Chapter 6
That Morning-
Sasuke was forced to wake up because of the light that entered the windows. As he sat up he automatically looked at the other bed where his roommate was occupying. A smile played on the Uchiha's lips. It was just that night when he knew Naruto's feelings towards him. His best friend also feels the same way he feels for him.
He slowly pulled his self out of his bed and headed towards his bag and took the clothes he needed before he entered the bathroom.
Naruto was woken up by the sound of water that came from the bathroom. He pulled his blanket over him to block the light from the sun so he could come back to dream land.
He twisted and turned but he couldn't go back to sleep. He blamed it all to the water from the bathroom. Muttering curses under his breath he stood up from his bed and knocked on the door.
"Hurry up! I also want to use that room." He said while yawning and rubbing his eyes out drowsiness.
The door unlocked and revealed a shirtless Sasuke. Naruto blushed instantly slamming the door closed.
"Don't do that, damn it!" Naruto leaned at the door and slide down.
The door opened and sent Naruto back flat on the bathroom floor. "Ohayo, Naru-chan" an upside down Sasuke greeted with a soft smile.
Naruto pouted for a while but grinned back at Sasuke. "Same to you! Ohayou, Sasu-chan!" he laughed and Sasuke's smile widened to a grin.
Sasuke leaned on the upside down Naruto and planted a kiss on his forehead. "So, you want to announce it or not yet?" he said as he pulled Naruto off the floor and hugged him close.
Naruto blushed as he felt Sasuke's bare chest touched his back. Naruto shook his head and smiled at his beloved Sasuke. "Nope, not yet, Sasu-chan, I think today is not the right time, yet."
Sasuke sighed. Naruto can feel the hot breath of Sasuke at his neck, and it tickled him.
They stayed at that position for some while but they broke it when Sasuke sneezed.
"Ew, Sasu-chan! You can sneeze but don't sneeze on me!" Naruto laughed at Sasuke. "Go and put some clothes on! You'll catch a cold if you stayed shirtless!" he walked outside.
Sasuke smirked. "Fine, fine, I'll put some clothes on." He closed the door.
Naruto walked his way to his bag and pulled an orange baggy shorts and a white t-shirt. Then he also pulled out his towel and hung it over his shoulder. He smiled as he remembered the time when he and Sasuke confessed to each other...
A knock suddenly enveloped the room. Naruto walked over the door and peered over the hole and saw Kiba standing outside. Naruto opened the door and welcomed Kiba.
"Kiba! Ohayo!" he said with a large grin across his face.
Kiba gave a bored look then grinned also. "Ohayo, Naruto!"
They grinned to each other then clapped their hand doing their usual high five. Then they laughed.
"Hey, why won't you come in for a while?" Naruto stepped aside and gestured Kiba to come in.
Kiba shook his head with a smile. "Nah, I am just here to check you out." He said. Then peered inside the room. Noticing that Sasuke wasn't in he frowned a little. "Hey, where's your roommate?"
Naruto's brow went sky high in surprise then smiled. "He's in the bathroom." Kiba's expression lifted a bit. "Why are you asking where is my roommate?" Naruto suddenly raised a brow.
Kiba stood up from his position. "Oh nothing. I was just checking." He then turned his back. "I just remembered." Kiba looked over his shoulder. "Shino, said that he was sorry for scaring the hell out of you last night." He smiled. "And, breakfast's nearly ready. Hinata told me to go tell it to everybody." And there he walked off from Naruto's room and knocked at the other doors.
Naruto closed his door with a click. Then he sighed in relief as he close his eyes.
"What are you sighing for?" Naruto jumped off his skin.
"Don't do that!" the blond snapped back as he clutched his chest and raising heart beat.
Sasuke laughed at the sight. "Hey, sorry. I didn't mean to startle you like that. I thought you knew that I am coming. " He dried himself with his towel. "Hey, who knocked at the door?"
Sighing deeply to regain the old beat of his heart. "It was Kiba." He smiled. "He just came to check on us, and tell that breakfast is nearly done."
"Ok." Sasuke slowly walked his way to his bed and pulled a comb. "Hey, are you still going to use the bathroom?" he asked the blond.
"Oh, yea!" Naruto ran inside the bathroom and locked it.
Sasuke smiled at the closed door.
"Ne, Sasu-chan!" Sasuke raised and eyebrow. "What do you think will happen when the others know about us?"
"I know somebody who will certainly kill me." Sasuke replied. And pictures of Gaara and Neji flooded his head "And I know somebody who will cry and kill you." a picture of Sakura popped in his head. He received a chill then.
A laughing Naruto exited the bathroom completely clothed with a towel on his head. "Yeah, and I know the one who will kill you for sure." He said as he wipes his wet hair.
"Really? Alright and who could it be?" Sasuke smirked. 'I didn't know that he knew Neji and Gaara has a crush on him.'
Naruto grinned Sasuke became quite freaked out. "It's Iruka right?" he said proudly.
Sasuke blinked for a while then laughed. "Hey what's so funny?" Naruto pouted out of irritation.
"Nothing, nothing…" Naruto looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Really it's nothing." He laughed nervously and raised his hands for some play defense.
Naruto lounged on Sasuke, still he's hair wet, and the towel flown on Sasuke's face. "Hey, hey, hey! Naruto, you're getting me all wet!" Sasuke peeled off the towel that's on his face and now he's trying to peel the blond that is on top of him.
"Bleh!" Naruto stuck out his tongue on Sasuke, but he let go of Sasuke and stood up. "Now, come on. I think everybody's downstairs." He offered him a hand.
Sasuke smiled and gladly clasped his hand on Naruto's hand. He pulled Naruto in a tight embrace when he stood up. "I love you, Naruto."
Naruto blushed but encircled his arms around Sasuke's waist. "Love you, Sasu-chan."
A knock on the door knocked Sasuke and Naruto back to reality that no one knows about the two of them together and being in each other's arms will surely kill them when the knocker finds out. So the two of them let go and cried "The door's open!"
A strand of red hair made Sasuke's eye flicker in red, hot annoyance.
"Gaara!" Naruto smiled. "What are you doing here?" he said innocently.
Gaara's gaze went to Naruto then he narrowed his eyes a little at the sight of Sasuke but he gazed back at Naruto. "Hiashi-san told me to fetch you two. Breakfast is all ready." He said as he flashed a glare at Sasuke.
Naruto smiled and looked at Sasuke. "Let's go! I am hungry!" he ran outside as Sasuke walked his way out.
As Sasuke passed Gaara he flashed a smirk and followed Naruto down.
Gaara narrowed his eyes at the back of the Uchiha and followed the two.
Down in the Hallway-
Ino was talking to a sleepy Sakura. "Hey, you're not talking back." Ino looked at her best friend.
Sakura gave her a bored look and groaned. She moved the plate away from her and folded her arms on the table and buried her face on it.
"Ohayou!" A cheerful greeting made everybody's (except for Sakura) attention on the blond followed by the Sand nin and 'sole' survivor of the Uchiha clan. He made his way to a vacant chair near Kiba and Sakura.
"Hey, Sakura-chan, what's wrong?" the blond poked her shoulder.
She shot up with eyes big like a platterbut her eyes was slowly pulled by the gravity and got her forehead hit solid by the table screeching "OOOOOOOOUUUUUCCCCCHHHH!"
Naruto winced at that time and so as the others. "What's wrong? You look like you didn't sleep last night."
Sakura looked at him with a ghostly look and hmmed at him. "Kakashi-sensei didn't let me sleep. He snores and talks in his sleep. That caused me out of my slumber the whole night." Sakura said sleepily while she nurses her battered forehead.
"If that was the case, why didn't you exchange with someone else's keys?" Kiba looked at her and placed his arms on the table.
Like a drunken dude, Sakura swings her arms high up in the skies. "I tried that, I asked Ino." She said. "But she didn't give me her keys, she told me Iruka-sensei is a better roommate than Kakashi-sensei." She said.
"Did you try somebody else?" Naruto asked her.
She shifted her gaze to Naruto. "Yup, I did. I tried Chouji, but he told me that he has no intention of giving his keys to me, that goes for the others too. The only person I didn't try was Gaara. I can't ask him, he scares me a lot. " She drooped her head. "Does everybody hate me?"
Kiba and Naruto looked at each other for a while then shook their heads. "That's good to know." Then she slumped her head on her chair, snoring.
The big double door opened and revealed the Hyuuga estate leader. "Good morning, kids and jounins and of course, good morning fellow Hyuugas." He sparkled a smile.
Hinata and Neji so as the other Hyuugas sweat dropped while the others tried their best not to laugh. Exceptions are for Shino, Shikamaru, and Sakura, who is sleeping.
"Ah, right. I just want to announce that today, we'll be going to the beach." Hiashi sat down on his chair.
The crowed broke into cheers. "And I say, we walk our way there for some afternoon exercise." Hiashi entered the sentence between cheers.
The crowed went silent and some groaned.
"The beach is not that far away." Hiashi sounded disappointed. "But you can have your stretchings if you want. Cause the whole morning will all be yours."
The crowd broke into cheers again.
Ino started planning her plans and said it to her nearest neighbor. Some are planning some are not, though. Naruto was one of the not thinking-something-plans and of course Shino and Shikmaru are also one of that part.
"Anyways, eat your breakfasts first." Hiashi broke down the noise.
So after they ate their breakfast. Sakura went upstairs and made her way to their room, Ino walked her way to somewhere in the Hyuuga estate. Shikamaru went to the garden and stared at the clouds together with Chouji and Shino, of course, Chouji, eating and Shino watching bugs. Naruto went outside to the other garden, followed by Sasuke, Gaara and Neji. Hinata helped with the other Hyuugas, that's what she planned!
Naruto sighed, and sat down the grass. Sasuke did the same thing too, so as Neji and Gaara.
"Hey, do you guys want to do something?" Neji smiled as he looked at his friends/rivals/crush.
Naruto, Gaara, and Sasuke blinked for a while and shrugged. Neji pouted. "That's no fun at all." He said as he looked up at the sky.
"Did you planned something while we were eating?" the Hyuuga asked his companions.
"Well…" Gaara looked at Naruto for a while then caught Sasuke's glare. "I did planned something, but it doesn't matter now, anymore." He glared back.
"Aah, souka." Neji sighed and pulled his legs and encircled his arms around it. "Sumanai da." He looked at Naruto with a smile. "Hey, Naruto."
Naruto looked at him with a bored a look. "What is it?"
Naji grinned at him then shook his head. "Nothing, I just want to call your name."
"Huuh?" Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke gave a genuine look of confusion.
"Well the name Naruto is just so cute!" he smiled proudly. "I really feel like naming it to a dog or a cat, you know."
Naruto pulled Neji's hair. "Yeah, right. You know, the name Neji is really cute too. I like to name it after a hamster or a mouse." He said as he pulls harder at Neji's hair that brought Neji to the ground.
"Aw, aw, aw, AAW! Naruto let go!" Neji pulled his hair away at Naruto. "You know how much that hurts?" Neji tied his hair on a high ponytail.
"No! I never let my hair grow that long!" Naruto laughed.
"Now, taste my revenge!" Neji tackled Naruto and tickled him nonstop.
Naruto laughed nonstop and tears following out from his hand. "N-Neji! S-stop it!" he said between laughs.
Sasuke force a smile at that time, while Gaara glaring slightly at Neji.
'That Neji is touching my Naruto!' Sasuke thought at the forced smile.
'Don't worry, Naruto wont be taken away by a guy like him! Like come on! He's yours now!' Inner Sasuke kicked Sasuke mentally.
'But Neji…He moves like the two of them are alone'
'Well, he's just confident. And he can use that friendship for some advantages you know.'
'Really? How?'
'Well, Naruto wont look at like Neji was flirting with him or he's touching him with simple touches, because, Naruto is just so thick that he wont notice much about it! He'll just think that Neji is playing with him out of boredom! And it's a matter of "trust" '
'Trust?'
'Yup! Trust is the key for a good relationship!'
"Sasuke!" Gaara snapped at Sasuke. "You all right? You just stared blankly with that stupid look on you." Gaara said as he gave him a bored look.
"Why are you so kind to me right now?" Sasuke asked him. "I know that you like Naruto." He said under a tone where Gaara can only hear.
"Well you also like him, why aren't you stopping those two?" he said with a bored tone.
"Well…" Sasuke looked at the two, which now, Naruto tickling Neji to death. "I don't want too, because Naruto looks cute that way." He replied with a smile. "How bout you? Why don't you stop them?"
Gaara rolled his eyes. "Like you, Naruto looks so cute that way, but I don't like the picture though, Neji's in heaven now, I just can sense it." He sighed. "I hope that I am confident like Neji."
"Hyuuga, I know I should be ripping his head off now because of the fact that he has a crush on Naruto and he is touching Naruto in some simple ways. But…" he was trailed off.
"But what?" Gaara looked at him eager to hear what will Sasuke will say.
"Never mind." He smiled at Gaara. Then he brightened. "Hey, I think this is the first time that we talked this way." He then gazed at the clouds.
Gaara sighed but smiled. "Yeah, it's really nice talking to you like this though." Gaara looked at the sky too.
"Hey Sasuke! Gaara!" the two looked at the blond. "That's just cute." He and Neji laughed.
"What so funny?" Sasuke asked Naruto with a narrowed eye.
"Well about you two talking like best friends and not like enemies." Neji laughed.
"Like you don't talk to them like that, Neji." Naruto said sarcastically. Neji pouted and Naruto laughed. "Why don't you three try to be good friends?" Naruto pulled Neji and joined Gaara and Sasuke's company then he pulled the their hands together.
"What are you doing?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
Naruto grinned at him. "Well from now on, you three are enemies no more! You'll be friends from now on." He said. "It really breaks my heart whenever I see you argue or glare at each other." Sasuke, Gaara and Neji blushed on that though and frowned.
-Neji-
'I've been hurting Naruto without noticing it. That just sucks!' Neji thought to himself.
'Well, duh! That's just bad isn't it?' Neji heard his self.
'Wow, I got an Inner Neji and I never noticed it! That just totally rocks! Cool to be exact!'
'Argh! I never thought that you are just so dumb.'
'I am? I didn't know that I am dumb.'
'Now shut up, Neji!'
'You're Neji too!'
'I have the word Inner before the word Neji.'
'But there still the word N-E-J-I.'
Inner Neji sighed in defeat, 'Whatever'
'Yay! I won over Inner Neji.'
'Argh! What's the point?'
'There's no point'
'Shut up, NOW!'
-Gaara-
'I've hurt him so many times that I didn't even noticed it.'
'Well that is the effect of anger towards a rival and too blinded for love.'
'What? I got an Inner Gaara?'
'WHAT? HEY you Inner Gaara you, stay away from here!'
'Why, Shukaku, hellow!'
'Now I have two inner people inside me. That just…'
'I know I know, Gaara. But you made me.'
'Really? I didn't know that.'
'You made an inner self with out giving me notice!'
'I didn't know that I made one!'
'Yeah, because you are too attached somewhere'
'Now, why are you two suddenly popping out while I am thinking.'
'We don't know.'
'Now stay away from my thoughts first! Let me have my moment.'
'Go ahead. Say all you want.'
'Okay…GOD DAMN MYSELF! I HURT NARUTO WITHOUT NOTICING IT!'
'Damn it Gaara, you really like him, do you?'
'Yeah, he does.'
'You know, I might help you with Naruto if you want.'
'Go ahead Shukaku, I'll help you with it.'
'Stay away from me inner demons!'
'Now that's just cruel.'
-Sasuke-
'I hate the fact that I am being friends with those two but. It really hurts me that Naruto didn't tell me that we are breaking him whenever we fight.'
'Well, I guess… I don't know!'
'Yay! You run out of ideas!'
'Yay! Lucky you! But that sucks! You didn't noticed that you've been breaking him without noticing.'
'Yeah, I know.'
'God damn it, Sasuke! Why didn't you noticed it?'
'I don't know, maybe because I was too enrage with Neji and Gaara having crush on my crush?'
'Feh. I hate you whenever you're unsure!'
'Well I hate you more than you hate me.'
'Oh, really!'
'Yeah, really!'
Back to reality-
"HEY GUYS!" the three looked on a grumpy Naruto. " You aren't even listening to me, are you!"
"We are so listening to you." they chorused.
"Oh, yeah?" he said. "Then what was I saying before I cut you three from wherever you were?" he said raising an eyebrow and folding his arms against his chest.
When the 3 didn't replied Naruto puffed his cheeks and stormed back inside the mansion.
"N-Naruto! Hey! We're sorry" the three tried to follow the angry Naruto.
"Guys! I don't understand them at all!" he muttered, then stop dead on his tracks. The three also stopped dead on their tracks, walking a little forward when Naruto burst.
"What am I saying? I am a guy too! God damn it!" he said as he flails his hands in irritation and run upstairs.
The three sighed and sat down helplessly at the ground. They blew their bangs out of their faces at the same time and they looked at each other. Then they sighed again, longer this time and drooped their heads in defeat.
"He's really pissed off, isn't he?" The three shot a look at the shadows. A figure came out of the shadows in the wall. "Howdy, guys."
"Shino!" Sasuke said in surprise.
"Aburame? Where did you come from?" Shino pointed at the hall. "Oh, I thought you came from the shadows." Neji laughed and was hit by Sasuke and Gaara on the head. "AW! Now what was that for?" Sasuke and Gaara just glared at Neji, and he eeped. "Fine, fine, I am sorry." He said in defense.
"So, Naruto is really pissed. And may I know why?" Shino asked in his monotone voice.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes on Shino. "It's not like you to be interested on things like those."
Shino shrugged. "Well, I am Naruto's friend ever since. And as a friend, I want to know."
Sasuke and Neji gave him an expression, which he figured out, surprised.
"Hey! That's the longest sentence you have ever made, Shino!" Kiba said with his energetic tone. He turned to Sasuke with a glare. "So, what was that I heard that Naruto is pissed off?" the three stared blankly at the floor avoiding eye contact with Kiba.
Kiba wiped his face with his hands in pure and genuine irritation and growled, making the trio wince. "Okay, I'll go ask him and I want YOU, three to be ready for some interrogations! And you are coming with me!"he dragged Shino andhe glared at the three before he went to the stairs.
Shino shrugged and he let Kiba drag him up.
"What was that all about?" A lazy tone filled the silent hall. "Why was he so irritated?"
"Which 'he' would you prefer?" Neji looked gloom. "Naruto or Kiba?" then he pouted.
"That's just…" he saw the looks on the three. "Troublesome. I am leaving this building." He said as he walked his way to the Hall of Rooms.
The trio looked at each other with a frown and a guilt face. "So…" Gaara looked at the two. "What do we do now?"
"We have to say sorry to him." Sasuke said slowly. "This is also are fault."
-Sasuke-
'Sorry, Sasu-boy.' Inner Sasuke made his presence in Sasuke's mind.
'No, it's also my fault. I acknowledge your presence.' He sighed.
'Yeah so sorry that I always bring you into trouble.' Sasuke felt Inner Sasuke frowned and sat himself.
'That's nothing.' Sasuke replied.
-Gaara-
'You alright, chum?' Gaara felt a mental comforting hand.
'Yeah, don't worry.'
Inner Gaara felt something that made him not quite convinced on what Gaara told him.
'Don't worry, he'll be getting over it'
'Haaay, I hope he does.' Inner Sasuke watched the Gaara conscience pulls his legs closer to his chest.
-NEJI-
'It's all your fault Naruto is pissed off!' Neji wrestled his Inner Sasuke inside his mind.
Inner Neji pouted and narrowed his eyes on the Neji conscience. 'Like it's my fault you we too proud of yourself beating me! You chose to stay and bug me!'
Neji suddenly let go of Inner Neji's arm and sat down swirling his finger on the floor muttering 'not my fault I got carried away'
Inner Neji felt himself sighed and walked over Neji's conscience. 'Don't worry, spring breeze will come back after the rough summer breeze pass.' He said comfortably placing a hand on Neji's shoulder.
'Hueh? Do you understand what you are talking about?' Neji gave a sweet and pure confused look.
Inner Neji slapped his forehead but he smiled.
Back to reality-
"What should we do then?" Neji broke out the silence. "The sorry thing we need to do. How do we do it?" he stared at Sasuke and Gaara.
"I thought that you are smart." Sakura came down yawning.
"So you're awake." Neji turned to his emotionless look.
"Yup! I was awaken by the loud closing of the doors." She said scratching her head. Then looked at the three. "Hey, I've heard Naruto's…"
"Yeah, yeah. He's pissed off right?" The trio flickered their hand and drooped their heads. "We know, we know." Then the sighing part comes along.
"You're the reason why he is having his bad mood?" the three nodded. "I can help you with that!" she said all sleepiness drained out.
Sasuke, Gaara and Neji looked at her with desperate looks. And she grinned widely. I tell ya, WIDELY like her forehead.
……..-
Ire: Yipeeeeeeee! Long chapters filled with worthless talks and conversation!
Sasuke: For short.
Ire & Sasuke: Another sucking chapter.
Naruto: Huh?
Ire: Oh, nothing… I played this chapter. Giving Gaara and Neji inner selves.
Neji: Nya! You gave me one? And I act like an over confident hell of a S!
Ire: Shut your trap, Hyuuga!
Gaara: -sighs- I have another me inside of me in this story. My life is a total mess.
Ire: Don't worry at least you're not alone.
Gaara: What's your point?
Ire: There is no point! –Laughs-
Neji & Gaara: That's not even funny.
Ire: I find it funny!
Naruto: Sorry, our author changed really bad. From the shy and sensitive one to a rough mouthed insensitive one.
Ire: hey! I am still grateful! Oh, yeah!
Naruto & Ire: Thank you very much for reading this chapter…
Sasuke: Even though it sucks.
Naruto & Ire: Shut your trap! Yeah, thanks for reading this chapter, if you are reading it. And we would like to thank Lady Godess of Sand for reviewing! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! TAKE CARE NOW EVERYBODY!
Neji and Gaara: You should be taking care Naruto! Ire-san and Sasuke IS bad influence.
Naruto: I don't look at that angle though.
Ire: What's your point?
Naruto: I have none, though.
