Okay, so it would seem that either I didn't put an AN into this chapter, or it deleted it... So here it is!
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Naruto!
Piano
Neji's meeting got out early, at eleven. He rushed back to his room, hoping that Gaara was still there. He had found that he enjoyed not eating alone, and he didn't want to other boy to feel lonely and confused either. It was only his first day. He also wanted to see if Gaara didn't have anything else to do today, maybe they could work on the music for Yuuhi-sensei.
He stuck the key in the lock and opened the door, and walked back out closing the door as silently as possible trying to retain as much dignity as he was able.
For the second time, he had seen his roommate without a shirt on. At least this time he was wearing pants though. He had opened the door and Gaara had been changing. He must have been changing for lunch Neji figured, even if it was a bit early. A few moments later, the door opened and a very embarrassed Gaara was standing in the doorway looking at his feet.
"Umm, sorry. I should've, uh, changed in tha bathroom or somethin'." His face was pink, even more so than Neji's, and his tight red T-shirt was slightly crooked. He also wasn't wearing any shoes.
"N…No, I should have knocked or something. I'm just… not used to having a roommate…" After another awkward moment, both boys went back into the room. Neji noticed that two of the drawers on Gaara's dresser were open, and his school uniform shirt and jacket were lying on the ground in a heap. Gaara noticed the same thing and went over to clean up the mess. He folded his shirt and jacket and put them on the bed and slammed the drawers shut. Both boys turned to face each other.
"I'm gonna go get changed." Neji announced. He didn't really know why he felt like he had the obligation to tell Gaara, but he had. On afterthought, he felt rather stupid about it. He went over to his dresser and got another pair of grey black jeans and a white shirt. He grabbed his favorite black sweater, the one that he had lent to Gaara, off the bed and went into the bathroom.
He unzipped his blazer and unbuttoned his white shirt. He took the white T-shirt and was about to slip it over his head, but lost his balance slipping on a small puddle of water on the floor. Gaara must have taken a shower. He fell backwards and landed in his butt, hitting his head on the side of the sink. He cried out in pain.
"Ow!" He yelled clutching his sore head. He heard Gaara knocking on the bathroom door.
"Are you okay?" He asked concernedly. "Should I find an icepack?" Neji lifted his hand to his face and saw a small bit of blood.
"Yes please." He said meekly. "Do you know where the school nurse is?" There was a moment of silence between the two.
"No. Neji realized that it was a stupid question. It was Gaara's first day! Of course he wouldn't know where the school nurse was. Neji got up slowly and opened the door, forgetting the fact that he wasn't wearing a shirt.
"Let's go. I'll show you." Neji said, keeping his voice as steady as he was able with the throbbing pain trying to explode his skull.
Gaara was amazed that he would keep his polite composure in such a situation. He must not realize how much blood was really seeping out of that wound. It was soaking his pale hand and dripping onto the floor. Without a thought, Gaara whipped off his shirt wadded it up and took Neji's hand off his head pressing the balled up shirt in its place. Neji looked like he was about to say something, but shut his mouth when he saw the amount of blood on it. His face drained of all color.
"So… much… blood." Then it hit Gaara. Neji was hemophobic. He was afraid of blood. He was torn between getting his roommate to the nurse and getting the blood off his hands, but decided to go with the later seeing as how he couldn't find the nurse without Neji's help, and he wasn't going to be of much help in this state. He put his hand up on Neji's broad right shoulder and walked him into the bathroom. He wet a small towel sitting on the edge of the sink and started by cleaning off his hand.
He wasn't concerned about the severity of the laceration because he had learned that with head wounds, smaller more insignificant wounds bled much more.
Once Neji's hand was clean, he got rid off the bit of dried blood that had dripped down his neck and cheek. When he was satisfied that Neji was as clean as he could get him for the moment, Gaara bent down and picked up the jacket that the other boy was planning on wearing. He put it on him as best he could and zipped it shut. He wasn't sure if the nurse was in this building or not, and it was freezing cold out. He left Neji standing there and ran out to put on a long sleeved black shirt himself.
"Okay Neji, can you tell me where the nurse's office is?" Neji nodded meekly and walked out the door that Gaara opened for him. The color was already returning to his features and he seemed a bit livelier.
"Thank you. I'm sorry." He said. Gaara smiled up at him and told him that it was okay. He brought them to the nurse's office, and since there weren't many people out at this time, only three people asked them what was wrong, and two more gave them suspicious looks.
Gaara had been right, the nurse's office was in another building. In the same red brick building as the music room, but a floor down. The nurse was a young looking woman who introduced herself as Izumi.
"What happened?" She asked, looking from Gaara to Neji who was leaning slightly on the other boy's shoulder.
"I was changing when I slipped and hit my head on the sink I believe it was. Sabaku-san was kind enough to help me get here and clean some of the blood." She looked a but confused at the lat part of his statement.
"I'm hemophobic." He explained calmly, not nearly as embarrassed as he had seemed when Gaara found out. Hew wondered why that was. Izumi nodded.
"You did well Sabaku-san. Now Hyuuga-san, I'm going to clean that wound of yours, okay?" Gaara was surprised that the nurse already knew Neji by name, and even more surprised that he never thought to ask his roommate's last name. It had been printed on the letter he had received, but he had thrown that out without much thought. 'Hyuuga Neji. What a nice name…'
And of course, if there was no AN up at the top, there's none down here either. This is the one reminfing you to please R&R!!!