Sasuke literally ran down the stairs, grabbed his homework out of the locker and climbed into his car. He drove for about twenty minutes before he pulled over to the side of the road, put his Ferrari in park and banged his head against the steering wheel, "Idiot...Idiot!" he growled at himself, "I blew it!"
All of a sudden 'Just Like You' by Three Days Grace rang out in the quiet car. Sasuke pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, read the caller id and flipped it open, "What?"
"You blew it...little brother."
"Thanks but I already knew that Itachi." Sasuke snapped back to his older brother.
Itachi smirked and let Sasuke know it, "What are you going to do about that annoying girl?"
"Sakura?" he sighed, "I don't know..."
"Keep the deal going..." Itachi replied, "That way you can go straight in for the kill..."
Sasuke leaned back, "The kill?"
"Foolish little brother." Itachi wished Sasuke could see his face, "You understand nothing."he clicked off.
Sasuke took the phone from his ear and looked at it. Call Ended. It read. Sasuke let his arm fall and he groaned. Great. Just great. He put his phone into the cup holder, shifted into gear and drove back home.
(Friday Night)
"Aren't you going to eat anything?"
"Not hungry."
"Naruto..." Iruka reminded him, "You have to eat something. You're underweight as it is!"
"I know." he replied and walked back upstairs. He sat down at his computer and logged on. Naruto was still stuck on earlier that day. It had almost been six hours since Sasuke had kissed him and Naruto still felt the raven's taste on his lips. Truth be told? He hadn't eaten or drank anything so that he could keep the taste of Sasuke on his lips.
KyuubiKit has just signed on.
LazyAss: Nice of you to join us.
KyuubiKit: Yeah...sorry about the interruption earlier.
BacOffIBite: What interruption?
LazyAss: None of you business
Sandman: Aww, c'mon. Enlighten us.
KyuubiKit: Sasuke kissed me.
LazyAss: He took it that far?
ICanSeeYou: ...
Sandman: ...
BacOffIBite: ...
LazyAss: What's with the silence?
BacOffIBite: Don't you think it's a little...weird?
ICanSeeYou: You have no right to talk
Sandman: None of us do
KyuubiKit: Uh...
LazyAss: So how was it?
KyuubiKit: Do I have to answer that?
ICanSeeYou: Yes
BacOffIBite: I didn't mean anything bad by that!
Sandman: We know
ICanSeeYou: But that fact is that you said it
KyuubiKit: Well...typed it. But I don't care Kiba.
Sandman: Naruto...you didn't answer Shika's question
LazyAss: Yeah
KyuubiKit: It was...
BacOffIBite: Well? Tell us already!
ICanSeeYou: Please do
Sandman: C'mon Naru-chan!
KyuubiKit: Hot, amazing, sexy and lots of other things
LazyAss: So you liked it?
KyuubiKit: Hell yes
ICanSeeYou: What are you going to do about Sakura?
KyuubiKit: Nothing
Sandman: You have to do something
BacOffIBite: Naru-chan...can I come over?
KyuubiKit: Sure, why not?
Sandman: Hey!
LazyAss: We're included too right?
ICanSeeYou: It's not like he could stop us anyway
KyuubiKit: Right...
As if on cue...the doorbell rang.
"Naruto!" Iruka called, "It's for you!"
Naruto paused for a moment before he ran downstairs. He raced to the front door to see Kiba, Shikamaru, Neji, and Gaara all standing in the foyer. He gave them all a disbelieving look, "I can't believe you guys...Ho-?"
They all looked at each other, grinned, and held up their cell phones, "Mobile."
"Does that mean I'm making more Macaroni and Cheese?" Iruka called from the kitchen.
"Oh yeah!" Kiba answered, kicked off his shoes and joined Iruka in the kitchen.
The others followed suit, "I've got the dishes." Shikamaru called.
"I've got the glasses." Gaara called.
"I'll get the drinks." Neji decided.
Naruto rolled his eyes. They always helped out when they all came over at the same time. And it wasn't like they switched jobs either. Every time they came over Shika set out the plates and silverware, Gaara got the glasses down, and Neji poured the drinks from the refrigerator. Kiba? Well he 'helped' Iruka make the dinner. And Naruto,
"Naruto will you go and get the extra chairs out of the closet?" Iruka called.
He smiled, "Yeah, yeah." he rounded the hallway, opened the closest door, and took out the spare chairs. He dragged them into the kitchen and set them up in the empty spaces around the table.
It was another ten minutes until dinner was done and another forty-five minutes until everyone was done. And yes, everyone helped with clean up too. Who ever had which job in the beginning, not like it ever changed, took that item(s) off the table. Once cleaned up, all the guys, save for Iruka, crammed into Naruto's dark orange and dark blue room.
"Whoa!" Kiba leaned back in surprise when he turned on the light.
"What?" Naruto asked as he shoved him farther into the room.
Kiba ran over and jumped onto the bed, "Your room is clean."
"It looks good." Neji commented.
"Yeah for your taste." Gaara added and looked away when the Hyuuga glared at him.
Naruto rolled his eyes and looked at the clock, "It's around eleven...either you're all going home or you're all spending the night for a couple days."
They all started at him.
"Is that a question Naruto?" Shikamaru asked.
"I don't know." he replied, "Is yours?"
Gaara laughed at them and sat down in Naruto's computer chair, "Talk to anybody else besides us?"
The blonde sat down on his bed next to Kiba, "Nah." He laid down and put his arms behind his head, "No one else is as interesting and fun like you."
Neji pretended to faint, "I'm so flattered."
"Not just you, you idiot." Shikamaru lightly shoved him towards Gaara, who easily caught the paled eyed boy.
"No flirting in front of virgin eyes!" Naruto reminded them, "Kiba's too young for that!"
"Hey!" Kiba spoke up as he looked a something that had caught his eye underneath Naruto's bed, "Naru-chan...what's this?" He held up a little black book.
"What's what?" He grabbed it, opened it and read the pages, "English journal." He snapped it shut and threw it into the drawer in the nightstand next to his bed.
"Same rooms?" Gaara asked.
Naruto shrugged, "Unless you want to switch."
Everybody looked from one to the other, "We'll stay." they all decided.
"Breakfast?" the blonde asked.
"Chocolate Chip Pancakes!" Kiba shouted.
"Same." Neji agreed.
"Yeah." Gaara said.
"Why not." Shikamaru shrugged.
Naruto laughed, "Th-"
Kiba tackled him from the side and they both landed on the floor, "I have a question." he wrestled with him some more and stopped, his body still pinning the blonde to the ground.
Naruto gagged, "Well you didn't have to knock me off the bed to ask."
"Yes I did." Kiba said, "Or else you wouldn't have answered."
Shikamaru stomped his foot, "Troublesome...just ask your question."
"Does Sasuke-bastard have IM?"
"How should I know?" Naruto creased his eyebrows, "Ask the bastard yourself."
Kiba's turn to be confused, "And how am I supposed to do that?"
Naruto reached up and unhooked his cell phone from the charger, "Call him."
Gaara gasped, "You have his number?"
"So?"
"Naruto's a little slow when it comes to being an underdog..." Neji laughed.
"Hey!" Naruto pointed out, "Don't criticize me Mr. Uke!"
Neji blushed crimson.
Gaara intervened, "Let's not go there tonight." he grabbed Neji's wrist and pulled him, "Night guys."
"Night."
Once Gaara and Neji left, Shikamaru turned to Naruto, who was still on the floor under Kiba, "How'd you know?"
The blonde glared, "I'm not dumb, Shika. I knew those two were 'involved' with each other for a long time."
Shikamaru nodded his head, "Right, right. Sorry."
"Kiba?" Naruto tried to shove him off, "Get off me."
"Shh!" Kiba hissed, "Oi! Sasuke-bastard! No, it's Kiba." he called into the phone, "You got an IM name? Yeah, Instant Messenger! Wh-HEY!" Kiba yelled.
"Quiet!" Naruto hissed back, "What's your problem now?"
"The bastard hung up on me!"
Naruto successfully crawled out from underneath his friend, "Yeah? Well, go to bed. It's too late to talk now."
Kiba got up and walked out of the room, "Night."
"Yeah. G'night." Naruto called back as Shikamaru followed Kiba out into the hallway and into another room. He shut his door, turned off the light, and crawled into bed himself.
The young Uchiha stomped into the house and up the stairs to the room across from his, "Itachi!"
The sound of footsteps could be heard and so could the clicking of a lock being unlocked. Then the door opened, "What is with your yelling, little brother?"
"What the hell were you talking about earlier?" Sasuke glared, "Yesterday afternoon?"
Itachi sighed, "If you did not understand earlier, or even now, then you will never understand, so...tell me...why should I waste my breath on something you will simply never understand?"
"I don't like your riddles, brother." he replied, "And I don't like you spying on me!"
The older male rolled his eyes, "You were on the rooftop of a public school...who didn't spy on you?"
Sasuke stopped.
"Exactly." Itachi pointed out, "If nobody was paying attention that meant everyone saw you and was paying attention."
The younger male growled out his frustration, stormed across the hall into his room, and slammed the door.
'I do hope that this fetish of yours can control your temper.' Itachi shrugged and closed his door again.
Sasuke threw his backpack on the end of his bed and he fell sideways across it. He looked at the clock, 6:57. He had to pick Sakura up in an hour. Where were they going tonight? Oh yeah, 'A double date with Ino and Choji at the movies.' He groaned. Tonight was going to be another long, boring night. Unless they went to go see a good movie, nah. It'd most likely be a chick-flick. God he hated those things. It made him gag.
He was uselessly staring up at the ceiling when he got this overwhelming drowsiness feeling. His eyelids grew heavy and he soon fell fast asleep.
"Sasuke."
Someone was saying his name.
"Sasuke!"
Sasuke's eyes snapped open and he sat up, "What?!" he asked annoyed.
Itachi pointed to the clock, "You're going to be late."
7:51
"Damn it all!" Sasuke grabbed his jacket and ran out of the room, down the hallway, and down the stairs into the garage, "Thanks!" he called.
Itachi rolled his eyes, "Nice to know he notices the little things I do for him..."
Sasuke turned down Sakura's road and stopped in front of her house at 8:05. He found her sitting on her porch steps waiting for him. She cheerily waved then turned and called back into her house. She ran down the steps and climbed into his car, "You're late."
"I fell asleep."
"That's ok. Ino and Choji are going to meet us there anyway." She happily said.
He shifted gears and drove to the theater, "What are we seeing?"
"A Chick-flick."
'How'd I guess?' he took a deep breath.
It was another fifteen minutes and they pulled up into the parking lot. Sasuke parked his car, got out and locked it. He started to walk up towards the entrance when Sakura, yet again, attached herself on his arm, "Is this necessary?" he asked.
"Yes, silly!" she exclaimed, "You're mine until Saturday and I intend to make the best of every minute!"
'Great.' he rolled his eyes.
"Sakura! Sasuke!"
They both looked to see Ino flailing her arms like see was learning how to swim, "Ino!" Sakura called and waved back. They got closer together and the girls started giggling like there was no tomorrow, "I can't wait!"
"Yeah and we've got guys to cry on too!" Ino squealed then her eyes saddened, "I wanted to bring Shikamaru but he said that he was going over to a friend's house this weekend."
"Naruto's?" Sakura asked with malice in her voice.
Ino sighed heavily, "Yeah."
"Don't worry about it!" Sakura patted her back, "There are plenty of other men out there!"
"But Shikamaru's so cute!"
Sakura's grip tightened on the raven's arm, "But not as cute as my boyfriend!"
'Boyfriend?!' Sasuke tensed and growled in his head, 'I never agreed to that!'
Choji walked up beside him and whispered, "Don't worry about it. They'll get over you soon enough."
"Yeah...right." Sasuke huffed back. Naruto's. It was and awesome time when he last went over there. Getting his school work done, extra clothes, and the pancakes, 'Chocolate Chip...' Sasuke had found a new breakfast item he had really enjoyed. He especially enjoyed the look on Naruto's face when he had stolen a piece off his plate.
Sasuke and Choji barely survived that movie. Both girls were grabby and whiney. They cried when the guy left the chick in the film and laughed when the chick went to the guys apartment the next day and kicked him in his goods. Both Sasuke and Choji cringed to that. They split up and Sasuke drove Sakura home. He stopped in front of her house and before she made him kiss her goodbye he stopped her, "Do you want to go out on Sunday?" he asked.
She blinked, "Really?"
"Yeah." he thought about it for a minute, "We'll go to the mall. I have to pick up a few things." He wasn't ready when she squealed. She threw her arms around his neck and gave him a full blown kiss on the lips. He tensed. He didn't know what to do so he just sat there letting her do what she wanted. When he felt her teeth tug on his lower lip, he gently pushed her away, "Sakura..."
"Sorry." she blushed, "I'm just really excited."
"See you Sunday."
"Bye Sasuke-kun." she got out, walked up to her door and waved goodbye.
He drove away, his fingers on his lips. 'It doesn't taste like him...' Sasuke shook his head to clear his thoughts and he drove the rest of the way home.
Sunday morning, Naruto woke up to Iruka shaking him, "Wake up."
He stirred and groaned, "What?"
"Breakfast is almost ready." Iruka left the door open, "Wake up the others."
"M'kay." Naruto threw back his sheets and pulled on a dark blue t-shirt. He walked out into the hallway and hit Gaara's and Neji's room first, "Hey. Breakfast!"
"Down in a minute." came a groggy replied that sounded like Gaara.
Naruto then walked down to Kiba's and Shikamaru's room, "Guys." he knocked, "Breakfast."
No answer.
"Guys?" He slowly opened the door and walked in. He found Kiba snuggled up in Shikamaru's arms, 'How cute...' He walked over to the window and ripped open the shades and yelled, "WAKE UP SLEEPY HEADS!! BREAKFAST IS READY!!" and strolled back out of the room and downstairs.
Shikamaru cringed when the warm sun hit his face and he cracked and eye open. The smell of pancakes reaching the room he occupied. He felt something shift in his arms and he looked down, 'We did it again didn't we?' he sighed, "What a drag..."
"Did I do something wrong?"
Shikamaru meet Kiba's brown eyes, "No. Just thinking out loud."
Kiba stretched, "Is that breakfast I smell?"
"Yeah."
Kiba untangled their body parts and slipped out of bed. He threw on his t-shirt from the night before and threw Shikamaru's t-shirt at him, "Can't wait." he grinned.
Shikamaru rolled playfully rolled his eyes as he too, got out of bed and pulled on his shirt, "Of course."
The dog lover walked over to him and wrapped his arms around his neck, "Why do you say that?"
"Unlike Naruto...you are predictable." Shikamaru bent his head to Kiba's and gave him a kiss, "G'moring."
Kiba's smiled, "Mornin'."
They both walked out of their room at the same time as Neji and Gaara did. They all sheepishly smiled at each other than went downstairs. With the same jobs as before, Shikamaru set out the plates and silverware, Naruto grabbed the chairs, Gaara grabbed the glasses and Neji poured the drinks while Kiba stole a few chocolate chips from Iruka's pancake stash. Only when Kiba yelped, held his hand and slinked away did every get what had just happened, "I told you to wait until they were in the pancakes, Kiba!" Iruka waved the spatula at him, "Didn't I?"
"Yes, sir." Kiba quietly replied.
After breakfast, they all helped clean up then they crashed on the couch to search the channels for a good movie.
"Ooh! Ooh!" Kiba jumped up and down, "Eight Below...Eight Below!!"
Neji scowled, "I'm not watching that again."
Kiba put on his puppy face. Neji couldn't steer clear but when Gaara stepped in between the two, Kiba gave up. Everyone knew the redhead had little weakness except when it came to Neji.
Naruto laughed.
Kiba glared and was about to tackle him but the doorbell rang.
"Naruto will yo-" Iruka asked.
"I've got it!" Shikamaru called. He opened the door, "Hello?"
"Shikamaru?"
"Kakashi-sensei?"
The silver haired man walked inside, took off his shoes and walked into the living room, "Everyone else is here too?"
Naruto threw him a hard look, "You forget I live here or something?" he cringed when Iruka smacked the back of his head.
"Be nice." Iruka turned his attention back to the older male, "He's here to help me."
"With what?" Naruto asked.
"We're going to rearrange a few rooms." Iruka informed them.
All the boys looked between one another and they nodded, "Fine with us." Kiba said.
"We're going to the mall anyway." Gaara stood up and Neji followed.
Shikamaru grabbed his keys, "C'mon Kiba."
Kiba jumped up and ran over to the door, but not before he latched onto Naruto's wrist, "Let's go."
"I don't have any m-"
"Naruto," Iruka grabbed his wallet and took out some bills, "Here."
Naruto took the money, "Really?"
The older man gave him a smile, "And try not to rip this one."
The blonde grinned, "Thanks, Ruka!"
'What the hell was I thinking?' Sasuke thought as he drove himself and, an even more chattering Sakura, to the mall on a Sunday morning.
"Oh!" Sakura exclaimed, "Ino and Choji are going to meet us there too."
"..."
Her emerald eyes looked at his face, "Sasuke-kun? Is something wrong?" she grabbed his hand when he didn't answer, "Sasuke-kun?"
"Hm?" He took a quick glance at her, "What?"
"Are you alright?"
He faked a smile, "Yeah." he turned into the parking lot and looked for a suitable parking spot. 'Hey wait...Is that Neji's car?' Sasuke swung into a parking spot next to a light purple Porsche.
"Huh." Sakura looked over, "Kinda reminds me of Hyuuga's car."
"Who knows..." Sasuke said, "Maybe he's here."
"I hope not." Sakura got a sour look on her face, "Because that would mean, Gaara's here. And if those two are here...everyone's here."
"Everyone?"
"Uzumaki's pals," she said, "Including the hyperactive blonde idiot."
Sasuke huffed, "Don't like him much?"
They got out of the car and as the raven locked it. Sakura once again latched onto the Uchiha arm as they walked into the mall, "We have to hit Victoria's Secret sometime today too. I need some new bras and thongs."
'What?!' Sasuke tripped over himself, "I'm not going in there."
"Why not?"
"That's crossing the line."
She pouted, "Fine. I won't make you go but I do need to go in there."
End Chapter Seven
