Kalivax: Hi everyone, sorry if my I'm abit out of it, my rat died a few weeks ago and I can't get over it, and I'm not working anymore and school starts in two weeks, leaving me with one question: Where the hell did my summer vacation go? But anyways I wrote this while I was working last week (and I wonder why I was fired U--) and hope that you all will like it. I'm pleasantly surprised that people actually left me good reviews, I thought a lot of people would've been all angrified since I put a cameo and didn't tell them, but thank you very much to those good reviews! This chapters are going to have some new characters in it (don't worry, they're all Naruto characters -). So yeah...is that all?...I might get a new potter puppet pals shirt...but no one cares...ok...on with the fic!
disclaimer: Tch, if I owned Naruto I wouldn't have to get a job, the royalty money alone could help me get a new Invader Zim bag, probably three... and if you are dense and still don't get it I don't own Naruto...
Ogenki desu ka?
By: Kalivax
(The shonen-ai shinobi)
Haruno Sakura, Rock Lee (1), and Uzumaki Naruto were sitting comfortably in the pink mini cooper as the driver drove them down a secluded dirt road. Naruto and Sakura were sitting in the back, while Lee sat in the front with the driver. There had been a silence when they had left for the reclusive Sasuke-san's house. Naruto was too distracted by the changing scenery outside the car window, excited, since he had never really seen this type of landscape before. Sakura after a while, grew bored and decided to make conversation.
"Naruto...san? me, Lee-kun, and your new owner Sasuke-kun are go to a rather exclusive school, " Naruto looked in time from the window to see her looking thoughtful at how to describe her school, "simply put--the highest and most prestigious families are the only ones allowed to step even one foot in our school, St. Roy's."
"St. R-u-oi?" Naruto repeated, his attention now to the pink-haired girl.
"No, no, St. Roh-oi, I don't know if Sasuke-kun, will let you go to school with us--" Sakura began.
"Why not?" Naruto cut in. "Because, you have to have connections," Sakura answered, as if that was the answer to everything.
"What Sakura-san means is its very, very hard to get in, most of those who apply have to be insanely wealthy or else they don't even get to be interviewed, you either have to be selected or your parents have to donate a building," Lee summed from the front seat.
"My parents," Naruto whispered, looking downcast for a moment. Sakura knew she struck a nerve and tried to get off the subject.
"Uh-but not everyone needs to go to St. Roy's! Lee-kun! don't your two friends, go to Elric brothers(2) school?" Sakura demanded, trying to make Naruto forget.
"Yes, Neji and TenTen both go to the one next door and they're fine, they wear uniforms there too, so its like they go to St. Roy's," Lee added catching on.
"So, what's the difference?" Naruto questioned, confused once again (a lot of what Sakura-san did confused him, why didn't she open the door to the car herself instead of waiting for the driver to do it?).
"Prestige," Sakura responded, matter-of-factly, then under her breath, "and a hundred square acres."
"Prestige? what's that a type of snack?" Naruto inquired, tilting his head, reminding Sakura of when he was at the store. She smiled sweetly and was about to explain when the driver interrupted.
"Haruno-san, we've arrived," he announced gliding the car into a smooth stop.
"Thank you, Nelson-san," she answered, and un buckled her seat belt. Naruto following her example. Lee got out and when Naruto reached for the door, Saukra tapped his hand away.
"Remember Naruto-kun," she informed, as Nelson opened the door on her side, "we wait for Nelson-san to open the door and then we go out. Now come through here." Naruto frowned and did so.
"Why did we that for, Sakura-chan? it would've been easier for all of us," Naruto stated, thoughtfully then cast his eyes to the house before them. "Wow, its so...big,' he breathed, amazed. Indeed it was, the house was a sprawling two story house with the perfect front lawn, a porch that surrounded the house and perfect blue shudders on perfect white-washed walls. Sakura looked unfazed, simply used to these types of houses, Lee just stood next to her, a blush evident on his face.
"Now where is he?" she thought aloud and looked around, standing on her tip toes, looking almost unbecomingly (not to mention she was in heels so she wasn't exactly having a comfortable time either). Frowning when that proved fruitless, she turned to Lee: "Lee-san, could you please ring the doorbell, he just might be inside sulking. Really, I ask to meet me outside and what does he do?.."
Sakura continued her rant while Lee nodded and walked up the vast pavement side-walk and to the big over-sized walnut doors to do his love's bidding (not that Sakura-chan knew, oh-the scandal if she did!). Just as he was about to knock the door opened. Sakura clapped her hands in delight. She turned to Naruto, her countance serious once again.
"Now, Naruto-san, please don't touch anything-it might be a heirloom or very fragile, and not all of them are Sasuke-kun's, we want to make a good impression all right?" she chided, hands on her hips, looking like a mother warning her child not to touch her oh-so-precious-china collection. Naruto nodded.
"Don't worry, I won't touch anything and I'll be quiet," he vowed, solemnly, then as Sakura walked on, he smirked and wagged his tails, "I won't touch anything unless it's something cool."
"Naruto-san!" Sakura called from the house.
Naruto nodded.
"Coming!" he shouted back and ran up to her...
After instructing Naruto to be on his best behavior once again, she left the kitsune with Lee in the parlor and disappeared looking for the stairs. she finally found them and walked briskly up them until she reached her destination, and the walked to the door she had been looking for. Knocking three times, she cast a wary eye downstairs and hoped Naruto was abiding her words. "Sakura?" jolted her out of her thoughts and she looked up, putting her best smile on. "Sasuke-kun! how've you been? I brought you something," she explained, "may I come in?"...
---Downstairs, in the parlor room---
Naruto sat next to Lee on one of the couches. The room was huge. Its walls had framed pictures of strangers that seemed to be glaring at him. Naruto decided to over come his boredom (Lee wasn't much of a talker) by comparing this room with the one in D's shop. His room their was considerably smaller, and it amazed him that his room was one of the best in the shop, D had a tendency to spoil him, but compared to the one here, he felt like bad, somehow. He bit his lip. He missed D's shop. D only put him in that glass box because his father's last wishes were to have Naruto be with the someone just for him(3). Sasuke. What was he like? Was he like those men outside D's shop? He certainly hoped not. But Sakura-chan was friends with him, so he couldn't be all that bad. He was deterred form anymore deep thinking when he heard the ding-dong of the grandfather clock behind his cushioned suede couch.
Of course, Naruto, ever the curious one, spun around and it caught his attention faster then you could say "ADD". Naruto got up from his seat and walked up to it. Lee realized what happened and immediately trailed after Naruto. "Naruto-san, don't touch it! you promised Sakura-san!" Lee hissed. Naruto frowned.
Fuzzy-brows had overheard, even though he was far away. "
Well, I said I wouldn't touch anything-unless it was cool, and this is really cool, plus I'm not touching it," Naruto tapped the glass and oak door that separated him from the pendulum, "I'm examining it."
Lee frowned.
"You need to touch it to examine it!" Lee pointed out. Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Will you relax? it's not like I'm breaking it," he remarked straightening and frowning at Lee. Naruto was about to scold Lee for being to much of a stress-case when a voice cut in: "You could've broken it though."
Naruto spun around to glare at the voice's owner. "Yeah and who asked you?" he snapped, his baby blue eyes lit in anger.
"Sakura-san! Sasuke-san!" Lee interrupted.
Sasuke was too busy staring out of shock at Naruto. He had been caught off guard. No one had ever given him that attitude of blatant anger, they all would instead just ignore his remarks and agree with everything he said, well, there was Gaara, but then again, Gaara was totally different from this boy. This boy, with pouty pink lips, beautiful baby blue eyes, golden spikes of sunshine fell onto the side of the boy's face, perfectly framing it, cute little ears perked up in anger and tail following suit. His shirt hanging down a little revealing a creamy peach shoulder, needless to say Sasuke was quiet taken with Naruto. Sakura observed her friend's actions with a smirk. She was about to say something when Lee's voice caught her attention.
"Yes, Lee-san?" she asked, facing him, blinking, the picture of innocence.
Lee looked away and began to stutter. "H-h-e, N-aruto-san, h-h-e didn't b-bre-ak any-th-ing, Sa-Sa-Sak-Sakura-san!" he bowed immeadtily and felt the fool.
Naruto watched the two, sniggering at Lee, argument with Sasuke forgotten. Even he could tell Lee had a thing for Sakura, and he'd only knew them for a few hours. Why didn't she notice?
"Oi, stupid, are you listening to me?" Sasuke cut in. Naruto's head snapped around and he pouted. Sasuke blushed when he realized how alluring that was and looked the other way, trying to remember what he wanted to say.
"Well?" Naruto prompted, impatient.
"Naruto-san! show some respect!" Sakura scolded, oblivious to Lee's blushing still.
"Respect? and that is?" Naruto answered. Sasuke shot a look towards Sakura. She shrugged.
"I'll keep him, but he better behave, I don't have time to be a babysitter," Sasuke interjected, keeping his whole I-don't-care facade, looking at Sakura then his new 'pet'. Sakura-san nodded and then got an evil idea in her head. She turned to Lee.
"Lee-san, can you get Naruto-san's bags? we'd best be off," she then turned to Naruto, "and don't say you can get it yourself, Lee-san is already on his way out. He might as well. " She hugged Naruto and Sasuke opted for a handshake. "Bye you two, Lee-san and I shall be back tomorrow morning to check up on you two, we do all have the day off. Take care of each other!"
And with that Sakura raced out of the house with a smirk merrily playing on her lips. Lee came in a moment later, set down Naruto's bags and promptly ran after Sakura, leaving the two alone. Sasuke broke the silence after awhile and turned to Naruto.
"Come on, I'll show you where your room is," he stated and led him to the stairs. They were walking up the stairs for some time until they reached the second floor. Naruto followed Sasuke in silence, he was too pre-occupied with trying to take in the surroundings of his new home. They were walking down a hallway, when Naruto noticed there were two others in the house also. One had left his door open and was sleeping on his bed. The lights were off and it was approaching sunset so, the only thing Naruto could make out was a tuft of black hair sticking up through the blankets.
"I thought this was your house," Naruto prompted, as they stopped at the last room, music was blaring from the room across from it.
"No, its the schools', both St. Roy and Elric Brothers share the same dormitories," Sasuke recited, monotony, (he always had to explain whenever a new housemate arrived), "two from each school live in one house to promote harmony or something like that--" Sasuke gestured to the room they stopped at, "this is my room and that --" he pointed to the one next to the blaring music room, "--is yours. The guy next to you is someone you shouldn't deal with. Dinner starts at seven thirty sharp. I'll come get you myself. Stay in your room until I get you. Any questions?" Naruto walked to his room and shook his head as he opened the door.
He grinned: "Nope. I'm fine. See you at Seven thirty." and with that Naruto closed his door.
Sasuke made sure he was downstairs when he began to call his attorney, Kakashi.
"Kakashi, I need to talk to you," Sasuke declared as soon as Kakashi picked up.
"What is it?" Kakashi questioned, yawning with the same tone as usual.
"I need you to arrange it so my new pet can go to one of the schools here and still live with me," Sasuke stated, making sure that no one else could here him in the kitchen, "and just so you know, he's a half-demon, his name is Uzumaki Naruto, I think you may know him from somewhere..."...
Naruto unpacked quickly trying to adjust to this new room. It was as big as the parlor and he felt inadequate with his few possessions. Infect, in only took him at the most, ten minutes to unpack. With a sigh, he placed he placed his father's picture on the nightstand next to his bed, and then reluctantly kicked his now empty bags into a nearby closet. He closed the closet door and scanned the room. The only light was from the lamp on the nightstand, the windows were dark colored, so what little light was left from outside didn't make it into the room. The deep, dark red of the walls looked black and the room seemed almost a bit foreboding. Naruto shook his head. His mind briefly brought up a story D had told him about a oni that ate teenage boys and used their bones to build his house. He shook his head. He was being stupid. D was kidding, right? right?
There was a knock on the door and Naruto screeched, falling and slipping on the finely woven Persian rug and hit his head on the post of his canopy bed, falling the other way. Before the darkness ate away at his vision, Naruto noticed someone with beautiful emerald eyes catching him.
"An oni?" he whispered, before he shut his eyes.
Neji unlocked the front door and walked in.
"Tadaima." he muttered and placed his school jacket on the coat hanger.
He could hear Sasuke talking to someone in the kitchen and decided to just go to his room. Neji walked up the stairs marched non-chalant, when he noticed Gaara's door was wide open, filling the whole hallway with music.
"Ai-tsu..." he grumbled, shaking his head, slightly exasperated, his house-mate was too unpredictable at times, who knew he liked to listen to blaring music?
Neji was just about to just chalk up the music and open door to Gaara's eccentricity, when he saw the enigma himself sitting the door way of the empty room next door. He gave into his curiosity and found Gaara with the most-beautiful was too weak a word- intoxicating half-demon in his lap.
"He is Sasuke's new pet," Gaara interjected, making Neji look up, "I was about to get something I left in here, when I opened the door, he fell in my arms." Neji was about to say something when they heard another put his input: "I don't care if he just fell asleep, don't you ever touch him." Gaara and Neji looked up to see Sasuke done with his phone call surveying them.
"Who are you to decide that? I can touch whoever the Hell I want," Gaara barked, back, his countance that of silent anger. Neji, decided that when he could, he would congratulate the new boy on bring up emotions from Gaara, which was very hard to do.
"I'm his master and he must obey whatever I say," Sasuke announced, "he is mine. Given to me, as in not you." Gaara growled in the back of his throat.
"That may be true," Neji put in and then turned from Gaara to Sasuke, "but you have no control over this boy's mind or actions."
"...Hn. And what does that have to do with anything?" Sasuke declared, the air surrounding the three becoming deathly.
"What's...goi..ng on?" Naruto murmured, quickly breaking the killing atmosphere, rubbing his eyes, looking around.
"Naruto, its nothing, dinner's ready," Sasuke informed, pushing Neji out of the way a bit. Naruto blinked several more times and looked up at Gaara.
"Oni?" he earlier fears vocalized.
"No, Gaara." Gaara explained, "get off my legs."
"Oh, sorry," Naruto answered and smiled, "I'm so clumsy like that. Let's go eat. I'm starving!" he got up and offered Gaara a hand. Gaara stared at him for a moment then accepted. The four of them walked to the kitchen Naruto leading the way, arguing with Sasuke constantly.
The quintet failed to notice that the fifth housemate was missing. Shikamaru had woken up from his nap by the commotion and had watched with his door creaked open what had unfolded. He couldn't help but be shocked. His three housemates never really argued. They just were silent and dealt with what happened. What had just happened, the three of them arguing that was no freak accident.
"This is about to get more interesting," Shikamaru sighed, "kuso, things are about to become more hectic. This is so troublesome..."
ooOoo
Translator's notes:
Ai-tsu: This one roughly is 'That guy', well, that's how it's translated in most HK versions, some just translate as 'him', in The One Piece anime, Zoro says this whenever they lose Luffy or Luffy does something stupid, he also seems to say 'Teme' alot too...
oni: This is most commonly referred to Japanese ogres/demons, but then again, 'yasha' and 'youkai' also seem to mean demon...
kuso: Damn. My friend often substitutes this instead of the English translation...
ooOoo
(1) Is Lee's first name really 'Rock'? cause if it is, that's really sad...
(2) Kudos, for anyone out there who get's the names of the show, Yup, I'm talking about Full metal Alchemist! I absolutely heart Roy and Edward together, its too cute!
(3) And that was just blatantly taken from CLAMP's Chobits...
ooOoo
Well, School starts in a week and this took three days to write, since I'm constantly tweaking it and constantly interrupted. Hn. I really don't like this chapter...sigh...its too different then what I planned but, oh well. Thanks for all those lovely reviews! Next chapter I'll try to write replies. I hope to at least finish this fic...soon. The third chapter's already in the works and unlike all the other fics I wrote, this one will probably be at the least seven chapters long. Whatever I can fit in my schedule. Actually I'm amazed a lot of you know about Pet shop of Horrors, since not many of the people around here know of it I thought it was the same everywhere, Yay! I'm wrong! Chotto matte, I don't think that's a good thing...till next time!
Zaijian!
good reivewsgood chapters!