This Little Sun God of Mine
A/N: Um...sorry for the long wait again? lol REALLY SORRY!! but good news, i think i'll update a bit more frequently now! XD ANYWAYS, ENJOY!!!!!!
Warning: Language! ...can this still be considered T? or should i move it up to M????
Chapter 13
Neji lead Naruto and the rest through a few wide hallways, down a few flights of stairs (yes, they had floors below ground level too!), and into a broad area that was most likely the basement, the music growing louder and louder as they walked. Upon arriving, Neji pushed open the door with a flourish and grinned at Naruto, nodding his head in an invitation to go in first.
Smiling, Naruto stepped in and was surprised at the sight that greeted him. This must be the most wacked out pizza party ever! There were small disco balls shining every which color placed in juxtaposed positions around the ceiling, casting beautiful lighting patterns all over the room. A huge stereo system sat in the back, pumping out every genre of music and rocking the room to the beat, literally. There were around twenty giant pizza boxes, packs of soda, and lining the walls of the spacious room was every arcade game imaginable!
"Oh my GOD! Neji, just how rich are you?!" Naruto exclaimed, his wide eyes taking in everything there was to take in.
Neji chuckled at his antics. "I'm fairly wealthy."
"Fairly?! More like...the richest kid on earth!" Naruto flung his arms wide open, narrowly missing Kiba and Sai who were on either side of him. He ran forward and spun around a few times, looking utterly adorable with his wide, sparkling blue eyes and his swaying golden blond hair.
"Hey watch it!"
Naruto stopped, finally noticing that he had accidentally run into a girl.
"Ah! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, I really di—"
"Tenten, this is Naruto." Neji interrupted, stepping up alongside the two, effectively shutting the blond up.
Tenten sweeped her eyes over the boy and then promptly started to laugh. "AHAHAHAahaha, this is Naruto? Man, you've—"
Neji hastily clasped a hand over Tenten's mouth, smiling awkwardly towards Naruto who tilted his head to the side in confusion.
Glaring at the girl, he let go. "Um, Naruto..." he grinned sheepishly at the questioning blond, "this is Tenten. She's a childhood friend."
"Nice to meet you Tenten!" Naruto said, sticking out his hand for a handshake.
Tenten took his hand and shook it heartily, a grin on her face. "Hey, new meat. Welcome to the party!"
"Um, thanks? I guess..." Naruto's face still showed confusion, but he wiped it aside, deciding he really didn't want to get the inside joke with the meat and whatnot.
Kiba stepped up next to Naruto, as did Sai, and they both glared at Tenten, who ignored them amusedly.
Man, Neji was gonna have to work hard for this one.
Meanwhile, Naruto was looking around the room and noticed Lee, that lazy Shikamaru in his class, some fat dude, a girl that looked quite similar to Neji, and a blond girl were sitting in a circle, laughing their butts off.
"Well, I'm going to go get more refreshments, so go ahead and enjoy yourself, Naruto," said Neji, gesturing towards the circle. He then grabbed onto Tenten's arm and all but dragged her out of the room.
Naruto slowly made his way up to the group of friends, who stopped whatever they were doing and all turned to look at him.
He blushed. He wasn't used to this much attention. He hid behind Kiba a bit, much to Sai's annoyment, and stuttered, "U-um, can I join?"
"I don't know, can you?" The blond girl replied, but her eyes slowly traveled to Sai.
"Ah! I mean, may I join?" Naruto corrected, flushing even redder. Seeing this, the blond girl grinned broadly, and motioned for Naruto to sit beside her.
"Sure thing! You and your friends can sit between me and Hinata!" Naruto guessed that was the girl that looked like Neji, who was sitting by the blond girl.
Naruto sat down next to Hinata and gave her a dazzling smile. She seemed nice, so he wanted to be friends with her! But who knew that upon sitting down next to her, Hinata promptly turned as red as a tomato and fainted.
"AH! HINATA-CHAN!" Naruto exclaimed, quite alarmed at the situation. Turning around to see everyone staring at him, he shook his head quickly. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!! HONESTLY!"
The blond girl laughed and stood up, sitting between Naruto and Hinata and fanned the girl a bit. "It's okay, she gets like this...sometimes. By the way, I'm Yamanaka Ino. And this here pretty lady is Hyuuga Hinata. Who are you?"
"Ah, I'm new. My names Uzumaki Naruto!" he said, smiling to the girl, who quickly hugged Naruto with a squeal and exclaimed "You're so cute! No wonder Neji took a liking to you!"
Kiba and Sai both growled at the girl, who backed off upon seeing the protective friends Naruto had brought along.
"Jeez, and who are these charming fellows, Naru-chan?"
Blinking at the new nickname, he stuttered under the limelight. "T-this is Kiba, and he's Sai," he said, pointing to the people respectively.
"Hmmm...I see..." and she gave knowing looks to them both, though Kiba just huffed at her and looked away.
"Nice to meet you too, ugly bitch," Sai replied with such casualty that you'd think he was inviting his parents to open house.
"WHAT?!" Ino screamed at the insult, but Naruto beat her to it.
"SAI! Don't say that to people!" Naruto cried out, appalled.
"Sorry, Naruto, but I can't lie, it's not in my nature," he said, looking directly at Ino.
Ino ground her teeth, her fists bunching up at her sides. Finally, Shikamaru interjected and said, "Calm down Ino. It's no use getting into a fight."
The fat boy nodded in agreement. "Yeah, Ino. Forget it." He glared at Sai with his pudgy eyes, still munching on some pizza.
Lee, though, yelled out in excitement, "BEAT HIM TO A PULP, INO!!! DON'T LET HIS INSULTS UNDERMINE YOUR YOUTHFUL BEAUTY!!"
Naruto tugged on Kiba's sleeve, quite scared of everyone there. "Um, can we go find Neji right now? At least 'til they calm down?" he pleaded, looking up at Kiba with puppy dog eyes.
"...Sure thing, Naruto." Kiba grinned, pulling Naruto up and quietly inching away from the loud banter that arose within the circle.
Finally when they were out of the room, Naruto sighed. That was some mess he got into...hopefully the rest of the party would be better.
"Come on, let's go find Neji," Naruto said, leading the way back up the stairs.
If all of rich people's parties were this weird, he wishes that he'd never be rich. When you're rich, you probably have too much stuff to worry about anyways, like entertaining all your guests, keeping valuables away from guests, and providing food and drinks for the gu—.
Naruto had just turned a corner but had run head first into someone. He was about to fall, but Kiba caught him and helped him steady himself.
"Oh jeez, I'm sorry Neji. Heh, we seem to run into each other a lot, don't we?" Naruto laughed, helping the still dazed Neji up from the floor where he had unceremoniously fallen.
"Yes, we sure have a habit of doing that," Neji chuckled, dusting himself off.
"Yeah, we sure d—"
Neji looked over at Naruto, wondering why he had suddenly stopped talking. He was surprised to see his eyes wide and fearful, staring right past him.
He turned to see what the heck he was staring at and turned back with confusion etched across his face. It was just—
"Gaara..." Naruto whispered in shock, staring that the red haired boy standing casually behind Neji, his green eyes piercing into Naruto's.
Neji asked confusedly, "You know each other?"
Naruto nodded slowly, his eyes never wavering from Gaara's intense stare.
Naruto could not think. This could not be happening. Why, why, why is he here??!? He moved specifically so he could forget about him, but it seems fate is against him. Why, for fuck's sake, is Gaara HERE of all places?!
"Well, Gaara and I've known each other for a while too. I believe we met at a business party of our parents, right, Gaara?" Neji explained, looking over to the red head.
But Gaara just stared at Naruto, face emotionless, not saying a word.
Naruto withered under the intense gaze, but he would not let himself show it. Weakness in front of Gaara was not good at all...
"NARUTO!! You just left me with all those fuckers down there!" Sai suddenly appeared, clinging onto Naruto from behind and effectively pushing Kiba to the side.
Sensing the heavy mood in the air, Sai looked up and spotted Neji and a red head, who was staring.
Staring at Naruto.
Oh great, another one.
Sai, taking a very bold step, pulled Naruto into himself and wrapped his arms protectively around him, glaring at the redhead.
Naruto suddenly came to his senses, finally noticing the arms draped around him. "Sai! Um, um, please let go...!" He wiggled a bit, trying to get out of Sai's embrace.
Kiba, sensing Naruto in distress, pushed Sai roughly, toppling him to the side and freeing Naruto. The blond looked at Kiba gracefully, before turning back awkwardly to Gaara and Neji, who was still looking between the redhead and Naruto quizzically.
"Um, hi...Gaara...long time no see...I guess..." Naruto winced at how weak he sounded.
Neji opened his mouth to ask these two just exactly what the heck was happening, but was interrupted by the doorbell. From somewhere, Tenten called out sweetly, "Hey boys! Would someone get that?"
Grumbling, Neji stalked towards the door, mentally stabbing whoever had the guts to interrupt at this time.
Naruto, with nothing better or less awkward to do, rushed after Neji. Sai and Kiba followed closely after. After a few seconds, Gaara slowly went to the front door too.
Neji flung the door open, clearly not a in a good mood, and was about to bite the head off any soliciting people, but stopped in shock at who was at the door.
It was none other than Uchiha Sasuke, the Ice Prince of Konoha High.
"What do you want, Uchiha? Incase you forgot, your house is on the other side of the street."
Naruto frowned, hearing the name Uchiha. Sasuke was here?
"Don't get your panties all in a bunch, Hyuuga. My dear brother just had an insane idea for me to come and ask you for a bowl of sugar, even though I'm pretty sure we already have a million bags at home." Sasuke could be heard sneering back.
"What makes you think I'll give you any?" Neji retorted, his previous annoyance coming back full force.
"Just hand some over. It's only one pitcher full, you ass."
Neji sighed, deciding not to argue with the Uchiha today. He had enough problems on his hand already. Motioning him to come in, Neji closed the door behind Sasuke and went into the kitchen for sugar.
The first thing Sasuke locked eyes on was Gaara. And he literally saw red as his eyes turned an abnormal shade of scarlet.
Controlling his urge to stab and bash Gaara's head in, Sasuke noticed something else.
Gaara wasn't glaring back at him. Instead, he was looking intently at a blond kid who was fidgeting under the stare.
Gaara was staring at Uzumaki Naruto.
As was this other guy that was supremely annoying looking, with short black hair and black eyes.
...As was Neji as he returned with the pitcher of sugar. Damn.
Kiba noticed all this too, and he could feel his skin grow cold and clammy.
Oh boy. This job of protecting Naruto was probably going to take a few years off his life.
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TBC!!! AH! REVIEW!!! XD i love my reviews!! wanna know a secret? I was about put this story on hold while i worked on my new fic Uzumaki Naruto on the Case! but when i saw all my loverly reviews, i was like...NO! i must not deprive my poor readers:D so rejoice! AND REVIEW!!!
heheheheh, all the suitors in one room. how will it turn out? MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Replies:
Janzo the Ashbringer- XD wow that's gotta be pretty rough on you! And thanks SO much for that review, I must say that you greatly encouraged me to update faster!
StardustSage- Hahaha, what better Naruto than an oblivious one? XD
JadeBangle- Heh...about my creativity...lemme just say, if you happended to wander into my mind, you would be scared lifeless. XD
fallen-forgotten-faith- XD i see we have the same tastes! and i totally agree wiv you on the cliched sitting-next-to-sasuke thing, which is EXACTLY why i made him sit next to Kiba XD And also, as a little hint, once Sasuke realizes Naruto is the aorta to his heart, he will DEFINITELY be perverted MUAHAHAHA!!
Dreamergirl667- You don't like Sai::gasp!:: that's okay. XD i personally adore him though. heheheheh!
Mordraugsereg- Im pretty sure it was chapter 11. :D