ThankYou everyone for all your reviews! It has been a very long week and the reviews made me feel oodles of better! So, two weeks from now my exams are going to be starting... Which means I'm going to have to be studying alot. I don't know how my updates are going to be... I may update everything really fast because I need something to relive stress, or they may come really slow because I'm so stressed... Just keep a look out and don't lose hope inme! SmileyFace.
Alright so... I'm not all the happy with this Chapter. Not alot happens it's kinda just a buliding chapter which I really do hate, but have to use... Read my note at the bottom, i want you guys opinion on what I should do concerning this story. Don't worry it's nothing bad. Well it kinda is but... Oh you'll see.
Now I'm going to stop typing so you can read.
Chapter 9-
"Okey, I want you all to study up. You will have a quiz Monday. It'll be on what we've talked about so far. And journals are due Monday, beginning of class no exceptions Kiba!" Mr. L said looking directed at the brunette boy who groaned.
The bell rung and the students began to file out of the classroom.
"Alright! Time to go party!" Mizani said dancing out of the building.
"That's right." Gaara said giving her a small smile.
"Wait, Naruto do you have something to wear?" 'Oh man I forgot all about him!' She slapped her forehead.
"I'm sure I can find something in my closet." Sasuke let out a cough at which Naruto glared at, "What?"
"One- I doubt you'll be able to find anything without a week's worth of looking and two- I don't think you have anything that'll fit in with the club." The raven said as the made there way to their cars.
"He's right… you'll stick out like a redneck at Warped Tour." Mizani said a bit guiltily.
"Then where am I going to find something? We have what an hour before we need to be at the club?" the blonde asked.
"You could borrow some of my clothes." Sasuke stated with a shrug, "I mean you let me borrow yours, why not?"
The blonde shot him a bright grin, "Thanks Sasuke!"
The raven nodded, "So we'll meet up at The Akatsuki at 5?" he asked taking a look at his phone.
Everyone nodded and bid each other a good bye before Sasuke and Naruto drove off in the direction of the raven's house. Mizani took her time getting in her car, waiting for Gaara and driving home. They pulled into the driveway and Mizani was about to turn the car off before a thought popped into her head, "Wait… how are you going to change? You don't have your clothes."
"Ooohh yeah… I can call Temari and get her to drop them off." He said.
"Why don't we go pick them up?" Mizani asked, "I mean were already in the car and I'm sure it won't take no time."
Gaara seemed to think about it and he sighed, "Alright…"
'What in the world..?' she wondered backing out of the driveway and following his quiet directions. The silence in the car was driving Mizani mad, but she didn't want to break it, fearing that something was wrong.
"We're here." He stated just as quietly.
Mizani looked at the small, but quant house that was in a quiet neighborhood. There were rose bushes that had grown around the porch railing that filled the whole font of the house. The house itself was light tan in color with darker brown for all the framing and molding and the roof was shackled.
"I'll be right back." He told her getting out of the car, rather reluctantly Mizani noticed, and walked into the house.
'I wonder what's-' Memories from English a few days ago came flooding back to her.
I think some young people smoke because they have a lot of pressure in their lives. You know not everyone has the best home setting, so they may find the smoking sorta calms them I guess you would say. I also think that maybe smoke let's some people get away from it all. Whether it be things at home, or at school or even with their friends. They smoke to just be free from everything… Yeah, I do smoke for those reasons…
The raven girl smacked herself upside the head, "Of course he wouldn't want to be at home! Being at home is what's making him slowly kill himself." She fussed at herself but the realized that she was talking to herself and stopped as something else popped into her head.
But since meeting you, I haven't really wanted to…
She smiled to herself as Gaara climbed back into the car with a sigh. He sat a small black book bag in back seat, "Ready to go?" she asked taking his hand.
He gave her a small smile; she saw all the unease in his eyes melt away with it. Grinning happily they drove back to the house she shared with her best friend. They got out and walked into the house, Gaara began to head upstairs, but Mizani made a detour to the kitchen.
Raising an eyebrow, he asked, "What are you doing?"
She froze from where she was reaching into the freezer, the bag she had grabbed half way out of it, "Nothing…" she dragged out dramatically.
The red head read the package and shook his head with another small smile, "Fix me some too." He said.
Mizani giggled as she placed the chicken nuggets on the plate decoratively and placed them in the microwave. She turned to the cabinet beside the fridge, brought out two cups and opened the fridge, "Dr. Pepper, Sweet Tea, Pepsi or MelloYello?" she asked looking inside.
"Dr. Pepper." He chose earning a smile and a soft kiss from Mizani.
"I knew there was a reason I liked you." She grinned.
Once the microwave dinged and they placed an ample amount of ketchup on the plate, the couple walked up stairs to Mizani's room where they made their selves comfortable. Gaara, who had kicked his shoes off, was lying on her bed propped up on the pillow with the plate of chicken nuggets in his lap while Mizani was sitting on the floor, her back to the edge of the bed.
They sat in a comfortable silence eating their food. That was until Mizani broke it asking, "What should I wear?"
"I don't know, whatever you want to." Gaara as he picked up a chicken nugget and dumping it in the ketchup.
"I know, but I want to make a good first impression on your fans." She said laying her head back on the bed to look up at Gaara upside down, "Wouldn't want them rejecting you because of me."
"You will make a fantastic first impression and them, and if they reject our band because of you," Mizani held her breath for his answer, "Well then we didn't need them as fans."
'That's so…. Sweet…' Mizani thought happily grinning up at him.
After eating her fill of chicken nuggets, she walked over to her closet and looked into it, "Pants or skirt?"
"Whichever you're more comfortable in, because I'm sure with as much energy as you have, you'll be jumping and dancing all around the place." He answered with a soft smile.
"Well then how about we go with both."
She pulled out a black and red plaid tutu with buckles on the side and a pair of black legging that reached to just under her knees. Going back to the closet, she seemed to fish around for a shirt. A few minutes passed before she finally seemed satisfied with her shirt choice. The shirt she chose was not a shirt at all, it was a corset of all black with red ribbon typing the back of it the front was plain except for the black sequined heart in the middle.
"When did you buy that top?" Gaara wondered, "I didn't see that one when we went to Hot Topic."
Mizani let out a laugh, "Naruto got it for my birthday last year. He said it just screamed me, so he had to get it. Do you like it?"
He nodded, "And I'm sure I'll love it on you." He stood up and kissed her gently on the lips, "I'll go change in the bathroom."
"Alright." She said watching him walk into the bathroom, closing the door behind him, 'I wonder what he picked to wear…' Mizani mused changing into her outfit. She then began to debate on what shoes to wear. 'Hm…' she thought, 'I'll just ask Gaara.' She shrugged, digging into her closet and finding all her all her shoes.
She just happen to be throwing a shoe just as Gaara was walking out of the bathroom, it almost hitting him in that head, and it not for his outstanding reflexes, it would have if he hadn't of leaned back, "Mizani watch where you're throwing the shoes at please?" he asked.
"Oh! I'm sorrrryy…" he voice trailed off as she turned around saw Gaara. He wore a fish net shirt that seemed to connect to the fingerless gloves over his hands over that was a tank top of red with what looked like black spray paint starting from the bottom left corner and reaching to his top right shoulder. His skinny jeans were also black with red seems through them.
He must have grown self conscious over her gapping, for he scratched the back of his head, "Do I look okey…?" he asked.
Realizing she was staring, Mizani snapped out of it and smirked at him, "You look more than okey. You look to friggin' hot for your own good."
He gave a smirk and looked her up and down, "You know you don't have much room to talk."
They both laughed. Gaara pulled her close and gave her a loving kiss. Mizani pulled back with a grin, "Eyeliner time!" she said.
Chuckling, he walked them back into the bathroom and to the large mirror that hung over the sink. It could fit Mizani and perfectly fine, it could have in fact probably fit Naruto and Sasuke into the picture. The couple began to fix their eyeliner, and Mizani the rest of her makeup. It was Gaara who broke the silence that had fallen.
"I wonder how Sasuke and Naruto are doing…"
"You say if like they were playing to do something." Mizani laughed wiping off an eyelash that had fallen.
"I'm just saying that first Naruto offers his clothes to Sasuke and now Sasuke's offering out his clothes… I don't know about Naruto, but I know Sasuke is very... obsessive over his clothes." Gaara stated.
"I see what you mean…" the raven girl mused, "I wish they'd hurry up and just admit that they like each other, it's pretty obvious."
"But they won't, they're both too-"
"Stubborn." They said at the same time, causing them to look at each other and start laughing, well Gaara chuckling.
"I guess we'll see what tonight brings." The red head said pulling back from the mirror, done with his eyeliner.
"Dude… it's huge in here!" Naruto stated as he followed Sasuke into his house and further into the living room, 'It's like my house times two!' he added mentally.
"Blame my uncle. He could just give us a simple house, nnnooo… he had to go and flaunt our money and design this huge place." Sasuke said tossing his bag on the couch, "You hungry?" he asked.
"Something to snack on wouldn't hurt." Naruto shrugged, once again following Sasuke, but this time through the living room and into an even larger kitchen then he thought possible. It had state of the art of everything. He even thought there were a couple of things he had never even heard of.
Sasuke sighed as he looked into the cabinet where they keep all the snacks, "Looks like Itachi's fat self has eaten most of the snacks, we have pop-tarts and Cheetos: Jalapeño-"
"Jalapeño Cheetos!" Naruto shouted, reached over the raven and grabbing the bag before happily opening it and beginning to eat them.
Sasuke blinked from where he had frozen when Naruto had all but climbed over him to get to the chips, he turned to the blonde, "Was that necessary?"
Naruto grinned, "Yep!"
"Dobe." Sasuke muttered shaking his head.
"I'm not a dobe teme!" the blonde said.
"Whatever you say." The raven shrugged. He grabbed two bottles of Pepsi from the fridge, "You cool with Pepsi?" he questioned.
"Of course I am. It's only the best drink in the world." Naruto said as if he were slow.
"It was just a question dobe."
"Stop calling me a dobe teme!"
"I will when you stop acting like one." He turned to walk back through the dining room and the living room to go to the stairs, "Now come on, andlet's find you something to wear."
Naruto pouted as he followed the raven up the stairs eating his chips, 'Stupid teme… calling me a dobe…' even though he used the term teme as an insult, he couldn't help but feel as though it had a certain endearment to it; as though he was the one that gave him that name and nobody else.
Sasuke's room wasn't what Naruto expected.
It wasn't as neat and organized as he figured the teme would love to have, no it looked as though it was a disaster area; though as Naruto looked closer, he saw that it seemed to actually be and organized mess. Even though clothes were strewn around the room, all the shirts pants and coats were in different parts of the room. Everything in the room was like that.
'Of course he could turn a mess into... well not a mess… ' he thought not really finding a word to fit the situation.
"Hey, get in here." He heard Sasuke call from across the room where a door was partly opened. The blonde walked towards the door and opened it further to find that his closet was the complete opposite of his room. 'Dude… It's the total opposite of my room!' he thought letting out a laugh. Sasuke turned to face him, "What's so funny?"
"I was comparing your room to mine; they are completely opposite, much like our personalities."
Sasuke seemed to think about it, "True... Very true… now stop thinking and get over here so I can see what best suits you." He said waving the blonde over.
Rolling his eyes, Naruto walked over the join Sasuke who was at a floor to ceiling rack of nothing but black clothes. The blonde blinked at this, "Do you think you own enough black things?"
"I probably do… but that won't stop me from buying more." He stated pulling out a black vest with frayed sleeves. "Here." He said handing me the vest. "What size pants do you wear?"
"Usually anything in mediums... I don't know the actual numbers though." He answered.
The raven nodded his head and began to look at the lower level of the racks and brought out two pairs of pants, "Do you want skinnies or cargo pants?" he asked.
Naruto looked at both articles of clothing. The cargo pants were, of course, black with chains and studs hanging off of them. The skinnies were black with dark blue stitches along the sides and had a small skull on the pocket, "I'll take the cargo pants. We're going to a club; I need to be able to dance."
Nodding, Sasuke handed him the pants and put the others back. He then turned around where he was faced with a wall of nothing but white clothes. Easily he picked a long sleeved button up shirt and held it up the blonde and nodded once again, "There you go."
The blonde looked at the outfit as a whole and found that it looked very well together. He would've never found anything like this in his room and was glad Sasuke was letting him borrow the clothes so he wouldn't have to stick out, "I'm going to go change in the bathroom." At a nod from Sasuke, he walked out of the closet and into the bathroom.
He looked around the bathroom to find that it was a mixture of his room and closet. It seemed everything had its place; it was just haphazardly in that place. There was a can of hair spray and gel sitting on the sink, 'Ha! I knew it had to be gel to get his hair to spike like that!' he relished in his mental victory as he changed.
Walking out of the bathroom he asked, "Hey Sasuke where'd you put the- whoa…" Standing in the middle of the room was Sasuke. He wore a tight white tank top showing off his small but toned frame under a black short sleeved dress shirt with chains hanging from it. His skinnies were just that. They were skinnies. He would've thought them painted on if not for the fact that at the feet they were a bit bunched up, a sign that they were too long.
"Take a picture it'll last longer dobe." Sasuke stated with a smirked as he noticed the blonde's gawking.
He quickly recovered with a chuckled, "Oh trust me I took a mental one." He then thought about what he said, 'Did I just say that?' he glanced at Sasuke to see him a bit shocked himself. Naruto was the first to recover and asked, "So what now?"
"Now, we go to the bathroom." Sasuke said going into the room he just exited. He then opened a drawer and picked up a few things out of it and sat them on the counter. He then pointed to the edge of the bathtub, "Sit." He commanded.
"Huh? Why?" Naruto asked confused.
"You can just wear the clothes and not stand out at The Akatsuki; you have to complete the look." He said holding up a pencil of eyeliner, "No sit down, cause I'm sure you don't know how to apply eyeliner."
"I've watched 'Zani do it a couple of times." The blonde said, feeling the need to defend himself as he sat on the edge of the tub, one leg in and one leg out.
"That doesn't mean you know how to do it." Sasuke told him sitting the same way he was, only facing him. "I know this may be very difficult, but you're going to have to stay still." He said taking the top off the eyeliner.
"I make no guarantees." The blonde said with a grin. Sasuke just rolled his eyes and gently place his hand on one of Naruto's scarred cheek and pulled under his eye and begun to apply the makeup. As he did so, Naruto tried his best to stay as still as possible, but he found it well, kind of impossible. 'Come on Uzumaki! You can do this!' he told himself, 'Just focus on something.' It was then he noticed how close Sasuke really was.
'Well there's a distraction of you.' He thought. He watched as Sasuke concentrated on applying the makeup to under his eye every now and then stopping to see if the amount was even on both sides. Naruto noticed how pale the raven actually was; especially in contrast to his tan skin and all the black the boy was wearing didn't help his complexion. But Naruto found that it suited the Uchiha and found the thought of him being tan funny and laughed.
"Stop moving before I poke you in the eye." Sasuke warned sending him a glare.
"I've been still! Aren't you done yet?" Naruto asked getting restless.
"Let me smooth out your lid and then yes." He said rolling his eyes and picking up a small thin rectangular container and an angled brush. He opened it and found a different assortment of colors, though none of them had been used except the last one that just happened to be, yep you guessed it, black. Moving the brush lightly across the powder he brought it to the blonde's eye, "Close your eyes."
Naruto did as he was told, but a bit reluctantly, muttering to himself about "A bossy teme." With his eyes closed, his other senses heightened; particularly his sense of smell. Taking a light breath, he breathed in the scent of strawberries. 'Really Sasuke?' he wondered with a smirk.
"What are you smirking about?" Sasuke asked.
Opening his eyes, he saw Sasuke holding the eye shadows in one hand and the brush in the other, a glare fixed on the blonde. Said blonde chose not to let him in on these thoughts and shook his head, "Nothing. So are you done?"
"Yes, you are done." The raven said exasperated and rolling his eyes.
Naruto stood and looked in the mirror blinking a few times as he did. It looked as though someone had air brushed black around his eyes. His blue eyes seemed to pop with the makeup, "Sasuke this is amazing." He said turning to face the raven who shrugged.
"Boredom leads you to do things you didn't know you could do. Now move so I can do my makeup."
The last sentence in its self made Naruto laugh, "You sounded like Mizani right then whenever I'm hogging her bathroom."
"Why are you-" he stopped mid question as what the blonde said sunk in. Narrowing his eyes, he picked up the can of hair spray and held it at the blonde, "Out."
"Sasuke let's be-"
"Out. Now." He said holding the can closer to Naruto.
"But-" he didn't get to finish the sentence because Sasuke sprayed the hair spray at him, causing him to yelp. The raven chased the blonde out of the bathroom with the spray can until Naruto was on his bed, pillows up as a shield. "I give!" he surrendered.
Sasuke smirked, "One point for pirates." He said before walking back into the bathroom and locking that door.
Naruto busted out laughing at the Déjà vu of the whole situation, having gone through something similar many times with his best friend. He was laughing so hard, that he actually fell back off the bed on the side furthest from the bathroom. He then recalled Sasuke's last words, "Ninjas and pirates are tied now! You haven't won this!" he called.
The sound of unlocking and the door opening caused Naruto to move into a sitting up position, he leaned forwards on the bed to gap at the raven standing in the door way. His eyes looked the same as his, but somehow it just fit with Sasuke. The raven walked to a dresser and picked up two ties and tossed one at Naruto.
"Ready?" he asked tying the tie loosely around his neck.
"Yeah." Naruto said finally composing himself, 'For a very, very long night…' he added mentally.
Welp, there's Chapter 9 for ya!
So, what I want everyone's opinion on what will happen in the future. Naruto and Sasuke are going to get together [yes, it'll take a little bit, but they are going to get together] but as you all know it can't according to plan. I want to know who you think should do something stupid and endanger the relationship. Should it be Naruto or Sasuke? I'm thinking of it involving Sakura .. You know give anthoer reason for everyone to hate her.
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