"Inside out"
by: solstice rhapsody 09
Warning: the usual...
Disclaimer: This fic is MINE, the plot is also MINE, the characters are also MINE, bwahahahahahaha- ok, reality check, the original ain't mine. BUT, this Naruto here belongs to- Sasuke?
'blah blah blah'- thoughts
Chapter 2: "Rivals and Jealousy"
"He's got to be kidding me..." An average height guy thought to himself looking at his cellphone checking the time, as he started walking away from where he seated waiting impatiently in the park, "it's already 12:00p.m. and he's still not here? I'm going to kill him when I get my hands on him"
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Naruto seats from where he was waiting impatiently, tapping his fingers on his side. "He told me not to be late and he dares not come in time!" Naruto mumbles to himself, forming his hand into a ball of fist, "Or was he just joking about coming home?" he thought.
Hesitate, hesitate, hesitate, ignore the thought, hesi-okay damn it! I've had enough!
"Kuso...Sasuke-teme, curse you bastard!" Naruto screams inside as he started walking away from the big dome-wide like airport.
"Naruto!"
"what the fuck..." Naruto slowly turned his head, "Sa...suke?"
Naruto turned around to see no one but Sasuke standing afar from him waving a hand, carrying his luggage and staring back to his childhood friend (?).
"Naruto" the raven haired boy smirks seeing him pissed, "gomen...I was late."
"Sa...suke"
Sasuke wore a plain blue t-shirt with a symbol of a fan behind his back and also a plain pair of blue jeans. Naruto stand frozen from his spot not moving as Sasuke carries his bag and walk across his path.
"It's been a while" Sasuke uttered and gave Naruto a hug, as if welcoming himself. Naruto not giving any response to Sasuke's embrace.
"Yeah" Naruto can't help but to agree more, still passive and forgetting his anger a while ago, "where is your brother?" inquired the blond.
"Oh, him?" Sasuke replied, not letting go of Naruto, "Sudden change of plans, my brother was too busy."
"How are you suppose to return to your house now?"
"That's why you're here" the onyx eyed boy stated, giving a slight smile to his friend.
'I've had a bad feeling Sasuke planned this all along'
"You'll have to drive me to your apartment, Naruto" "I'll be staying for the night"
"what!"
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Naruto inserted his key to the front door of his apartment and unlocked it, Sasuke tugging along.
"where the hell did you go?" A red haired guy was leaning in the chair facing the door inches away with his cold emerald eyes fixed on Naruto.
"Nani?...how the hell did you manage to break in!" Naruto pointed histerically to the red haired guy.
"What do you mean manage to break in? I had a copy of your key. dumbass," he answered frowning a bit while crossing his legs.
"So you're Gaara?" Sasuke asked sternly, reminding of his presence.
Sharp glares were exchanged by Sasuke and Gaara. Naruto just frozen from the spot.
"Uchiha Sasuke, eh?" Gaara stated, icy voice apparent.
"Ano...ehehehehehe, let's not start anything stupid" Naruto pleaded standing in between the two, getting to feel the tension from both Sasuke and Gaara.
Both boys shift glares to Naruto, giving him goosebumps all over.
"You didn't showed up?" Gaara stated almost hissing changing subjects as he stands from where he was sitting, looks almost seemingly smothering Naruto's air supply.
"Nani?" Naruto asked blinking twice, confused, "Nani mo nai?"
'I'm really gonna kill you' Gaara's glare says it all.
Naruto just sweat dropped.
"Seems like Naruto doesn't know anything you're saying" Sasuke smiled mockingly, putting his hands inside his pocket.
"If you don't get your empty skull from remembering-" Gaara's words were immidiately interrupted by Naruto's voice.
"Oh, now I remember!" Naruto exclaimed, raising his pointer finger, "Gaara, gomen...I forgot about our date today" he continued, sweat dropping as he scratches the back of his head.
"What date!" Sasuke burst changing the once cool facial expression written on his face, making Naruto almost jump from his back.
"Sasuke...don't do that, you're scarying me" Naruto's eyebrow twitches giving a forced smile as he backs away a little from Sasuke and his almost murderous look.
"See what I'm talking about?" it was now Gaara's time to smirk, walking ahead facing Naruto's back as he places his arms around him. Naruto completely freaking out inside, sweat dropping incessantly, not moving one muscle because he might just know what might happen next.
"get.your.hands.off.him.NOW" Sasuke commanded sternly, a big nerve growing from his forehead.
Naruto didn't waited for Gaara to do so, he immidiately slipped from Gaara's arms and took Sasuke's luggage; hurriedly taking them beside his door outside his bedroom. And almost immidiately going back where he left off- from Sasuke and Gaara's seemingly brewing fight, he was about to stop the both from the scary glarings when Sasuke spoke.
"Are you living together?" Sasuke asked glowering almost wanting to doubt his question, air still thick from the tension.
Naruto's mouth started pouring out sands.
"Sort of" Gaara gave a smug smile as he leans back at the wall arms-crossed.
Naruto's jaw dropping to the floor and spurts out more sands.
After hearing it, Naruto freaked out and quickly came in the conversation, "Are you out of your mind!" he points his left pointer finger to Gaara, "what the hell are you thinking, we weren't living together!" and simultanuosly pointing his right pointer finger up and down to Sasuke.
Still, Naruto gets all the credits of being unheard, both Gaara and Sasuke revolving onto another universe.
"Will you just cut the crap, you're giving me migranes!" Naruto shouted angrily, "I get to fetch Sasuke from the airport that's why I didn't show up in our date-I didn't even remember we had one, and besides, it wasn't a date for Christ sake! and it's not like Gaara's living with me! he's my friend, not my boyfriend!" Naruto finishes, taking deep breathes.
"Good" Sasuke answers shifting his look to Naruto, "I don't like you keeping secrets from me." Leaving the both, Sasuke started walking ahead of the sala and peek inside Naruto's old apartment, 'Barely nothing was changed' he thought, turning around to look from where he left Gaara and Naruto.
"I'll be leaving then," Gaara motioned, standing near Naruto, "but you'll have to get back at me from not showing up earlier today" and kissed Naruto in the cheek, not leaving his eyes from where Sasuke stoods to.
Naruto's face turned a little shades of red but quickly recovered as Gaara leaves waving a hand and closes the door, as Naruto turns around to see an angry Sasuke throwing death glares at him.
"Ano, Sasuke, don't look at me like that" sweat dropping as Naruto's eyebrow twitches from fear.
Sasuke didn't wait for Naruto to utter another word and quickly dragged Naruto's left arm, Sasuke scanned the whole apartment walking through the couch, kitchen, the bedroom and the rest, and there stopped in the couch and sat arms-crossed.
"Ano, Sasuke. are you mad or something?" Naruto attempted to asked.
"Why'd he kiss you?" Sasuke asked under his lowered head.
"I guess Gaara's just weird sometimes" Naruto answered scratching the back of his head.
"Why let him kiss you?"
"Coz I don't really mind" Naruto quickly answered exhausted already from questions, as if expecting Sasuke's question.
Sasuke now loses his temper as he stands right from where he sat down at, facing Naruto with an angered expression, "What do you mean I-don't-really-mind!"
"I've had lunch ready for today, why don't we eat it before it turns cold," Naruto just looking away from him.
He was already motioning to leave when Sasuke grabbed his right arm, "I'm still full, answer me first."
"Gaara's a friend, so what if he does kissed me a while ago?" Naruto replied, still looking away.
"How long have you been acquainted?" Sasuke asked, temper cooled down a bit.
"Last school year. 3 years ago," Naruto replied bitterly continuing, "when you left."
Up until now, even if Gaara made a good companion for Naruto for years, the happy memories of his childhood years he spent with Sasuke were still haunting him now and then. And the reality that bites him to realize that Sasuke wasn't there anymore and might as well not see him for the rest of his life made Naruto decide to just stop hoping from what was past and start keeping the friendship he newly found to not make the same mistakes that his former relationship had bought him.
"Do you...like him so much?" Sasuke asked once more, not really noticing Naruto's visible pain.
Naruto was shock from what was the least thing he would think, 'Is Sasuke jealous of Gaara?'
"Don't tell me...that you're jealous of him" Naruto spoke in a tone of ridicule as he looks for Sasuke's expression.
"Don't I?" Sasuke rhetorically spoke.
Naruto just looked up from Sasuke, not having the strenght to argue anymore, shifting his eyes on the nearby window sill, silence pierced the very room.
Sasuke won't make these easier for Naruto, won't he?
"why didn't you answer any of my calls?"
"What?" confusion came in to Naruto's mind.
"What was Gaara doing late night in your apartment answering my phone call one night?"
"Gaara just felt like staying for a night that day"
"Then why'd he answer my call? were you ignoring me?"
"What? why would I?" Naruto almost feeling funnier within each moment passing by.
"Because you had your caller I.D. and you knew my number abroad"
Now that caught Naruto off guard. Sasuke already knew the answer, he was just waiting for Naruto to admit the truth and there asked the reason why. But Naruto was just too shock, he never even thought about the phone inside his room and the phone outside the room were seen when Sasuke came in dragging him a while ago.
"Was Gaara the reason?"
"No. it's not that...it's just that, I'm too busy these days"
"Busy of what? dating Gaara?"
"Sasuke, why do you keep on pressing it on Gaara? he wasn't even the reason!" Naruto yelled loud enough to reach Sasuke's questions.
"Then tell me, why?" Sasuke's voice was quite powerful and stern.
"I told you I was just too busy, why can't you just be contented with my answer?" Naruto repeated his answer looking down on the floor wishing the floor would open up and just swallow him, not wanting to see Sasuke's expression.
'Bacause you're lying, and I knew you are' Sasuke was supposed to say it, but something hold him back from saying it. Guess it might be Naruto's insistent answers on his question, 'maybe leave the subject for now and deal with it some other time.'
"Let's have lunch, I'm a bit hungry here." Naruto spoke, changing the subjects alone.
"Hn." Sasuke muttered almost silently.
Naruto headed across to the kitchen to warm up the food and Sasuke following, seated on one of the wooden chairs and asking Naruto to help but well, the blonde insisted on doing it. Afterall, Sasuke just recently came back after 3 years.
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Legs crossed placed above the table, hands clamp staring from the long rectangular surface of the wooden table.
Deep emerald eyes coated with fine thick charcoal like black eye liners, skin white dead like complexion that matches it's masterpiece sculptured edges of his face...and a seemingly scarlet blood-red chinese character of 'ai' or meaning 'love' tattooed above his left forehead matching it's red hair- the very Gaara.
"Naruto" was all the silent room heard echoed by the sound of Gaara's thoughts.
-To be continued-
A.N.: Don't worry, this is not a thing such as a cliff hanger...just giving Gaara credits and more appearance here, afterall, it's what the title says and almost the whole part of it was entirely taken by Naruto and Sasuke's conversation. Anyways, am I being too fast or do y'all want to keep it that way? tell me what you think...p waii! Gaara rocks!
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Naruto: -drags Gaara to Sasuke and author's place- Houra, houra Gaara...they bullied me last chappie!
Gaara: -stares at author and Sasuke-
solstice: Ano...Gaara-san, don't look at me like that...
-Gaara still glaring-
solstice: Ano...if you're going to kill me right now, I won't be able to write you kissing Naruto anymore...-sweat drop-
Naruto: You pervert! why are you tipping Gaara!you cheater, stop that!
Gaara: I won't kill you, I'll just beat you up...
Solstice: -runs to Sasuke- Waaii, Sasuke...Gaara's gonna beat me up, tasukete!
Sasuke: -cold shoulders- Why would I help you? you made Gaara kiss my Naruto...
Naruto: I'm not yours!
solstice: -Gaara glaring- onegai, I still want to live... if you spare me, I'll make a GaaNaru make out session! -pleads-
Naruto: kuso! I told you to stop tipping Gaara!
Gaara: I won't buy your cheap deal...-still glaring-
solstice: Okay, how 'bout I write a GaaNaru make out session right now?
Gaara: -thinking-
Naruto: I'll give you a kiss and you don't go listening to her!-kisses Gaara in the lips-
Gaara: -face all red-
Sasuke: -strangles author- you usuratongkachi! why didn't you stop them!
solstice: T.T somebody, anybody, tasukete...Sasuke's strangling meeeeee...!