Disclaimer: So hows about a little Tj owns nothing eh?
Summary: There's a fine line between Rival and Friend and an even finer line between Friend and Lover. Sasuke refuses to cross any of these lines with Naruto, but fate seems to have it in for him. School fic NaruSasu
Warnings: Slash/Shounen Ai/Yaoi, occasional swearing and knowing me some eventual angst. I promise I'll try to make this my first humour fic! WISH ME LUCK!
Crossing the Line
Previously:
Naruto Uzumaki likes me.
That revelation in turn leaves me with one thought…
Well, fuck.
Chapter 3: Trouble in Paradise
The car ride home with Itachi is nice and awkward. Even more awkward than my tutoring session with Naruto I dare say.
"How were your classes?" He asks, glancing at me from the corner of his eye.
"I have to tutor Naruto." I reply indifferently, fighting down the shudder that threatens to run down my spine at the memory of his little 'act'.
"So your grades are all high then?" Itachi turns red eyes on me and I nod noncommittally.
"Why wouldn't they be?" I counter, already sick of his insistent questioning. To be an Uchiha, to be royalty, is to be suffocated by expectations. Take my word for it, wealth and fame sucks.
"I have to ask. Wouldn't want you spoiling the family name now would we?" He asks, his lips forming a bitter smirk.
"Heaven forbid." I snort, thinking the exact same thing as Itachi: fuck it.
"Now little brother, that's no way to treat the legacy our parents have given us." His smirk vanishes and he's surveying me emotionlessly although I'm positive he's still enjoying a mental chuckle at my expense.
"How's your club doing?" I ask changing the subject from our parents, who manage to be suffocating and distant at the same time to Itachi's thriving nightclub, Sharingan. He shrugs and gives me a blank look, his way of saying 'why the hell did you change the subject.'
"Fine." He reaches our driveway and our five minutes of brotherly bonding a day is nearly done, "Do you want to bartend tonight?"
I stare out my window, weighing my options. I can either sit at home brooding over my sudden revelation involving a certain blond rival or I can go bartend for Itachi and be so busy fending off drunks that he'll never cross my mind…
There's no decision to make, really…
"I'll work." I reply as the car stops in the driveway and both my brother and I get out, slamming our doors in unison.
OoOoO
I walk into the kitchen, prepared to grab a glass of water and an apple but am not so happily surprised to see my mother and the mailman making out on the counter.
"How cliché." I state dryly as I walk to the fridge and peer inside it, opting for a stronger drink than water to wash away all coherent thoughts. Now I officially have two memories to dispose of; Naruto hitting on me, and my mother getting it on with the mailman.
"Sasuke?" Her voice is thick and her eyes are unfocused as she pulls away from the insistent mailman, "You won't say anything to your father will you?" Her voice holds a dangerous edge and I shrug as the mailman begins smothering her neck in kisses. A low moan escapes her lips and I scowl at her, she doesn't even have the decency to keep it down while I'm in the room. Glancing back at the fridge, my glower deepens. Apparently, someone moved my booze. Ignoring the sounds my tramp of a mother is making, I desert the fridge for the liquor cabinet, abandoning my hopes for whiskey with a shrug. There's nothing a little sake won't fix. My hand clasps the bottle just as Itachi decides to make his entrance.
"Mother can't you whore yourself somewhere a little more appropriate than in front of your youngest son?" He scolds, glaring at her before noticing the bottle in my hand.
My family's fully functional, I promise.
"Sasuke put the sake away." Itachi doesn't look at me as he orders me the way he orders my mother. I ignore him and walk to the doorway of the room before pausing and turning around to see how the scene before me works out. Itachi is currently glowering at our mother.
"Can't you do your job for once and keep him out of trouble?" His red eyes blaze as my mother pushes the mailman away from her again.
"Did you say something Itachi, honey?" Her voice is sugary sweet and she begins kissing Itachi's ass. Unlike me, he'll tell father.
"I'm still here you know." I growl, slightly put off at the way Itachi is speaking of me as if I'm not here.
"And you're still holding the sake bottle. I thought I told you to return it to its cabinet." He remarks coolly, still glaring at my mother. I hate the way he talks to me without looking at me, as if I'm not worth his full attention.
"Fuck off." I lean against the doorframe, settling in for the show, and open the bottle, taking a swig as my mother politely asks the mailman to leave. She only pays attention to us when her marriage is at risk.
"Itachi I'd appreciate it if you kept this little secret to yourself and not told your father." She slides of the counter with a smile and straightens her black skirt professionally.
"No one can know there's trouble in paradise." I snort dryly, taking another gulp of the fiery liquid.
"Sasuke…" My mother warns looking passed Itachi's shoulder to glare evenly at me. I smirk, throwing her off.
"So am I really father's child or am I the milkman's son?" I ask, the alcohol giving me guts that I normally don't possess around my family.
"Sasuke shut up." Itachi advises as my mother's eyes widen in shock.
"I suggest you take Itachi's warning, Sasuke." Her composure returns quickly and she's walking passed Itachi until she is directly in front of me.
"I'll take that as a 'yes, Sasuke, you are the milkman's son.'" I grin maliciously and bring the bottle to my lips again, gulping down as much alcohol as I can all the while managing to stare at my mother challengingly.
"Sasuke put the sake away and go do something." Itachi warns, joining my mother's side to stand in front of me threateningly. Now he looks at me.
"Whatever." I shrug and leave the room, sake bottle in hand, and collapse on the expensive white couch in the next room.
"Are you proud of yourself?" Itachi quietly hisses back in the kitchen and a resounding slap echoes through the house. I wince and pour more sake down my throat.
"No." My mother replies dutifully in a flat voice. She's used to this; being the only female in the household, she has no power.
Let's just say my family holds tradition in high regard.
"Sasuke's probably in his bedroom getting sloshed because you couldn't keep your libido in check. I suggest you take father out for dinner tonight, mother. Sasuke and I will be working all night." Itachi's footsteps echo through our ultimately empty house and pause at the same doorway I leaned against no less than ten seconds ago, "I expect that the mailman will be fired before tomorrow morning for forgetting to deliver an important set of documents to our house." His sentence is worded as a question, but Itachi doesn't ask for anything, he orders.
The footsteps continue and a moment later, my lovely older brother walks into the room I am currently in and takes in the sight of me. I've somehow managed to down the entire bottle of sake and am lying lazily on the couch.
"Get up." He orders, and I stand. "Go get a glass of water and drink it. We're leaving for Sharingan in ten." I shrug and stumble to the kitchen, too lazy and drunk to disobey Itachi right now.
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I drop into bed, exhausted from my six-hour shift at Sharingan. I managed to get drunk off my ass by accepting all the drinks people bought me in the hopes that I'd go home with them for a wild night after my shift.
'Fat chance in hell that'll happen', I think wryly as I pull my covers over my body and roll over, prepared to fall asleep. God knows my body needs it.
Somehow, despite my obvious fatigue, sleep evades me due to tedious thoughts that insist on plaguing my mind. Thoughts of none other than a stupid blond idiot named Naruto, who insists on pissing me off even when he's not present.
I think back to the events in the library.
He can't like me. We're rivals. Rivals don't turn each other on or have sudden cravings to be friends.
'Wait, did I just admit that I want to be Naruto's…friend?' The word is foreign to me, even in my mind. You'd think the most popular student in school would be accustomed to referring to people as friends, but for me, that is not the case. I don't have friends. I have acquaintances, people I use and people I hate. I don't even want a friend.
"Damnit Naruto." I mutter as I pull my pillow from beneath me to cover my head in order to muffle my frustrated scream.
Maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe he doesn't like me. Perhaps he just likes me and I misread his actions as…seductive when they were really meant to be playful teasing.
'That must be it' I decide as I stare at the navy pillow covering that is smothering my face. Despite this new revelation, I can't take any chances. I cannot let Naruto like me, because…well…I'm not straight and who knows, if he likes me that means there's a chance that I could like him and…damn that sounds like life in hell! Liking Naruto?
'It's resolved then' I confirm as a yawn escapes my lips and my eyes begin to ease shut, 'I just won't, under any circumstances, speak to Naruto.'
So, how'd you like it? I decided to make Itachi like the father figure in the household because that's how I think Sasuke's family would be were they still alive. His parents would basically ignore him and Itachi would be the one 'raising' him.
POOF
toodles
TJ
word up.
OMG I FEEL SO SPECIAL! SOMEONE KIND OF NOT REALLY FLAMED ME! GET THIS:
(Random Person: WHY ARE WE SPEAKING IN ALL CAPS?
Me: BECAUSE THIS IS GROUNDBREAKING!
Random Person: OK)
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"MORE SasuNaru? This pairing is getting so old now... will no one find something
a little more original?"
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Crimson666 (I just can't help thinking you're the same person)
SasuNaru? This pairing is really getting too old to be fun anymore... can't anyone come up with something a little more.. original?
I'd just like to say that if you don't like SasuNaru you really don't have to read the story hun. I put the pairing in the summary, in case you didn't notice, and there's a warning at the beginning of every chapter. Now, I understand hating a pairing. Every time someone writes KakaSaku and I see it, a little piece of me dies but I decide to let everyone do his or her own thing. Different tastes: they make the world go round. If everyone liked the same thing, nothing would be special. Therefore, allow people to have their own likes and dislikes, even if they are different from yours. It's called being open-minded, I don't know about where you're from, but in Canada that's encouraged. So I'll be open-minded to your close-minded attitude and chalk it up to how you were raised.
Oh, and I'll take your anti-SasuNaru speech a little more seriously when you have the common courtesy to leave a review with a real name.
Thnx
TJ
(More original? This is a fanfiction website, nothing except plot here is original. If it's original you want I suggest you check out fiction press or a new story I'm planning on writing just for you! It's Gai/Sasuke/Kisame! I'm sure it'll be one of a kind!)
Thanks again to every reviewer! (I received 10 reviews this chapter O.O)
Ichigo -Dattebayo- Hehe…when I made that comment about Gaara picking his nose I never actually thought about it per say but omg, now that you brought it up BAHAHAHAA! I can just imagine him, being all angsty with his finger half way up his nose. (srnk) Oh Gaara (Glomps the loveable moper)
SesshyGirlFluffy- Hehe, thanks for the review! Was he imagining things? We'll find out eventually….and when doesn't Sasuke smile his sexy smile? But no worries, there will be tons of sexy smile from Sasuke in this fic (Glomps Sasuke too)
Fractured Dreams- Lol! I'm happy that it came off as awkward. Writing awkward scenes and making them feel awkward is SO HARD! (wails) Alas, but I suppose it must have worked! I'm so happy that you found it funny! I'm really trying to make this a humour fic without making it lame humour that makes you go WTF? Thanks for you review!
GravityRise- I'm hoping to update as quickly as possible because at the moment I'm averaging being three chapters ahead of the one I post, which is pretty cool because I wrote the story yesterday! As for the sig figs dealio, you learn what they are in Chem 20 and believe me, I have no idea what they are either, which is why I decided to have them be the lesson Naruto didn't understand. I had fun writing the part where Naruto was dying of awkward boredom and mumbling to himself and I'm so glad that you could connect with what I wrote. I love it when I read things and they bring back funny memories! And the POOF toodles TJ word up thing…well for the longest time whenever I posted something on a forum I'd put toodles and it basically became my trademark phrase and then one day I added POOF on because me and my friend had a conversation and decided POOF was a good way of saying goodbye. The word up. comes from mah wiggah phaze yo! I'm so terribly white (sweatdrop) Thanks for your long review! …My response was equally as long (double sweatdrop).
Azamiko- Thanks! I'm attempting to make this a humour fic, I usually write angst because I never know if my humour comes off as forced or not, but I guess it's going ok! Thanks for the review!
Nadramon- Hehe, I think Sasuke secretly knows he's cute and c'mon, even Itachi would admit that he'd be funny as a pig (Itachi appears out of nowhere with a chainsaw) or not… I heart Gaara! I just finished watching the Gaara arc and AAAAH! It's so tragic (huggles Gaara) No matter what anyone says you were the cutest kid in the series!
Siilent- LOL! No worries, I definitely was joking about the Gaara thing. Although it would be funny/really REALLY creepy! O.o Lol. Hehe, when I was writing the part where Kabuto's the librarian I actually had a little snicker myself but I figured no one else would get it (sparkly eyes)Someone else shares my odd sense of humour!
ShiwaseKaeru- Hehe, I'm glad the Itachi as a pig thing went over well with everyone! I really would draw you a picture but…my art skills are very few, especially in the anime department. Thanks for your reviews!
cfox- Another person that loves Naruto as the pursuer! Yes! I think it's so underdone, not that I care that much. As long as a story's good I'll read it. Anyways, thanks for your compliments they're really appreciated!
Hell's Sorrow- Thank you so much! I love you for loving my story! Hope you like this chapter too!