Chidori
Chapter 10 – Dark cloud
Cause I'm broken
When I'm open
And I don't feel like
I am strong enough
Cause I'm broken
When I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right
When you're gone away
Their Korean fans' enthusiastic screams erupted with the end of the song, and Kimiko's beautiful face broke into a wide smile as she looked at Sasuke. He glanced back at her, and the next thing he knew she was kissing him. In the spur of the moment he kissed back, and the screams became even louder all around them.
They pulled away and hurried back stage. Only then did Sasuke realize what had just happened. Kiba and Suigetsu were smiling, excited as ever to go on stage, Yoshikazu was hugging Ino tightly – they were now officially dating – and the rest were also smiling and in a good mood. Except Naruto.
"Whatever happened to, It's stupid Naruto don't worry I'm not gonna do it," Naruto told him, his deep blue eyes clearly hurt.
Two days ago, while at the Kansai International airport near Kyoto, waiting for their plane, Sasuke had received a phone call from Orochimaru. Their producer had asked him to encourage the rumours by pretending to date Kimiko, saying it was "good for business". Of course he'd refused and told Naruto that he wouldn't do it.
"I didn't plan that…" he said lamely. "You know how she is…" he said in a low voice so that Kimiko wouldn't hear them.
"You kissed back," Naruto replied sadly.
"I…"
"Guys!" Kabuto suddenly exclaimed, "It's your turn! Let's go!"
"Let's go! Let's go!" Kiba repeated enthusiastically.
On stage, Sasuke grabbed the mike again and, letting himself be filled by the music, started singing.
Don't look down, don't look back, I am beside you
Close your eyes, know I'm here
I know it's hard to let go all that defines you
You feel like you'll never be whole again
While Suigetsu was singing the next two lines Sasuke locked eyes with Naruto, and the blond nodded slightly and made a little smile, as if to tell him they'd talk after, and that for now they needed to give a good show. Sasuke just loved him so much, and he sang with even more passion in each word, because these words, he had written them for Naruto.
We will find a way to erase the past
Stay with me, stay with me
In my arms, you'll be fine, I'll never let go
All you lost will come again, just stay here with me
Never look back, never again, it's over
Everything ends here in my arms
Don't give in, don't let your memories break you
Let me take you away from here
We will find a way, to make this last
Stay with me, stay with me
In my arms you'll be fine, I'll never let go
All you lost will come again, just stay here with me
Never look back, never again, it's over
Everything ends here in my arms
I'll be here forever
Everything ends here in my arms
I'll be here forever
Song after song he put as much love and passion as he could in them, and once in a while he kept glancing at Naruto. At the end of the show he spoke the little Korean he knew to thank the fans and then he followed his band mates back stage.
"I got some girls to introduce to you guys, they're waiting in the V.I.P. room!" Yoshikazu told Kiba and Suigetsu, "I am the luckiest guy on Earth of course, with my beautiful girlfriend," he pulled a blushing Ino closer and kissed her, "But I thought you guys might be curious about the South Korean culture…"
"Ah man I love you!" Kiba exclaimed.
"Let's get ready for the party people!" Suigetsu laughed as he followed his friends to said V.I.P. room.
Karin sighed and started cleaning up and gathering a few things that Ino had forgotten behind.
"You still mad at me?" Sasuke whispered, taking Naruto's hand hesitantly.
The blond smiled and wrapped his arms around him, "How could I be? When I know you were singing for me…"
"Every word…"
"Sasuke…" Naruto whispered, pulling away.
"You know it didn't mean anything. It won't happen again. I'll talk to her…"
"I know," Naruto put his finger on his lips to silence him, "I know. So, Sasuke, Karin," he turned to glance at the red-head girl, "Should we go party as well?"
"I'm going," she smiled weakly, "I really fucking need a drink."
"Okay…" Naruto frowned, but, keeping his fingers intertwined with Sasuke's he followed her.
Twenty minutes later they were enjoying Seoul's crazy night life. The club they had just gotten into was one of the most crowded, and the colored lights effects were amazing, the music was way too loud of course, but at least it was good, and the atmosphere was euphoric.
The whole group was there, plus the two pretty Korean fan girls clinging to Suigetsu and Kiba. Of course, the two guys couldn't understand a word they were saying, but they couldn't care less. The only one that had chosen to go back to the hotel was, of course, Kabuto.
They spread around the bar, waiting to order some drinks. Sasuke ordered two beers and paid, and when he turned to Naruto he was looking at him with wide blue eyes.
"You hate beer!"
"I know! But he couldn't understand anything else I was saying!" Sasuke shouted so Naruto could hear him over the loud music.
The blond laughed and knocked his beer with Sasuke's, and then drank half of it at once, whereas Sasuke just took a few sips and made a disgusted face.
"Naruto!" Kiba suddenly appeared before them, "Drinking contest!"
The two guys laughed knowingly and started downing their beers. They finished at the same time, and then argued as to which had emptied it first. Kiba's date was trying to say something, but none of them could understand. Sasuke guessed she was trying to inform them that they didn't need to argue since it was a tie anyway. He chuckled to himself; some things never changed…
An hour later, pretty much everyone was drunk. Yoshikazu and Ino were quite a sight; dancing together passionately, kissing and smiling, with Yoshi's fingers gripping her long blonde hair and her own delicate hands all over his muscular body.
Kiba and Suigetsu were also dancing quite intensely with the two young Korean girls, and not too far Hiroshi had also found a dance partner in a young man with a pink shirt and tight white pants; in other words he couldn't possibly look gayer. As for the hot-headed Kimiko, she was in the arms of a tall and pretty Korean boy who looked like he came right out of a pop boy's band – he might as well have.
Sasuke was himself dancing with his boyfriend as he made all of these quick observations. Not all of them were drunk and happy though; Karin and Takumi were still standing at the bar beside each other, downing shot after shot.
Suddenly the rest of the world disappeared as Naruto kissed him, and Sasuke kissed back willingly. Their tongues battling and their hips dangerously close, Sasuke entangled his long pale fingers into Naruto's blond and orange hair and pulled him even closer to deepen the kiss. Naruto moaned through the kiss, or was it Sasuke himself? Probably both of them…
"Sasuke!" Kimiko chose this moment to interrupt them. Very bad timing Kimi…
"What?" he snapped.
"Do you want one," she smiled mischievously; apparently she was too drunk to realize he was being rude with her, or maybe she was just used to it and didn't care.
He supposed she had already given some E to Mister pretty boy who was clinging to her like his life depended on it, a dumb smile plastered on his lips. She herself seemed to be having some effects already.
Sasuke felt like if he took some this time he could control himself, and anyway he was with Naruto. He actually felt like if they both took some ecstasy, they would have an amazing night together.
"Let's do it!" the blond said as if reading his mind, and Sasuke's dark eyes widened as he glanced at him in shock. "What the hell!" Naruto continued, laughing, "I wanna try it. Just this once."
Kimiko smiled happily and gave them the drug. Naruto swallowed it with some beer, and then he passed the bottle to Sasuke so that he could do the same.
Kimiko and her new man whore had already started dancing again.
"Don't ever tell my father!" Naruto exclaimed, laughing.
"I promise I won't!" Sasuke replied.
"I think I just said yes because I'm drunk."
Sasuke laughed, "Probably. Oh God now I'm a bad influence for you."
"You're my bad boy," Naruto said, grinding him at the same time.
"Ahh… Naruto I love you."
"Please don't repeat it all night!" the blond laughed, "You always do that when you're drunk! I love you Naruto, I love you Naruto, I love you Naruto!" he teased, "You know, eventually, I kinda get the idea!"
"I love you Naruto," Sasuke repeated just to annoy him.
"What! I can't hear ya! The music's too loud… Hmm…"
Sasuke shut him up with a passionate, bruising kiss and Naruto moaned and grinded his hips against his crotch, turning him on so much.
For the rest of the night they danced, and just kept on dancing. They couldn't stop, they had infinite energy it seemed, and they didn't care about the rest of the world. It was just the two of them, nothing else mattered. All Sasuke could hear was the loud dance music and Naruto's moans, Naruto's voice whispering in his ear. All he could see was Naruto's beautiful tan skin, his eyes, his lips…
Next thing he knew they were in their hotel room, in their bed, and Naruto was fucking him hard. And he was enjoying it.
"Ahh… yeah… Naruto…"
His pale hands were on Naruto's hips firmly, and he was arching his back, pure pleasure jolting through his body with every one of the blond's thrusts.
"Faster… Naruto… Yeah just like that… Oh God…"
"Keep talking baby, I love it," Naruto urged him.
A few moments later they locked eyes and reached climax together. This was way too intense, and Sasuke didn't even feel tired.
They continued making out, rolling around in the bed, and Sasuke barely noticed that there were other people having sex on the other bed too. But he simply didn't care. Naruto was laughing as Sasuke kissed his neck, and suddenly he felt the urge to laugh, too.
"I just remembered you're ticklish," the blond suddenly told him as he ran his fingers along his sides teasingly.
Sasuke tried to escape from him but Naruto held him close, "Ah… Naruto… stop it!" he exclaimed but he was laughing.
He suddenly grabbed Naruto's wrists and put them above his head, pinning him to the bed.
"What are you gonna do now?" Naruto asked teasingly.
"Whatever you want me to do," he whispered before attacking Naruto's lips. They were both hard again…
- Chidori -
Naruto frowned and opened his clouded blue eyes very slowly. His arms were around Sasuke, so he slowly moved away as to not wake him up. Sitting, he winced painfully; he was sore. Right, they'd had sex… Several times, actually, but he couldn't be sure; everything was so blurry.
His jaw hurt, as if he had clenched it all night. And he was so fucking thirsty. He'd never desired water so much in his life.
He half-stumbled to the bathroom, picking up his boxers on the way, and drank glass after glass of water. But after that, exhaustion hit him, and he leaned back on the wall and let his body slide down to the floor. His entire body hurt. This was horrible…
He had just woken up, but he felt like he hadn't slept in days! He was so never touching drugs again…
Sasuke was still sleeping, and Kimiko was also sleeping in the arms of the guy she'd spent the night with. Naruto suddenly worried about Takumi. He didn't have his phone number, but he knew Sasuke did, so he went to find his boyfriend's cell. The room was such a wreck; Naruto really didn't envy the cleaning staff of this hotel.
He decided to send Takumi a text. He didn't want to bother him with a phone call if he was sleeping and hangover – which he most likely was.
"Hey man since you're not with us in the room I was a little worried so tell me if you're okay"
It would have to do. He pressed send, and fell back on the bed beside Sasuke, hoping to receive an answer soon.
- Chidori -
"You fake God damnation, you pray for salvation, cause your heart is made of stone, you can die and rot alone"
Suigetsu growled as he heard the sound of his cell phone ringing. As he opened his eyes to look for it, he realized he wasn't at the hotel. He was in a small bedroom, with pink walls and a girl sleeping in the bed beside him.
"Shit," he muttered as he started getting dressed in a record time, finally answering his cell phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey," Karin's voice said, "I'm sorry did I wake you up?"
"It's okay," the silver-haired replied as he made his way outside, thankfully without running into any inhabitants of the house, "What's up?"
"Well I wanted to talk to you… Maybe have breakfast together, what do you think?"
"That sounds… good, Karin," he said as he glanced around him in the streets; he had absolutely no idea where he was.
"Are you okay? Where did you sleep?" Karin asked.
"That's a very good question"
Glancing back at the house his eyes widened and he got a little scared as the girl he had slept with started running after him in just her tiny pink pyjamas.
"I'll call you back, Karin!" he hung up.
"Suigetsu! Suigetsu!" the girl kept screaming as she ran after him. Well she was screaming other things too, but he couldn't understand.
He entered a bus randomly, without even knowing where it was going; he just wanted to escape from his fan girl.
"Why in the hell did I go to her place last night?" he muttered to himself.
The driver was looking at him funny. Oh, right, he had to pay.
Fifteen minutes later he got off the bus because luckily he started recognizing his surroundings; he wasn't too far from the hotel. He called Karin as he walked.
"Where are you? I was worried!"
"Aww"
"Where are you?" she repeated.
"I just got off the bus I'm on my way to the hotel right now!"
"Can you come join me at the restaurant?"
"The hotel restaurant?" he asked as he walked up to the door.
"Yes," she answered.
"No problem, actually, I can see you right now!"
He hung up as he walked in the restaurant and went to sit in front of her at a little table in the back. There was a buffet, but she didn't have any food in front of her, only a cup of tea.
"You look like shit," she chuckled.
His long silver hair was probably insanely messy, and he was wearing the same outfit as last night, but he had put it back on so fast before leaving that girl's place that he wouldn't be surprised if the shirt was on the wrong side or something.
"You too," he smiled.
This was their comfort zone; they were always throwing insults at each other. Since they'd first met in elementary school, not a conversation had gone by without a good fight.
"Shut up," she replied, but she wasn't angry.
She had evidently just taken a shower, because her long red hair was still wet, and she had just put it up in a ponytail. She was wearing her black glasses, and grey sweat pants with the large black Chidori t-shirt that she always wore when she just wanted to be comfortable.
"So what did you want to tell me?"
"Should we get some breakfast?" she asked at the same time and laughed nervously.
"I don't think I should eat right now," Suigetsu replied, "My body might realize that I'm supposed to be hangover."
"Yeah, I think it's too late for that for me…" she sighed.
"You're hangover?" Suigetsu's violet eyes widened as he looked at her, "You were drunk last night and I missed it?"
"You were too busy with that Korean fan girl," she snapped.
"Oh, so you're gonna do the jealous girlfriend act again?" he exclaimed angrily.
"No," she said, trying to speak more calmly, "Suigetsu, I understand that you want to have fun, with as much girls… and boys, I guess, as possible."
"Well good"
"And it's okay because you're single…"
"Thanks for reminding me," he cut her.
"Will you let me finish!" she sighed, annoyed, as she brought a hand to her hair and undid her ponytail, letting her long hair fall freely on her shoulders.
"Your hair looks nice like that," Suigetsu said, "you shouldn't do them with the flat iron all the time."
"That's so weird," she smiled, "you complimenting me."
"Well…" he shrugged, amused.
"But I could get used to it," she added quickly. "Suigetsu, what I was trying to tell you earlier is that… I understand what you're doing because you're single, but what if you were in a relationship?"
"I'm not looking for a relationship right now," he replied.
"I've been thinking a lot about us recently…"
"There's no us, Karin…"
"There could be…" she locked her dark eyes with his, hopeful.
Weeks ago, he'd dreamed to hear her pronounce those words. But now… he wasn't so sure.
He leaned back in his chair – he hadn't even realized he'd leaned closer to her – and sighed, "Kiba breaks up with you, so now you decide you want to be with me. What a fun coincidence, huh?"
"It's really not like that," she frowned, "I told you I've been thinking, and I just… I want to give it a shot. There's this kind of fucked up attraction between us, and you know it… And I regret how I treated you when I was with Kiba…"
"Didn't stop you from doing it!" Suigetsu exclaimed angrily. "I can't believe you! If Kiba hadn't cheated on you, and if you'd still be together, would you even consider being with me?"
"Of course!" she replied, her voice shaking a little, "I've been considering it everyday! Suigetsu I… I think about you all the time!"
"Bullshit," he snorted.
"Suigetsu, look me in the eye," she whispered, "and tell me that you don't love me."
"I don't love you"
Her fine eyebrows frowning, her dark eyes widening; everything on her face expressed that she was hurt. Without a word, she got up, nodded slightly, took a deep breath and walked away.
He didn't know why he'd done it. Of course he loved her. But it had just been that easy. Four simple words, even though they weren't true, and he'd pronounced them. To hurt her, for revenge for all those times she'd hurt him, maybe. It was stupid and childish really, and at the very moment the words had come out, he was already regretting them.
- Chidori -
"I'm leaving, Naruto"
Karin was crying. Despite everything Naruto was trying to tell her to comfort her, she was still crying and insisting that she wanted to leave. He'd been wandering outside the hotel aimlessly – the three others were still sleeping in his room – and he'd found Karin sitting in their rented truck in the parking, crying alone. So he'd joined her to ask what was wrong.
"I'm leaving," she repeated. "They all hate me… Kiba hates me, and it's always awkward now… Suigetsu hates me," she breathed and sobs racked her body again.
Naruto put his arm around her shoulders and she let her head fall on his shoulder.
"I don't hate you," he said, "Sasuke doesn't hate you."
"I know… but you guys don't need me. Kabuto's a great agent; you'll be just fine without me…"
"That's not true!" Naruto protested, "We do need you. You've made this all happen, Karin!"
"I just made it happen faster. That's it," she chuckled and sniffed, "But my decision is taken. I just can't do this anymore. All this partying, this craziness… I feel like I'm out of place."
"I know what you mean," Naruto said sadly, "but hey you signed the contract too, right? You have to stay with us 'til the end of the two years."
"No," she shook her head slightly, pulling away from Naruto, "We can break the contract if we want. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you haven't read it carefully," she chuckled. "For you guys it's harder, because you need to wait 'til they find a good replacement, in your case, they'd have to find a guitarist. But in my case, well there's already Kabuto. I'll talk to him, figure something out… We'll split my part of the profits amongst all the others…" she was talking more to herself now. "Besides, Ino helps too. She reads and answers emails, she takes care of the website, and posts pictures and stuff… She even makes important phone calls sometimes. No, really, you guys will be just fine without me."
She sighed shakily and jumped out of the truck, walking slowly back towards the hotel. Naruto followed her, feeling sad and worn out.
"I'll miss you," he said as he walked beside her.
"Me too," she smiled, "I think I'll miss you most. The others, all this fame and success is already getting to their heads. They're all becoming pricks, even Sasuke, I can see it. But not you… I know you'll stay true to yourself."
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Naruto asked, sighing, and as they reached the door he opened it for her.
"Thanks. Yeah I'm sure. But we'll keep in touch, okay? And later, if you ever need an agent, just give me a call," she smiled.
Naruto smiled back, "Sure thing. So you'll keep doing that job?"
"Yeah I think so. I love doing this. I guess I just need to work with people I'm less likely to fall in love with," she added half-teasing.
"Hmm," Naruto said thoughtfully, "you're not leaving like, right now, though right?"
"Well… I'm gonna take the first flight back to Tokyo. But don't worry I'll come by your room to say bye to you and Sasuke at least."
As they reached their floor they parted and walked towards their respective rooms. Naruto checked his cell; it was 3 pm. He figured the others should be awake by now…
It turned out Sasuke was still sleeping. But Naruto was confused when he saw Takumi sitting alone on the other bed, with his clothes all ripped and torn, and an almost empty bottle of liquor in his hands. And… was that blood on his hands?
"Takumi?" he asked hesitantly.
He didn't seem to hear him. The only sound that could be heard was the shower running. Probably Kimiko… But then Naruto also heard a deep, low voice; that was definitely not Kimiko's voice. There were two people in the shower, probably the very same two that had slept in this room the night before, Naruto realized, horrified.
"Does she know you're here?" he asked.
"No," Takumi whispered, "I came back and they were already in the shower," he turned to face Naruto.
His blue eyes widened and he gasped at the sight; Takumi's face was all bruised up with some dried blood too, and from what he could see under the ripped clothes his body didn't look any better.
"I got into a fight," he laughed drunkenly and drank the last gulp of alcohol that was left in his bottle. "Fuck…" he muttered when he saw that it was empty.
"Where have you been all night?" Naruto exclaimed as he took the bottle away from him.
"Just… walking, I guess, I dunno…"
"Look at me," Naruto sat beside him and waited until Takumi's drunken hazel eyes looked up at him, "I know you're fucked up and probably not gonna remember this, but you need to break up with her."
As if to illustrate his words perfectly, they heard the two in the shower again. They were laughing and having a pretty great time, apparently.
Takumi glanced away and blinked, and tears started falling from his eyes.
Naruto sighed, "You need to break up with her. And then you need to take some space from her, to move on… You can't go on like this man! Look at you, I mean…"
"It's not that simple… It's not that easy…"
"I never said it was simple or easy!" Naruto exclaimed, "But at least you have to try!"
"Naruto?" Sasuke whispered as he woke up.
"I'm right here," Naruto said.
Why did he have to take care of everyone?
And at the same time, Kimiko and her Korean pretty boy came out of the bathroom with big smiles and only white towels wrapped around their bodies. Their smiles dropped, though, when they saw Naruto and Takumi.
"You should get dressed and leave," Kimiko told the guy before she hurriedly went to sit on Takumi's other side. "What happened to you?" she asked, worried.
On the meantime Sasuke got up, wrapping the sheet around his body, and went to the bathroom. As for pretty boy, he did as he was told and left the room quickly.
"Baby, talk to me," Kimiko was saying desperately.
"I'm sorry," he choked out.
"Why?" she asked, searching his eyes.
"For not being enough…"
"Baby you're drunk. And hurt, God dammit what happened to you?" she asked again.
"He told me he got into a fight," Naruto informed.
When Sasuke got out of the bathroom, Kimiko grabbed her boyfriend's arm and dragged him in there.
"Don't worry I'll take care of you," she whispered to him but Naruto heard it anyway, and then she closed the door and turned on the water again.
"So… drama again, huh?" Sasuke said as he fell back on his bed, the sheet still covering his skinny pale body.
"That's a… major understatement actually, Sasuke," Naruto sighed, massaging his painful head with his hand.
"What's going on?" Sasuke frowned as he looked at him.
"Karin's leaving," he said bluntly.
"What?" the raven got up, his onyx eyes widening. "She can't be leaving…"
"Yes she can," Karin's voice said.
They both turned around as she opened the door. She was wearing more professional clothes now, and she had her suitcase and few bags all ready.
"You serious?" Sasuke asked her.
"I'm sorry this is so sudden," she sighed shakily, "but I need to do it now. I can't really explain… I'm gonna miss you both so much," she smiled sadly.
She dropped her things and came to hug Naruto tightly.
"I'm gonna miss you too Karin," he told her sincerely as they pulled away.
She smiled and looked at Sasuke, "I know you're not a hugger, but…"
She wrapped her arms around him briefly and kissed his cheek.
"You guys take care of each other, all right?"
"Count on it," Naruto smiled. "What about Suigetsu and Kiba, did you…?"
"Let's just say I already said goodbye to them."
She walked out of the room and picked up her bags, and then she glanced back at them one last time, "Again, I'm sorry that this is so sudden, but, as I told Naruto before, you guys will be just fine without me. I've already arranged things with Kabuto. He'll explain everything to you. I know he doesn't look like much, but he can really get the job done. Anyway, I gotta go… you know flight to catch… I'll really miss you guys," she whispered the last part and then she closed the door and they heard her walk away.
"Fuck, I guess she was serious," Sasuke whispered after a moment.
"Told you…"
"What about him?" the raven pointed his hand towards the bathroom, "He looks pretty beat up."
"Yeah…" Naruto shook his head, frustrated, "I just can't understand that girl…"
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind. We'll just ask him what happened when he's sober…"
"All right…"
Naruto joined Sasuke in the bed, and he put an arm around him to pull him closer, "How are you feeling?"
"I'm okay, you?"
"Terrible," Naruto chuckled.
Sasuke leaned closer and kissed him softly. His breath was fresh because of the toothpaste, and his lips were so soft. When he tried to pull away, it was Naruto who leaned closer to continue the kiss a little longer.
"Do you feel better now?" Sasuke whispered as he opened his eyes.
"A little," the blond smiled.
There was a loud knock, and then Kabuto's head appeared in the doorframe.
"Uh, sorry, I didn't want to interrupt anything. It's almost 4 pm for Christ's sake! Damn rock stars... Anyway, I just wanted to remind you that we're taking the 9 am flight for Shanghai tomorrow morning. Now that Karin decided to quit, a few things are going to change, and I'll be your only agent of course. But I'll explain more about that tomorrow morning at the airport, when everyone's together. I suggest that you go to bed early this evening. So, can you tell all this to Kimi-chan and Takumi please?"
"Okay, thanks Kabuto," Naruto said politely.
"No problem," he said and then he closed the door.
"I can't believe Karin's gone… Now we're stuck with this guy," Sasuke muttered.
"Yeah… he's not so bad I guess, but it still sucks that she's gone," Naruto agreed.
- Chidori -
Sasuke was sleeping in the plane. Usually it was always the other way around; Naruto was always sleeping, in planes, cars, everywhere, and Sasuke always had way too much trouble falling asleep. So Naruto was a little bit bored, plus Sasuke's IPod was dead.
Yoshikazu seemed to be playing some game on his cell phone, and Ino was sleeping on his shoulder peacefully. Hiroshi and Suigetsu were sitting together, but they weren't making out or anything – far from it. The silver-haired guy was looking out the window, a dark and gloomy expression on his face. Hiroshi had tried to cheer him up, but nothing was working. Suigetsu was like this since he'd learned that Karin was gone.
As for Kiba, he seemed to be taking it well so far. Of course he was sad – mostly that she'd left without saying goodbye to him – but currently he was talking with Kabuto, who was sitting beside him. He didn't seem too depressed, but Naruto thought that was great, because he didn't want half of the band to be in such a dark mood. Sure, Karin was gone, but they were still on tour.
Kabuto had explained that Karin's part would be split amongst the members of Chidori, just like she had told them before leaving. Nothing was changed, really, except that now Kabuto would look after them more and would take care of all their appointments. The ones suffering most from this were the members of the Black Souls, because Kabuto would have less time to take care of their career now.
Takumi and Kimiko were cuddled up together and sleeping soundly. The raven-haired guy looked better now; his injuries were cleaned and disinfected, and nothing was broken at least. Naruto hadn't gotten the chance to talk to him again. But even if Kimiko was all over him now, he knew she would be cheating again. And Takumi knew it too. And Naruto really wanted to help him. He hated seeing people suffer like that for nothing; it was just way too frustrating. But for now, he figured there was nothing he could do about it.
So he just sighed and reached a hand to brush Sasuke's soft raven bangs behind his ear. Karin's words still lingered in his mind like a dark cloud; the others, all this fame and success is already getting to their heads. They're all becoming pricks, even Sasuke, I can see it.
Sasuke suddenly opened sleepy dark eyes and smiled. He leaned in Naruto's touch, and then he pulled him closer to kiss him softly.
Naruto buried his face in the crook of Sasuke's neck and closed his eyes, suddenly feeling very tired too. Maybe he was biased, blinded by his love, or whatever, but Naruto didn't want to believe that Sasuke was becoming a prick.
They were together, and as long as they had each other, everything would be fine. At least, Naruto wanted to believe that. But as he drifted into sleep, a certain uneasiness lingered in his heart…
TBC
Songs:
In my arms, by Dead by April
Broken, by Seether and Amy Lee