Ten
Click.
Flash.
Sasuke woke to the small giggles and the clicking of...something. He sat up slowly, feeling the warmth of another body snuggling up to his side.
" Nice catch little brother."
The dark-haired youth,swivled his head around to see Neji and Itachi standing in the doorway to his room. And in Neji's hand was a camera.
" What the FUCK?!" Sasuke snarled, grabing his alarm clock and chucking it at the two smirking boys.
" It was sooo cute." Itachi chuckled, dodging the flying clock. " We couldn't resist. Mother will love this!"
" You will not!" Sasuke hissed, his hands gripping into the blankets.
" Mmmm...Sasuke?" The blonde boy snuggled under the covers cracked open hazy blue eyes. " Why are you so damn noisy?"
Dark eyes narrowed, " We were caught."
Those same blue eyes blinked and the boy sat up, looking over at the doorway. He lifted a hand, " Morning Neji. Morning Itachi."
" Good morning Naruto." Neji smiled, raising the camera in greeting. Itachi then grabed the Hyuuga and they dashed out of the room.
Oh and boy did those eyes open wide and follow the camera's movment out the door, " They didn't..."
" Yep." Sasuke muttered.
" While we were..."
" Yep."
" And who do they plan on..."
" Everyone."
" SHIT!"
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Gaara hated early saturday mornings, especially when his brother and the chick he brings home from the city go at it at 5 in the morning.
It was currenty barley nine, but he still liked his peace. Which would be disturbed in...
5...
4...
3...
The banging on his door happened sooner than the original time that it did. It only ment that Naruto had found some ungodly way to wake Kiba up on a saturday morning.
He trudded out of the basment, his sleeping place since his father didn't think him worthy of a decent place to sleep, and opened the front door.
To his suprise, it wasn't Naruto and Kiba standing at his door. But rather a tired looking Itachi and a grinning Neji was not far behind, glancing around the lot, then smiling at Gaara.
" Mind if we stay?"
Gaara lifted a non-exsistant eyebrow, " Why?" His gaze fell to the camera.
Itachi smirked, " It seems...Naruto snuck into Sasuke's room last night."
Teal eyes blinked, then a ghost of a smile crossed his face, " Is that so...and I supose that is the camera in which you took the picture of them sleeping in bed together?"
Both boys nodded.
" And they caught you."
They nodded again.
" And you're trying to hide from them?"
They nodded furiously.
Gaara shrugged and opened the door wider, " Come on in. Go to the basement."
Itachi handed Neji the camera again, " You hide. I'll go distract them."
" B-but..." Neji glared, " Wait a minute! You're going to find Kyuubi!"
" You read me like a book." Itachi smirked again, starting for the car.
" You jackass! Don't just leave me here to hide from them! Sasuke's diabolical when he's caught doing something like that! I'm too young to die!" Neji snarled, waving the camera around like a madman, his eyes blazing.
Itachi raised a hand in dismisal. " Oh admit it. You want to be here!"
Two potted plants hit the back of his head and Neji followed Gaara into the house. They locked the door behind them and ignored the cursing Itachi.
Neji wrinkled his nose at the sight of Gaara's basement bedroom. " You live in this hovel?"
" Yea. It's nothing extravagant." Gaara shrugged, flipping throught the stack of cd's and putting one in the small stereo by the tiny window.
" But...it's a basment." Neji muttered.
" It was this or the Shed. And trust me, " Gaara snorted, as Rodney Atkin's started playing throught the speakers, " The Shed's fit for pigs."
Neji could almost imagine it, and he hadn't even steped into the back yard. He wasn't even tempted to step out of the basement room. " Where does your family sleep?"
" Well, Kankuro has the small bedroom upstairs and Temari has the best veiw." Gaara replied, taking a seat at his bed and turning on the worn-down tv set.
" And your parents?" Neji asked siting down, but the flash in teal eyes made him reconsider his question. " Sorry. Looks like a sore subject."
" It's fine. I'm the youngest. My mom died giving birth to me." Gaara shurgged, flicking through the tv channels, " And dads so wasted when he drives in from the city that he pays no mind to us."
Neji made a small, 'oh' with his mouth and kept quiet as Gaara found the Animal Planet channel to watch. They sat there for around two hours before Gaara's red phone started ringing.
He picked it up and put the speaker on. " Yea?"
" Gaara?! " Naruto's voice hollared over the speaker.
" What?" Gaara sighed, looking over at Neji, who was fiddling with the camera at the small laptop.
"Have you seen Neji and Itachi?"
" Itachi stoped by earlier, but he said he would be at Kyuubi's. But I havn't seen Neji. Why?"
" Those bastards!"
A smirk flickered over Gaara's face, " What happened?"
" Nothing! If you see either of them with a sliver camera, take it."
" Can I look at it?"
" NO!" Sasuke's voice joined in on that one.
Neji snickered from his place at the desk, and Gaara walked over an lifted an eyebrow at the picture.
" Alright, If I see em' I'll give you a call."
"Thanks pal. I'm gonna stop by in a few, that okay?"
" How long?"
" In about...5 seconds."
White and teal collided.
Uh-oh.
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Naruto grummbled and steped out of the red ford truck Iruka had lent him. But not after he got a serious lecture about sneaking out after dark.
But as soon as Sasuke steped in and informed Iruka that Naruto had been at his house, the lecture ended. However, Naruto was told to at least leave a note.
They walked up to Gaara's front door and Sasuke wrinkled his nose. " What a dump."
" Yea, well, Their dad's an asshole." Naruto shrugged.
" Thier? " Sasuke asked, lifting an eyebrow.
" Yea. His older brother and sister. Kankuro and Temari." Naruto lifted an eyebrow, " I never told you?"
Sasuke snorted, " No. Dobe, do you have memory problems?"
" No! You Teme!" Naruto hissed, punching the Uchiha on the shoulder.
There was a loud crash and a jumble of voices, then the front door swung open. Gaara, clad in only a pair of dark jeans, greeted the two boys with a glare, " Can I help you?"
" Aw come on. We need a battle plan!" Naruto smiled, pushing the red-head out of the way. " Our revenge is vital."
" Naruto, you're dealing with two geniuses here, they'll find some way to post...whatever picture they have of you." Gaara sighed, " What more can you do?"
" I want to shed blood." Sasuke suggested.
" Nah. Too dangerous." Naruto muttered, taping his chin and pushing open Gaara's bedroom door. " What about taking their clouths and make them run around Naked?"
" Too risky. They'd catch us." Sasuke said, " Plus, how would we get thier current clouths off them?"
" Damn." Naruto sighed, then looked at Gaara, who looked pale. " You okay?"
" I'm fine. I was trying to sleep when you imbeciles called." Gaara hissed, " How long do you plan on staying?"
" Till you help us get revenge." Came both replys.
" Well, I'm not in the mood for revenge. Why don't you two go out and figure it out yourselves?!" Gaara sapped, pointng to the door.
Blue eyes scanned the slightly nervous composure of his red-haired freind. " Gaara?"
" What?" He hissed.
" What are you hiding?" Sasuke growled, catching onto the same thing Naruto was.
" What?" Gaara asked, " What the hell are you talking about? Hiding what?"
" The camera! And that would explain why you saw Itachi and not Neji. " Naruto growled, " They left together!"
" And what if Neji was in the car when Itachi stoped by?" Gaara snorted, " Itachi told me he was going to find Kyuubi and hide out. Put the pieces together, Where does Kyuubi go on saturdays?"
Naruto thought about it for a while, then looked at Sasuke, " They're at Shikamaru's grandmothers! Kyuubi was going to help out this weekend!"
Both boys hopped up and headed for the door, but Gaara snorted, " What did they do that was so bad?"
Sasuke's dark eyes narrowed, " Naruto slept over last night, they thought seeing us in bed together was 'cute'."
Gaara smirked, " Well that's not so bad. Have fun."
" Oh we will." Sasuke smirked, shutting both doors behind them.
Gaara watched and waited as Sasuke climbed into the drivers seat and Naruto into the passenger and they drove off.
He let out a sigh and moved the rug in the middle of his floor. He lifted the door that had no nails and let it fall back with a loud thump. Neji lifted himself out of the dark hole and sighed. " They sound so murderous."
" Judging by that picture, they'd be crazy not to be." Gaara smirked, giving the Hyuuga a hand and pulling him the rest of the way up and out.
" Yes, well, It was Itachi's idea. I wish I had given him the camera." Neji muttered, " Then it's be put on him."
" Way ahead of you." Gaara muttered, pointing to the sorry excuse for a window.
Neji lifted an eyebrow as he dusted off his clouths, " What do you mean?"
" I sent my pet out with the camera and chip. She'll put it in Itachi's car before Naruto and Sasuke ever get there." Gaara replied. " You're cleared."
Neji chuckled, " Thank you."
Teal eyes blinked, not used to those words that only Naruto said. " What?"
" I said thank you." Neji repeated, " You saved me from imediate death."
" Oh." Gaara muttered. " You're welcome."
TBC...
Angel: Well? Sorry there was no horror. and that the spelling is bad. I don't have a spell check, sorry! I just had to throw a humor chapter in. Plus, i need to start building Gaara and Neji's relationship, cuz they're second in line to Naruto and Sasuke's. Plus, I have a new charecter(sp) to throw in next chapter! Hope you all enjoyed!
Blessed be,
Angel