Beta Reader: Kiiroikitsune
Day: Tuesday
Chapter Fourteen: Coincidence or Fate
It's the next day, and Gaara opened his eyes for the first time since the incident with Sasuke in the bank. He gazed up at the roof and understood right away where he was. Slowly the redhead sat himself up in the bed and placed his palm onto his head gently, when he moved from his long sleeping state it had made his world spinning before his eyes and his head felt heavy. "Ouch... my head." He mumbled in a sight. "What's the time?" he asked himself and rubbed his eyes with his hand, trying to get the sleep out if his eyes. Once he could see clearly enough the young man looked at his side and found the bed-table, on it he could see his cell phone. Delighted he reached out for it, picked it up and looked on the time and calendar. "Tuesday, Twenty-sixth of September... two-thousand and fifty-six, the time is ten minutes pass half seven am." A loud yawn escaped his mouth; he also stretched himself as he tried to give more life to his body as it felt heavy and weak. The silence in the room was suddenly interrupted when the door opened and a familiar brown-haired man walked in.
"Good morning, Gaara-Sama." It was Iruka, and he seemed happy to see one of the two boy's finally awake.
"Morning to you too." Gaara whispered slowly back, he didn't whisper on purpose, it was just that his throat was so dry after not drinking anything for so long. Luckily Iruka did just arrive with what he needed right now; a plate with breakfast and two big glasses of milk and juice.
"You have been asleep for a long time." Iruka started as he placed the plate down on Gaara's table, and the red-head quickly took a bite in one of the toasts and started to eat. "The Sire have finally stabilized; he is doing well and will most likely be able to leave the hospital today." Gaara couldn't do anything else but to nod, he was busy eating after all. "I went and got your school things and clothes; therefore can you get dressed and be ready for school. The doctors said you only needed rest, which I presume you have gotten enough of now?"
"Yeah..." Gaara mumbled, not feeling like staying in this room any more than necessary. "I will go to school. Will Naruto be joining me?" Gaara didn't want the air in the room to be to quiet, if it did... then Iruka would most likely ask questions, questions he didn't feel like answering right now. He just wanted to get out of here and get to school, forgetting about what had happened yesterday.
Iruka shook his head to the red-head's question. "No, the Sire still need some more time here, but as I said, he will not spend another night."
"Ok, that's all I needed to know." Gaara got out his bed and went towards the bathroom, with a toast in his mouth. "I will take a shower now, just leave the rest of the food there, I will eat it eventually." The redhead called from the bathroom. He had a lot to do besides the shower, to be able to get ready for school, he was in need of taking on his contacts, make-up, fake hair and eyebrows, something that took some time if he didn't hurry.
The servant was kind of disappointed, but he didn't let it show. He simply bowed, turned around and walked out the door of Gaara's room; Iruka understood that Gaara was not in the mood to talk about the event just yet, so he quickly decided to live him alone, but before closing the door completely he called to Gaara one last time. "I will get someone to drive you when its twenty minutes to the school starts." He closed the door and walked through the corridors, picking up his own phone, making a call.
It was a taxi that was going to pick up the red-head later, and Iruka had now made the preparations for him, but there were still one more thing he needed to do. He walked towards the room where Naruto and Sasuke were at. When he stood at the door he didn't enter right away, but gently knocked on it, then walked in.
"Good Morning to you Sasuke-Sama." Iruka said very polite and bowed deeply. Sasuke was sitting up in his bed, and he seemed to be very worry. "I am here to ask if you wanted to stay just this day. The Sire will leave this hospital later, but I was hoping you could stay until then." Iruka saw Sasuke's worried eyes looking at him then down at Naruto and then back at him again. The brown-haired man knew why he was looking at him like that, and he had to show he was fine with it so he smiled gently. "It's ok, I know you took of him the cables and turned off the machines. I could guess that was done under the Sire's command, but don't worry I know he is fine." Sasuke's worried face and eyes turned somewhat into a happy once and his lips couldn't hold back a smile as he looked down at the blonde. "I will call the school." Iruka continued. "And tell them you will join them tomorrow and your family... well."
"It's fine." Sasuke interrupted with a harsh tired voice. "I would guess they don't even notice that I am gone. Just tell the school..." His sentence died out into a faint whisper. It's not like he didn't want his family to care... they just didn't.
Iruka heard the voice Sasuke used, and he felt like this wasn't his place to be, he did a gentle bow and walked out the door, and attended to what he had said he would do. Letting Naruto be the one to take care of Sasuke once he wakes up.
The young Uchiha faced forward, closed his eyes, sighed out and his shoulders sank down. He felt some mixed feelings, he was glad that Iruka understood him, but the mention of his family had made his mood fall somewhat down. He still hadn't forgotten what the robber had said and that fact that the Uchiha didn't care about his whereabouts didn't make him feel any better. If Itachi had been home, he would maybe ask Iruka to bother to call home, but since he was still gone... there was no need.
After some seconds Sasuke turned his head and looked down at the blonde sleeping next of him. He tried to forget everything about the Uchihas and just focus on what was around him. He smiled. 'I am so happy I don't have to go to school today...' Sasuke thought, closing his eyes as he felt a siring pain coming from his bottom. 'I can't possible leave this bed for another few hours.' The Uchiha decided not to think too much about the pain, but what else was there to do? He opened his eyes again, and just by looking at the sleeping person next to him Sasuke fell in yet another trans-like state. The Uchiha couldn't wait until the blonde woke up, they had so much to talk about and discuss. However, he could feel his eyes get heavy just by looking how good Naruto slept. 'Maybe another few hours would hurt.' Sasuke thought, it had been a long while since he last slept some more just because he felt like it, normally when he first wakes up he don't go back to sleep, but he was ready to make an acceptation this time. He took a grip of Naruto's strong arm, using it as a pillow and holding it close to him dearly, falling soon asleep.
Hours passed by, and Gaara had done his best with the history class at school. He had arrived at school well before the bell rang, he found his little group of friends and was shocked to find out that not even Sasuke was at school today. Neji told him that he was most likely at home, since the event at the bank.
"So even an Uchiha gets sacred when someone is pointing a gun on them, eh?" Neji said to his little group of friends as they sat in the class room, enjoying their recess. Jiraiya, the history teacher was still in the room as his class had just ended.
"Hey! Jiraiya-Sensei!" called one of the students to the teacher; it was the dog lover Kiba.
"Yes Inuzuka-Kun?" the old man asked gently. The teacher hadn't been himself lately; he was much more calm and gentler. A rumor that went around was that one of his two daughters was found killed, and ever since he had been very gloomy, however lately he wasn't even that, he was just this... calm old man that didn't seem to bother to be angry or anything. Normally he would be full of energy and maybe even do one of his strange dances, but not lately...
"When was your daughter going to start school here?" the dog boy asked.
The man stopped and thought about it for a second. "Hmm, if I remember right... sometime this week, I think."
A low groan was heard, then another student started to talk. "Why did you and your wife agree to let her start at a new school almost at the end of the school year anyway?" this time it was Neji who spoke. He didn't understand why changing school at the end would do her any good, unless... she was thrown out of her previous school.
"Hehe." The man laughed a little and smiled, but his smile was as fake and dry as it ever could be, the dark rings around his eyes were proof that he hadn't had much sleep, still he went to school to teach and talked to his students. "As young, she was showing grate intellect and has always been very smart, she needed to jump two classes up at the elementary school. She has not really been on school the last years you see. She has been around traveling a lot instead, having a teacher with her all the time of course. But now she is tired of traveling, she deiced to take one last trip with her mother before starting school, settle down and have a normal school life."
Many of the students in the room gasped in amazement, thinking several thoughts; was she really that smart? How much of the world had she seen while traveling? And more importantly; how did she look like? And how was her personality? But not everyone was so happy that so many had found her so interesting, she could end up begin a rival of love. Since many of the boys and some girls seemed so eager about her, and that before even meeting her. Gaara on the other hand looked serious at the teacher with a suspicions mind. 'Something...' he thought. 'Something he just said was a lie... Hm, I can't figure out what though.'
The school continued for Gaara, and the whole class was buzzing about the new girl that was going to start soon, making everyone else get to know the news too.
At the hospital Naruto and Sasuke were still sleeping peacefully. It was just amazing how relaxed they were together, however, no matter how cozy the duvet and all of this was, when you have gotten enough sleep, your eyes would normally start to get open themselves.
Naruto lay still on his bed but his eyes were open. He smiled as he thought; 'Ah, I had the most awesome dream.' He lifted his left hand up and resting the back of it against his forehead. He couldn't seem to stop smiling. 'Sasuke was here at the hospital... and he actually solved the riddle and then we ...' he stopped, the blonde had tried to sit up, but something was holding him down, or someone was holding a strong grip of his right arm. 'Wha...' He looked down and found... Sasuke. 'Oh lord, it was absolute no dream!' He could finally recall it all as it had happened, thought it was all almost too good to be true, it really had happened! All of Naruto's work had really paid off and finally. He calmed himself, but his heart was very much pounding happily.
"Hello beautiful..." Naruto sighed out happily as he brushed away some hair from Sasuke's face, at the same time gently touching his soft skin, but then...
"And hello handsome." A low voice said, it was no other then Sasuke. He laid still on Naruto's arm, but removed himself for the lovely arm and slowly moved his head upwards, making himself looking up at Naruto's face.
The blonde smiled down at the person next to him. "I thought you were asleep."
Sasuke yawned a little. "Oh I was, but when I felt you tried to move away your arm, I woke up right away."
"Is that so?" Naruto asked teasingly and smirked. Gently he moved close to Sasuke, placed his left hand on Sasuke's shoulder then pushing him away, but at the same time the blonde followed. In the next moment Sasuke laid with his back on his bed and Naruto stood over him smirking. "Good morning then." Naruto bended down and kissed Sasuke on the forehead and gently moved away.
"I see your strength is back." Sasuke said and sat himself up in his bed, blushing slightly from the morning kiss.
Naruto smiled. "Indeed, I feel like I can finally get out of this hospital."
The two boys sat up in each of their beds, they both wanted to stay closer to each other, but the beds was no together double-bed, meaning it would be uncomfortable if they tried to stay right next to each other.
"Well, I guess we have something to discuss." Naruto begun, understanding there was some work to be done.
"I guess so." Sasuke nodded. "First of; who are you going to be at school? I mean, I don't want our relationship to be a secret." The Uchiha looked into Naruto's eyes and stopped talking, the reason? The blonde was gazing at him with seduce eyes. "...what?"
"Hmm." Naruto's smirked a sly smile, his tone going up ironically. "Right now, you just called me your boyfriend." He said purring his words out.
Sasuke frown as he blushed hard. "Well... yeah..." he mumbled, "that's what we are, right?"
Naruto didn't stop smiling as his grin only got larger. "Oh yes, yes of course..." he moved closer to Sasuke, so close that he rested his forehead on Sasuke's. "You just have no idea how long I have been waiting to get you as my boyfriend."
This made Sasuke blush even more, and as a reflex Sasuke gave a little kiss on Naruto's cheek then pulled a little away, looking into the two blue eyes he loved so much. "But over to the topic."
With a smile on his face Naruto moved back in an up-right sitting position and though over what Sasuke had said. "Hmm, yeah." Naruto then said, "I can never image the famous Uchiha Sasuke date a nerd like Sachiaiko. And Utoran pretty much doesn't have a privet-life and Uzumaki... well, he is just known as a spoiled rich kid that is good at medicine and quitted school long ago."
The Uchiha thought about it all for a second, he actually had an idea in the back of his mind. "What if ..." he mumbled, not sure if Naruto was going to like it.
"What if what?" the blonde asked curios. He felt himself feeling blessed inside; he had been waiting for ages to just... talk to the Uchiha like this. Nothing special, just talk and discuss things, and as himself!
"Well, I where thinking, what if you just stays as Sachiaiko, with an Uchiha make-over." Sasuke looked at Naruto and tried to image how Sachiaiko would look like if he did this, and that and maybe even that too. "You know, changing the hair style, clothes and say that you use contacts, and maybe some makeup."
Naruto's face lighted up. "Good idea!" he shouted happily. "And Iruka even started to make my suite look thinner."
Sasuke was a little puzzled at his words. "Suite?"
He blonde nodded. "Yeah, I had to put on something to make myself look fatter, so that people wouldn't recognize me." He laughed.
"Oh, I see." The black hair mumbled. "I thought you started to look a slightly thinner."
Naruto's eyes widened slightly. "What? You noticed?"
The other boy blushed a little at Naruto's shocked words. "Well... noticed and noticed..." he mumbled embarrassed. "I just thought you had lost some weight, that's all."
The blonde kept smiling, cause; since Sasuke had noticed that he had lost weight meant that Sasuke had started to pay attention and get interest in him already back then.
"Well, how do you think I should dress then? I have some clothes back home, if we go there later on we can go through them and you can pick what you think suits me."
Sasuke smiled and nodded. "Indeed, as long as you have many different kind of clothes and shoes."
"Sure I do." Naruto said. "I have been playing as I have three different life, a lot of different clothes where needed to be able to do that."
The two boys talked a little more about random things, like clothes and things they liked. It was so fun just talking openly to someone else that the hours went by. Then Sasuke remember something, and that changed the mood, from happy and innocent to serious and tens.
"What's wrong Sasuke?" Naruto asked worried, he didn't like the suddenly change.
"Naruto..." Sasuke started, with a serious voice. "... I don't know how to ask you this but ..." he was cut off.
"My powers?" Naruto asked in a sight.
"..." the Uchiha become quite.
The blonde was able to smile understandable. He crawled over to the edge of Sasuke's bed and sat down, with his two feet hanging over the edge. In the next second his eyes turned blood red and his face became covered in those six whisker-like marks. "I don't know why or how I have these powers." Then the table in the room started to move. "I just know; as a kid have I been able to do stuff that other people cannot." The table was now floating in front of them and Naruto moved his right hand and fingers in the motion he wanted the table to fly.
There was a little silent in the room, and Naruto placed the table back down on its place, making his eyes turn back to blue and his whisker marks disappeared. He didn't like to say it, but his brain was hurting much more than usual when he activated his powers. It must be because of the operation and the fact that he did overwork himself with saving Sasuke. Then out of the blue Naruto's thoughts were interrupted as he felt a strong embrace around himself. Sasuke had suddenly almost tackled Naruto with a hard hug. He kept a strong tight grip around the blonde.
"Please..." Sasuke whispered. Some few tears even started to roll down his cheeks. "Don't... don't ever do that to save me..." The Uchiha looked up at Naruto with tearful eyes. "You almost died! ...you Usuratonkachi."
Naruto looked down on Sasuke worried, understanding that Sasuke was being serious. The blonde sighed and whispered as he petted Sasuke's head with one hand. "I am sorry that I worried you. But I will not stop protecting you." He ended, forcing a smile. Naruto then placed his hand under Sasuke's chin. "I will always make it, somehow. I will always look after you." The blonde bended down towards Sasuke and also made him move towards him as well, the outcome; the two boys kissed a long and passion kiss.
The kiss ended and Naruto brushed away Sasuke's tears. "Don't worry; in the future I will make sure things like that never happen."
Those words were spoken with much truth, it made Sasuke calm down and relax, not that the kiss didn't make him calm down already.
Minutes later there were some knocks on the door.
"Yes." Naruto said, he didn't know if he was glad someone interrupted them or not.
The door opened and Iruka entered. "Sire, Uchiha-Sama, we are now ready for you to leave. I have called the limousine and it will be here in about fourteen minutes. You two can take a shower. Once the two of you are ready the limousine will drive you to any location you want."
Naruto nodded to the servant. "Thanks Iruka, we will get ready soon." The servant bowed and exited. "Now let's get ready my sweet love." Naruto purred out of his mouth as he got himself off the bed, turned towards Sasuke and flipped him up in his arms.
"Uwah..." Sasuke gasped surprised. "Wha-what are you doing?" he asked demandingly, but he couldn't hide the deep blushing he got on his cheek by Naruto's sudden actions.
"Don't worry." Naruto said smiling in a glee. "You can't walk yet, that much I can tell. So just leave it all to me." To seal the deal Naruto looked down on Sasuke with a look only Utoran would have given, and that look alone made Sasuke silence, or to shocked to speak, either way Naruto got the two of them to the bathroom and did his best to make this experience as less painful for Sasuke as he could. Naruto washed Sasuke and himself, maybe he did play a little with him, but he much more wanted to just wash up and get out of this hospital.
Thirty minutes later the two boys were dressed and ready to go. However, Sasuke still had a little pain in his back, and Naruto saw this and smiled with an evil grin. Quickly he moved behind Sasuke, and did the same action again, he picked Sasuke up in a bride-style.
"Not again!" Sasuke shouted and tried his best to struggle to make Naruto put him down. Sure he had let Naruto take him last night... but he didn't need this kind of treatment.
"Just relax Sasuke." Naruto whispered. "It's a long walk from here to the exit, so just lay back and take it easy.
The Uchiha couldn't do anything better then to do as he had been told. His face was as red as a tomato, he had never been treated like this by anyone before. However... it felt kind of nice too, when he was held like this... he could tell how strong the blonde was, he could feel his muscles arms so close to him as they worked to hold him up.
Sasuke blushed heavily as he asked slowly. "I am... not too heavy, am I?"
"What?" Naruto asked, surprised to even hear the question. "Of course not, you are just right. And it's nothing my well trained arms can't handle." To prove his words Naruto lifted up the raven hair a little higher, this made the young man in his arms to look up, and Naruto took this opportunity to kiss Sasuke on the lips, once the kiss was broken Naruto smiled. "See, all in control."
They went through the corridors; Naruto didn't have any problems on the way. The only thing that happened was that the workers stopped whatever they were doing and looked at Naruto in a wonder. They were all wondering who this lovely black-haired young man was that had captured the owner's attention so much that he actually carried him out.
As Iruka had said, the limousine stood outside, ready to be used, Naruto placed Sasuke in first before setting himself in.
"Where do you want to go, Sasuke?" Naruto asked gently.
"To..." Sasuke paused for a second. "To your house, your real one this time."
Naruto stopped a second and then laughed. "What? Was it that obvious I didn't live there?" the blonde laughed.
Sasuke thought back on how Naruto had done all in his might with trying to stall the answering of the question "where do you live?" when they were going to visit his place under the history project. "Well... yeah kinda." Sasuke answer shortly.
"Driver, take us home please." The blonde ordered in a polite way.
"Yes Sire." Responded the driver and took off right away.
"I say, we can't trust the weather reporter anymore." Neji said angry as he looked out the window of the cafeteria. "It said it was going to rain today, heavy raining if I might add, and I even broth an umbrella... but look." He pointed at the sky, angry. "It's not even a damn cloud at the sky! Just blue skies and the sun is shining its weak autumn light, ah how frustrating." Neji groaned irritated, the person he was talking to, Shino, he gazed at the sky for a second.
"In our times the weather reports are about ninety percent correct, you where just unfortunate that today was those ten percent that is not, was today's weather. Though..." Shino paused for a moment and mumbled to himself; "I could swear I saw many thick dark clothes outside early this morning." This was said so low that Neji didn't really get what he had said.
"Anyway..." Neji sighed out, tried to think of something else to talk about and turned to Gaara. "What is it?" Neji asked. He had noticed his little hyper friend wasn't as hyper and that he was thinking much more than usual.
"Hm?" Gaara answered automatically as he was lost in thoughts.
"Eh..." Neji mumbled. "Hello, earth to Gaara? Are you even there?" the boy got tired and snapped his fingers right before Gaara's eyes, making him jump back to reality.
"What?" Gaara snapped, not really seeing or remembering where he was.
The two other boys got quiet of Gaara's outburst, never had they seen him snap like that before.
"Neji was just wondering what you where thinking about." Shino said short.
"Oh, sorry." Gaara mumbled, apologizing for that he had snapped. "Well, I don't know... I know there is something special about today... I just can't remember what it was or what I should be doing later..." this made Gaara lose himself in his own thought again.
Neji and Shino looked at each other, raised their shoulders as they didn't know what was going on with him and just continued what they were doing.
The two boys had reached Naruto's home, his mansion. Sasuke wasn't too surprised to find this big house; he was Uzumaki Naruto after all. They went straight to his room, Sasuke wanted to see what kind of clothes he had, and what he might be able to use on the nerd on school... a nerd with a total make-over.
Sasuke didn't waste any time as he almost attacked the blonde's wardrobe.
"Make... yourself at home." Naruto mumbled slowly. Cause it would seem Sasuke had more than enough made himself feel at home, it almost seemed like he owned the place. But Naruto didn't mind, why should he? Sasuke was just eager to help his boyfriend out, so that they could make it official at school.
"What about this?" Sasuke called out from the big wardrobe, getting Naruto attention right away. The blonde went towards the door of his wardrobe to see what the Uchiha had in mind. And that is mostly how their day went by; testing different kind of clothes and styles, while Naruto did his expression of the nerd's behavior, he couldn't change completely just because of some new clothes.
After about four hours the two of them had found out everything that was needed for their relationship to go public. And they could hardly wait. They now sat on Naruto's bed, talking about whatever came to their minds. Then...
"Naruto! Are you in there?" said a dark voice and the door opened. In came a red headed Gaara. "I swear there is something etching on my mind... whatever it is it can't be ..." Gaara stopped, he had looked up and saw one extra person on the bed. "Sasuke?" he whispered under his breath. "Well hello there Sasuke! Been a while! So you where here instead of school! That doesn't seem like you." Gaara had changed to his special hyper, happy voice and attitude; jumping into the character he always used when the Uchiha was around.
The blonde looked funny at Gaara, raising an eyebrow. And Sasuke looked at him too, not believing what he saw. It was Gaara's face and all, but his hair was red, no eyebrows and he didn't even have any pupils.
Gaara saw the glares and immediately reached for his hair and eyebrows, as normal had he changed in his room, taking of the wig and such. Reliving how he really looked like. The redhead sighed. "Fine... I give up." He walked close to the two in the bed and looked at Sasuke. "This is the real me, not a hyper, crazy guy, just me. I am Gaara." He reached out his hand towards the Uchiha, as if to greeting him again, but this time as himself.
Sasuke's lips went up in a smile. "Hello there, I am Sasuke."
The red head looked nervously at Sasuke. "In the way you're smiling, is it almost as if you know I was only acting around you."
Sasuke lifted his shoulders for a second. "Well, no human can be that hyper by nature. And I always found your personality too much of an act sometimes."
"Humph." Gaara smiled, he was glad that Sasuke actually had seen a little through his act. However, he was much happier about the fact that he could now stop acting at school. Sure his two other friends of the group would find it strange for him to just change like that, but he didn't care, he just wanted to be himself at school for once. "I see you two have made it all ok." He said smiling.
Naruto smirked and kissed Sasuke on the cheek, telling Gaara that they made it mooore then just ok.
"But Gaara..." Naruto mumbled as a thought hit him. "Weren't you supposed to meet your online friend today? You know, the one I have never gotten to know the name of, the one you have been talking to for six years."
"..." Gaara turned quiet, his mind apparently exploded. "OH DAMN! We were supposed to meet in Tokyo Tower once I was done with school!" he looked down on his phone and saw the time. "I am going to be late!" Gaara turned around on his heel and headed out. "Damn, so much has happened lately and I just forgot!" It was the last thing they heard from the corridor as Gaara was on full sprint.
"Ehm." Sasuke mumbled in a small laughed. "Is he always like this?"
Naruto shock his head. "Hehe, no. But he is right, much has happened. I just hope he will do fine, it can be strange to meet someone you just have been talking to for so long."
The Uchiha nodded in agreement. The room was quiet for a little moment, given the guys some time to think about things.
"Well..." Sasuke sighed. "What should we do now then? It is a while to the weekend so we should use this day the best we can."
The blonde turned to Sasuke, smirked and leaned in closer. "Oh I have some plans on what we can do together." His words were whispered as he smirked.
At the Tokyo Tower things went better then what Gaara had thought it would, they had been sitting and talking for well over an hour now, and not only that; the two of them got an idea when they both started to get hungry.
"You think its ok?" she asked in a little nervous smile, clearly not wanting to be any burden for the redhead.
But Gaara only smiled. "I am sure it is, meeting new people is always fun and interesting." He said with a smile.
The girl nodded happily and started to walk away. "Meet you there then. Bye!" she turned around and disappeared around the corner. Gaara picked up his cell phone and called for a taxi to come, picking him up and got home.
The redhead walked fast through the corridors, all the way until he reached Naruto's room. Before he entered the man stopped for a minute, he was listening... it was quiet. No... he could hear someone talking. He sighed out in relief and knocked on the door.
"Hello you two." He said as he entered, Gaara had been worried that he might have entered at a bad moment. You never know what Naruto and Sasuke might end up doing when they have a big bed available. But apparently they had just been talking and playing some video game, since the consol was on the floor but not being used at the moment. "Em, you two aren't too busy I hope." Gaara said in a little low voice, he didn't like to get in the way for others if they already had something planed.
However, Naruto only looked at Gaara with a bright smile. "No, not really. How did the meeting go? You didn't get too late I hope." Both the Uzumaki and Uchiha where sitting in the comforting couch.
"Not too late... she told me she had just arrived." Gaara answered in a mumble. "But never mind that, is anyone hungry?" At the same time Sasuke's stomach gave away a loud rumble. "Eh, it sure sounds like it." Gaara smiled, and ready to come with his proposal. "You see, as me and her talked we started to get hungry. And since she had other friends that were visiting Japan with her, she mostly wanted to eat with them too. But then one guy and many girls... could be a little too crowded for me so ..."
"You want us to come with you." Naruto ended Gaara's sentence.
"Yeah..." the redhead mumbled. "If it isn't too much to ask?"
The blonde's smile got brighter. "Well of course not, both I and Sasuke would love to get something to eat. And I must say, I have been dying to meet this woman of yours, she seems nice and all." the blonde said happily. "I hope you have nothing against it, right Sasuke?" Naruto turned his face and looked straight at Sasuke, smiling warmly.
Sasuke nodded to the blonde's words. "I am hungry, so I guess it's ok."
The redhead smiled to his brother and friend, turned around and spoke in gentle words. "Then let's get going, ah... but first." Gaara stopped and gave each of the two a hard stare. "Hmm, put on something decent please. It doesn't have to be a suit, just as long as it looks kind of nice and maybe even a little expensive. I am sure Sasuke can borrow some of your clothes Naruto. Just... find something different and quick please, I will change too, so meet me at the garage." Gaara exited the door and walked towards his own room.
The blonde and the raven hair looked at the closed door for a second. This had happened so fast that it almost didn't seem that it was real, however it was and Naruto understood that this was something important for Gaara, and since Gaara had been so kind to help Naruto with Sasuke the last few years was it only fare that Naruto did something for him too. So without a word Naruto took a strong grip of Sasuke's stomach and lifted him up in the air, almost throwing the Uchiha over his shoulder.
"Whaa?" Sasuke gasped.
"You heard the man." Naruto explained. "We better hurry."
Once in the wardrobe Naruto did let Sasuke go, but they didn't wait another second as the two of them went to dug for something decent. Luckily, since the two of them had already spend so much time in here beforehand, it didn't take too long until they found something they liked, not too fancy... but it was nice clothes they felt themselves comfortable in. Sasuke found to Naruto a white tuxedo jacket and some white striped pants, a black shirt and a gray, white tie to match. Naruto decided what Sasuke should wear, which ended up being almost the same as he had only that Sasuke got a black tuxedo and pants, a white shirt and black tie, and in addition to some white gloves. The clothes were made in the highest quality of silk and materials.
They walked in to the garage and met Gaara were he was waiting. He himself was dressed in something decent, though very comfortable. He smiled as he saw the two other boys. "That was quick, but let's gets going; I and her have already decided where to meet, follow me please." Gaara turned around and lead the way.
The redhead went straight over to one of his cars, clearly decided it all before what car to use. "We are going to use this car, jump in." He opened the one door and moved the driving set forward, making it possible for Naruto and Sasuke to move in, the car was mostly black, but also had a dark red color line at the bottom of the car.
Naruto was a little dumbfounded and speechless by Gaara's choice of car. "But Gaara... " Naruto gasped a little shocked, and even Sasuke, that was standing next to him was impressed by the car. "...that is you Koenigsegg CCXR Edition... you have only used it like five times before. You sure you want to use it?"
(picture – of the car)
However, Gaara only smiled. "Yes, and trust me; this car is needed for the place we are going to. Plus, I can't just let it rust out here either, get in already."
The two lovers looked at each other, but quickly decided to just let it go and got in the car. Out in the road Gaara wasn't slow with testing the car's horsepower. Since they now were on the big highway Gaara wasn't afraid to drive pass some slowpokes.
It took only minutes before Gaara slowed down and soon stopped the car completely. "We're here guys." Gaara said and went out of the door, allowing Naruto and Sasuke at the back to get out as well. The two passages went out and the two of them gasped shocked as they looked up at the big building before them, it was the most expensive restaurant in the city. A place so high of class that the food was the most delicious thing in the century, you got your own room to eat at, and the clothes had to be decent, if you didn't want to pay more money for dressing bad, no wonder Gaara asked them to change a little.
The redhead smiled. "Yeah I know..." he understood the two others were shocked. "But it's her decision, she wanted some nice food and private space from others, and she told me that she was going to pay for everything..."
"She did... did she." Naruto mumbled, he had only been at this restaurant three times, and that was all business related. Thought he had also thought to invite Sasuke here once.
Gaara walked up to the entrance, where an employ of the restaurant stood. He was dressed very formally with black suit and tie. "Can I help you gentlemen?" he asked politely.
"Yes." Gaara started. "We are here to meet some ladies," he looked down on his cell and looked at the time. "That should already be here by now."
The man gave a short nod, took out a piece of paper that he held up, only he could see it, and asked in a graceful manner. "The password?"
The red head nodded back. "Yes, Eleven and Night-teen; Far away strangers finally meet at dinner with friends, at the graceful dinner place."
Once Gaara finished the man gave a deep bow, showing his respect. "That is correct, please follow me."
They all walked in, and they all were astounded by the beautiful halls. The walls had a royal red color, with some golden silk cloth hanging on the top, small tables with flowers of many colors. And they passed many beautiful pictures and doors as they followed the butler or whatever he was.
"Here is your place, one moment please, I will tell the ladies of your arrival." The man knocked on the door and opened it a little, only letting parts of his upper self enter. "My Ladies, the gentlemen has arrived."
"Thanks Tanaka-San." Said a female voice gently. "Let them in please."
"As you will, my Lady." Tanaka answered and opened the door for full this time, standing back, allowing the guys to enter.
"Hello again Gaara." the same female voice spoke again.
Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara walked in and was greeted with many smiled and faces. It was four young women in the room. And they were some amazing looking women, or girls. They all where slander and had nice bodies. One was maybe a little more muscular then the others. One had black curly hair, she wore all black clothes; a long-coat looking sweater that reached all the way down to the beginning of her black tennis shoes, at the edge of the sweater were one white angel wing at each side. At her hip was a dark white belt that had a black iPod on it, around her neck hung the ear plugs and a metal necklace, on the round metal necklace was a picture of a dog pawn.
Another of the girls had light brown hair; she had a white t-shirt on that was a picture of a diving dolphin at the upper part of her stomach. She also wore a blue top under the t-shirt, some blue jeans that were fold up to below her knees. And some blue and white skater shoes.
The next had long blonde hair and was the lightest clothed person of them all. She was dressed in a very short black skirt, and a black top that ended before the stomach even began, but it went a little longer down at the back, the strops of the top was bright yellow. Her shoes were short and pure black to keep herself from freezing; she wore some special leg warmers. They started at her tight and were light green, the further down they went the darker did the color turn, until they were as black as her shoes at the end. They were also large and fluffy looking at the end. Additionally she did have some suitable black gloves, a green belt around her hip and some shoulder straps that were just hanging from the back of her skirt, making it almost look as if she had two tails. Also around her neck there where a black and green girl's tie.
The last one had short dark brown hair; she was dressed in a white sweater that had no sleeves and it was open at her stomach. On her arms were detached long sleeves, the sleeves got wider and wider the further down it went on the arm, the color was white and pink. She also wore a pink corset, and it seemed to be very, very tight, but you couldn't see the strings on it, since they were at the back. Her pants were black, her boots were white high heels that reached up to below her knees and she also had a white belt around her hip.
The dark brown haired woman went over to Gaara and shook his hand. "I see you where able to get them to join you." She smiled.
As the person who had invited Naruto and Sasuke here, Gaara decided to turn around and introduce everyone. "Naruto, Sasuke... please meet Talia, Triinu, Rikku, and ..." Gaara's voice was cut off as Naruto's voice called out.
"What? Purple" Naruto asked surprised.
The short brown haired woman looked at Naruto shocked, only one person called her by that little nickname. "No... it can't be, Utoran?"
Naruto stepped forward smiling from ear to ear. "Damn! The world is small! Even without your long purple hair, I am still able to see it is you! Do you have your wig with you? You look so good with it on."
The woman called Purple closed her eyes, a cold sweat drop appeared and smiled nervously at Naruto. "Purple... wig?" then she lighted up. "Oh that wig! Ah yes, it's at home."
"Hehe, I thought so." Naruto shaking her hand with his. "But I thought your group only where going to be playing in Europe. What brings you here to Japan?"
"Yes indeed, we were only in Europe for some years." she said. "But after much discussion we all decided to try it over here!"
Even thought the two of them were apparently having a good time talking about old times or whatever, the rest of the gang was left confused.
"You two... know each other?" Gaara gasped surprised, never in his wildest dream could he thought this would have happen.
"You know him?" asked the girls at the same time.
Naruto looked around at the people, clearly this was confusing everyone. "Let me explain." Naruto began. "Gaara, you remember when the Uzumaki where in French of a short visit? We were there to learn from other bands how to be a good group and so on." The red head nodded, and listened patiently to his brother. "One night I got bored and went to look around, I then meet little Purple here as she sang one of her songs at a stage solo. After her little show we strangely enough bumped into each other afterwards, and we started to talk and got to know each other a little that day. But after that we did go separate ways, we went back to Japan and she stayed with her group in Europe. We didn't hold any form of contact after wards though, but I don't ever forget a face or her eyes. Thought, she did wear purple contacts back then."
Gaara didn't know if he was supposed to feel happy or not. Here had his brother already met a person he had been talking with for years and only now got to know about it. But wait! Hadn't Naruto just official told the four girls that they were the band Uzumaki...? The one thing that was supposed to be kept as a secret from everyone! The Uchiha also noticed this, but he could feel there was no tension in the atmosphere; it was almost as this was meant to be. Sasuke felt some questions building up inside of him, and he had to ask one of them.
"So," he started and walked closer to Naruto. "You..." he looked at the woman Naruto called Purple "...are a singer too?"
The short brown head looked back at her girls, turned around and smiled at the boys. "Let's introduce more probably. I guess this is getting confusing. Indeed we have our own band. To keep our privet life separate from our music carrier we do change our appearance drastically; we uses wigs, very different clothes and a lot of makeup. Our group is called; Shinkou Yokai, and the members are as follows:" she hold out her hand, telling the girls to start.
Triinu, the one with short light brown hair took a step forward and smiled warmly to everyone. Also as she got close the guys could see something they hadn't noticed right away; but at each side of her ear where small braids of her hair. The braids almost looked like two small tails as they come from the back of her head and reaching to the middle of her chest. "I am Triinu, in the band have I been known for my Guitar playing. My band name is; Jugoya."
Once Triinu was done talking the long haired blonde girl, Rikku, took a step forward and started to jump up and down of excitement. "My real name is Rikku! Nice to meet you all! I am known as Kiiroikitsune. Lately I have been playing the bass, but I am learning how to play Guitar too! Oh! I also can play well on keyboard." Rikku's cheerful and almost childishness voice made everyone in the room smile.
The last one retrieved her hand and bowed. "My name is Yuna, thought in the world of music am I know as Murasakyoru. But Naruto ended up calling me Purple, since my name means Purple-Night in rough translation. I am the vocalist and leader of Shinkou Yokai. And Talia back there isn't part with the band, but she knows about us and is our good friend and best fan."
Talia waved her hand at everyone. "Hello." She said shortly and smiled.
"Oh!" Yuna gasped suddenly. "Haha, I almost forgot. We also have a drummer. The only man in the group, he can tell you guys his real name when you meet him, but his stage name is Shinkan."
The three boys was dumfounded by the sudden information, who would have thought that a music group that hide their true name and identity would meet another group just like themselves? This was almost getting ridicules!
Sasuke on the other hand had something else in mind as he peered at Triinu with a wondering expression. "Ah." He gasped, as he finally remembered. "Triinu! The waitress from the tea café."
Triinu turned her gaze at Sasuke and smiled surprised. "Oh well hello there." She almost gasped. "I never thought I would meet you again so soon."
This time it was Naruto's time to ask, "What? You know her?" Now this was getting frustrating, and almost ...strange.
"Don't you remember Naruto? The tea café." Sasuke explained.
"Hmm?" Naruto mumbled, and started to think hard. "Ehh... sorry to say, normally I remember every face I meet... no matter how little time it was, but that time... I was more busy looking at you Sasuke, so I didn't pay much attention to things around me." Naruto's words made Sasuke blush deep red, but tried to shake it off as they were surrounded by people. Naruto laughed a soft little laugher and thought it was about time that he introduced himself. "My name is Naruto, and in the band of the Uzumaki am I the leader and the vocalist."
Sasuke looked at the others a little before he started to talk. "My name is Sasuke and I..." he was cut off by Naruto placing a strong arm around him and forced him in a deep kiss.
"And he is my boyfriend." Naruto said sexy and smirked after breaking the kiss.
Gaara sighed, but showed a happy smile before introduce himself. "And I am Gaara, I met Yuna on a chat program six years ago, and now we all are here. In our band I am named Zuraki, I play most the time guitar, but I play keyboard at times."
"It's very nice to meet you all." Yuna seemed very ecstatic and happy. "Now, if you all could sit down and order something so we can get something to eat? I bet you all are hungry." Yuna said in a smile and held out an arm towards the seven chairs that was surrounding a large table, offering everyone to take a seat.
The blonde girl Rikku smiled a large smile. "Yes! I am starving! Let's eat!" she dashed over to a random chair and sat down.
"I'm starving too." Triinu said. "I want some real good Japanese food. I just hope the tea we get here later is good." The other girls laughed at Triinu's comment.
The other people nodded in agreement and each and everyone found their own chair.
They all mumbled small words to themselves and others, and Yuna walked over to the edge of the room and pulled in a large rope that was there, in the next minute a waiter came walking in. "Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. Here is the menu." He gave everyone one menu. "I will be back in ten minutes." He said, bower and walked out.
Everyone found what they thought might be good and ordered once the waiter was back. It might be strange for a couple of stranger to get along with the talking as easily as they did, but they did. The boys and girls had an awesome time, talking and all that. It... was strange, but it almost felt like magic. However, sometimes only Sasuke and Talia felt a little left out, but Naruto and Yuna made them soon come back in.
"So you have your own Café?" Gaara asked as he looked at Triinu. They had all been eating appetizer, the main course and was now enjoying a good dessert of ice cream.
The little girl giggled a little and swallowed down her chocolate ice cream before answering. "Well, yes and no. It's really my mom; Rose, that owns the café." She took up her wallet and actually found a picture of her mom. She was very much alike Triinu, only in an older version and she had much longer hair. "She owns a couple of cafés back in England, where we live. But when we deiced to move to Japan for a while, she was more than willing to start a café here too. "Good for business" did she say it was. I will try to help her as well as I can."
Her words made a light go up for Naruto. "England?" he said in a mumble as he too was enjoying his ice cream. "But you all don't look to be from England."
"That's true." Rikku started. "I for example, grew up in Spain, Yuna in Norway, and Talia here is from U.S.A. So we are a group of friends from different places on the earth. Hehe, I think that is quite funny though." The blonde girl laughed, but soon became silence as she started to eat on her ice cream that had three different flavors; vanilla, mango and chocolate.
'Spain?' Naruto thought suspicions. 'No... no... it just can't be.' He had got one thought in his mind, and it had puzzled things together for him, but he thought that the solution of the puzzle was far from right. He ended up ignoring it, and just focuses on the fun evening with everyone. But still there was something else that bugged the blonde's mind, he couldn't explain it... but he felt something from some of the girls. Something special... something familiar he had felt before. However, no matter how much he thought over it, it just didn't make any sense for him so he did the best thing he could do at that moment, which was to forget it all and maybe think about it later.
The event went on and their chattering never seemed to stop, they always had something on their mind they all wanted to talk about or discuss. If someone had walked in the door they would most surely have believed the little group of people were all good old friends that were catching up. But they weren't, they had just met!
All in all, the boys and girls did have a wonderful time together. They had all got to know a lot about each other's normal and music life. However, it was school the next day, so they couldn't stay talking over tea and cockier all night long. So around eleven pm they rapped it all up and left the restaurant. As Yuna had promised she did pay for the food and all that, she said she used the concert money of Shinkou Yokai.
They all stood outside the restaurant, the sky was black with the street lights lightened everything up.
"How are you girls planning on getting home?" Gaara asked nicely.
Rikku smiled and spoke without thinking. "Oh we will just Hi..." But her words stopped, she didn't continue her sentence. It almost looked like her mouth had frozen, then closed itself.
"We will ..." Yuna started to say in a calming voice. "... call someone and get them to pick us up." She smiled gently and took out her cell phone.
"Eh yes..." Rikku mumble embarrassed. "I was about to say "hike" ...like walking, walking is healthy." Rikku explained smiling her cat like grin. "But never mind me. Let's go girls!"
Before the group went their separates ways Yuna slammed her fits in her palm. "Oh yeah, the concert." She spoke. "Why don't you guys come and see our concert tomorrow?" her smile shone in a graceful manner.
"Yes!" shouted Rikku out happily. "Good idea Yu-Chan! It would be cool if you guys could see how we perform!"
"Triinu, didn't you have some extra tickets we were going to give some random strangers today?" Yuna smiled towards the light brown haired girl, but Triinu seemed puzzled of a second ... but only for a second, she soon shone up and smiled.
"Of course I have them, they are in my wallet." Triinu smiled, took out her wallet and pulled out three tickets to the Shinkou Yokai concert. "I will be looking forward to see you three there." She gave all the tickets to Naruto.
"Well then." Talia started. "We should get going, it's getting late." The group nodded to her words.
"Bye." all the girls called as they walked away, waving their hands and soon disappeared around a corner of the restaurant, leaving the boys to their own business. They apparently had agreed with meeting the taxi someplace else.
"And there they are gone." Naruto smiled as he stopped waving his hand. "I guess we too have to get ourselves home."
The word home made two of the boys realizing something. Sasuke and Naruto had to go separates ways, to their own homes and to their own beds... alone.
Sasuke looked at Naruto with sad eyes, they just got to be a couple yesterday... shared one night together, but... this was going to be the first night they would have to sleep separate... alone. It was strange, but Sasuke had gotten so used to have Naruto around him at all times that separating from him now was heavy for his heart.
"Naruto..." Sasuke whispered low, he reached out with his hand, taking a strong grip of Naruto's jacket, holding him with only his fingers.
The blonde heard the sorrowfully voice Sasuke had spoken in, and it didn't make it any easier for his heart either.
Under normal circumstances leaving each other would for one night not mean this much, but... Sasuke had been close to losing Naruto, and not to mention that he himself had been close to die too. So you never know what might would happen when they where apart. And Sasuke's soul and heart wanted to stay with Naruto... always.
Naruto couldn't hold himself back anymore as he wrapped his arms around the Uchiha and held him dearly. And out of nowhere dark clothes started to gather above their heads and it didn't take long until rain started to fall down heavily.
"Sasuke..." Naruto whispered in his ear, before doing anything he looked down on the tickets in his hand and quickly dug them down in his pocket. He then moved closer to Sasuke and rested his forehead on Sasuke's, and gently brushed his fingers in Sasuke's dark hair. They both got wet by the falling rain, but it didn't seem to bother them. "I can assure you, nothing will happen to either of us as we are apart. Besides, we are going to meet early tomorrow. For school remember?"
"Yeah I know but..." Sasuke tried his best to put words on his feelings, something he wasn't used to do ...it was hard. "I don't want to be separated from you..."
Sasuke's low and sweet words made Naruto almost want to cry; neither did he want to leave Sasuke in the big and cold house of the Uchihas. He wanted to make him move over to the Uzumaki mansion, if only he could.
The redhead stood over with his car, the rain made him soaked wet, however... he didn't mind. He could clearly see how painful the thought of leaving each other was for Naruto and Sasuke. He could see they tried their best not to show too much of their grief, but he could see it clearly. Just this little separation was ripping their hearts apart. Gaara couldn't image how it must feel to love someone that much, for that was he a little envy of his brother, but who wouldn't be? Their love for each other was so strong that it almost shone out from them, and not to mention it completely blocked out the coldness from the rain.
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand and started to walk towards Gaara, he opened the door and made the them get in. Gaara wasn't slow with placing the seat back to normal and sat himself in.
"Where to?" he asked low.
The blonde looked sadly at Sasuke, and the Uchiha spoke. "Home..." Gaara nodded and sat the course towards the big Uchiha's house.
Once the car stopped Gaara went out first, since that was needed to allow Sasuke to get out.
Involuntary Sasuke stepped out of the car, slowly. His heart cracked more and more the more he got away from the blonde that was still sitting in the car.
No... Naruto couldn't take this anymore. "Sorry Gaara." Naruto whispered low and sat himself in a comfortable manner.
Sasuke walked towards the big house with his head hanging. He felt cold... but then, a familiar present was surrounding him. He raised his head in surprise, then... a smile arrived on his face. He could feel Naruto around him.
The blonde had left his own body to be with Sasuke in his spirit form. He knew Sasuke was able to feel him, he would stay with Sasuke until he fell asleep, then go back and get some rest himself. So now the two of them would be able to sleep nicely tonight. Reason why he said "Sorry Gaara." Was because...once the redhead had gotten home, he was in need of carrying Naruto out of the car and get him to his bed by himself. But right now, Gaara didn't seem to mind. He got in his car and drove home.
To Be Continued...
Ok, more people has enter the story for full now. But doesn't it all seem kind of weird, both the boy and the girl gang has their own music group and has their own hidden identity with that. Naruto felt something special from them... but what is it? And what kind of things will they find out on the concert? To find out, wait until next chapter!
Chapter Fifteen: Unexpected Things