This Is How A Heart Breaks

By Jasmine Starlight

Full Summary: Yaoi/het. Neji/Sasu Sasuke's slightly mordant; Itachi just might be a sociopath. Maybe Gaara is from a broken home. Neji just may be in the closet. Maybe Naruto might be lonely. Maybe Kabuto needs someone to love. Maybe Kakashi might need someone to hold. Maybe Sakura might need real friends. Maybe Temari needs a reality check. Maybe Kankurou needs anger management. Maybe Jiraiya needs Tsunade. Maybe Orochimaru needs them both. Maybe Hinata needs freedom. Maybe Kiba might need acceptance. Maybe Ino needs confidence. Maybe Tenten needs medication. Perhaps Shikamaru needs love. Shino, quite possibly could need companionship. Maybe Tayuya is hiding behind her personality. Maybe Haku fears rejection. Maybe Kimimaro desires friendship. Maybe Lee is crying out for attention. Maybe Obito needs compassion.

Pairings:…Neji/Sasu…Kimimaro/Haku…Obito/Kakashi eventual…then Itachi/Kabuto…perhaps I could stick some rape in there somewhere. Tenten/Kankurou…Naruto/Gaara Orochimaru/Jiraiya/Tsunade…Open to suggestions. Shikamaru/Temari…Kiba/Ukon! Zaku/Kin… Hinata/Shino…Tayuya/Lee. Dosu/Kidoumaru…Zabuza/Haku…then…Zabuza/Kisame! Shisui/Sakon! Ino/Sakura.

The readers get to know who were anonymously humping chapters 8 and 9.

CHAPTER TWELVE

IT ENDS TONIGHT

"Your subtleties
They strangle me
I can't explain myself at all.
And all the wants
And all the needs
All I don't want to need at all.

The walls start breathing
My mind's unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow."

---The All-American Rejects; It Ends Tonight

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Sasuke's mind was having trouble computing his need to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, finally after minutes of sucking face with Neji he finally broke it off.

"What was that?" he demanded angrily, chest heaving.

"A kiss." Neji said smirking; rubbing his thumb over the other boy's swollen bottom lip.

"I know that! Why did you kiss me?" he said, cheeks flushed a pretty red.

"Seemed like a good idea at the time." Neji admitted candidly.

"What kind of reply is that—" Sasuke began again before Neji kissed him again.

Once again Sasuke broke their kiss, "Stop doing that!" he exclaimed excitedly.

"Doing what?" Neji asked innocently, his hands coming to rest on Sasuke's smaller waist and pulling the other boy closer to him.

"You're—er—uh—avoiding—" Sasuke began to stutter, forgetting his point as Neji began to kiss down the column of the Uchiha's neck, eliciting small whimpering noises.

The Hyuuga boy hummed as he unbuttoned Sasuke's top, pressing kisses in line down pale skin, pausing to nibble briefly on his collarbone.

Sasuke was almost melting at the attention he was receiving from Neji's skilled tongue and fingers, he was unable to form coherent thought any longer and finally just gave into the mind-numbing pleasure as Neji finished unbuttoning his shirt and moved onto unfastening his belt.

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Wow.

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Maybe I was rushing into to it? Just a bit. But it's nothing right? Happens all the time.

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"What's up with the hardware Hinata-chan?" Kiba said as Hinata distractedly put her books away in her locker.

"Nothing. Just felt like it." Hinata said queasily.

"How're things on the Shino front?" Kiba asked leaning against the locker next to hers.

"Nothing's changed." Hinata sighed wistfully as she looked at Shino walking by, steadfastly ignoring her.

"Cheer up! You could have it much worse; you could come from families that hate each other and end up killing yourself." Kiba said cheerfully.

Hinata slammed her locker closed, "Suicide is not a joke." She said with conviction, turning her milky eyes to Kiba's who repressed the urge to whimper.

"Alright, sorry. Come on Kurenai'll flip if we're late."

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Pearleyedgirl87: I am going to find out who you are.

RedAsBlood09666: Sure you are.

Pearleyedgirl87: I wore the belt today in school. But I'm sure you already knew that.

RedAsBlood09666: Actually I didn't.

Pearleyedgirl87: Yes you did. I'm going to find out who you are.

RedAsBlood09666: Give it up. If you find out who I am then you have to acknowledge to yourself and everyone else that you're friends with me. And I doubt that you really want to.

Pearleyedgirl87: If I'm going to this much trouble to look for you then why wouldn't I want to be friends with you? For all your anti-popular, fake rebel thinking you're just as hypocritical as the rest of the very people you complain about.

RedAsBlood09666: So? The entire human race is hypocritical. Just look at everyone in politics.

Pearleyedgirl87: Stop being so incredibly immature. What are you so afraid of?

RedAsBlood09666: It's easy for you to say that. You have friends and you are popular. I'm not and I don't want to be.

Pearleyedgirl87: What are you saying you don't want to be friends with me because I'm "popular"? OHMYGOSH. XX

RedAsBlood09666: Our friendship wouldn't work. Stop being so naïve.

Pearleyedgirl87: Stop being so narrow-minded.

RedAsBlood09666: Sorry.

Pearleyedgirl87: This isn't over I am going to find out who you are. And then we will have a face to face conversation because that's what friends do.

Pearleyedgirl87 has signed off

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Hinata bit her lip in worry before she opened her instant message window and typed in a message.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures." She said resolutely.

Chat #549856775 has been opened

Pearleyedgirl87 has entered room

UZImaki01 has entered room

Pearleyedgirl87: hi Naruto-kun.

UZImaki01:…sup

Pearleyedgirl87: Can I ask you a question Naruto-kun?

UZImaki01: Shoot.

Pearleyedgirl87: Do you know who RedAsBlood09666 is?

UZImaki01:D Of course I do.

Pearleyedgirl87: Who is it?

UZImaki01: It's Gaara.

Pearleyedgirl87: O.o. Really? Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. I'll take you out for ramen sometime Naruto-kun.

Pearleyedgirl87 has signed off

Pearleyedgirl87 has signed on

Pearleyedgirl87: Can you text me his cell number? Thnx

Pearleyedgirl87 has signed off

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Gaara had been valiantly fighting enemy fighter jets in an attempt to save the galaxy far far away when his cell rang.

He picked up his cellular device and looked at the flashing lights and the unfamiliar number and got an eerie feeling in his gut.

"Hello?"

"I told I'd find out who you are."

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I think going to school won't be in my future for a very long time.

At least until I can walk without a limp.

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"I think we should find out who he is." Hinata said without preamble in school the next day. Gaara, who was standing in line for lunch had forgone the act of resisting Hinata's attempt to integrate into society.

"He's a junior." Gaara said wanly, resisting the urge to twitch as he had gotten up way to early to go to school.

"That's a start. How did you find that out?" Hinata said cheerfully, ignoring the looks people gave her as she stood in the line without getting lunch.

"He told me. Before you stumbled into our chat." Gaara said as he paid for his regulation, chicken substitute flavored slop.

"Well at least we know his gender." Hinata said as Gaara walked to his customary table where Naruto and Sasuke sat.

"What're you doing here Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked energetically before trying to steal food off of Gaara's plate, who deftly slapped the hand trying to snatch his "nourishment" and acted as if nothing happened.

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"I don't think we should do this anymore." Itachi said as he returned his clothes to their normal pristine state.

Kakashi looked up from where he was recovering his own face. "Why? Getting tired of me?"

Itachi rolled his eyes and made sure his hair didn't look like he'd just been fucked. Which is what he'd been. Fucked.

Kakashi wrapped his arms around Itachi's unyielding waist, "I will miss you."

What you'll miss is the sex.

Itachi successfully extricated himself from the other man's grasp and slung his bag over his shoulder and looked at Kakashi's one visible eye. "Now you can finally admit those not so hidden feelings you have for my cousin." He said mordantly.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow.

"One Uchiha is not the same as the next. If you wanted Obito you should have gone to him and not me."

END

WE'VE REACHED ONE HUNDRED REVIEWS! THANKS YOU GUYS!!

Sorry for the bold and the italics but 100 reviews is a milestone for me. So to celebrate I answered a few questions that you guys have probably been scratching your heads about.

Sorry for the short chapter.

But that place was the best place to end it.

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