My eighth chapter! I'm so glad this story is coming out the way I want it and that you guys are enjoying the capsules of midgets in my brain that come up with my ideas. I found a beta too! YamiTenshi, she's super awesome! (Sorry to those that e-mailed me asking me, but spot is taken.) Inspiration is coming all over for me for this story, I already have up to chapter 11 planned all in my head. I even had to jump out of the shower when one of my insights popped up to me. (I didn't want to lose it, heh.)
Anyways, let's stop this useless babbling.
-Look back to previous chapters if you want an briefing on the disclaimers.-
Chapter 8: Invite to Me a Breath of Fresh Air.
What Comes After the Rain
Naruto was beyond frustrated and was even close to his limit. Sasuke was such a jerk! He was like Sherlock Holmes when it came to finding something that he could use and turn it on Naruto. Even with all of this stuff swimming in his head ready to jump out of the water and devour any happiness that may get too close to the water, he couldn't help but to lay down at night and laugh at Sasuke's expressions, how he did things, and how he reacted to the little things that Naruto did. Naruto scratched at his head and beat himself up every time he'd even think about Sasuke and it didn't have any blood or didn't involve a chainsaw or someone whose last name is Uchiha losing a head. He shouldn't be thinking about a man this much right? That is definitely not normal! He may not be normal, but that even surpasses his abnormalities with flying colors.
Tonight, I'm so totally dreaming about killing him. Naruto thought, twitching his left eye and clenching and unclenching his fist at his sides. He watched Sasuke outside ordering around his maids who were carrying Naruto's belongings in small brown boxes. Sasuke walked up the sidewalk with his eyes at a downcast looking at the pavement. Sasuke glanced up and caught the blonde's stare and gave a small smirk that nearly sent Naruto's blood to a boiling point.
On second thought, I'm going to torture the hell out of him in my dream. Killing him is too merciful..
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A week passed, a single week, since Naruto moved in, and he was going crazy! Sasuke knew where Naruto was all the time. How about a breath of fresh air, please? Naruto would be trying to hide in the closet to call Kiba and let him in on his current situation, and of course he'd talk his usual way because he's 'supposedly' by himself, and as soon as he'd leave that closet there he would be that arrogant smirk telling him to strip. Of course, now Naruto would always wear extra clothes when he was trying to hide and call Kiba, even though Sasuke hadn't seen everything up to this date, it was still pretty useful.
On top of that, talking to Sasuke was like trying to beat a conversation out of a brick. Naruto would sit down at one of the many tables in that house and try to talk to him. Sasuke would just sit there and quietly sip at whatever was in his hands, and blink in response. Naruto would sit there and do one of those questions like, "You know, right?", Sasuke would stand up and walk out of the room, like Naruto wasn't there trying to have a friendly conversation. Sasuke would only talk to Naruto on his own terms, and whenever Naruto would say something that sounded in the least bit big-headed, telling him that he'd never be better than him.
Naruto rubbed at his messy hair in frustration, trying to get that bastard out of his head. Big bags have formed under Naruto's eyes mainly due to the lack of sleep, and his hair was messier than usual. Naruto become less than kind during his week at Sasuke's. Someone would come up and say 'Hi' to him and he'd reveal fangs and hiss heatedly at them. He's beaten up more than twice as many people than what he used to, just for looking at him wrong. No more than two days ago did he chase a girl scout down the road for trying to sell him cookies that he didn't like.
Naruto was sent to the office for doing an "Up-yours no jutsu.", he thought it was pretty funny, but apparently the teacher wasn't amused. Instead of going to the office he decided to take the rest of the day off, so he sat outside on one of the benches in the school yard. Naruto looked at up at the sky and concluded that school was at it's last period, because he saw Shikamaru walk onto the roof and lay down.
Naruto sighed and flipped open his phone to see if he had gotten any new messages, and to his pleasure, he had gotten none. He shut his phone and dropped it making the phone bounce on his chest and twirl until it rocked to a stop. Closing his eyes and tossing his head on the back of the bench, he heaved a sigh and let the sun coax him into a state of sleep.
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Three people noticed that blond sitting on the bench, looking in a way fearsome. His hair in a mess with his clothes bagging over his body as he laid in a languid way with his legs spread far apart and his arms separated from his body, giving the impression that he was bigger than what he actually was. They also noticed that he had a cast on, all three wondered how the hell he managed to beat up people with one hand.
The three stared at each other with skeptical looks. The one in the middle had dark skin, a ponytail tied high on his head, a tattoo of a spider that stretched from the side of his face down to the collar bone on his neck, making him look quite scary, but not as terrifying as it would be if he would smile and reveal sharp as a knife teeth. The one on the left, a girl, was short in height, but was a great deal to handle in attitude. She had her wild red hair kept underneath a white beanie with a chunk of bangs crossing her face from one side to another. Her favorite weapon was a flute that she kept at her side, and when it came down to it she'd whack someone over the head with it. The most dangerous looking one was on the right, he looked alarming, but was surprisingly a gently giant. He was heavy in weight and tall in height. He had parts of his hair missing on his head, but the remaining parts were tied in a short ponytail.
"Let's fucking go! He's not as tough as everyone says. Damn, why are you guys being such pussies? For Heaven's sake, he's got a fuckin' cast on!" The girl yelled in a whisper as she stole a glance at the sleeping blond.
"Tayuya, please watch your language." The big man said looking down on the girl with soft eyes.
"Jiroubou, oh my God, such your fat ass up, and go over there and eat him! It'll be a problem with boss if he actually does become the toughest in the district!" Tayuya shouted, glaring angrily at the two, who looked down at the ground knowing that she was right.
"Shut your mouth, Tayuya. We're going." The tan man said, finding a spider on a tree that they were next to, and picked it up letting the long legs trek over his hand and up his arm.
"Thank God! At least Kidoumaru got some balls!" The three made their way over to the snoring blond, and the closer they got the more they noticed Naruto's feminine face, the three were suddenly undaunted by the blond as they approached him. The sun kissed gently at his tan skin giving him a tamed and docile look. The baggy clothes hung loosely at his body, making them realizing that he wasn't bulky, but in fact quite slender.
Tayuya laughed as she stuck her flute back into her back pocket and whispered to Kidoumaru that he could easily handle this, who let out a devilish smile in response.
"Oi, dick-head! Get the fuck up! We got some words that need to be said to you." Kidoumaru yelled. Naruto's nose twitched in agitation. He slowly opened his blue eyes, making the three jump back and the girl quickly blush as well as Kidoumaru who quickly hushed it down and returned his glare to Naruto, bearing his pointy teeth.
Naruto gave him a tired and uninterested look, tossed his head to each side, then threw his head back again.
"Hey! Listen to us!" Tayuya yelled at him, getting ready to strike, she decided against it and retracted her hand back to her side. Naruto pulled his head back up and looked at the group once again, fighting with his mind to try and figure out their names.
"Is it true that you're trying to become number one at this school?" Kidoumaru asked, he'd been hearing about Naruto, and they didn't even go to the same school. His boss ran the system, and was feared like hell and just about everyone knew him. Naruto's name had popped up before, but now it's everywhere, and everyone was talking about his violent streak.
"Number one? What the hell are you guys talking about?" Naruto looked up at the red-head who was staring back at him through narrowed eyes. Naruto winked, letting a blinding smile spread across his face. Tayuya blushed and stepped towards Naruto holding out a ready fist, but was stopped from going any closer by Jiroubou.
"Hey dare you! You fucking bastard! I'ma fucking kill you!" Naruto let out a sigh. Ah, rejection, what a bitch. Naruto stood up and brought his arms behind him for a good stretch, still being conscious of his cast. That's when the three noticed that he wasn't that tall either, actually Tayuya could look him right in the eyes with no problem.
How the hell did this guy pop up on the radar?! All three of them thought in unison.
"Apparently you aren't here just for anything, because looking at your school uniform you aren't even from this school." Naruto looked at the three dressed in black and blue uniforms. Naruto's school didn't have a school uniform code, it was optional, but with all things, that cost money.
The spider one in the middle pointed out a finger at Naruto, exposing a sharp nail. "Are you trying to over throw Konoha or not?!" Naruto was suddenly very awake. His eyes snapped open and his jaw hung slightly. Konoha was sort of like a gang organization that was ran by only the toughest, and one of the criteria's to be in Konoha was that you had to be in school. Some people would flunk twelfth grade several times to stay in it. Naruto's knitted his eyes-brow together trying to remember who ran it, it was rumored that the last (1)souban had been killed, and now there's an even bigger dog than the last guy in there running it inside out.
"Pft, what the hell do I look like being in that shitted out excuse for a gang? I could wipe my ass with that gang." Naruto lied, rubbing the back of his head trying to get the annoying itch to go away. Of course he tried to get in, but no one ever came to talk to him until now. He'd do over the top stuff just to pop up on their radar, but it all proved futile. He sort of wondered what made them come to him now.
"Shitted out excuse? You do know that you're talking about Konoha right?" The big guy said. Naruto's eyes fixated on him. He was thinking about attacking him first if anything were to arise, but listening to his voice, he could tell that he wasn't the toughest. Naruto flicked his eyes over to the one in the middle and decided that he was the toughest because the two were at least two feet away from him and he spoke directly to Naruto with no hesitation.
"Please, I'd first be in Sound before joining you pussies." Sound was, in truth and all, the worst group out there. They were even afraid to pass notes during class. Naruto knows a study group more maniacal than them.
Kidoumaru gritted his teeth, just about having enough of his gang being slandered. He charged at Naruto with a ready and cocked back fist. Naruto caught it and used the force that could of crushed his face to fling the spider like man behind him making him hit his head against a tree before slowly falling to the ground. He slowly walked up to him and crouched down beside him. Grabbing Kidoumaru by the collar, he set him against his knee and used his free hand to punch him in the face several times, just to make sure that he wasn't going to get up without any complications anytime soon. Naruto turned back around and saw the biggest one charging at him growling loudly. Naruto squatted, getting ready to jump and kick the big guy in the chest.
Before they could collide a voice called out, "Halt!" Jiroubou stopped dead in his tracks, less than five feet away from Naruto. The gang members that were still standing turned and looked at the raven that was approaching with his hands shoved in his black pants, making his black jacket hang over his hands.
"U-Uchiha Sasuke!?" Tayuya gasped out. Jiroubou took a step away from Naruto and turned to peer at the School president.
"Take a hit at him and I'll see that you two are expelled from your school, and you'll find it extremely difficult trying to find another one to get into" The both backed off of Naruto, knowing that the Uchiha really had that kind of power. Sasuke was so well known at their school, that during a school president vote Sasuke had actually been elected and won, but all of the votes were void because he didn't even go to their school.
They turned and glared at Naruto. Jiroubou took an alternative route to his ally, and walked around Naruto, whose eyes narrowed in on him like a target. He tossed him over his shoulder and walked back to Tayuya. She shot a glare at Naruto, before leaving along with Jiroubou she mumbled, "Just wait 'till we get Kimimaro, won't be so tough then, especially without Uchiha Sasuke."
Naruto watched them until they vanished from his sight, then he turned his head to glare heatedly at Sasuke. "What the hell!? Why did you do that!?" Naruto screamed in frustration. Doesn't he know that he has a reputation to uphold?! Of course, he wasn't planning on joining their gang, if that's what Sasuke thought, but how dare he break the fight up!
"Get in the car." Was all that Sasuke said before leaving Naruto behind and walking out towards the parking lot. Sasuke scrunched his eyebrows together thoughtfully. What the hell were people from Konoha doing talking to Naruto? I know Naruto wasn't planning on joining them. Hell, that's probably why they were fighting, but why Naruto? Thoughts of how many times and how often Naruto beat up people ran through his mind, and some of them must've been from Konoha. That's probably how he ended up on their radar, especially from this week…
"Hey!? Are you listening to me!?" Naruto screamed, to which Sasuke paid no attention to. He was still stuck in his thoughts. Once they both got into the car, the locked in space made it almost impossible to ignore the loud shrieks coming from the passenger side of the car.
"Sasuke! Listen!" Sasuke turned his head towards Naruto, realizing for the first time that he was actually speaking. "Don't do that again, because I have a fucking status to keep up. Just think for a second what they must've thought! They think that I need someone to come in and save me! And Uchiha Sasuke no less! I have a well known reputation for hating you as well." Naruto said accidentally letting that last part slip through his lips. He stared at Sasuke with slightly uneasy eyes, wondering what Sasuke was going to say. Sasuke turned on the car and remained silent. Naruto bit his bottom lip and turned to look out of the window. He watched as they left out of the school, then he heard Sasuke's voice coming from the driver's side of the car.
"I only interrupted because I was there, and I'm not going to have you turning into a gang rat while I'm present. Do it on your own time, and don't think this favor will come around often. I have more important things to do than baby-sit you, learn how to take care of your own damn self for once in a while." Sasuke said, making the words sink down deep into the pit of Naruto's stomach. Even though he'd hate to admit it, Sasuke's words, for the very first time, stung him a little. Naruto turned his head around, not facing the Uchiha.
"I don't need your damned favor. I'm stronger than you think." Naruto said scowling at the black mat that laid beneath his feet.
"You're not even close to being as strong as me." Sasuke replied smugly, but no smirk appeared on his face, showing just exactly how serious he was.
"You think so?" Naruto retorted, making that sentence sound more like a threat rather than a question.
"I'm guessing that you don't remember who has control over you."
They rode the rest of the way in uncomfortable silence, with Naruto gritting angrily and Sasuke gripping so hard at the steering wheel that the white of his knuckles were exposed.
Damn you Sasuke…
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Two weeks had passed since that day, and Naruto hadn't seen the people from Konoha since that time. He's also been avoiding the pale bastard. Whenever Sasuke would tell him to do something, he'd stiffen his upper lip and do whatever it was that Sasuke had said. That day, what Sasuke had said really seemed to bother him.
How could his words sit so much in Naruto's mind? Believe him, he's been told worse, so why is this sinking through his skin? So if Naruto really wanted to join Konoha, Sasuke wouldn't care just as long as it wasn't done around him? That's like throwing your life away, joining a gang. Naruto basically trickled it all down to the common fact that Sasuke hated him and didn't care in the least bit what Naruto did with his life, just as long as it wasn't done in front of him, to where he'd have to bare witness to Naruto's pathetic existence.
Naruto knew he was thinking too much about the subject, but whenever he'd sit down and try to think about something Sasuke's words would nip him in the butt and force him to try and decipher the true meaning behind that pale bastards words.
Sasuke noticed Naruto trying to avoid him and not talk to him and fell right into play. He barely told Naruto what to do, and sat up every night listening to Naruto's snore. Of course he knew that Naruto hated him, but never actually thought he'd say it in the open. Sasuke was really starting to get annoyed at Naruto. Whenever he told him to do something he'd actually do it, and without any complaints either. The other day Sasuke told him to go bring in some cow shit for the plants. Naruto just abided and went out, bringing back a big white bag of cow dung, after setting it down he quietly walked away and went to Sasuke's room.
Naruto was riding on every single one of his nerves, and he wasn't even saying anything! Sasuke had just about enough! Of, course he wasn't going to just sit around and let something bother him, Uchiha Sasuke!
Sasuke stood up angrily from his desk and stormed out of his room. He walked around the entire mansion until he found Naruto sitting in the living staring at the fire in the fireplace through hallow eyes. The sun had already gone down several hours ago, and the light from the fire gave Naruto a sullen look to his already sad looking face.
Naruto didn't even bother to look at him, he simply got up and started towards the entrance.
"Naruto." Naruto froze as he brought his right foot up to meet with his left one and stared out of the door. "Naruto, I command you to talk." Naruto turned around and met his angry eyes with Sasuke's condescending eyes.
"Oh, I am, but not to you." Naruto walked out of the room, knowing that he was being following by the Uchiha. He started up the steps and heard the footsteps of Sasuke walking right behind him. Naruto was stopped when he felt a cold hand clamp around one of his wrist. He turned around expecting to see the same pair of smug eyes staring at him, but saw sad eyes instead. Sasuke's eyes held a bit of loneliness as his mouth opened up looking unsure of what to say.
Sasuke stared at Naruto for a few seconds before walking ahead up the stairs dragging a stunned Naruto behind him. He held up his hands to silence the workers in his house from asking him anything. When he got to his room, he pulled Naruto in before slamming the door shut and tossing Naruto onto the bed. Sasuke stood at the door staring at Naruto. Turning off the big over head light, he let the dim light from his desk attempt to light the room.
Naruto laid on the big bed, eyes wide, and mouth hung open. He didn't even notice Sasuke crawling on top of him. Sasuke caught both of Naruto's wrist and held them above the blonde's head, being slightly more gentle on the wrist that had a cast wrapped around it. Naruto snapped out of his daze and let out a small yelp. He looked at Sasuke and quickly shut his mouth when he saw the look on the pale face. Naruto turned his head away and looked at the light on the other side of the room, fighting desperately to not look at Sasuke.
Naruto took notice that the cold hands left his wrists, and felt his head being turned to look at the Uchiha. Sasuke's eyes held such a miserable look. Naruto had never seen him with this face. Is he actually suffering? Naruto asked himself, getting a tingly feeling in his stomach. The feeling told him that he knew he wasn't going to reject Sasuke at this moment, but he felt like he had to believe that he would have.
A blush quickly appeared on his face when he noticed Sasuke holding him down with his weight, and their bodies were pressing together. He was silently enjoying the heat coming from the other, but quickly murdered that thought and dropped it into the back of his mind never to be seen again. How weird! Don't think that! He's a guy! Naruto squeezed his eyes shut, and tried to force his body deeper into the bed, in an attempt to get Sasuke's body further away from his.
"Naruto…" Sasuke said quietly, as he stared at Naruto's whiskered face. Naruto's eyes slowly opened as his heart skipped a beat when Sasuke said his name in such a way. "I command you to speak to me, and I command you," Sasuke moved his body down and rested his head on Naruto's chest, making Naruto's body tense up. Oh no! He's going to rip through my flesh and tear out my heart with his teeth! I know it! Instead Naruto felt Sasuke relax his body on top of his own and felt a harsh breath of air hit his abdomen, "Sleep here with me, just for tonight."
Naruto couldn't fight himself from doing it, he brought around a hand and placed it on top of Sasuke's black locks, noticing that his hair was so soft. He'd always thought that it would be hard from moose or hair spray.
Naruto's body began to feel so relaxed as he felt Sasuke's chest rise and fall onto his own body.
This is odd…Naruto thought as he placed the encased hand on Sasuke's back as the other one massaged the black hair.
He could feel Sasuke's breathing slowing down, he slowly lifted his head and let a gentle smile spread across his face. (2)"He's sleeping…" Naruto whispered to no one, as he used Sasuke's heartbeat as a lullaby to drift off to sleep.
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Not a day later the relationship had repaired itself fully. Naruto pushed last night into the back of his head, pretending that Sasuke had simply said that he was sorry. As for Sasuke, he was hating himself for being the first to give in. At the moment he wanted nothing more than to carve out Naruto's heart with a spoon and dump him in the back yard for everyone to see his corpse. He could guarantee anyone that that would not be happening again.
He silently regretted it even more, because Naruto was going around torturing his workers again. Sasuke let out a sigh, wishing that he would've just left Naruto stay quiet. Sasuke sipped at his black coffee as he heard the maids and other workers in his house yell or cry out with frustration.
Naruto rode around the mansion on a skateboard, smacking everyone he passed by in the ass. He rolled around the butler and watched his body become stiff with anxiety. Naruto snorted before cocking his hand back and landing a smack on the butlers wide ass that managed to even sting his hand. Naruto shook his hand to try and get the painful tingling out. Naruto rode past into the kitchen and picked up a shiny red apple and took a big bite out of it, using his thumb to wipe off the juice that trickled down his chin.
Sasuke looked over his laptop and reached out a hand for the cup of coffee, watching Naruto ride past him and slap the ass of the maid doing the dishes. The lady dropped the dish in the sink and let out a frustrated cry, before stomping out of the kitchen mumbling, "Stupid fucking fucker always doing all of this fucking shit…"
"Ah, there you are." Sasuke said heaving a sigh, shutting his laptop he took off his oval shaped glasses and set them on the table and rubbed at his eyes. Naruto stopped on his skateboard and took another bite out of the apple.
"What?" Naruto kicked the skateboard out from under him and walked over to Sasuke.
"I was just thinking that there was possibly nothing that could turn this headache into a full blown migraine and there you are." Sasuke said as he rubbed at the side of his head.
"There's another way for you to get a migraine, look in the mirror. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, how's about I teach your smug ass some English?", Naruto held up the apple and inspected it, checking to see if it was the right specimen for this test. Suddenly Naruto stuck the apple in Sasuke's face, who didn't even flinch and stared at Naruto through irritated eyes.
"What?" Sasuke held up a hand and pushed the tan hand out of his face. Naruto retracted the apple and ran a thumb over the smooth red skin.
"Say 'apple'." Naruto said as he looked at Sasuke with gleaming eyes.
"That's easy. Apparu." Immediately after saying it Sasuke noticed a significant difference between what he said and what Naruto said. Naruto let out a chuckle and repeated himself several times trying to show Sasuke how to pronounce "L".
"Ap-ple" Naruto said as he held his tongue at the bottom of his front teeth to get the "L" sound.
"Apparu…" Sasuke said, knitting his eyebrows with frustration. Naruto rolled his eyes and set the apple rather harshly on the table. He bent down so that he was face to face with Sasuke.
He opened his mouth and placed the tip of his tongue, once again, to the bottom of his teeth. "Lull…..la…by…" Sasuke stared into Naruto's mouth and studied the movements intently before opening his mouth to try it out for himself.
"Rar….ra….bie…" Naruto let out an exasperated sigh, he stood up straight and pinched in between his eyes. Shutting his eyes and opening them again, Naruto returned back down to Sasuke.
"Say it the same time I say it." Both Naruto and Sasuke opened their mouths at the same time.
"Lull..."
"Rorr…" Both stared into each other's mouth wondering what the hell the other was doing.
The butler rushed in with a small red ball in his hand. Stepping on a skateboard, he let out a panicked yelp. He dropped the ball that fell to the floor, which gently rolled under the table. He held his arms out to keep his balance, but instead accidentally pushed Naruto's back and crashed onto the floor, causing a loud bang.
The butler rubbed at the back of his head trying to soothe the wound, when he looked up his eyes widened. There Naruto was face first on Sasuke's face. There was an uncomfortable clash of teeth and just as soon as it was hit both Naruto and Sasuke quickly pulled away and held at their throats like they just drunk poison.
"Uchiha-sama! My apologizes!" The old man pleaded as he bowed several times before quickly running out with a panic stricken face. Naruto gagged a few time before watching a drip of blood splash on the ground. Naruto's hand automatically flew up to his lip and rubbed at an open wound.
"Sasuke you dick! Look what you did!" Sasuke turned his head and glared holes into Naruto's head.
"Me!? You left your fucking skateboard laying on the damn ground. Who the hell is at the wheel in your brain, because apparently he's drunk at the wheel!" Sasuke noticed Naruto's bleeding lip, and traced a finger over his bottom lip to see if Naruto returned the favor. After feeling just a smooth lip, he felt relieved that there was no cut. Naruto was pissed that Sasuke didn't get cut.
"How the hell did I get cut, and you didn't!? Do you have like gophers in there to help you gnaw at people?!" Naruto ran up to the counter and grabbed a cloth. After dampening it, he held it to his sore lip and let out a cry of frustration. Sasuke sat there for the a good ten minutes listening to Naruto bitch and complain. Finally a nerve in Sasuke's brain broke. He quickly stood up sending the chair that he was sitting on a good five feet behind him.
He grabbed his laptop and glared at Naruto. "Are you going to stop talking anytime soon? If I wanted to hear someone complain or talk I could just as easily flick on the television, at least they'd have something remotely interesting to bitch about. So if you don't wrap this up I'm just going to walk away." Sasuke placed his laptop on his side with his arm wrapped around it before leaving the room.
"Wait!" Naruto called from the floor, reaching out a hand towards Sasuke. Naruto's hand fell to the floor when he saw Sasuke vanish into the next room.
Damn, I'm regretting this already…
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The next day, during lunch Kiba was inspecting the cut on Naruto's lip like it was the key to winning a double homicide case. Naruto's hand flew up and covered his lip as he had to try and figure out an alternative to get that damn French fry into his mouth with the few inches of fingers that he had sticking out of his cast.
"How long have you been at the Uchiha's mansion?" Kiba asked as he looked away from the lip, now covered by Naruto's hand.
"About three weeks, maybe." Naruto pulled his head back and dropped a fry into his open mouth and happily chewed on it. Naruto thought about how it would've been if he'd never drop that letter in that locker. He would've still had his speech, wouldn't have to listen to anybody, would still be in his apartment. A blush quickly came to Naruto's face as he thought about all of those times Sasuke whispered into his ear or when he would do one of those 'undercover' perverted stuff. Meh, maybe staying at his house isn't all too bad…Naruto glanced up and noticed Kiba still trying to stare a hole into the hand that was covering his lip.
"So…what happened?" Kiba asked with his arms folded on the table, his butt was scooted so far off the chair that he was just about to fall out of the damn thing.
"How many times are you going to ask that? I told you already! I was trying to do a sit up and I came up too fast and my knee hit my lip!" Kiba rolled his eyes and fell back into his seat, realizing that it was useless to continue to ask him. That's been his story the past twenty-seven times, and twenty more times probably won't make a difference.
They ate in comfortable silence until Naruto finally spoke, "Hey Kiba?", Kiba slowly raised his eyes and a glop of ketchup fell from his bottom lip onto the fries below.
"Huh?" Kiba responded as he scooped up the fallen ketchup with a fry and popped it into his mouth.
"Have you ever been kissed before?" Kiba stopped chewing and traced his eyes down to his tray and stared at it for a few moments before looking up at his blond friend.
"No…" A light blush tinted the tan skin as he quickly looked away. Been kind of waitin' for you to come around…but I can't tell him that! Kiba let out a depressed sigh before returning to his fries.
"Yeah, me neither…" Naruto said as his thumb rubbed gently back and forth on the cut that bore itself on Naruto's bottom lip.
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Naruto returned to Sasuke's house and tossed his bag on the floor. He still hasn't been able to refer to the mansion as his home. It just didn't say home to him. Naruto carried several books in his hands, all from Iruka. This was a punishment for skipping Iruka's class so much. Sometimes Naruto wonders why that guy isn't a councilor, he'd probably do a hell of a lot better than that old perverted and forgetful bastard, Jiraiya.
Naruto dropped on the couch with an oomph! He spread out the books and scratched his head trying to figure out where he should begin. The sound of the door closing made Naruto turn around and notice Sasuke walking in. Sasuke caught Naruto eyes and began to walk over to him. Naruto, turning back around, quickly buried his face in the book and ignored Sasuke as he sat next to him and looked out the books reading the titles.
"Seems you're having trouble." Sasuke said, watching Naruto's face slowly reveal itself from behind the book.
"Reading isn't exactly one of my favorite subjects." Naruto glared at the books and beared his teeth at them.
Sasuke snorted before picking one up and opening it to the middle of the book, skimming over the words. "Well, in school intelligence is the key, and you're locked out." Sasuke set down the book letting a small smirk appear on his face. Naruto threw down the book that was in his hand which immersed itself with the other pile of books.
"Power is my key!" Naruto yelled victoriously, like he'd already won a battle with that poor war cry.
"That sounds like a challenge." The next thing Naruto knew he was on the ground, staring straight up at Sasuke. Releasing Naruto, Sasuke stood up with the same proud smirk still on his face. Naruto stood up on his feet, and looked at his cast, the damn thing was really starting to bother him, but for the moment he didn't care. He charged at Sasuke and brought them both down to the ground, they rolled around fighting to pin one another. The power struggled lasted for a bit over a minute before Naruto once again found himself staring into the Uchiha's eyes from on his back, panting. Sasuke leaned down closer to Naruto, and immediately noticed a pink blush dusting Naruto's features.
"Gah! What the hell!? Get off of me!" Naruto struggled to get one of his arms up, but found it futile underneath the Uchiha's weight added with his strength.
"No, I think I'm going to stay like this." Sasuke said as he leaned in so close that he could feel Naruto's breath coming out in small hitches.
"Get off of me! You really are a pervert!" Naruto closed his eyes and turned his head to the side, feeling the breath of Sasuke beat up against his cheek.
"Maybe, but that's not what you should be concerned about at the moment." Suddenly the phone rang, causing Sasuke to pull up, letting Naruto escape. Naruto quickly jumped up and ran to the telephone that was placed on a tabletop.
"Who is it?" Sasuke asked from behind him. Naruto squinted at the letters on the caller I.D., not quite sure if he was reading it right.
"Um, it says Uchiha Itachi." Naruto turned around and noticed Sasuke's face had turned to an infuriated expression. "Who is this?" Naruto was not answered as Sasuke stood up and walked towards the phone. His hand slightly hesitated before he picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Sasuke glanced over at Naruto and used his eyes in a way to tell Naruto go to sit over there for a minute. Naruto's eyes never left Sasuke as he went over to the big couch and sat down. He's never seen this many emotions on Sasuke's face in the whole time that he knew him!
Sasuke's face would change emotions, but his voice responded with the same stoic and emotionless voice.
"Yes." Sasuke answered with his teeth clenched tightly.
"No."
"I understand."
"That's not necess-"
"I understand."
"Hn." Naruto's head snapped back to Sasuke after he heard a beep. Sasuke slowly set the phone down and clenched his fist on the tabletop. Naruto was starting to become slightly worried, he could visible see Sasuke shake with anger as he stared down at the phone.
"Sasuke are you al-"
"Naruto," Sasuke interrupted, still not facing him though, "You should live somewhere else for a while."
"Hu…HUH!?"
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Chapter 9: Second-Hand Panicking:
Finally! I'm done! If I'm starting to get too cheesy please tell me, and I'll back off some!
(1)- An souban is head of the yakuza clan.
(2)- Remember, Sasuke is an insomniac! :D, Hoped some of you noticed that!
Thanks for all of your reviews! They really helped me to keep going, that and my usual side-kick of caffeine.
Welp, see you guys next weekend!
~ShonenYaoi
