Seven… An unlucky number for me. I hope this won't affect my chapter in any way :nervous laugh:. Now we are finally on the fourth day of the vacation! I didn't think I could keep the Naruto gain busy for four days, but I did it! Heh, heh :smirk: I amaze even myself ((this is one of the only times you'll see me confident)).

Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine, but there's always hope for tomorrow… Who am I kidding? That would never happen :gloom: ((my confidence left already)).

Warning: Language and Boy Love. I would hope by the seventh chapter you all would expect this.


The rest of the day was, for the most part uneventful. Sasuke and Naruto ended up being the first ones to go to the restaurant, but it did not take long for the others to arrive. The only downfall to the dinner was that Naruto, Kiba, Kankuro and Lee were being just a little too loud. It didn't help when Temari and Ino added to the noise. They were asked to be quiet at least three times before a rather bold waitress with dark purple hair, which she had pulled up, told them to "shut the fuck up or die." She changed the last part of her threat to "or leave" once her manager, a rather large man that wore a bandana on his head to hide a few scars(1), told the waitress she wasn't allowed to kill customers.

The more mature people of the group made sure that the others kept the voices down, so that they would not disturb the other customers or get them kicked out of the restaurant. The rest of the dinner went off without a hitch, for the most part. Naruto did end up spilling his drink on Sakura's lap and the pink-haired girl would have killed him if she was not restrained by Ino. Naruto escaped with only a few bruises.

After everyone was done with their meal, the all helped pay the bill and left the restaurant. Kiba left a very large tip, just incase he ever saw that waitress again. The gang then left the town and returned back to the beach house.

Once they were back in the house, Kiba and Kankuro decided to watch a scary movie in the living room and soon, Temari and Shikamaru (for once the two were acting like a real couple) join them. Sakura and Ino then pulled Sasuke into the living room and attached onto his arms as they forced the raven to watch the movie. Lee and Gaara also joined in to watch the movie. Lee could have sworn that the redhead's expression became maniacal at the mere mention of a gory, horror movie.

Hinata did not care for scary movies, so she excused herself and went up to her room to get to bed early. Shino also went up stairs to his room. He said something about how he did not like to watch senseless violence and gore.

Naruto did not know what to do. Horror movies used to give the blonde terrible nightmares when he was younger and he never fully out grew that little fact. The blonde was torn since most of his friends were going to watch the movie. Naruto could not pull off the excuse of "not liking senseless violence and gore" like Shino and he was not about to admit he was afraid like Hinata had done. Naruto had to admit, Hinata may not be the kind of brave like people expect, but at least she was not afraid to tell the truth.

"Are you going to watch the movie, Naruto?" Neji asked as he walked up beside the blonde. Naruto jumped back a little when he suddenly heard a voice beside him. "You're very… jumpy. Can you handle the scary movie?" Neji's words did not hold a mocking tone toward the tan boy, but were actually concerned.

"O-Of c-course I can h-handle a scary m-movie!" Naruto stuttered. He tried to sound confident, but it was definitely not working.

"You don't have to watch it, if you don't want to." Neji replied back with a small smile. That smile made Naruto feel better.

"No I'll watch it!" Naruto blurted out. "Come on, Neji." The blonde called out to Neji as he began making his way over other people to sit down in the loveseat on the other side of the room. Neji followed behind him and sat on the other side of the small love seat. Sasuke eyed the two of them from his own spot in between Ino and Sakura. He did not know why, but seeing Neji act so nice to Naruto was making him angry. And he could not blame this feeling on being ignored by others this time.

The movie started and the group became dead silent. As the movie began to get more suspenseful and scary, Naruto's body began to tense. He now knew for certain that he had not outgrown the fear of horror movies.

"If you're that scared you can hold my hand(2)." Neji said as he lifted his hand toward the blonde beside him. Naruto could not help but blush. He thanked the gods that Kiba had turned out the lights so that they could get a better feel for the movie. He hoped the lack of light meant that Neji could not see his red cheeks.

"T-that's okay, Neji." Naruto said as he forced a smile. He was too scared from the movie to give a real one. "I-I'm not that s-scared."

"You're stuttering is worse than my cousin's." Neji chuckled. Naruto's blush grew as he was caught in his own lie. "If you do need a hand to hold, mine's right here."

Sasuke, who had overheard the entire conversation between the two scowled. 'Only some one as dense as Naruto could not know when he's being hit on.' The raven thought to himself.

It was pure coincidence that the murderer in the movie popped out from nowhere, which made most of the people in the group scream. Temari was actually one of those people. She then latched onto his boyfriends arm and squeezed it tightly. Sakura and Ino screamed as well. Their gripped were now cutting off the blood flow to the rest of Sasuke's arms and the raven could feel the appendages start to fall asleep. Kiba jumped which caused him to accidentally spill the bowl full of popcorn over himself and Kankuro. Neither of them seemed to mind, considering how they were completely focused on the movie.

Naruto screamed as well. Out of pure instinct, the blonde grabbed Neji's hand with all his might. He continued to clutch the pale-eyed boy's hand until his heart rate started going back to normal. The tan boy then realized what he was doing and quickly let go of Neji's pale hand.

"G-Gomen." Naruto said quickly as he forced back a blush that was threatening to appear on his face. He seemed to be blushing quite often during this vacation.

"It's fine. I told you that you could hold my hand." Neji flashed the blonde a handsome grin and then returned to watching the movie.

If Sasuke could have felt his arms at that point, he would have punched Neji right in his face. Sasuke shook his head to rid himself of that thought. Why should he care about what Neji and his dobe did? Correction, Naruto was not his and Sasuke did not want Naruto to be his anything. At least that's what Sasuke convinced himself to think.

The movie soon ended and everyone was frozen stiff. The movie's ending showed that the killer had not really died and that he would more than likely continue to kill again(3).

"Shit! That was scary!" Kiba blurted out as the credits came on the screen.

"It sure was!" Sakura added in. "Sasuke's I'm still scared! Hold me!" The pink-haired girl cuddled closer to the raven and Sasuke grimaced at the contact.

"Sakura, stop trying to molest Sasuke!" Ino yelled as she let go of Sasuke's arm and began trying to pry the shorter girl off of his other arm.

"Temari," Shikamaru said. His voice sounded more concern than usual. "Are you okay?"

"I… I'm fine, Shika-kun!" Temari gave her boyfriend a smile. She loosened her grip on his arm, but Shikamaru then removed his arm completely from her grip and wrapped it around her shoulder.

"You don't have to act tough all the time." Shikamaru tried his best to use his regular lazy tone, but Temari could hear the worry in his voice. She then smiled at him once again.

"Oh, is big, strong Shika-kun going to save little Temari-chan from the bad guys?" Temari smirked as Shikamaru scowled.

"You ruin one of the only moments we act like a real couple, you know." The lazy boy replied, which caused Temari to laugh at him.

Naruto was still sitting on the loveseat. The blonde was too afraid that if he moved the murderer from the movie would somehow popped out from behind him and stab him right in the back or something along those lines. Sasuke noticed the tan boy's frighten expression and moved quickly from his spot while Ino and Sakura were busy fighting once again.

"Are you okay, dobe?" Sasuke asked; his voice held his normal stoic tone.

"I-I'm fine." Naruto said as he was snapped out of his thoughts of all the different way the murderer could kill him.

"You don't look fine." Neji interrupted. "You look very pale." The older boy then pointed to Naruto's face. Sasuke's eyebrow twitched in irritation. Neji had once again made Naruto pay attention to him instead of Sasuke. This had to stop.

"I'm fine!" Naruto pouted as he stood up from his position on the loveseat. "Really I am. I'll see you guys in the morning. I'm sooo tired." Naruto then made his way through the crowded living room to head toward his room.

The two ravens stared at one another; their eyes narrowing as the stare continued on. The two stubborn boys then looked away from each other. Sasuke then followed Naruto to their room.

Once Sasuke entered the room he shared with Naruto he found the blonde already dressed in nightclothes and laying in his bed with the covers bundled around him. Sasuke let a laugh slip through his mouth. Naruto heard the sudden sound and jumped up to see Sasuke standing in the doorway.

"Oh, it's just you." Naruto sighed as he lay back down on his bed.

"We're you expecting Neji to come up here and comfort you?" Sasuke said irritably. Naruto sat up and looked at the raven with a confused look.

"Why would I want Neji to come into our room?" Naruto asked. Sasuke wanted to hit head off of something hard. Was it possible for one person to be this dense?

Sasuke closed the door and walked over to his own bed. "You do realize he likes you?" Sasuke asked as he opened a draw on his dresser to find some clothes to sleep in.

"I like him too." Sasuke stopped what he was doing when he heard Naruto's words. "He's a really good friend." He should have expected that answer.

"..." Sasuke said nothing as he removed his black shirt and replaced it with a loose white one.

"Wait, Sasuke you did mean he likes me as a friend, right?" Naruto asked. He voice sounded a bit panicked. Naruto began to pout when Sasuke refused to answer him once again. "Saaasukeee!!" Naruto whined. "Please tell me you meant he likes me like a friend!"

"I'm not going to talk to some one as dense as you." Sasuke replied as he began to take off his jeans. Naruto was getting used to seeing the raven change, as much as he hated to admit that fact.

"Ha! You just did." Naruto shouted at him as he pointed his finger toward the pale boy.

"Hn. Dobe."

Naruto laugh again. He finally won a fight between the two of them. Well, part of one. Sasuke still refused to tell him anything about Neji liking him. It's not that Naruto cared that Neji might be into guys (he liked a guy after all). Naruto had just always seen the Hyuuga boy as a friend and nothing more.

Naruto then noticed that Sasuke had laid down in his own bed and turned out the light. Naruto whimpered lightly and Sasuke then rolled over to face the blonde.

"Uh… Sasuke." Naruto's voice was somewhat timid. "Could… Could we leave the light on tonight?" Naruto flashed the raven a brilliant smile, but in the darkness Sasuke could not see said smile.

Naruto heard a sigh come from the raven-haired boy and then the light clicked on. "Only for tonight." Sasuke said as he rolled over so that his back faced the taller boy.

"Thanks, Sasuke!" Naruto beamed at the raven's back. "I owe you one."

"Whatever." Since Sasuke was sure that Naruto could not see him, he let a smile form on his lips. Even if he could not put words to his feelings toward the blonde idiot, he could no longer deny that they were there.

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The next morning started out like the previous two had. Naruto woke up early, but he woke up after Kiba and Lee went out for their run. The blonde used the bathroom and then headed toward the kitchen to prepare his usual breakfast, ramen.

Sleeping with the light on had proved to be quite a challenge. Naruto did not want the light to be off (the movie had affected him more than he thought), but he found it hard to sleep since he was not used to it being on while he tried to sleep. Naruto rubbed a sleepy eye as he sat down to eat his meal.

The kitchen seemed to be somewhat eerie without anyone else down there with the blonde. With the exception of a few minutes during the second night he had stayed at the beach house, Naruto was always with some one else.

After a moment of letting the silence sink in, Naruto continued eating his ramen. Although as the blonde continued to eats his breakfast, he became nervous from the heavy silence of the room. And as of answering a silent pray from the tan boy, footsteps were then heard coming down the stairs and heading toward the kitchen.

"Good morning." Neji's voice sounded a little groggy as he walked farther into the kitchen.

"Good morning." Naruto replied after swallowing a mouth full of his noodles. Neji gave a small yawn as he walked over to the refrigerator. He pulled out a carton of orange juice and then poured himself a cup of the orange liquid. The raven then walked over to Naruto and sat down in the seat next to his.

"Did you sleep okay?" Neji asked after taking a drink from his glass. "You looked shaken up before you went upstairs."

For some strange reason Naruto thought that if Neji had been Sasuke, he would have asked if he had a nightmare.

"Naruto?" Neji asked when the blonde did not respond. Naruto pushed those thoughts aside when he noticed Neji was waiting for an answer.

"Oh yeah. I slept fine." Naruto said as he gave a nervous laugh. 'As fine as I could sleep with a fucking bright light in my eyes.' Naruto thought to himself as he shoved more noodles into his mouth.

"If you didn't like horror movies, you should have said something, Naruto." Neji said after a moment. Naruto paused in his chewing to listen to the raven. It scared the blonde how Neji seemed to be able to tell what was on his mind.

'Maybe with those eyes of his, he can really see right through me.' Naruto held back a laugh that threatened to slip threw his noodle-filled mouth.

"I mean it's not like anybody would have made fun of you. Hinata and Shino left before the movie started." Neji paused to take another drink of his juice. "You could have just left with them."

"No, I was fine with the movie." Naruto said as he wiped the corner of his mouth clean with the back of his hand. "Sure, it made me a bit… jumpy afterwards, but that's just what horror movies do. I'm fine now."

"I'm glad to hear that." Neji smiled at the tan boy once again and then took another sip of his orange juice. After noticing the smile, Naruto could not help but remember Sasuke's words from the previous night.

'You do realize he likes you?' Sasuke's voice rang through his head and he could feel his face getting hot. 'Damn it!' Naruto inwardly cursed. 'That's twice in five minutes that I've thought about Sasuke-teme.'

Neji then brushed a strand of long raven hair behind his shoulder. The pale-eyed boy's mouth opened slightly as if he was going to say something, before he could speak, the two boys heard the front door open and closed.

"Okay, Lee." Kiba said in an irate tone. "For the last time, I said that I would think about joining the track team. That's not a definite 'no' or a 'yes' yet." The brunette then walked into the kitchen, followed by a somewhat sullen looking Lee.

"He's been trying to recruit me since we started high school." The older boy said under his breath to Naruto. "I'm grateful that he hasn't been nagging me about the subject lately."

Naruto then let out a hushed chuckle. He remembered that Kiba had said that he would be good on the track team, but he now realized the brunette had probably said that so that Lee would get off his back. It seemed like no one wanted to sacrifice their sanity to hang around Might Gai. Naruto was happy that Lee was not as bad as the green-clad teenager's favorite teacher just yet.

"So what are we going to do today, Kiba-san?" Lee asked after Kiba had made it perfectly clear that he no longer wished to discuss the track team.

"Well, I saw an ad in town the other day. It was talking about a small fair that's being held about five miles away from Konoha." Kiba smiled when he saw the exited looks from Lee and Naruto. "I thought everyone would enjoy going to that."

"Kiba, you are so cool!!" Naruto yelled as he raised a fist into the air. The blonde joked in his mind as he pretend to debate whether or not he should hug the dog lover.

"I'm gonna tell the others when they all get down here, so don't go ruining the surprise." Kiba then pulled out what looked like a granola bar from a cupboard behind him. He then removed the wrapper and bit into the piece of food.

The other three nodded and then returned to whatever they had been doing before the conversation had started.

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(1) In comes Anko and Ibiki!! They had to be in here. I love Anko's threat XD.

(2) My friends always tell me this. Yes, I'm one of those people who get really scared during horror movies ((and yet I continue to torture myself and watch them XD lol)).

(3) If anyone wanted to know, I pictured the group watching I Know What You Did Last Summer. I love that movie. And it did scare the shit out of me when I first saw it ((grant it I was like 10 years old at the time)).


Okay I lied. I wanted to end the night. But at least I did move on to the fourth day. And of course there is more NejiNaru X3. I can't help that I love that pairing so much. But not as much as SasuNaru ((or NaruSasu… I'm not picky when it comes to who's the seme)). BTW, don't you just love Sasuke's jealousy? I feel ridiculous because I used the stupid ol' horror movie cliché. What am I going to do next? Sasuke accidentally falls on top of Naruto:sigh: I'm hopeless.

And I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm bashing Naruto a little in this chapter. I just love Dense!Naruto. So just remember, he's my favorite character in the series. I don't hate him. I love him X3 :hearts:.

Actually, if there's anyone I hate right now it's Sasuke. And why? Well, let's just said because a certain raven hair teme killed a certain pale snake-like man, a certain blonde Akatsuki member had to go seek him out and kill said raven for killing said snake man. The situation, unfortunately, ended in said blonde's death… So Sasuke. I'm blaming you for his death. :crying while frantically waving arms around: YOU BASTARD I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU:sobbing: I hate you…:falls to floor crying: You bastard. Sorry about that little outburst. I'm pathetic, yes, I know. I will always morn Deidara in my own way. I love you always and forever Deidara :crying one again: