Disclaimer: Sasuke owns Naruto's ass, K. Masashi owns everyone else's, and I own K. Masashi!

A/N: Aww, I felt sorry for Sai and Gaara last chapter, but then again I could change it seeing as I am the author lol. Nahh. And omg, I'm soo soo sorry for the late update… massive writers block people. Sorry!

Warning: Yaoi and language!

Trapped
Chapter 11: The Aftermath

"Sasuke has been resting in the sickbay for a few hours and Naruto refuses to leave his side," Shizune whispered to Tsunade, who gazed over at the two sleeping teens. Naruto had his head resting lightly on the Uchiha's stomach and the raven's hand had found its way into the blonde's tangled, sun-kissed hair.

"I'm not surprised," muttered Tsunade, "Where's Sai?"

Shizune shook her head, "I haven't seen him."

"And Gaara?"

"He left the school after Naruto punched him."

Tsunade shook her head. "I'm going to send the two brats home, and hopefully I'll see Sai and I'll send that brat home as well. Please ring back their parents to tell them to come pick them up."

Shizune nodded and hurried off. Tsunade walked into the sickbay.

"Oi! Brats! Wake up!" Naruto stirred but Sasuke was wide awake within a matter of milliseconds. "You are going home. Naruto, go get Uchiha's stuff and be back here in five minutes. Your guardians will be here soon." Naruto pecked Sasuke on the lips before getting up and leaving the room.

Tsunade smirked at Sasuke. "So you and the brat are together now eh?" Sasuke nodded. "And Sai is trying to steal him from you?" Sasuke glared, but nodded. "And what's up with Gaara?"

"He got angry with Sai for trying to break Naruto and me up and then he almost bashed Sai to death and Gaara wouldn't stop so Naruto punched him to stop him."

Tsunade shook her head, "Not that, Uchiha. I mean, why did Gaara get all angry in the first place?"

"Probably because I'm his friend and so is Naruto, but Sai is new and an asshole." Sasuke glared at the wall. The wall smirked back. Sasuke mentally slapped himself. I'm going crazy.

The wall smirked even more. It reminded him a bit of how his elder brother used to smirk. Sasuke mentally slapped himself harder, only this time, it really did hurt. Damn, I really did that didn't I? Sasuke glared at his hand. His hand smirked back. The raven slapped himself again. He then remembered that Tsunade was watching him and mentally glared at himself before turning to the elder blonde. She looked at him with a questioning look on her face. Sasuke shrugged.

Then Naruto came back holding two backpacks. Sasuke tried to get up but crumpled back down in pain. The two blondes rushed to his side to try and help him up but the raven refused their help. Once again he tried to get up and failed. After a few more attempts he managed to stand up. He stretched out his injured arm to receive the backpack but Naruto refused to give it to him.

"Loser, give me my bag."

Naruto shook his head angrily.

"Bastard! You can hardly stand up! You are not getting this backpack!"

At that moment Kakashi and Iruka entered the room, they were talking to eachother and they stopped as soon as they saw Sasuke standing up. Iruka rushed over to Sasuke to offer him help but once again the raven declined. Iruka took Sasuke's bag from Naruto and slung it over his shoulder.

Kakashi walked over to Naruto and whispered something inaudible to him. Naruto shook his head, muttering 'it'll be fine'. Sasuke knew exactly who they were talking about. Sai. That bastard. How dare he say all those things? Trying to steal Naruto from me. Then Naruto protected him! How could he?!

Naruto was on his way out with Kakashi when they spotted Sai. He was sitting on the front steps with his satchel over his shoulder and he had a pencil in his hand. He seemed to be drawing something on a small sketchpad. The blonde walked over to the raven and peered over his shoulder. Kakashi watched the two cautiously.

"What are you drawing?" Naruto asked softly. Sai quickly closed his sketchpad before the blonde could see.

"It doesn't matter." Sai looked up at Naruto. His bruises seemed to have darkened.

"Please show me?" From what Naruto remembered, Sai was a great artist. He had been when they were little, Naruto just wanted to see how much he had improved.

Sai looked up at Naruto. He couldn't resist that face, as much as he tried he just couldn't. He slowly opened his pad to the page he was on and passed it to the blonde.

Naruto gaped at it. It was a cropped, lifelike picture of him in greyscale. He was sitting at a desk with his elbow on the desk and his head resting on his hand. He seemed to be staring out a window and off into space. The picture was perfectly proportioned with faultless shading. However, one part of Sai's black and white masterpiece was coloured; his eyes. They were a bright blue, and the colour made the blondes eyes seem as if they were glistening in the sunlight.

"Wow…" Naruto couldn't say much else. He didn't know if he could find any words to express the awe he had for the image before him. The picture was perfect.

"It's not done yet. I was going to give it to you tonight…" Sai trailed off.

Naruto smiled. Sai couldn't help but be happy at the smile on Naruto's face.

"It's perfect! Thank you so much!" Naruto pulled Sai into a tight hug. Kakashi wearily looked around and spotted Sasuke glaring. Iruka was trying to talk to him but the Uchiha just didn't want to listen. He had spotted Naruto and Sai.

Kakashi tapped Naruto on the shoulder and Naruto looked up. He saw Sasuke and mouthed 'I love you' to him. Sasuke nodded. He trusted Naruto. The blonde wouldn't betray him. He knew he wouldn't. Would he?

Gaara stalked around his house. No one has ever made me bleed before. Ever. Uzumaki hit me. No one hits me.

Gaara opened the fridge but all he found was old mouldy yoghurt and some milk that looked about a year old. Temari really needs to go shopping. Gaara closed the fridge. He looked around for something to occupy himself. That was the exact point when he realised exactly how empty this house was.

They had no games, no computer, no television… practically nothing fun at all. The only thing close to interesting that he could find was an old Cleo magazine from two years ago of Temari's. Good enough.

"Gaara, are you here?"

The red-head turned his head a bit to see Kankuro, his brother, who always wore a pattern of purple paint on his face, come in the door, followed closely by Temari.

"Hn."

Gaara heard Kankuro sigh. Temari closed the door and followed Kankuro into the lounge where they both gasped.

"Temari, you need to go shopping." Gaara looked up from the Cleo magazine at Temari and Kankuro, who were both struggling not to laugh. I mean, this is Gaara we are talking about. Gaara, the psychotic, blood-thirsty demon-child, reading a women's magazine!

"Yes, I guess I do." Temari answered. With every word she said it became harder and harder to not laugh.

"Yes, you do Temari. Maybe you should go buy Gaara a subscription to Cleo while you're at it."

That was it for both of them. The two siblings were on the floor laughing their heads off. They were both still cackling as the doorbell rang. Gaara rose from his seat. The red head knew the other two weren't capable of getting the door; as a result, he'd have to do it.

Gaara stalked into the entrance hall, his face still buried in the magazine, and he flung open the door.

"Heh, hey there Gaara."

The red-head looked up, his green eyes meeting deep blue. He slowly closed the magazine.

"Uzumaki, what are you doing here?"

Gaara looked past Naruto for a second to see Kakashi driving off.

"Uh, I just wanted to say sorry, really. I didn't mean to hurt you, just, well, you wouldn't stop." Naruto looked down at his feet.

Gaara stared at the blonde's face as he noticed how clear the scars on Naruto's face were, even at night. Those marks, where did he get them from? Unconsciously Gaara's hand cupped Naruto's face. He gently ran his pale thumb over Naruto's scarred cheeks, amazed at the smoothness of his skin, even over the scarred areas.

"Umm… Gaara?"

Sorry this took so long. I had writers block, but now I'm back, and I'm going to be updating much much more! STAY TUNED FOLKS! And please don't forget to REVIEW!