Chapter 5: I like the bunnies
A/N: Well the plot fairy gave me some ideas so I must type! And yes, Rolling Kansas is a real movie, and a very good one at that! Plot progression in this lil' chappie.
Sasukes POVI buy my very cheap ticket and file inside the theater after everyone else. This is actually a nice place, considering where it's located. The smell is what strikes me, pot underlined with popcorn and butter. Obviously naruto and them come here a lot, all the workers seem to know their names, including the security guard.
We're early for our movie, so everyone grabs a seat near the front and we sit and wait. And by early I mean really early. The janitors are still cleaning up from the last movie.
" Hello janitor man!" Naruto waves to one of the zit-faced teenagers sweeping popcorn up from the aisle, Naruto is ignored.
"Naruto, janitors are psycho!" Lee screams at him, this gets the all six of the janitor's attention. They look up, give us dirty looks, and then continue sweeping. " Didn't you hear about that janitor that stabbed a kid last year?"
" No! So that's why Mr. Harris is gone!"
" Actually, they fired Mr. Harris for stealing stuff from the school." I comment, those 3 believe some wild gossip. And I also love feeling superior to them.
" Well… its more fun to believe he stabbed some one." Kiba said back to me. I just turn and face the screen.. I wish I had something to do other than read these stupid movie trivia questions they use over and over on the screen. I look over to Gaara to see what he is doing to entertain him self; he is laying back with his eyes closed, a pair of headphone covering his ears, and the faint sounds of some band leak though, the music sounds pretty good.
I nudge him" hey, what're you listening to?" his eyes open as his fingers go to the pause button.
" Just a random mixed CD I made." He answers.
" Any good music?"
" If you like sublime."
" Alright can I listen?"
" Sure." He takes one of the earpices off and hands it too me, ( its that kind of headphones with two ear pieces,) I put on my ear and listen. The music is pretty good, I have never listened to sublime, but I like the mix of reggae and rock. I have to lean closer to Gaara, because the cord between the ear pices is short.
" What's the name of this song?."
" Wrong way." He says quickly.
" Alright." I'm feeling really ignored here. Naruto, Lee and Kiba are in their own little conversations, and Gaara is just there. I'm kind of disappointed, I only came because he was coming and then he's just sitting here. Well its not like we ever talk at school, or at all really even though we have a lot of the same classes. And he seems to be the silent type, like me. Oh well at least I have something to do until the movie starts.
Gaara's POVI'm sure I'm just radiating nervousness. But how else am I supposed to feel? Sasuke is practically leaning all over me and I just cant say anything! I should say something so he doesn't think I'm weird. But what to say? And could I say it without sounding like a dumb fuck. Just a few minutes ago wasn't I wishing just to be close to him? And now I have that and I'm so overcome with anxiety. Stupid teenage hormones! This is not as big a deal as it seems I just need to relax. I'll ask him what every 8th grader is asking each other. " Are you going on the school beach trip next week?"
" hmm? Yeah."
" Cool." Well that ignited such a deep conversation. I think I'll just stay quiet, and we just sit there listening to my music as sublime fades out and System of a Down's Pizza Pie song comes on. We don't sit there long, because the movie comes on. Sasuke hands over the earpiece as the lights dull and previews flicker onto the screen. I turn off my CD player and put it away and turn to watch the movie as well.
About ½ way though the movie
Sasukes POVAn old guy in a tree? That's different. I have to say this is actually a really good movie. My favorite character is the fat dude with narcolepsy, he faintly reminds me of choji. But he fell on a bunny and killed it, and I liked bunny! Oh well, just a movie.
" Ha! Hahaha! Oh, my god! Hahaha!" naruto and lee are being annoying. And kiba is being really quiet, is he even alive? I look over to his seat; he's gone. When did he leave? ( note: when ever I get around to typing it, that's were kiba's sidestory comes in) all right then, this is a really long movie, and I really got to piss. I stand and make my way down the aisle and go off to the bathroom.
When I come back, Naruto is standing in his seat, and is engaged in a shouting match with a guy who was sitting behind us. Everyone had shifted their attention to two.
" Man, you had better shut the fuck up, or I'm a pop a cap in yo ass!" the guy yells at naruto.
" I would like to see you try, bitch!" naruto screams back. There is a chorus of 'Ohhh's from the crowd. I'm not going to deal with this. I tap Gaara on the shoulder, since I am standing next to his seat, and say " I'm leaving." And turn and go out the door, Gaara follows me. Once we are out in the parking lot he turns and says, " I needed to get home anyway, so I can wash this blood off my hoodie."
" Alright." I guess I might as well start a conversation, and I want to find out something as well. " why was that clown chasing you?"
" I don't know. We were walking down the highway and it just showed up."
" Creepy."
" Yeah."
" Do you think we killed it?" I liked the way he said we, so he knows he didn't immobilize the clown by himself, that's cool, at least he's not a big jerk taking all the credit.
" I don't know, maybe." We keep walking a few minutes in silence, we reach the edges of town near the bus stop. Right near the bus stop is a Barnes and Noble that is still open. " Want to go in?" I ask motioning to the store.
" Sure, I could use some new reading material."
" Ok." We go in and branch off. Each going to different places, I to the music section, him to the horror section. I browse though the CDs, nothing much, the only thing that catches my eye is the KORN greatest hits. It goes in my hands, I'm going to get it, I could download it but I have no CD burner. I really should get one. Itachi is probably going to bitch about me 'wasting' my money, but I don't care I want this CD. Nothing much else to do, off to the fiction section I go, must see if any new Poppy Z. Brite books are in. I bet a bunch of my fan girls would back off if they knew I read these books. Lost Souls is the best, put simply gay incestual vampire love, but I enjoy it very much.
I get to the shelf were her books are, surprisingly Gaara is standing there flipping through a paper back of Lost Souls; that's cool, Gaara's into that kind of stuff. Him and me should talk more often, he's the only other person I know who reads Poppy Z.
" Anything good in?" I must have startled him, he jumps a little as he looks up at me, and like I caught him doing something bad he closes the book, but keeps it in his hands.
" Only this and her restaurant series."
" The restaurant series is crap compared to her other writing."
"Yeah." He stands up and looks at the back of the book for the price. " Well, I'm not getting this, I'm two dollars short."
" I have a copy I can let you borrow." I comment, us Brite fans must stick together.
" Ok, are you getting that CD? I could just burn you a copy. For you know, letting me borrow your book."
" Cool, saves me money." The CD goes down on a random shelf as we exit and go back out into the blackness of the night. I don't want to go home, but there is no avoiding it or Itachi's drinking. He will go off bad on me if I stay out all night again; better just to deal with it I guess. Oh well, I'm going to curl up with a book to drown out everything as I get home. As we come up to the bus stop, theres an electronic store behind us; the kind with the TVs all lined up; these TVs are on a news channel. News anchors always look so stupid if you watch them on mute. They will be stupidly staring at the camera with their mouths open, then will nod a stupid and over-exaggerated nod.
" Hey, check out that story." Gaara points to the TV, I listen.
"…And a child molester, on the run from the law, was found dead and dressed as a clown outside of the Woodlawn cemetery. There are no clues or witnesses at the scene. We will keep you posted on this story,. And now for the weather…"
Me and Gaara look at each other, and burst out laughing. I don't know why, but it is just so funny, in a bizarre way. The bus sputters up and we board still laughing, people stare at us as we take our seat in the back. As the laughs fade away, I notice Gaara's eyeliner had smudged on some of his face, with out think I reach up to wipe it off. The instant my fingers touch his face a kind of electrical spark goes off. I realize what I'm doing, and so does Gaara. We both pull away from each other and sit in silence.
" Do you think we'll get caught? You know, the clown thing?" he speaks up.
" I don't think so." We don't speak anymore as the bus takes us back to our side of town until its my stop. I get off and go into my house. Itachi is passed out on the couch, so I'm fine for tonight. I crawling into my bed, and wrap a big blue quilt around myself and grab a copy of Misery by Stephan king. If just Friday night was this eventful, I wonder what the rest of the weekend will be like?
A/N: I went though so much to get this chapter up. I typed it in less then an hour, but it wouldn't upload! So I tried in the morning, no good. So I put it on a floppy and took it to school where Mistress of the Sand (check out her fics) could Beta it. We tried uploading it, it still would not work. I was banging on the computer and calling it an arrogant little fuck wad, and some people gave me strange looks. After school I went to a friends house and tried uploading it there. It still would not work! But eventually it did. So be grateful I went though all that to get this chapter up, and review!