Chapter Thirty-Eight; Family Feud
Sasuke pulled inside the hotel parking lot before pulling up to the curb and putting the car in park. "You know Sasuke it just occurred to me." Naruto began as the windshield wipers continued swishing back and forth and Sasuke's foot squeaked up against the brake pedal. "Where exactly are we going anyway?" he asked him. "I mean, we're supposed to be going to the sound village aren't we? So what are we doing all the way out in the middle of nowhere?" he questioned.
"Use your head Naruto." Sasuke began. "Orochimaru and the other sound villagers are expecting us so we have to surprise them and go a different way." He told him.
"Really? Are you sure that you aren't just saying that to make up for the fact that you have no idea what you're doing?" Naruto asked him.
"Of course not you idiot." Sasuke muttered underneath his breath before throwing off his seatbelt. "Now come on, we're each in charge of bringing our own suitcases inside." He told him.
"Okay, but if I'm such an idiot then why did you agree to let me come along with you?" Naruto wondered as his unfastened his own seatbelt.
"You didn't really give me a choice. If I had my way you would have stayed back home with Sakura and Sasame and your own wife and children." Sasuke told him before he climbed out of the car. "You know, we've only been on the road for six hours and already you're starting to get on my nerves." He said as Naruto climbed out from the other side and they both slammed their doors behind them.
"Well excuse me all mighty Sasuke!" he snapped. "You know, I was going to tell you something really neat too but I'm not gonna now." He said folding his arms and turning his back towards him with a scowl.
"That's it! I can't stand it anymore! It's like I'm your babysitter or something!" Sasuke exclaimed while he quickly hurried over to the trunk and pulled it open tossing Naruto's suitcase out on top of the curb before grabbing his own.
"How rude." Naruto muttered quietly while Sasuke slammed the trunk shut again.
"I'm going to go park. Do as your told and wait for me in the lobby." He told him before climbing back inside the car and driving away while Naruto grabbed ahold of his suitcase and hugged it close to his chest while rain poured down on top of his head.
"You still owe me an apology for getting my stuff all wet you know!" he hollered before growling and narrowing his eyebrows and glaring in his direction. "What a bastard." He muttered underneath his breath before he turned around and walked inside. "Maybe I'm out of my mind or something, I mean all I wanted to do was help him out and he's treating me just like he used to when we were kids!" he yelled angrily before he tossed his suitcase down on top of the couch and then flopped down next to it folding his arms and glaring at Sasuke as he checked them in. "Sasuke!" he snapped inside a whisper.
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Sasuke tossed Naruto's bag over onto his bed. "Alright first let's some establish some ground rules." He began. "Your bed is over on that side of the room and my bed is on the other side. If you even cross one toe over onto my side you're dead!" he snapped as Naruto just simply scratched his head.
"Umm.. but what if I have to go to the bathroom or take a shower or something?" he questioned him.
"There's a truck stop down the street you can use that one." Sasuke told him before unzipping his bag.
"Yeah right!" Naruto exclaimed with a scoff. "And how exactly am I supposed to get out of here if I can't cross into your side of the room?" he questioned him with a roll of his eyes. "Why are you so pissed off at me anyway?" he asked him before he plopped down on the edge of his bed. "I didn't do anything to you that I can remember." He said before Sasuke took a deep breath and heaved a heavy sigh before he turned his head over to look at him.
"Naruto, I'm sorry. It isn't your fault. I guess that I'm just really stressed out right now due to the fact that I'm worried about Sakura and Sasame. That's no excuse for taking it out on you though." He said.
"Yeah,.. I'm sorry too." Naruto said before Sasuke walked over to him and sat down beside him with a grin.
"So what do you say? Friends again?" he asked him as Naruto grinned back at him.
"More than that, best friends." He said before they both bumped their fists together.
"I'm going to finish unpacking and then maybe we could watch a movie or play a game or something." Sasuke suggested before he quickly leapt back up onto his feet and walked back over to his suitcase while Naruto took a deep breath and heaved a heavy sigh as he fell back onto his bed on top of his back and stared up at the ceiling.
"I sure hope that Sakura and Sasame and everyone else are alright." He said before he rolled over onto his side and curled up into a little ball.
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Sasame finished packing all of her clothes and stuffed animals inside her own little pink suitcase before she zipped it up and put it around her back. Then she walked over to her desk and picked up the picture of her family portrait and heaved a small little sigh while she looked at her parents' smiling faces. "Mom said that the name Sasuke derived from a great warrior. I don't believe that he could ever really be what she once said he was. But even if he was, I'm not just going to stand by and let him and Uncle Naruto die out there all alone." She said to herself before she sat the picture back down on top of her desk next to the note that she had written to her mother.
Then she heaved another heavy sigh before she walked over to the window and turned back around to have one last glance at her bedroom. "I'm sorry Mom." She began as a tear rolled down her cheek. "Goodbye." She whispered before she turned back around, opened the window and then leapt outside of it and escaped into the night.