Sorry for the delay. get on with the story...
"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?
Chapter 5: "Inner Sasuke"
It was odd for me to wake up early in the morning and for Sasuke to be still sleeping. It seems that Gaara woke me up at eight saying he had to go home now. He's always like that, waking me up early in the morning and telling me that he has to go home...and well, today was earlier than the usual morning he goes home. wonder why? Gaara's acting strange this morning, he woke me up earlier than the usual and he didn't bother to eat either...looks like he was in a hurry, I really wonder what's up this morning with my friend.
Sasuke later on wakes up too, it seems like he was wondering why Gaara wasn't around anymore but he didn't bother asked me. "You knew how to cook?" Sasuke asked in mock amazement.
"Of course I do," Naruto was insulted.
"I hope it's not ramen," Sasuke uttered looking closer to what was the blonde really cooking.
"It's pancakes," the blonde replied.
Sasuke snaked his arms around the blonde's waist and bent his head to meet Naruto's cheeks. Naruto avoided Sasuke's cheeks and slightly move away when suddenly, the Uchiha peck Naruto's neck.
Naruto yelped and pushed the smirking Uchiha off, "what the hell were you thinking!"
Sasuke just laughed from the tease while Naruto was fuming words like 'Sasuke bastard' or 'what the hell's with him?' while he was cooking.
"Oi dobe, how long would you still want me to nip on your neck before that pancake is over?" Sasuke taunted while he tried to snake around the blonde's waist again.
"Why don't you stop being such a pervert?" Naruto yell out loudly and slap Sasuke's hands away from getting any near to his waist.
"What are you talking about?" Sasuke finally embraces the blonde with much force and lean his lips near Naruto's ear, "it's not like you still aren't used to it, right?"
"Shut up before I slap the spatula in your face," Naruto could feel himself blush and shudder from Sasuke's voice.
Sasuke just laughed again and then stopped while his voice changed to a serious tone, "What's with you last night?"
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked forgetting his 'spatula' threat to Sasuke.
Naruto broke the embrace and served their breakfast on the dining table, taking some plates on the sideboard and placing some eating utensils in the table while Sasuke sat on one of the counters.
"You know what I mean," Sasuke replied, "making Gaara and I look at our photo album."
"There's nothing wrong about it, right?"
"Still not answering my question."
"Do I have to repeat my answer again? I've already told you that I want you both to know each other 'cause you two are my best friends."
"You wanted us to get along, right? why is that?"
"Stop asking and let's eat first, okay?"
Sasuke did as what Naruto said, they ate peacefully and without much talking. After finishing, Sasuke had already told Naruto that he will be going back to their huge house and asked the blonde if we wants to come along...and the blonde did. When they had already reach the Uchiha mansion, the two came inside and saw nothing but a dusty place and furnitures covered with white cloths.
Sasuke walked across the stairs and carried his stuffs to his old room while Naruto walked behind Sasuke whispering things like 'spooky' and 'scary'. When Sasuke finally reached his room, he unlocked it and placed his luggage beside the bed.
"Mind helping me clean this place?" Sasuke asked behind him, Naruto just uttered an 'ok'.
"Why the hell are you clutching on my shirt?" Sasuke asked raising an eyebrow.
"Uhm, don't you think it's a bit scary here? I mean, it's not in used for three years and..." Naruto trailed off.
"Don't worry, it's not like there's ghost living here or anything like that," Sasuke reassured the creeped out blonde.
"Okay," Naruto uttered still clutching unto Sasuke's shirt.
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"You can dust those stuffs too," Sasuke pointed to the kitchen while he and Naruto were cleaning the windows.
Naruto nodded and turns to the kitchen counters, Sasuke continued on wiping the windows while his eyes follows on the blonde's direction.
"Yosh!" Naruto lift his sleeves up until his elbows reached them, "I can do this!"
Naruto dusted the counters and wiped them clean, when he was almost finished, he tried to climb the counters and open the cupboards that caught his attention. "I wonder if these cupboards are also empty," Naruto thought and tried to reach his hands up to the handle.
"Damn, I'm sixteen now and I still could'nt reach the same old stupid cupboard" Naruto cursed and tried to reach them, "why do Uchiha's have to be so darn tall?"
Sasuke was trying to see what was going on with the blonde cursing and yapping, he walked across the kitchen and was just in time to catch Naruto from falling. There came a loud thud in the kitchen, Naruto was too heavy for the Uchiha to catch and so Sasuke fell atop of the blonde wherein the blonde's whole body touched the cold floor.
They both seem to freeze, it was quite embarrassing that they were such in a position...
'Damn, it's so hard to kiss dobe when he's awake,' Sasuke finds himself staring at Naruto's pinkish lips.
"This is so classic," Naruto groaned, "oi Sasuke."
Sasuke dare tried to feel the touch of Naruto's warm lips once again, he was getting closer and closer to his goal when-
"Sasuke, are you trying to get us an asthma here!" Naruto yelled and knock reality on the Uchiha when the dust settled on them, coming from the disturbed floor.
'Just a bit closer..clooo-serrr,' Sasuke was telling his body to continue but his mind screamed.
Naruto was screaming too, pushing Sasuke's chest off him and yelling some loud colorful words to the Uchiha.
"I said stop it, you perv!" Naruto weakly pushed Sasuke off making Sasuke realize their situation.
The Uchiha quickly pulled away and hide his burning cheeks from the blonde, Naruto stood and dust himself from the dirt.
"I'm going to clean the living room," Sasuke cough out and hurriedly walk across the living room.
"Heh," Naruto pouted, "that bastard...getting away just like that. why are 'they' all acting weird and perv today?"
Sasuke and Naruto spent the whole afternoon cleaning the big Uchiha mansion and buying some groceries. When the work was all done, Naruto felt so tired and worned out.
"I'm so tired," the blonde sigh and fell on the couch.
Sasuke set the groceries in the counters and came back on the couch were Naruto was, he passed the blonde a soda and sat back.
"Do you clean the whole house too when Itachi-kun's away?" Naruto asked his best friend drinking the can of soda.
"I guess," Sasuke answered, "I don't remember cleaning much of the house 'cause you're always around and I don't think you ever saw me cleaning too."
"Yeah," Naruto recalled, "I never saw you clean the whole of your house when I'm around."
"Hey, you still remember what I'm doing when you're around?" Sasuke smirked, he was starting to tease again.
"Shut up!" Naruto fumed turning a slight pink on his cheeks, "we- you're always trying to pull some strings with me."
"Yeah?" Sasuke's smirk grew wider and he was starting to laugh too, "like what?"
"Stop kidding around," Naruto beat around the bush, "you really do want me to say that we we're doing some adult stuffs in your house when nobody's around, am I right?"
"You're the one who said that," Sasuke laughed a bit, "you still remember when we make out in this couch?"
"I said shut your crappy mouth," Naruto shouted and punched Sasuke's shoulder lightly, "you're really pissing me off, you know."
Sasuke couldn't stop himself from smiling to laughing, Naruto was really pissed.
"You know, I'd always remember every bit of our old days when I was away. I would often miss you that I started to soak myself every raining night even though there wouldn't be any blonde dobe to hand me an umbrella and rescue me from catching a cold, stupid huh? and then I would start to remember everything and instead of making myself feel better, it makes me even miss you more," Sasuke stated with a bitter tone, "And then, I never heard anything from you anymore...not a single news about you, it was like you died the day I left and the more I think of it, the more I feel the pain...the more I wanted to see you again."
Naruto didn't say a word, he just drink his soda and went on silent. Sasuke noticed how Naruto ignored looking at him and how he keeps himself from explaining the real reasons why he didn't wanted to communicate to Sasuke in those three long years. It does hurt Sasuke everytime the ones he longed and loved was ignoring him...everytime Naruto ignores him in the most painful way- rejecting his words and his love.
"Don't talk like I don't remember those days too," Naruto finally spoke, "I still remember everything."
"I didn't say anything like you forgot them," Sasuke drinks his soda.
"They're very precious to me," Naruto reminisces, "but every little bit hurts right now, though."
-To be continued-
A.N.: Was it too short? sorry, I'm in a stupid slump. I think this is my shortest chapter of them all.
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author: gambai!(cheers) -drinks with Gaara-
Naruto: what the hell is wrong with you two? you're saying 'cheers' but you're both drinking coffee?
Sasuke: shouldn't it be beer?
author: but the original Gaara is insomniac and that's why we're drinking our beloved coffee, besides we're both underage.
Naruto: -sweat drops- really stupid...
Sasuke: -nod- -nod-
author: what? I'm just happy today... -starts singing-
"Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry 'cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end."
Naruto: now she's singing...
Sasuke: what's with this authoress? -.-
Gaara: I was acting weird in this chappie...so is she.
-Naruto and Sasuke nods, nods-
author: come on guys! sing with me! -places arms around the trio and sways and sings along-
You say, "Dreams are dreams.
"I ain't gonna play the fool anymore"
You say, "'Cause I still got my soul."
Gaara: she's sick. Normally, she talks about the chapter being crappy and stuffs while I kill her but now, she's singing 'wind' by Akeboshi...
Gaara: -glances at author who was busy swaying and singing- but that's okay...she's not normal, and normally, she's always abnormal...so it's normally normal.
Sasuke and Naruto: -stares blankly, not knowing what Gaara was talking about- wakaranai...
solstice: aw, come on! don't you know this song kinda makes me remember Haku's character! I heart Haku! -hums the tune of 'wind'-
solstice: don't you see, Naruto was catching for the colorful butterfly in the video! it's kawaii! gloomy chibi Naruto in the video!
solstice: -grabs a character out of nowhere- right Itachi? right!
Itachi: Why am I here?