Hey guys! Chuan here! I finished the 13th chapter today! I hope y'all enjoy! Now for the music I listened too! Unforgettable by Zhavia, Television Romance by Pales Waves and Iris by Goo Goo Dolls. I know, I use a lot of music in my stories but not only do I love music but it fits really well with stories, and I see my stories as movies in my head and there is music there. XD
Sasuke packs up his things when Doc dismissed the class, he gets up and waits for the some of the other students to go through the door they are blocking.
He steps outside and makes a quick right down the hallway but stops midway when he sees Naruto staring at him, he quickly turns around but is blocked by students walking down the halls.
Sasuke tries pushing through, but he feels someone grab his arm, he turns around, hoping it isn't who he thinks it is.
"Sasuke.." Naruto's eyes are downcast.
His hopes weren't met.
Sasuke struggles against Naruto's grip, but he won't let go.
Sasuke stops and glares, "Let go."
He speaks calmly.
"Can I talk to you?"
"I don't wanna talk to you..." Sasuke grabs Naruto's wrist to try to pull off, "So leave me alone."
Naruto doesn't let go, his eyes staring at the floor.
"Please? I just.." Naruto finally looks at him, his teary eyes meeting annoyed ones.
"I don't care what you have to say, Naruto. We're not friends anymore, and we never will be again."
Naruto tenses his shoulders.
"So if you would so kindly let go, I'd appreciate that." Sasuke says sarcastically.
"But I.."
"Stop. Whatever you gotta say, I don't care anymore. Is that hard for a moron like you to understand? Don't talk to me or act all friendly with me." Sasuke starts feeling the dull ache again.
"We might've been friends once, no... more than that, we were family. I tried changing that, yeah, but you abandoned that first. I don't need or want you anymore. Shikamaru is my best friend, he is the one who really stood beside me when my heart was shattered. So I'm not welcoming you back into my life, not when I have great people who exist there now." Sasuke jerks his arm away.
"So if you wanna talk to someone, talk to Kirie, but don't even think about talking to me. I don't have ears for you, I don't have any nice words for you, and I definitely don't have friendship for you."
Naruto doesn't say a word, he stands there with his head down, his eyes staring hard at the floor, biting hard at his lip as water flows down his cheeks.
Sasuke doesn't look back as he walks away.
When Sasuke gets back to his room, he sits on his bed and rubs his face, feeling drained from his and Naruto's conversation earlier.
He thinks back on Naruto's pitiful face, and his heart jerks, guilt rips away at his insides when he thinks back on Naruto's crying face in his head.
Even if it's Naruto, he doesn't like hurting anyone.
Sasuke pulls out his phone.
"Hey Shika"
He throws his phone down, Shikamaru is probably still in class so Sasuke decides to take a nap.
He lays down on his side, his legs hanging off the bed, his hands between his legs and before he knows it, he drifts off into a dreamless sleep.
Sasuke wakes up to his phone vibrating.
He grabs it and answers his call.
"Hello?" He says groggily, his eyes barely open, his bedhead messy on one side.
"Sasuke? What'd I do, wake you?"
Sasuke laughs a little, "Yeah, I was waiting for your reply and fell asleep."
"What's up?"
"Naruto stopped me after class today."
"What?"
Sasuke hears tension in Shikamaru's voice.
"Yeah, all he said was he wanted to talk but I pretty much shut him down and told him to leave me alone."
A few moments of silence go by.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I feel better now after telling him off but I kinda feel guilty too, I made him cry." Sasuke confesses.
"I'm glad you're okay. What does that guy even want? He pushed you away and now he wants to buddy up? I don't get it. Don't feel bad man, you cried cause of him too much and not once did he feel guilty. I think he got his just desserts with that."
"Believe me, I don't understand it either. I didn't let him speak, so I don't even know. I just wanna have a great time at college, I can get past his presence here but I don't want him talking to me." Sasuke rubs his tired face at the thought.
"Yeah...want me to say something?"
Sasuke laughs, which in turn causes Shikamaru to laugh.
"I'm serious though. I don't want you to go back to that 'place', that was a bad time for you."
"Thanks but no thanks. This is something I need to be able to handle. I really do appreciate it though." Sasuke smiles.
"Anytime, if you need me, I'm only a call away."
"Thanks."
"Maybe sometime soon, you can come stay up here with me."
"Heck. Yes. I'm totally down for that."
Shikamaru giggles.
"Good, cause I'm missing my best friend already."
"Dude, same."
"Well I need to study, so I'll let ya go. Glad you are okay though."
"Alright, man. Thanks again! Good luck with your studies."
"Night."
"Nighty night."
Sasuke hangs up and lays back down on his back, staring at the ceiling.
"That stupid moron, can't he just leave me alone like he use too. Why is he trying to make an effort now?" Sasuke rubs his face harshly.
"If he wanted to keep our friendship, he should've made an effort back then."
Sasuke lays his arms next to his body, continuing his staring contest with the ceiling.
"Why is this even still on my mind? I shouldn't still be thinking of him."
Sasuke raises up, "You know what, Sasuke? No more time for thinking."
Sasuke smiles and gets up, hooking his phone up to his speaker, flipping through his music.
"Hmm, what song should I choose?"
Sasuke choose the song Unforgettable covered by Zhavia.
When the song comes on, Sasuke starts rocking to the beat.
His feet begin moving across the floor, his arms in the air as he moves his body to the song, his eyes close, lyrics pour out from his mouth.
He twirls and rocks his body to one side and then the other, jerking his body in all directions.
Swaying his hips to the mellow beat.
When the song goes off, he starts walking to his phone to find another song when he starts dancing to the one that starts playing.
Television Romance by Pales Waves.
His body immediately moving again.
His mind clearing more and more as he moves his body to the music.
"You wanna love me, but honey that ain't okay."
Sasuke mouths the words, shaking his head as he sings the lyrics.
He twirls around in a circle as he dances to the upbeat chorus, throwing his arms straight in the air, continuing around in a circle.
Then he stops and sings the mellow bridge.
"And you think that you can have me tonight
I think that my, think my heart is alright
I know, baby, think that I've got all the time
But in a few hours, I'll be out of my mind"
Then he jumps up and down and shakes his head as he sings the chorus again.
"Oh, baby, won't you stop it?
You and I haven't got it
Television romance
Oh, baby, won't you stop it?
You and I haven't got it, got it
Television romance"
And he keeps singing and dancing until his mind is clear, until a couple hours go by without notice.
When Sasuke wakes up the next morning, his body aches from all the dancing last night.
But luckily he doesn't have any classes today, so he is going out to eat and gonna walk around the city he has yet to really see.
Sasuke walks down the sidewalk, looking at all the shops, excited to see so many stores, it's completely different from his home town.
As he is walking, he sees a shop that sells smoothies, so he hurriedly goes in, ready to fill his belly with delicious fruity goodness.
Sasuke orders a strawberry and blueberry smoothing made with pomegranate juice before he sits at a small table in the back of the small room.
He plays on his phone and sips on his smoothie, listening to the music that comes over the speakers from the small, mellow smoothie shop, when one he hasn't heard in forever begins to softly play, causing Sasuke to smile at the familiar tune, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
"And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
'Cause sooner or later, it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight"
Sasuke had closed his eyes, forgetting completely about the smoothie or his phone as he silently listens to the music.
This song has some strong memories attached to it, he listened to this with many thoughts of Naruto, because Sasuke felt like he could give up everything for Naruto, he loved him so much. He'd often listen to this with Naruto as well, they both loved it, and he was always watching him from his peripherals.
He opens his eyes; eyes filled with sadness and memories.
Naruto really hurt him, and he doesn't wanna be friends with him, but he still misses him on rare occasion.
Sasuke takes a sip of his smoothie and looks up towards the door as the bell above it rang.
His eyes widen slightly when he sees Naruto and Kirie walk into the little shop.
Sasuke doesn't stop staring even when Naruto looks up and sees him, surprise evident on his face, but he quickly composes himself and just watches Sasuke.
The music getting louder in Sasuke's ears.
"And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am"
Sasuke can't look away, his mind is blank of almost everything, except the memories flooding back into his brain, the memories he tried to rid himself of; the happy memories, the sad, the loving, and the broken.
The ache comes back heavy in his chest, but he can't look away.
His head hurts but he can't look away.
"And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive"
Sasuke takes a shallow breath, the can't hear anything but the music and can't see anyone but Naruto.
"And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am"
The pain gets so bad that it snaps him out of his trance, he grabs his things quickly and walks quickly past Naruto to the door, Naruto doesn't try to stop him, he just lets him go.
He walks quickly back to his dorm, keeping his head down the whole time.
Sasuke wakes up the next morning, drained from his encounter with Naruto...again.
He sighs; when will he be able to be more normal around him?
He gets up and showers and does some yoga before plopping down in his bean bag chair and playing some video games.
He decides to play his new-found obsession, Persona 5.
After a little while, Sasuke's phone rings.
Without looking at it, he picks it up.
"Hey Sasuke."
"Yo, Shika. What's up?" Sasuke holds the phone between his shoulder and head as he fights a strong opponent.
"Nothing much, just finished my studying and wanted to see how you were."
Sasuke hears Shikamaru yawn on the other end.
"Sleepy?" Sasuke laughs, not taking his eyes away from the tv.
"A little, but I don't wanna go to sleep yet."
"Maybe you should if you're that tired."
"No."
"Yeah. Don't whine cause it's nap time." Sasuke teases.
"Hey!" Shikamaru tried to sound angry but ended up laughing along with Sasuke.
"I'll comply half-way and lay down."
"Alrighty, guess it can't be helped."
"What are you doing?" Shikamaru yawns again.
"Obsessing over Persona 5."
"Really dude? How long have you played today?"
"Umm, when did it get dark?"
Shikamaru laughs loudly.
"Really, Sasu? Maybe YOU need to go to bed."
"You're prolly right but... this game...it's too addicting."
"Man, I can hear the game and your button pressing over the phone." He laughs.
Sasuke laughs, "I'm fighting this tough guy, and he keeps killing me and I keep having to start over. It's pissing me off."
"Hang in there, Sasu."
"Of course! I ain't no giver-upper!
A few moments of silence goes by, Sasuke nearly forgets he is on the phone before he yells, dropping the phone in his lap when he threw his arms in the air.
"Finally! I beat him!"
He smiles and gives a sigh of relief before picking up the phone.
"You hear that Shikamaru? I totally beat him just now." Sasuke brags over the phone.
No answer.
"Shika?"
Sasuke listens closely to hear the soft breathing of a sleeping Shikamaru, causing a smile to cross his face before he says a quiet goodnight and ending the call.
A few minutes goes by playing his game when the phone rings again, Sasuke laughs and answers.
"I told you to go to bed, Shika! You even fell asleep on the phone." Sasuke laughs.
"Umm...Sasuke?"
Sasuke frowns and hangs up the phone.
"Freaking idiot. I should've changed my number."
Sasuke's phone beeps with a message, he hesitantly grabs it to read.
"I just wanna talk, Sasuke. Please hear me out."
Sasuke grits his teeth and turns his phone off and throws it on his bed before playing his game again.
Half an hour goes by when Sasuke hears a knock at his door.
He sighs and gets up, walking to the door, he opens it and a sees a shocking and annoying sight; Naruto Uzumaki standing right in front of him.
Sasuke clicks his tongue in anger.
Well? What are y'all thinking? I'd loved to hear! Thank you to everyone who reads and thank you to all who review, I read them all and I love them! 3