Chapter 55
Naruto
I didn't get any sleep at all. Of course I thought about taking one of Gaara's sleeping pills, but I thought better not in case something seriously happened to me since Tsunade made them specifically for him and him only. That's how she worked. The only thing that I prayed for was that Gaara would never find out, he'd have a cow if he learned I didn't sleep.
Anyway, I stayed up because I decided to try and finish up my short story while everyone slept. It was the best time for me to work since there was no one around to try and read what I wrote. I always got paranoid when someone tried to read over my shoulder, so when Sasuke went to bed around midnight, I waved him off with my free hand.
To be honest, I really didn't know I was up all night until I heard a door open and someone walking down the hall, making me look up to see Itachi stretching and yawning. That's when exhaustion slapped me in the face and I wanted nothing more than to lay down and fall asleep.
"Naruto, what are you doing up?" Itachi asked through another yawn, walking into the kitchen and starting the coffee pot.
"I … uh … wanted to finish my homework." I mumbled, rubbing my eyes and wishing that he didn't wake up.
That's when Itachi leaned down in front of me, pulling my face towards him to look me in the eye and sighed heavily. Guess he knows.
"You need to not stay up all night, it's not going to help you with anything but make you more irritable." He said as he got down a cup from the cupboard and put his milk and sugar in it while he waited for the coffee to get done.
"I know, but I really didn't know I stayed up all night." I whined, my head now resting on the table and I closed my eyes for a moment so I could rest them for a few minutes.
When I moved next, my whole body hurt, like I fell asleep and haven't moved the entire time. But what shocked me, was that I slowly began to realize that I was laying on something soft, and it was much warmer than it was when I first fell asleep.
"You're awake." I heard someone say, and instead of jumping in surprise, I groaned and rolled over so my back was to the noise.
"Naruto." The voice said and I felt someone climb into wherever I was and drape an arm around my waist and a pair of lips place a kiss on my cheek.
"Where am I?" I asked groggily, refusing to open my eyes because the light was on.
"You're in bed, where you should have been a long time ago." The voice answered, who I was now starting to realize was Gaara, his lips now placing a kiss on the side of my neck, earning a moan from me as my head moved on its own to give him more room.
"Gaara…" I whined, shifting to roll away but the arm around my waist only tightened, bringing me closer to him and it only made me feel like I was suffocating because of how hot I was starting to get. "Too hot."
Gaara didn't say anything, but he did let me go only to throw the blankets off of me, which helped a lot, but the long sleeved shirt I was wearing, that I don't remember putting on, was needing to go also. And it was like he read my mind, because he grabbed the shirt from its hem and lifted the shirt over my head. I felt so much better when that shirt was gone.
"Why didn't you come to bed when you said you would Naruto?" Gaara asked after a few minutes when he got comfortable next to me, his arm around me as I cuddled up into him.
"I was working on homework." I mumbled, yawning and smiling when he started petting my hair.
"Was the assignment that hard for you?" Gaara asked, I could hear him taking in a deep breath, probably smelling my hair. Though I don't know why, I needed a shower.
"It took forever for me to find my muse for it." I grumbled, the smile fading as what I wrote down for the short story started scrolling through my mind. I was going to regret writing it the moment I turned it in.
"I can understand that." Gaara shrugged, I grabbed a handful of his shirt and pulled on it before I pushed myself up and into a sitting position and stretched. "Is everything okay?"
"How long have I been asleep?" I asked.
"Well, not very long. Itachi woke up around seven to find you at the table working on your laptop and you passed out minutes later. It's only ten thirty something right now." Gaara answered, and I didn't have to look at him to know he was frowning at me.
"Oh okay." I nodded, getting up as I scratched my lower back slightly. God I was glad that shirt was gone.
"Where are you going?" Gaara asked.
"I need food." I grumbled as I left the room only to be blinded by how bright the house was, but I barreled through it and made my way to the kitchen after blinking and adjusting to the sunlight and grumbling about my headache I was starting to get.
"You should be in bed." I heard someone say when I rounded the turn into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to get some soda and see if there's anything to eat.
"Says who, Sasuke?" I scoffed, not finding anything that looked appetizing to me right now so I settled for the soda and closed the door to the fridge before opening my drink and taking a sip. Honestly, I don't know why I've woken up in such a bad mood.
"We all think you should get some more sleep." Sasuke sighed when I finally turned to face him, dropping my free hand to rest on my hip as I glared.
"Why are you all tripping over me staying up all night and getting only a few hours of sleep? I've done it before and no one's complained." I snapped, now wishing I hadn't.
"What do you mean by that?" Gaara's voice said behind me, making me turn to him and I suddenly felt like I was being cornered and interrogated. And it was starting to piss me off.
"Will you guys just leave me alone?" I asked before turning to go out the back door, but Sasuke was standing there with his arms crossed and giving me this glare that made me glare right back.
"What the fuck is with you two?" I asked, throwing my can of soda on the floor, forgetting that I didn't drink it all and got soda all over the place, but I didn't care, at least they backed away from me a few feet.
Before either of them could answer me, there was a knock on the door and then suddenly Itachi appeared from the hallway faster than I ever seen him come out from his office. He almost took just one glance at me before he started off to the door, but he took three steps and spun around to stare at me.
"What are you doing out of bed?" He asked, not this shit again.
"Uhm, because I woke up?" I shrugged with my voice dripping in sarcasm as I pushed past Gaara and went to my room. I didn't even bother to see who the hell was at the door because the moment I closed my door, everything out there became nothing but static, that was until the door opened up again and I heard two pairs of feet walk into my room and close the door once again.
"What do you want now?" I hissed as I turned around, thinking it might be Gaara and Sasuke, but I was so wrong when I turned and saw no one other than Tsunade and Ibiki. "Oh, sorry."
"Is everything going okay Naruto?" Tsunade asked, and she looked worried.
"Yea, I'm just having a hard time sleeping lately." I shrugged. "My mind won't stop racing all the time." I added, crossing my arms as I sat down in the computer chair, turning the chair around so my back was to them.
I really didn't want to see anyone right now, and sleep was starting to creep its way back up to the surface so all I wanted to do now was go back to bed.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"Because Itachi called me this morning because he's worried about you." Tsunade said, I guess Ibiki was waiting for his moment to talk.
"I'm fine, it's just hard for me to stay asleep right now." I sighed, and I wasn't lying.
"Do you know what's keeping you up at night?" Ibiki asked this time.
"No, I don't. It's like my mind won't shut up when I try to go to bed and by the time I'm mentally exhausted, it's already time for me to wake up to go to school." I said.
"Does this happen after you take your medicine Naruto?" Tsunade asked, and there she had a point for once.
"I think so." I shrugged.
"Then that's the problem." She said, and when I turned to look at her, she was smiling for some odd reason. "I'll tell Itachi and your father that your medicine can be switched to just morning instead of morning and evening."
"Okay …" I sighed with a small nod.
"Do you want to talk today, or wait until Wednesday for our normal appointment Naruto?" Ibiki asked.
"Wednesday is fine." I said.
"Alright, and you have my number in case you want to talk to me earlier than the scheduled time." He said as he nodded over to me before he left the room after Tsunade left a moment earlier.
I sighed heavily as I unfolded my arms and slouched in the chair. Have I really become that much of an annoyance now that I need my medication adjusted each time I'm a problem? Gods, why am I even on medication? Oh that's right … my damn father, and I swear, his sudden turn to being nice and actually being a father to me was obviously too sudden and to genuine to be real.
Oh, how I wanted to tell everyone that, but it's obvious I'm trying to lie to everyone, even myself, that my father really has turned for the best. He really has to work on how he looks at me for it to work.
