Okay wow 2 years, I can't actually believe that... well here is chapter 4 and I hope you all enjoy it. I am looking for a new beta, so PM if you are interested. If you have any song suggestions please do tell me, and I'll try and add them.
(unbeated)
Chapter 4: Hair, Make-up, and... kiss?
"Run Naruto!"
A blonde blur ran through a corridor, behind him a hoard girls chasing him, some holding make-up brushes, and other with clothes following close.
A week and a half had already passed, filled with classes, and rehearsals. Naruto didn't think he had any real time off. Now the girls had finished his costume and wanted him to try it on, make-up and all. The blonde was having none of that. He had tried to dissuade them, telling them that they had plenty of time before any real dress rehearsal was needed; but they fervently told him they needed him to wear it now, so they could check what changes they needed to make.
Naruto had been cornered against the door, and it was only because some guy had opened the door that he managed to escape; but he was closely followed by the girls. They managed to find him where ever he was hiding forcing him to run again. Good thing the school was mostly empty. The blonde perked up when he saw the bright light of the exit. Only for it to be obscured by the tall stature of his teacher. Naruto barely managed to stop himself from colliding with the older man, he nearly fell but Kakashi helped steady him.
"Ma, Naruto where are you running?" his sensei asked kindly.
The blonde was so happy to his teacher, he thought he was saved until he saw a strange glint his sensei's eyes. One that made his body freeze in fear.
"Sensei...?" he whispered out in confusion.
"Those girls need your help don't they, as a gentlemen you should help them," Kakashi's gripped on his shoulder's like steel, and Naruto know it was too late.
The hoard of girls swarmed over him like a tsunami, he was grabbed in their vice like hands and dragged away into some dark room, with only his screams echoing; through the empty corridors.
About half an hour later, one of the girl came back into the classroom with a wide grin on her face. She gave a small cough to catch every the attention of every boy in the room. Her smile widened, and then she made some flamboyant gesture at and gripped the door handle.
"Gentleman, I present to you Taiyo Hime!" she shouted out with flourish, and the threw the door open, revealing Naruto in all his glory.
The guys were stunned at the sight of the blonde, there was nothing but silence in the room, and suddenly there was a snort from the back, which sounded suspiciously like it came from Kiba. Suddenly the whole room erupted into laughter.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" someone shouted.
"IT LOOK LIKE SOME SORT OF KAPPA!" someone else shouted.
"NO, MORE LIKE A ZOMBIE!"
"DRESSED LIKE A MARSHMALLOW!"
The laughter continued, and Naruto wanted to nothing but run away, but the girls behind him stopped him from doing that.
Yes Naruto did not look good. There was more white make-up in his hair then on his face. The wig wasn't put on properly. The red lipstick was smeared around his mouth to make it look like he was bloody. The black eyeliner around his eyes, was smudged, and flaking off since the white base was not put on properly. His dress was rumpled, since he had struggled when he saw the pink monstrosity.
He hung his head in shame, god he felt so embarrassed. His day had started off so good as well. He did well on a test today, there was an option for ramen for lunch, he even managed to score a goal against Sasuke in football. So how had he ended up like this, dressed in a pink frock, looking like some sort of monster. How humiliating!
A shadow moved in front of and Naruto couldn't help but look up and see Sai standing in front of him. Sai looked a lot like Sasuke, he was nearly as tall as the Uchiha, and just as handsome; but his skin was paler, and his dark hair shorter with a more choppy style. His face was also a little more angular, with a pointy chin and a sharp nose. Slanted eyes looked down at the blonde with an unreadable look, but that wasn't new for Sai. The guy had a problem about expressing himself, and didn't really know how to interact appropriately with people.
That's why Naruto knew that his humiliation hadn't ended yet.
"You look even more stupid then usual dickless," Sai comment, with hands on his hips, the strap of his backpack hanging off his shoulder.
"Sai you bastards-" he growled out, but was cut off by the other teenager.
"Do none of you girls know how to put make-up on?" he said this time talking to the girls. "No wonder you are all so ugly."
"!" Naruto staggered back at that comment, this was a thing about Sai, he didn't have a filter.
"Come," he said grabbing Naruto and pulling him along before the girls had time to react.
Naruto spluttered, and try to pry his arm out of the boys grip, but Sai wouldn't let him go. Instead he was taken to nearest bathroom and shoved right in.
"What the hell do you think you are doing Sai?!" he shouted angrily, but he ignored him. His back was too the blonde, instead he by the sink washing something.
Sai turned around and in his hand was cloth. "Here, wash that crap off you face," he said throwing the wet cloth at Naruto.
The blonde was so glad he could remove the make-up that he complain about Sai's crass behaviour. He quickly wiped his face as best as he could, removing most of the stuff of his face. He was about to thank the other when he noticed that Sai had taken out a large black box from his backpack. He opened it up, undid some more latches so that more trays seem to extend out of it. Naruto was confused at first and then he realised that the box was filled with even more make-up.
Sai turned to him, with a wide smile. "Get that wig off dickless, we got work to do."
"Sai, I don't want to."
"Stop being an idiot, trust me I am an artist."
Naruto knew there was no way out of it, if he left now he would simply harassed by the girls again. He wasn't sure if being trapped in the bathroom with Sai was any better. With a resigned sigh, he took off the wig and handed it to the other who it and put on the sink next to his kit.
"Good," Sai said and then stepped uncomfortably close.
First he brushed Naruto's hair back, and pinned it back, and using a kabuki brush he applied the proper Oshiroi on his skin. The girls had used some sort white powder from a Halloween kit, it was so chalky it had made him sneeze and half the powder had gone onto his hair. Surprisingly Sai actually knew what he was doing, as he delicately brushed the smooth mixture all the way up to his hair-line.
"Close your eyes and mouth idiot."
Naruto grumbled but as asked, and the oshiroi was applied over his eyelids and lips.
"Shame about this, you have such smooth skin," Sai idly talked to himself; but Naruto was blushing under his white make-up.
"It's going to be easy to make you a girl, you already don't have a penis."
Naruto had to stop himself punching that bastard.
Sai continued unperturbed, after he was happy with his white base, he picked up a small jar with red cream called Kumadori and a thin brush. Delicately using the brush he painted around his lips, so give him a daintier plumper mouth. Next he took a fluffier brush and picked up a dark blue.
"Light blue is meant to be a sign of sadness in Kabuki, and I guess with you being imprisoned in a tower by a wizard would make anyone sad." Sai then softly applied the dark blue around his eyes, the brush going over the top of his eyelid then down just slight down either side of his nose.
"It also matches your eyes," he commented again, and Naruto felt weird about it.
He put the blue away and then picked up a jar with pink powder, and with a new think brush and quick sweep brushed it across his cheeks. "Pink and sign of youth," he murmured.
"Just one last thing to do," he picking up some black kuma dori, and drew around his eyes and eyebrows. "Okay, do you wanna have a look?"
Slowly Naruto opened his eyes and the sight staring back at him from the mirror had him in shock. He didn't even look like himself anymore! He looked like a proper yara-Kabuki actor, well if that actor was playing a female part. He looked quite pretty really, completely unexpected. He dark blue was like a shadow around his blue eyes. The red on his lips stood out strong, making lips look plumper, and the pink on his cheeks gave him a permanent light blush.
Sai was behind him, brushing the wig gently to get rid of the white powder. Before the blonde could protest he put it on him and pinned it to his hair, and gave it another brush. Sai then back to his box, and took out some fancy looking hair pins, and starting using a blue flowery one to take a few strands of his fake ahir and tie it together on the back oh head.
"Now we have to fix your clothes."
"Wait a sec what-" but once, before Naruto could do anything the other teen started ripping some of the frilly bits on his clothes, and then adjusted the sides and tightening the back so that clung to his body better.
"This will have to do, those girls will need to make the costume better," he finished and started packing his kit away. Afterwards he grabbed Naruto hand and dragged him along, and the blonde let him because he knew no one was listening to his protests anayway.
Again the door to class room was thrown up, and everyone looked up and gasped at the sight in front of them.
"Oh wow," Ten Ten commented first. "Is that Naruto?!" she squealed in disbelieve.
The hyper girl rushed up to him grabbing his hands excitedly. "Oh my god Naruto you look beautiful!"
"R-r-really?"
"Of course! Sai you did a wonderful job, you gotta do everyone's make-up. Those girls were useless!" then she looked down at his dress. "Even his outfit looks better!" she exclaimed with a grin.
She dragged the blonde further into the room. "Alright people let's get rehearsals started."
"Wait shouldn't Sasuke get his make-up done too!"
Ten Ten shook her head. "Not enough time, you took forever getting ready. We only 30 minutes left before we have to leave."
Naruto grumbled under his breath, hating all the looks he was getting as he was pushed to the centre of the room. They were to the part were Taiyo would me the farm boy for the first time. The scene started with once again rejecting the wizard's advances, and then he would sing. The farm boy who had been hiding listening to the singing for the last few nights finally got the courage to make his presence known.
With some fiddling with his long dress he sat down on a pile of cushions, that was positioned by the window, overlooking the half finished 'Sakura tree'. Gaara was next to him, drabbed in a half finished crimson robe that was tied around his waist with a black belt. Gaara's green eyes hadn't left him, they were roving over his form, and it only made Naruto feel more self conscious about his outfit.
"Hime..." he murmured, slowly dropping down to one knee beside Naruto.
"Taiyo-hime, this is the fourth night have you considered my proposal?" he asked taking Naruto's hands into his own.
Okay this was new, so far Gaara's acting had been passive. Only really touching him if he was directed to do so by Ten Ten, so this was very forward by the red head. Naruto ran with it though, he didn't want to redo this scene over again if he could help it. So he took a deep breath and looked down at their joined hands, and spoke softly.
"I am sorry sorcerer, my answer is still the same," he said taking his hand away. "Why do you still keep me here?"
"Because I love you, have so from the beginning. I saw you in the court yard playing the Guzhen, and singing. I fell in love with you in that moment and have not been able to forget you. " Gaara replied huskily.
Naruto was taken aback by how sincere the other sounded, even his normally hard almond eyes seemed warm and inviting. It really made him blush and for a moment the blonde had forgotten his next line. He shook his head and looked away from Gaara's... loving gaze.
"I am sorry sorcerer, I do not feel the same. I just want to go home."
Gaara and sighed and turned his back to him. "I would give you the world my hime, but that is one thing I cannot do," he replied and walked off the set.
Naruto couldn't but feel sad for the princess, he threw himself against his window from and stared out small opening. The next song was an English song, from the anime wolf rain, Naruto's English wasn't as good but he had been practicing this song for a while, so he hoped to do it justice.
Been a long road to follow,
Been there and gone tomorrow,
Without saying goodbye to yesterday
Are the memories I hold still valid?
Or have the tears deluded them?
Maybe this time tomorrow,
The rain will cease to follow,
And the mist will fade into one more today
Something somewhere out there keeps calling
Am I going home?
Will I hear someone
Singing solace to the silent moon?
Zero gravity
What's it like? (Am I alone?)
Is somebody there beyond these heavy aching feet?
Still the road keeps on telling me to go on...
Something is pulling me
I feel the gravity of it all
Naruto always felt sad after listening to this song, so it was easy to portray the anguish. He gently rested his forehead against his arm, being careful not to smudge Sai handy work, and let out sob. Now Naruto had to wait for his cue.
"Alright Sasuke, remember to wait 10 seconds, then he peak out from behind the window and knock on the frame to get the princess attention, Naruto you gotta look up then. Okay? Go!" Ten Ten instructed.
The knock came soon after, and slowly Naruto looked up, and he was surprised to see Sasuke so close to him. He yelped out in shock and tried to stand up only for him to trip over his long dress and loose his footing. The next thing he knew he was falling forward, the pile of cushion under him started were surprisingly slippery and Naruto grabbed on to the nearest thing to him. Which happened to be Sasuke. They both fell over each other on the floor, while everyone else in the room gasped out in disbelief.
"Ita...," Naruto hissed out in pain, and slowly opened his eyes to see that Sasuke was on top of him. His face only an inch away, his hot breath fanning over his face.
The blonde realised then how close their bodies were to each other. Naruto had always known that Sasuke was build, that was an ace at sports even being captain of the football team. But this was the first time he had actually felt Sasuke's body against his own. The raven had taken off his blazer and tie, so the top of his button was undone showing just the slightest sliver of pale skin, and the hard muscle underneath. His strong arms had caged Naruto the spot, forcing the blonde for the first to actually look at the raven.
Naruto wasn't stupid he knew Sasuke was handsome, all the girls in the school couldn't be wrong; but Naruto had always seen Sasuke as just the teme, the guy he fought with when he was younger. This Sasuke was different, maybe it was because Sasuke still hadn't looked away from him, maybe it was because for once he didn't seem angry, or maybe it was because he was slowly moving towards his face, cutting the distance between them at a snail's pace. Their lips almost meeting-
"CUT!"
Instantly Sasuke stood up and walked away from him like nothing had happened, and Naruto felt mortified at what had almost transpired. Oh wow if Ten Ten hadn't shouted cut then what would have happened, would him and Sasuke have actually kissed?!
OH KAMI NO!
Somehow Naruto managed to detangle himself from his own clothes and get up he turned away and tried to act like nothing was wrong. That they hadn't just almost kissed.
"Alright you two as lovely as that scene was you skipped ahead a bit, the kiss isn't meant to happen until later," Kakashi said, clapping his hands to gain everyone's attention. "Let's get the room cleaned up, we only have 10 minutes left, Naruto you can go and get cleaned up."
The blonde didn't argue simply ran to the bathroom so that he could wipe the damn make-up off. It was then he realised he didn't know where the girls had chucked his clothes. With a dejected sigh, Naruto left the bathroom, only to come to be stopped by another person. The blonde looked up and nearly screamed when he saw that it was Sasuke standing in front of him. The raven looked down at him, once again pointing out the size difference between them, with an unreadable expression. Naruto could feel his face going hot, and he knew he was blushing. He quickly ducked his head and tried to walk past the bulkier boy only to be stopped by a gentle grip on his arm.
"What are you doing teme!?" Naruto asked, trying to extract his hand out of that surprisingly firm grip.
Sasuke kept looking at him, his dark eyes running over his face, and down his body.
"Hn...," he grunted thoughtfully, and then let him go before turning around. "You look better without the make-up," he said idly and went inside the bathroom.
Naruto was shell-shocked, his face felt like it was on fire. He ran away looking for his things.
What's Naruto to do? He just doesn't know what to do with all this attention!
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