Finally! Oh well, 3 day weekend, lots of updating now!
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"Good morning bitches."
"Can I help you?" Temari asked. She stood in the doorway, staring at the teenager on her stoop. "With an attitude like that, I might change my mind."
"Oh, shove it. I just want my Dumplings and I'll be gone." A average height teenager stared at Temari, her bright blue eyes giving off that 'how's it hanging bitch?' attitude.
"How rude…" Temari murmured.
"Hey bitches ho bitches, how do you do? You did me and I did you--"
"What, no cheer?" Kiba asked, appearing behind Temari.
"I don't cheer."
"You just sing about doing girls?" Temari asked.
"I wouldn't mind doing you," the girl said.
She was gone so fast, she barely had time to register she had 'Dumplings' in her grasp. It worked every time, didn't it? Of course. Just make an off-color remark and they give you whatever you ask for. Remember that.
Kiba slammed the door.
"Who was that?" he demanded. "She is scary."
"Didn't you check the movies list?"
"Dude," Kiba said. "Japanese and Korean Horror movies. Hinata is too far away to have someone to cuddle with. That totally defeats the purpose of watching them and braving the scary chicks with long, black hair and wires. WIRES!"
"Hm…you could always have me clutch you frantically. I remember that time we watched Ringu. Good times, good times."
Kiba snorted. "You just watched it like it was Barney. Everyone but you and Sasuke was screaming. Naruto practically had a nervous breakdown."
"Like I said," Temari replied coyly, "good times."
From the shadows, Shikamaru muttered 'troublesome'. Some part of him though, muttered other words.
"So where are we going?"
"Out."
"Where?"
"Out."
"Where is out?"
"I don't know yet."
"Okay."
Sasuke sighed. It was hard to deal with an incredibely hyper Naruto. It wasn't that he didn't love the blond boy, that wasn't it, it was just that the blond boy in question was just so hyper. If Sasuke had been him, now that the dark-haired boy thought about it, he would have probably been really excited too. 'I guess I have been distant.' He snickered at himself. 'Distant is the understatement of the year,' he mused darkly.
"We can head to the library," Sasuke suggested. Naruto cocked his head to one side. "Café, you know? What we got there when we were here back in March was pretty good."
"Yeah," Naruto agreed, brightening significantly.
"Then come on." Sasuke opened the glass doors and slunk inside, Naruto at his heels. The two boys found a place in the back of the café. Naruto left Sasuke to guard the table and went off to get food. This was disaster on so many levels.
Sasuke rested both elbows on the table, watching the people. One of them was a slightly flamboyant teenager with pink hair who was talking excitedly to a boy with black hair and a ponytail…black hair and a ponytail? Sasuke rubbed his eyes nervously. Still there. The pony-tailed boy was leaning against one of the windows, the cloth of his black jacket pressed against the glass. Sasuke blanched. 'Just ignore it. Either you're hallucinating, or it's some innocent guy who shouldn't be bothered.' Somehow, however, the logical part of his brain couldn't quench his fears.
"Hey…Sasuke…" Naruto's voice sounded far away. Sasuke shook his head, breaking the spell, and focused his eyes on the blond boy, who had returned with cookies, a bagel, a coffee and a soda.
"Bagel?" Sasuke asked, arching one long, black eyebrow. Naruto shrugged, grinning still.
"The lady behind the counter really wanted me to get it," he said, shrugging. "You want some of it? I know you like them."
Sasuke raised a questioning eyebrow. "What makes you say that?" He felt like he was interrogating the boy, not going out with him.
"Oh, you know, you always brought them to school. I mean, I guess I just assumed…"
"I liked them," Sasuke assured the younger boy quickly, ripping off a small piece of bagel and popping it into his mouth. "I used to buy them for a couple dollars on that freaky off campus bagel store." Sasuke popped another piece of bagel into his mouth.
"Oh. Why didn't you ever drag me along? I always had to sneak around…"
"I had to pick up…other items."
"Oh."
"You should have gone with Gaara. Your guardian adored him. Asshole."
"Gaara or him?"
"Him."
"Yeah…"
"Why do you ask dumb questions like that?" Sasuke asked. He drew his black eyes into slits. "I mean, it's like you really want to talk to me. So bad you'll ask dumb questions."
"You never talk to me otherwise."
"Hm…we can change that, huh? No more dumb questions."
"Okay!"
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Good. Now let's go upstairs to the second floor and hide out by the books on Satanism," Sasuke suggested. Naruto considered.
"No, there are all the teenagers who think Satanism is cool and in keeping with their whole 'I hate Christianity because it's the norm. And I'm pretending to be a bisexual'. Stupid."
"Stupid," Sasuke agreed. "I wonder if they would change their mind if they saw a couple of guys making out up there."
"The library would thank you!" shouted the Barista. "I swear, every time I see one of them, I feel like puking on their ugly-ass shoes and turning their quaint little necks Grudge-style."
"Broken heart?"
"Shattered bitches."
Sasuke and Naruto sat upstairs, facing each other. Indeed, hidden behind the books on Satanism, they sat, knees drawn up, in complete and total silence despite the people around them making noise. It was just the two of them, Sasuke resting his head on a book about the pentagram and Naruto resting his head on a book about the dogma.
The smell of musty books swirled around them in circles, wafting over their skin, undoubtedly leaving imprints that would exist even after they left the library and went out in the stiff summer breeze. It smelled old and otherworldly, as if they had found their way to some other, strange time. The perfume of college students from the town university pooled on the floor and the cologne of frat boys covering up a night of partying sunk into the floor. The smells clung to the two boy's clothes, refusing to let go.
"Can I ask you a question?"
The sound of keyboards tapping ricocheted off the pages. The tap of the librarians heel against the carpeted floor. An elderly woman climbing the stairs slowly, her bones creaking and her cane tapping out a waltz: one two three, one two three. Chains clinked in step to heavy footfalls. A phone slamming down, another snapping shut with a quick 'goodbye' and another sliding open with a swift 'hello, mom?' For a place supposed to be quiet, it sure was loud in there.
"Shoot."
The florescent lights burned down on the blue carpeting. A tall blond girl swished by, her arms entwined with her jock boyfriend's. Pink hair fluttered by. Blue jeans walked past the aisle. Chains glittered in the blue tinted light. The gold flecked white stairs glimmered in the same light. A computer screen flashed a rainbow of webpage colors.
"Do you still love me?"
Carpet pricked under fingertips, crunching back under shoes to provide traction. The metal strip where the limestone white and rug blue was cold under the hands of a little boy that tripped. His hand slipped from his mother's and he tumbled to the floor, skinning his knee in the process. Sasuke pressed his head against the book and Naruto did the same.
"Always."
The tow boys could taste the heavy perfume of the librarian as she swished by. Onion bagel bits assaulted Sasuke's tongue. Flecks of abandoned hazel nuts played over Naruto's teeth. On the other side of the expansive room, one of the men playing chess took a sip of tea.
Sasuke and Naruto leaned forward at the same time. Their lips connected gently. Electricity jolted through the two of them, nearly knocking them apart. Of course, almost is an operative word. Sasuke pushed Naruto against the bookshelf, assaulting the younger boy's tongue with his own. They lay on the blue carpet, thoroughly making out.
Sasuke couldn't remember the last time they had done this. It had been a long time. Too long in his opinion. 'How could I ever not trust him? Doubt that I would ever love him?' he asked himself.
They were interrupted though. It had to happen, or they would have totally had sex in the Satanism section which, as it happens, is right next to the paganism and Wiccan section and shares a wall with astral projections and part of the Christianity section. You can't have sex there. Besides, the librarian would have had an aneurism.
"Yeah, and then I was all, 'I'm a bisexual Satanist' and she was all-- oh my god!"
Naruto and Sasuke broke apart. Neither really noted the fact that they had their hands up each other's shirts or that Sasuke was straddling Naruto's hips in the middle of a public library.
"Yeah?" Sasuke asked the two girls who had interrupted, dark eyes mildly annoyed. "Did you want a book?"
"No, looking for a book on Catholicism," squeaked the 'bisexual Satanist'. "You know, have to brush up!" She shuffled away frantically. "I should have said 'I'm a straight Catholic'…" she hissed.
"Loser."
"Shall we?"
"Of course."
The librarian decided that as long as it was PG-13, she didn't care what went on in the Satanism section. It wasn't her problem anyway.
I showed up multiple times...I think...oh well. Also, no offence to ANYONE. There really is a Satanism section (though I THINK the Christianity section is across the computer aisle, but I haven't been there in a while). There really are people like that. It's annoying. They block my path to t3h astral projections section.
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