Hey everyone. This is the last chapter of this story.
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Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here?
If I were someone else
Would this all fall apart
-Matchbox Twenty: Real World
Real World
By: PurpleCranberi
~ Chapter Nine: Checking Out ~
Sasuke Uchiha was finally peacefully asleep in the comfortable queen sized bed that stood in the room. He had spent a majority of the evening yesterday making preparations, and fulfilling his revenge against the blonde.
Having practically no resources to him, seeing as his cell phone was in the clutches of a disappearing mask wearer, he was able to come up with a decent idea to take his revenge. Last night he completed it, now just for Naruto to figure it out.
As he slept a smirk found his way to his lips, obviously enjoying the prospect of the blonde getting upset. He did not suspect that his slumber would be disturbed.
CRASH.
He bolted upright in the bed and glanced frantically around the room. Sasuke is a very light sleeper and would wake up if you whispered his name, though not in the same fashion. Having something crash while you slept tended to send you on alarm, crashing sounds usually weren't good. Usually.
Mumbling something that was unrecognizable under his breath (it was a combination of fuck and shit with a hint of damn) he slowly trudged to the door.
He opened it very slowly and peeked his head outside, and was a little disappointed to be greeted with nothing. Complete emptiness.
Sasuke frowned and opened his door more and exited his room clad only in pyjamas. Yes, Sasuke Uchiha was walking around in forest green pants. He wore no shirt sleeping, but that was the furthest from his mind, though it didn't help that Ino and Sakura were in a room across the hall and saw his bare chest.
He waltzed past the shocked women and turned the corner to come to a halt.
There in the hallway was Naruto gazing up at his older brother Kyuubi. Kyuubi was smirking, and Sasuke had a faint idea to as why. Right, my revenge.
Getting out of his sleepy stupor her smirked as he saw not only had Sasuke come to see what was wrong but so did Gaara, Kiba, the guy who kept yawning, and the girl who parked his car. They all seemed very fascinated with what was happening.
"This is some sick joke right Kyuu?" the blond protested, as he stared with wide blue eyes at his older brother. Though Kyuubi just made his smirk wider giving him a malicious feature. His red eyes held mischievous and happiness.
"Sorry Naru, not my doing but, all the same, true. Get ready." He smiled, but it was just as evil as his smirk and could almost compare to Itachi's. Maybe Itachi and Kyuubi knew each other? They held the same personality towards family. Well...Sasuke assumed.
Kyuubi glanced towards Sasuke and smiled. A knowing smile. Does he know what I did? Sasuke questioned. But that was impossible. Right? There was no way Kyuubi suspected him...he covered his tracks.
Shrugging it off he watched the redhead walk away and looked at the blonde who looked baffled and horrified.
Snickering Sasuke watched as Kiba walked towards the blond cautiously. As though if he got too close the blonde would explode-like a bomb, though that was still a possibility.
"You okay dude?" The brunette asked eyeing the blonde making sure that he was still alive and in one piece, which he was. So it left the question to what was wrong. Sasuke knew though, oh how he knew.
"K..Kiba" the blonde began staring intently into chocolate brown eyes, his eyes innocent and looking hurt. For some reason a pang went through Sasuke's stomach, but he brushed it off. He was not going to feel guilty about this. Plus Naruto was over-reacting.
"What is it? What happened?" Kiba questioned showing concern for the blonde who was dressed very informally as well, which made Sasuke question the actual time, but at least he wasn't shirtless like the Uchiha, that would cause problems for the raven.
"I..I" be began tears brimming his eyes, "I am on," taking a deep breath and looking around the hall, he spotted Sasuke. Something in the way he looked at Sasuke made his heart break. However, he still didn't care, he was really overreacting. "the 3:30 flight with you." He whispered as though it was a national secret as though if he were to speak louder it would be true.
Kiba stared at Naruto. Tenten stared at Naruto. Gaara looked impassively at Naruto. Yawn-boy lazily glanced at Naruto. Sasuke well was amused.
Gaara turned around without a word. Not looking not saying maybe not even breathing and left the area.
Tenten muttered a very loud 'idiot' under her breath and stormed down the hall, all the while muttering things like 'too early for this, or big baby' and disappeared behind the corner.
Yawn-boy decided to not move and just stare at Naruto as Kiba proceeded to smack the blonde very hard-very audible sound of him hitting the blonde.
"That's what got me out of my bed on our last day here?!" he shrieked. "Naruto, you tard! What the hell!! Just deal with it, like how I have." He replied surprisingly awake and maturely.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru aka Yawn-boy proclaimed.
Naruto looked pleadingly at Sasuke who just in turned did nothing. He was not going to sympathize with the blonde. After all he caused that "pain" he was no feeling. He pulled a few strings at the airport, let's just say being Itachi's brother had one benefit. Itachi had connections.
Though, Sasuke would never ever in a million years admit that there was a benefit to having Itachi as his brother, but this was for his information only and Itachi's ex-girlfriends who helped him switch Naruto's flight.
Sasuke sighed and turned back to his room. Tenten was right it was too early for this, even though he did not know the time, he was sure it was early. He hardly slept, as much as it is fun to stare at the blonde all day he needed to sleep. So he didn't drive off a cliff later that afternoon. He somewhat grew attached to his life.
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Sasuke had finished packing his bags, and had about forty-minutes until checkout at two. That was the time he had to leave, sadly he had not seen the blonde since. Though the blonde was probably still sulking about the flight changes. A smirk graced Sasuke's lips.
He zipped up the suitcase and grabbed the key card and proceeded to leave the room. Why spend more time in the stuffy room, whose window could not even be opened when he could very well be staring at the blond in the lobby. It was highly likely the blond might be there.
Sasuke got off the elevator and spotted an empty chair in the lobby and took a seat beside an elderly woman was attempting to find something in her oversized bag.
He sighed thinking about going back to work. That depressed him, seeing Itachi again, and having to run Sharingan he was less than thrilled to come rushing back into the scene of action, especially since Itachi was less than happy with him disappearing before the big meeting with the other companies.
He glanced over at the reception desk, eyeing Kakashi who was reading an orange book that Sasuke did not recognize but assumed it was not a 'real' book seeing as Kakashi was reading it. Probably a comic, or joke book...probably porn though.
Kakashi was very oblivious to Sasuke's stare, but he assumed the Uchiha was getting restless and probably wanted back his phone that he stole earlier that week from him.
Before his head get any more holes from Sasuke's stare boring into him, he placed the book down and went to the backroom and went to the small plastic bin that was labelled with a piece of lined paper and said the name "Sasuke Uchiha" on it. Kakashi took out the only item, the phone and headed back to Sasuke.
The raven was just staring off to space now, obviously missing punching holes into Kakashi's head with his eyes.
"Here." Kakashi stated thrusting the device into Sasuke's hand and turning back to his desk to continue reading. It was at the best part.
Sasuke stared at the device. It felt awkward having it back in his hand like it belonged there all the time. Though he did not miss it as much as he thought he would, considering how he actually rarely thought about work, though having Suigetsu in charge scared the shit out of him, but he could not be helped. Only hoped Iruka kept the workforce in one piece, two was okay too. He could fix it if it was in two pieces, a thousand pieces seemed more likely with Suigetsu in charge and harder to fix.
He ran a hand through his raven locks and closed his eyes. This was giving him a headache, and he wasn't even back at the office yet. Though of course his father probably tried to contact him and explain it was very 'Un-Uchiha ' like to ditch that meeting with Mangekyou, Uchiha Corp and Byakugan but it wasn't like he had a choice. Iruka made him feel guilty so he had to do it. Saying it was his duty as a colleague to make sure he isn't stressed out so he used his own money to pay for Sasuke's vacation.
How cruel would it have been to deny the previous Saint Nicholas the free vacation that came out of the man's pocket. He did not want to do that to Iruka, since he was sweeter than his actual father.
He let his hands fall in his lap as he switched his phone back on and noticed he had over 60 missed calls, and twenty new messages-in just a week. He groaned, he was not going to deal with that now. It was Friday, he had tomorrow to work out what happened at the office.
Getting up and taking a deep breath he walked up to Kakashi.
"Checking out." He said quietly. He really hoped to run into Naruto before he left, but he could not hang around all day, waiting for Naruto, he did have to get back.
"Okay, Sasuke. Here you are." Kakashi handed over a pamphlet and a few papers. "Tell Iruka I said hi and miss him around here." He smiled and directed his attention back to the orange book.
"Sure." Sasuke whispered and glanced around the lobby. The elderly woman was no longer there and it was deserted.
He sighed and walked towards the door turning his back onto the brightly lit up lobby. He noticed the shuffling of people down another hallway off to the side of the hallway but did not pay attention to the noise.
He wished he saw the blonde before he left. Naruto was leaving the province in a few days, and he had to get back to work because it may be in ashes. He could no longer be away from it, and was going to miss being here-it was relaxing contrary to what he initially thought. He would never recommend it though and will fringe innocence on actually saying he liked it there. Sadly Naruto did not poof into the room like Kakashi, and Sasuke felt his heart plummet. He knew he was never going to see the blonde again.
He sighed and walked towards the doors of the lodge. Outside he saw his car in the driveway with Tenten smiling brightly at him opening the door for him. Sasuke nodded his head and climbed into his car.
It was time to get back to the real world.
End.
So that's it. Yeah a bad way to end the story, but hey that's realistic. Sadly.
Hope you liked it, even with that ending. Yeah nothing really happens between Naruto and Sasuke, and I said it was slight sasunaru because of Sasuke's inner thoughts of the blonde. I could probably rate this teen but I'm just being safe with the language.
I finished my first two exams, and I realize how much I hate multiple choice. It is the worst type of test-I think out there. Stupid answers confuse you, because they're so similar and one detail is different and you know you know it but you start doubting. GRR. It's a cheap type of test but awesome if you don't know and you have a 25 percent chance of getting it right.
Anyway...hope you enjoyed it.
The previous chapter I mentioned a sequel. You can still tell me if you want one or not. I haven't started it yet, but it seems like everyone likes the idea.
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