him
"Again?" Kiba looked at him with no pity "didn't you already get grounded like twice?"
"Once"
"But you get sent out of school for bashing Kidomaru! Didn't your dad ground you?" Kiba asked outraged
If it had been Kiba in Sasuke's situation, the dog lover's mum would have probably beaten him with her shoe.
"He just gave me a lecture on the family" Sasuke stated
All the boys groaned in distaste.
"I can't count how many times my mums lectured me about how important the family name is" Shikamaru rolled his eyes "well more like yelled at me about how important the family name is"
"My dad tried to explain it to me once" Naruto said as if going into a flashback "It was so horrible, and boring. I told him I needed to go to the toilet and never went back!"
"Pfft!" Kiba scoffed "That's nothing, my sister was the one who lectured me. Che, I still remember it" He put his hands in the air as if holding an imaginary ball and pursed his lips, making his voice sound higher he spoke mockingly "'Keebah'" The boys laughed "'Our family, is like a pack of wolves. We have to stick together; when the fight comes a lone wolf will die. But the pack will survive'" He rolled his eyes when he finished
"What the hell?" Naruto snickered "it sounds like you're going to war"
"Sitting through her lecture was war enough, trust me" Kiba raised his arm leaning it on the back of the bench
"Oh god!" Shikamaru made an expression as if he had tasted a sour lemon "didn't you put any deodorant on?"
Kiba put his arm back down defensively "Yes!"
"Ne, teme? Isn't that Sakura-chan?"
They all looked to the place Naruto was staring at, sure enough Sakura was walking slowly with none other than Sai next to her. It was her second lap. The boy next to her seemed to be making conversation of some sort; they couldn't see from there whether she was laughing happily or awkwardly. Either way, Sai seemed to be enticed with whatever they were speaking about.
Sai was no mob-born.
He was adopted.
Mafia's do not adopt.
Mafia's look down on anyone that has to 'buy' children to make a family.
There were rumours though that his adoptive father was in the underground business. His adoptive mother had died about five years ago, and his adoptive brother along with her. Sai had never been quite… average… Even when his 'family' had been whole. An everlasting smile covered his pale fake, when he smiled his dark eyes would rarely open, most of the time they were covered by his thing dark hair hat hung from his head like drapes. There were certain physical similarities between him and Sasuke, much to the Uchiha's disdain. But all in all it was quite easy to tell them apart.
"He's talking to your waifu" Shikamaru mocked horror
"She's not my waifu"
"Not anymore"
Sasuke stood up abruptly.
"Eh? Where ya going?" Naruto called
"To finish the race"
"Eh?!" Naruto stood up just as abruptly jogging towards him
The boys left sprinting and were quickly out of sight. Shikamaru crossed his arms, leaning back on the bench and staring at the sky. There weren't enough clouds in the sky. On weather like this it would be perfect to watch clouds, how could there not be any? He glared at the sky for a second before sitting straight and turning to the Inuzuka.
"What are you doing on the weekend?"
"Hm?" Kiba ran a hand messily through his hair with a thoughtful expression "Gotta take Akamaru to the vet for a check-up then work"
Tsk, so everyone had something to do but Shikamaru.
. . .
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
. . .
"Sasuke?"
He turned around to the familiar female voice, Sakura. The Uchiha was walking through the hall towards his next class, of course, it was Anko's. The boy dug his hands in his pockets and eyed her questioningly; she looked at him with a determination that no doubt was covering her edginess. Sakura had her hands behind her back, as if that might give her some control.
"Hn?"
"Your library card…" She spoke as if he was meant to know by just that
Sasuke gave her a look
"When you—well—we left the library, you let me use your card and I forgot to give it back. Cause the chick that works there must've put it in one of the books I'd burrowed and you never got it back. I didn't realise until a few weeks later that I still had when I was reading through one of the books and it fell out. I didn't know what to do, obviously I had to give it you—"
"Sakura." God, she's annoying
"Yes?"
"Do you have the library card with you?"
She dug a hand in her pocket and just as soon the girls face flushed "uh… I've… misplaced it…"
Sasuke stared at her
"It's at home!" Sakura explained.
She was unusually jumpy.
"Hn"
They stood there for a moment of silence when Sasuke interrupted before she could go into another speech "After school, we'll go to your house and you can give it to me"
"Oh" Sakura was surprised
It was Friday. Letting this thing slip, he knew, would come to bite him in the ass one day.
"Alright" she agreed bowing a little before scurrying off
He glanced at her retreating figure and turned around just in enough time to see the dobe coming towards him with a cheeky smile. Naruto made his way towards Sasuke almost strutting, as soon as he faced the Uchiha the dobe spoke slyly lacing his speech with innuendo.
"Eh? What was that with Sakura-chan?"
He only had enough time to notice the rapid change in Naruto's face from sly to confusion when the shriek ran through his ears.
"Saaasssuuukkkeeee-kuuuuuuhhhnnn!"
The female leapt from his behind giving the poor boy no time to dodge or block, wrapping her arms around his torso she snuggled her face against his back in a 'loving' fashion. He stood rigid there for a moment, expecting her to eventually climb off him and resume her antics from safer distant. She didn't. Sasuke was now standing in the middle of the hallway in school with students passing him, Naruto next to him smirking (uncharacteristically) and that redheaded fangirl gripping onto him for dear life.
"Kari-"
"Waaahhh! You still remember my name! I knew it! Naruto said you would've forgotten!"
"Get off me"
"B-"
"Now."
With a sigh and overly dramatic pouty face she eventually slid her arms off him and away.
He turned the hint of an annoyed demeanour, but he was an Uchiha, so of course he wouldn't give away a lot. For all they knew he was thrilled to see her, yet somehow, everyone around him doubted that. Well, everyone except Karin. Love is blind. Fangirlism blind, deaf and crippled.
She had her red hair long and straight on one side while short and layered on the other, palish skin tone with glassing covering her brown eyes. She wore the usual Konoha high school uniform.
"What are you doing here?" He spoke monotone
"What do you mean?" She looked at him overly surprised raising a hand to her mouth while her eyelined eyes widened "My dad's moved here, since he got promoted"
The Uchiha looked accusingly at the blonde beside him.
"What?" Naruto shrugged "they're the family I'm supposed to have dinner with"
"I thought you said she was only going to be visiting"
"Ooooohh" A cross of realisation slid onto his handsome face "I knew there was something I was supposed to tell you! Hahaha, too late now"
Karin looked at her distant cousin with mocked interest "My dad says I have to be nice to you since you're Minato's son now"
She said 'now' as if Naruto had just suddenly been realised as his father's son.
Naruto laughed "If you really want to be nice, just keep your distant"
Karin glared only half-jokingly, there was no brotherly love between these two. They were just strangers tied down to each other by blood. You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. You can however, ignore them.
"You're so funny" She commented sarcastically
He grinned devilishly at her
The redhead rolled her eyes and turned back to Sasuke "So" She whispered, putting a hand beside her mouth "I heard the Haruno's moved across your street, Sasuke-kun"
"Hn"
She gasped "So, it's true!"
"Hn"
"I also heard they have a daughter" She studied his expression carefully
If she only knew she had just passed the Haruno girl.
"Fuuudge Karin, go bother someone else" Naruto wrapped an arm around Sasuke's shoulder.
The Uchiha looked at it as if it was alien.
She flipped him off
"I'll see you later, Sasuke-kun" She blew him a kiss and went on her way
"This is your fault."
"Eh? I saved you!"
"She's gonna stalk me."
"Like you're not used to it? Pfft" Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Hn"
"C'mon, if we're late Anko'll kill us" Naruto motioned
When they entered the classroom Anko was already copying something from a textbook onto the board, chances were even she didn't know what it was about. As soon as she heard the footsteps, her head turned accusingly to the door way. Sasuke wanted to shove the blonde towards the madwoman and claim the idiot had held him back, but there was no time for that.
"And you're late, why?" Anko asked slowly
"We got held up" Sasuke answered nonchalantly
"By?"
"Baa-chan" Naruto answered quickly
"That's no way to speak about your principal!" Anko glared
God.
What was up her ass today?
"Maybe she's PMSing" Naruto muttered into the Uchiha's ear as they walked towards their desks at the back
"Sexually deprived?" Sasuke suggested quietly
They sat down in their usual seats. The class was the same as every other day, people talking, joking, some even doing their work. Shikamaru sat staring lazily at the dog boy next to him as he talked loudly. Kiba still looked a bit disordered due to the laps around the school earlier that day. Nonetheless, that didn't stop him from going into loud and dramatic explanations.
"Then I said" Kiba continued "You can take my life! But you'll NEVER! TAKE! MY! FREEDOM!"
Shikamaru looked at him strangely
"And that's how I got out of detention" Kiba grinned wolfishly
The Uchiha raised a questioning brow at him, sometimes he wondered how had made friends with these people.
. . .
Been spending most their lives,
living in the gangsta's paradise
Been spending most their lives,
living in the gangsta's paradise
. . .
Her parents weren't home.
He didn't blame her, if he was bringing Sakura into his house, he'd make sure his parents weren't home either.
They finished walking up the staircase and went through the wall. As custom permitted, he had left his shoes at the front. Sasuke thought he saw a glimpse of a door snapping shut. Ishida's room, he assumed. The boy was nice, but if he was going to go to Konoha high he would really need to be more courageous. The floor was matted with maroon and the walls were light beige. Pictures of relatives laced it; he didn't bother than to glance for a second at each.
"My rooms here" She spoke when opening the door at the left end of the hall.
The rooms primary colour was blue, ironically clashing with her hair. The bed leant on the left side with the head facing the wall, a cat lay comfortably on the sheets, glaring at him as he walked in. A fluffy ginger cat with an attitude. Above it was rows of shelves holding books, next to it were draws with a lamp placed carefully atop. The wardrobe was on the right side, built into the wall. The doors were slidy and open a fraction, just enough to see piles of clothes scattered at the bottom. Her window was large, lage enough for a person to jump out off. So large her desk was placed next to it. The Uchiha raised a brow, certain there should be a balcony there or something. Despite the good interior design, her clothes lay messily in piles here and there along with papers and pencils scattered lazily on the desk.
Sakura started looking through her desk and flipping pages hurriedly in the books she got from the library.
"I can't find it" Sakura said finally
"Hn"
Sasuke could almost see the light bulb click above her head "Hold on! I left some books downstairs!"
He watched her jog out of her room then turned back. Sasuke looked around again and took a closer look at some photos that hung on her wall. The usual, family, friends, etc. His moment of inspection was interrupted by a low cross between a meow and a wail. His attention turned to the bed where the cat lay glaring at him.
He didn't know what possessed him, but the boy took his hand out of his pocket and went to pat the feline. Just when he was about to make contact with the animal, the cat hissed violently and tried to strike his hand. Luckily Sasuke's quick reflexes saved him, but the cat still hissed and lept from the bed, jumping on the desk scattering papers and books everywhere, then landed on the floor rushing into the slightly opened wardrobe.
Sasuke looked back at the door, hearing no footsteps approaching he quickly made his way towards the mess and started putting the things back on the desk when something caught his eye.
A music sheet.
At first glance he thought it was normal, but Sakura had never told him she played an instrument.
At the bottom was sentences scribbled thoughtlessly as some words where scribbled out. On the corner of the page he saw Sakura had drawn something. Well. Tried. Was it a cat or a girl, he couldn't tell. But he thought it was holding a violin or guitar.
He stood up and was about to put it on the desk when Sakura entered.
She was a bit slow, her eyes saw him, the sheet, then him again and suddenly a looked of horror masked her face while the blush crept in equally horrid.
"What are you doing?!" She squeaked out
He only now took notice of how she was holding a book in her right hand and the library card in her left "Hn"
Poor choice of words, Sasuke thought.
"Where did you find that?!" Sakura exclaimed putting the book down quickly
He was silent, not quite sure how to explain her cat led him to it.
"Where you looking through my things?!"
"No"
Sasuke didn't know whether she was turning red due to the embarrassment, anger or something else. Either way, she made her way towards him and attempted to snatch it from his grip, only she never got to touch it because he held his arm away from her.
"You said you don't play instruments" He stated disapprovingly
She inhaled sharply "I never said I don't! You just didn't ask"
"Do you play instruments?"
"Yes! Violin!" She glared but it wasn't very effective "now give it back!"
"So, you write your own music?" He glanced at the paper
She turned even more red "So, now you decide to converse with me?"
"Hn"
She tried to grab again, but this time she smashed into his chest because he couldn't go back. His feet met with edge of the bed making him trip, since she was so close to him, she got dragged down with him. The next thing either of them new was he fell onto her bed along with Sakura herself getting cushioned by him. Along with their body's, both of their lips met.
There had been more than a few situations where Sasuke Uchiha had a girl pressing her body onto him without his consent. But in all those times, never had he, Sasuke Uchiha, had been affected. So why was he now suddenly aware through the thin lining of clothes and flesh how fast both of their hearts were beating?
Fuck.
No.
Sasuke grabbed her shoulders abruptly and pushed her off him, off the bed, both of them. He held her at arm's length for a second, his troubled/annoyed expression clashing with her blushing and flustered expression. He let his arms drop.
"Uh-h" She spoke in a meek voice "s-sorry"
A loud hiss echoed through the room followed by Sakura's cat striking Sasuke. Sadly for the Uchiha, he had been caught off guard and the cat clawed him in the leg. As a reflex he almost kicked the animal, but backed away when the pinkette tried to pick up the demon and control it.
As if to make the situation perfect, a car engine was heard coming into her drive way. Sakura's eyes widened in a fit of surprise and panic, her father. The only thing Sasuke could think of was his father's expression when Arashi would tell him about this. Precipitously the cat and kiss seemed oddly insignificant.
"My dad's here" Sakura spoke as if Sasuke hadn't had the brain to figure it out himself
The boys eyes widened, he looked at the door.
"You can't go out the door! He'll see you!" Sakura exclaimed in a panic, grabbing onto his arm as he was about to bolt
"Then where?" He almost raised his voice
She did it all so fast. Sakura looked around, put her cat down and shushed it when it was about to hiss at Sasuke, looked to the boy, to his hand, grabbed the sheet of music Sakura and Sasuke both had forgotten existed and tried to come up with a plan.
"Alright" Sakura spoke looking through the door "If I can distract my dad long enough— Sasuke!"
The pinkette had turned around to see Sasuke opening her window and before she could fully process what was happening, he jumped.
Sakura gaped in horror.
The girl ran to her window and for a second forgot all thoughts of her dad.
Sasuke was on the ground in a crouching position on the balls of his feet, he stood up fixing his shirt up and casually walked off. Sakura's mouth hung open so low she thought it touched the floor, what the hell was that boy made out of? Fucking rubber? How could he even land, without his shoes to—
His shoes!
The pinkette almost started hyperventilating.
Not only did the boy need his shoes back, but if her dad saw them he would certainly question where they came from.
Sakura burst out the door, running through the hall and almost slamming into her little brother. As soon as she got to the stairs she ran skipping two steps each time and praying to god she didn't fall and break her neck.
When she got to the hall and in front of the door way, she stood panting with a red and flustered face. Her father stood in the door way just finishing taking his shoes off and started at the stack of shoes confused. He looked even more confused when he caught sight of his daughter looking like she'd escaped from a horror movie.
"Sakura"
"..Yes..?"
He pointed "Who's shoes are those?"
"Uhhh…"
Sakura fought the urge to gape as Sasuke walked around the front yard in the background. If her father turned around he would instantly catch sight of the shoeless boy and make the connection fast enough. Dear god. What was he still doing on her property?!
His shoes, dumbass. Sakura's inner rolled her eyes
Oh, whatever
"Sakura."
"Yes?"
"The shoes" He reminded her
"Oh… Yeah… Well…"
"Excuse-me"
Both heads turned accusingly to the doorway, where Sasuke stood slowly bending and reaching towards the pair of footwear. He didn't even bother to make eye contact with Arashi, even though her father was glaring daggers into the Uchiha. But then again, she had seen Fugaku's glare, and it did put Arashi's to shame.
Sakura's heart skipped a beat, remembering the past incident.
And just like that, he left.
. . .
Keep spending most our lives,
living in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spending most our lives,
living in the gangsta's paradise
. . .
Hey guys,
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Sorry for any grammatical/spelling mistakes I might've made and forgotten to fix!
And now, for…
BLOOPERS/DELETED SCENES
"Alright" Sakura spoke looking through the door "If I can distract my dad long enough— Sasuke!"
The pinkette had turned around to see Sasuke opening her window and before she could fully process what was happening, he jumped.
Sakura gaped in horror.
The girl ran to her window and for a second forgot all thoughts of her dad.
She heard a low moan filled with pain.
"Oh my god!" Sakura exclaimed "Sasuke! Are you okay?!"
"Does it LOOK like I'm fucking okay?!"
He lay on the ground clutching his arm violently and tried to roll to his side but to no prevail
"Oh my god!" Sakura exclaimed again
"Call… the… ambulance!" He spoke through gritted teeth
"I don't have a phone!"
"Then… come… down… and… heal… me… yourself… before… I … try… to …. Kill… you… again…" He moaned between words
"Bu—
"My arm is broken! And I can't feel my legs!"
