Stay Alive: Naruto Style Chapter 2, a naruto fanfic

Sasuke made his way to his boss's office. He had called for him for some unknown reason he had a bad feeling. He just hoped his boss wasn't in one of his 'moods'. Sasuke shuffled through his reports as he walked casually down the hall. His assistant walked up to him. "That was fast," she told him in a surprised tone. Sasuke smiled as he handed the papers in his arms to her. "Hi. How are you?" he asked her. She ignored his question and asked, "Did you take care of the Marina report?" Sasuke sighed. "I was just about to." he replied. She turned around and said, "Oh, don't bother." They continued to walk down the hall. "He wants to see you right away, and he's in one of his moods." Sasuke grimaced as she opened the door to the office for him. "Happy birthday, by the way." he said quietly. She smiled at him and replied, "Merci, darling." She quietly shut the door behind him.

Sasuke slowly walked to his boss's, Shikamaru Nara, desk and said, "Hi." Shikamaru turned around in his chair to face Sasuke. He didn't seem very happy. He threw a folder on his desk. Sasuke spoke nervously. "I- I was just gonna..." Shikamaru cut him off. "Over a month." He stood up and looked Sasuke in the eye without blinking. "That's how long I've been working on this. Right? That's, uh... That's one hundred... that's one hundred hours." Sasuke nodded, biting his lip. "I'm sorry. I'll finish the marina report as soon as possible." Shikamaru looked a bit confused. "The ma... The what?" he asked. Sasuke blinked and asked slowly, "Marina report?" Shikamaru laughed and Sasuke smiled a bit with relief, realizing this is not what Shikamaru was wanting to discuss.

"Sasuke. You know what? Have a seat. Enjoy yourself, OK?" Shikamaru instructed as he guided Sasuke into a chair near his desk. Before Sasuke could reply, Shikamaru continued. "All right, listen to me now, OK? I hired you for one reason, and one reason only." Sasuke nodded, the anxiety beginning to rebuild itself, until, "Now, the walk-through says I dump the ammo and the boss dies." Sasuke blinked for a minute before asking awkwardly, "I'm sorry. We're not still talking about Silent Hill 4, are we?" Shikamaru gave him a look as if he just asked if he was still his boss. He answered in the same tone. "Yes." Sasuke laughed softly and leaned back. "Ok. Damn. All right." He thought about his response before answering, "I don't know what else to tell you. You got the hyperblaster?" Shikamaru walked to the window while listening to Sasuke. He was passing back and forth around his office, feeling a bit annoyed. "Do I look like an asshole? Yes, I have the hyperblaster." he replied. Sasuke laughed nervously and said, "Right, OK. Yeah, dump it. I mean, it's got unlimited ammo, nulifies the..." Sasuke trailed off for a second before continuing. "Hey, can I get tomorrow off?" "Let me think about that." Shikamaru replied, massaging the bridge of his nose and still pacing. "No, no, no. I need it to get to the final boss." he told Sasuke, referring to the weapon in their discussion. Sasuke smirked. "Beat her straight up. It's the way God intended."

Shikamaru smirked. "You know, Sasuke, if you put as much effort into clerking as you did into gaming, you could end up like me someday. You know that, right?" Sasuke flashed a quick look of disbelief. "OK." Shikamaru laughed. "All right, you can take tomorrow. How do I do it?" Sasuke continued to explain. "It's easier to kill her without the blaster. So lose it before going down the stairs. She'll die on her own. Game over." Shikamaru laughed again. "All right. OK. Hey, man, are you hip to this PDA sex thing?" Sasuke blinked and held back a laugh as he replied, "I haven't got into that." Just then, Sasuke's assistant walked in. "You've got a phone call, Sasuke." Sasuke smiled with relief, clearly hearing enough ranting from his video game addicted boss. "Thank you."

Sasuke picked up the phone and answered, "Hello?" He listened to what the person on the other line was telling him in complete and utter disbelief. "What?" e asked quietly, as if he was about to burst into tears. The police had found Sai, Kankuro, and Ino all dead in Sai's house. Sasuke slowly hung up the phone, and left immediately.

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Sasuke sat among a crowd of crushed people at the funeral. Numerous people were crying, others were trying their best to hold it in. Sasuke walked over to his friend's mother and hugged her. She said in a strangled voice, "Sasuke. I'm so glad you came. It means so much to me." Sasuke nodded sadly and shook hands with some of the guests he didn't know too well. The vicar began the ceremony. "Today we lay to rest, Sai, a young man whose life was tragically taken from us. But let us find comfort in knowing the Lord welcomes Sai into his kingdom." Sasuke slowly turned his head to see a strange boy with spiky blonde hair and three scars on each cheek take a picture of him. The boy caught Sasuke's gaze and smiled at him apologetically.

After the burying of Sai's body, Sasuke was leaning against the wall of the church when the boy walked up to him. He tapped him on the shoulder gently. Sasuke turned around just as the strange blonde took another picture of him. The boy laughed nervously as he took the polaroid out of the camera and started to wave it in the air so it would show up. "Did... did you just take a picture of me?" Sasuke asked, a bit shocked by the boy's actions. "I did." the boy replied. "There are so many crying faces at this funeral and you seem the saddest, but you weren't crying. So I took a picture." The boy held up the polaroid he had just taken. Sasuke nodded. The blonde averted his eyes for a moment. "You and Sai must have been close." he said to Sasuke, inspecting his face a bit. "Yeah, we were." Sasuke replied. Then he continued. "I mean, we were so close, but..." he trailed off as he looked toward the funeral." The blonde boy nodded apologetically.

Sasuke blinked before asking, "Did you know Sai?" The boy looked up and replied, "Kinda. I grew up with Ino back in Osaka. I was supposed to hang out with her that night..." Sasuke looked a bit surprised. "Really? Yeah, so was I." The boy sighed and averted his eyes toward the ground. "I always thought I'd be taking pictures on her wedding day, not her funeral." Just then, Sai's littler sister Yai walked up. The blonde nodded toward Yai and said, "Looks like you're up." Sasuke turned to Yai and said, "Yai. Hi." He gently hugged her as she spoke her greeting. "How are you? God, look at you. You're so grown-up. How are you doing?" Yai smiled gently. "I'm OK. Um, here." She held up a brown leather bag that looked oddly familiar. Sasuke took it and looked at it for a moment. "This is your brother's bag. You don't want this?" Yai shook her head and replied, "Well, mom and dad won't let me play those video games. They were gonna toss 'em. You know, they're too violent." Yai wiped a few tears that were forming in her eyes. "Besides, he would want you to have 'em." Sasuke smiled sadly. "Come here." He wrapped his arms around Yai in a brotherly hug. "Take care, all right?" Yai nodded. The blonde boy, who had been standing there listening, took a picture of the two people hugging.

Sasuke watched as the blonde wrote a name and phone number on a piece of paper. He held it out ot him. "Here, if you need to talk, that's my number." Sasuke took the slip of paper and read the name Naruto on it. He looked up to see the blonde called Naruto walking away.

Sasuke entered a packed cafe that was owned by his two friends. He looked around at all the people drinking different beverages and playing with their cells or PDAs. As he walked to the counter, a girl with blonde hair put up in four different ponytails looked up from her book and stood up. "Hey, sunshine." she greeted Sasuke. "Didn't think you'd be back so soon." Sasuke put the back of Sai's things on the counter and turned to the girl. "Give us a kiss." the girl said softly. She wrapped her arms around Sasuke's neck and kissed both of his cheeks. The girl's name was Temari. Her parents had passed down this cafe to her and her brother. They had all been friends for a long time. "Sorry, Sasuke. Are you OK?" Temari looked concerned for her friend. Sasuke nodded. "Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to believe."

A boy with flaming red hair cut short walked around the corner. "Tragedy, Sasuke. I tell you bro, first your parents, now this." He walked behind the counter. "God dealt the straws and gave you a short one, man." Temari looked furious. "You know, Gaara, the problem with your mouth is that stupid insensitive shit comes out of it. You're an idiot." Gaara stared at his sisters before continuing. "Be strong- that's all I'm saying. You know what I mean, bro?" he asked, turning to Sasuke. "You're a rock. I love you." he meant it in a brotherly way. Sasuke nodded. "I love you, too." Gaara turned back to Temari. "Who talks to their brother like that anyway?" he asked her with a hurt expression. "Somebody with an idiot for a brother." she replied angrily. "Oh, my God, you're a terrible person." Gaara cried. Temari sat back on the counter.

"So, do they know what happened yet?" she asked Sasuke. "All I know is that he was murdered. Him and two of his friends." Gaara popped up out of nowhere. "Holy fucking shit. Really?" Temari sighed, annoyed. She looked over to Sai's bag. "What's in the bag?" she asked. Sasuke shrugged. "Video games, pictures, crap like that." "From him?" Temari asked as she began to look inside. "Yeah." Temari pulled out a photo album and turned a few pages. "No shit, is this you two?" she asked in an amusing voice. "Yeah." Sasuke laughed. The picture was of two young boys who looked sort of alike. Temari giggled. "Look at that." Gaara pulled out a lighter and lit it. "Lighter works." he said. Sasuke winced at the sight of the flame. Memories of the fire that killed his mother flashed in his head. "Gorgeous." Gaara complemented the flame. "Dude, you can keep that if you like." Sasuke said, backing away slowly.

Gaara quickly closed the lighter. "I'm sorry, Sasuke." he said with a bit too much sarcasm in his voice. Temari looked at Sasuke and said, "You must have been adopted." Gaara held the lighter above his head. "Thank you, Sai." He then began looknig through the video games that were in the bag. "So he was a real gamer?" "Yeah" Sasuke craned his neck to see what Gaara was doing. "Any good titles in the bag?" the red head asked. "I'm not sure. Check it out." Gaara pulled out a box that had a piece of paper taped to it that read 'Stay Alive' in red marker. "Goddamn, ya'll." he said, holding the box up. Temari looked at the box. "'Stay Alive'? Never heard of it." Sasuke nodded and sighed. "Yeah, that was the game he was playing out the night he died. He asked me to come over and play. I totally blew him off." Sasuke looked down and felt regret wash over him.

"Sasuke, come on. You didn't know." Temari said softly. "I know. It's just..." Gaara cut him off. "How'd he get his hands on it?" Gaara was getting a little excited. "He did some beta-testing." Sasuke replied. Gaara scoffed. "I beta-tested for a while. It sucked." Gaara sat by Sasuke and smirked. "Let's burn a round for Sai." Sasuke shook his head. "I told you, that'd be weird. That was the last thing he was doing." Gaara put a hand on Sasuke's shoulder. "Sack up, bro. If Sai was indeed testing this game, that means it it barely legal. This could be nice. Everybody likes to touch something for the first time." Sasuke smiled and laughed a bit. "Fine. We meet up at my house tonight."

A few hours later, Sasuke was busing doing the dishes. Suddenly, he heard a strange clattering noise. He turned off the water to hear it more clearly. He started toward his door, hearing the noises grow louder. He looked through the peep hole in his door. Nothing. "Hey!" Sasuke jumped. "Jesus Christ!" A boy with a black bowl cut and huge eyes was staring back at him through the peep hole. Sasuke opened the door with the chain still locked. "Can Sasuke come out and play?" the boy asked teasingly. Sasuke sighed. "Lee, you scared the crap outta me, man." Lee rolled his eyes. "Why, yes, I'd love to come in. Thank you for asking." Sasuke unlocked the door and let Lee in.

"I wanna make sure we're all set up." Lee was carrying everything the group needed to play this new game. "So... I'm sorry, you know, about your friend and all. It..." Lee searched his mind for the right word. "...stinks." Sasuke smirked. "Thanks, man. Look, it's all good. No worries. It'll be good to hang out with you guys, get my mind off things." As Lee set his stuff down, Gaara and Temari walked into the door. As Temari walked in, she asked sweetly, "Dollface, is there something you'd like to tell me?" Walking in from behind her came Naruto. He laughed nervously. Sasuke smiled. "Hey, you made it. Temari, fellas, this is Naruto." Naruto smiled and waved shyly. "He's kind of a friend of Sai's. He's gonna hang out for a while." Gaara smirked. "Sup, mama?" he asked Naruto. Naruto smiled. "What's up?" Then he quickly turned to Sasuke and whispered in his ear, "I have to pee." Sasuke blushed a bit. "Oh, yeah. It's right down the hallway." he explained, pointing to the restroom.

Gaara smirked as Naruto walked down the hall. "Boy has got body karate going on." Temari rolled her eyes. "Shut up." Everyone knew Gaara was bisexual, and no one really had a problem with it. "Sasuke, try not to fuck this one up." Temari flipped Gaara off. Gaara hit Lee in the arm. "Don't touch me, A-hole." Gaara resisted the urge to burst out laughing. "'A-hole', dude?" Lee rolled his eyes and sighed as if talking to a three year old. "Profanity is for the feeble-minded." he replied matter-of-factly. "Sorry I offended you... fuck-ass." Gaara burst out laughing. "Ready for a good night, bro?" Lee continued to fix the gaming system as he replied. "I can't stay too late. I gotta suss out a Naughty Network glitch for the theatre pledges." (A/N: I have NO CLUE what that means! XD) Gaara could not believe this kid. "You could also take the skirt off and join us playing this virgin game. Would you?" Lee looked at him. "Virgin?" Gaara nodded. "Yes." Lee shook his head. "Shoot, I really shouldn't." Gaara stared him down for about ten seconds before Lee said, "OK, I'll figure something out."

Temari spoke up. "So what's with the paparazzi?" Sasuke smirked. "It's OK, Mom. His one and only experience in town would be a funeral. Don't worry, you're still the queen bee." Temari sat on the couch and scoffed. "Anyone who says size doesn't matter never played a third-person shooter." She turned to Sasuke and smiled. "Can I have a 42-incher? You know I like the big ones..." Sasuke laughed. "Per usual, that's too much information." Then realization dawned on Sasuke. There was no toilet paper in the bathroom. "Oh, shit! Oh, man." He jumped up to get Naruto some t.p. When he was gonna, Gaara turned to Temari and said, "You're a whore."

Sasuke grabbed some toilet paper and walked to the bathroom. He knocked on the door. "Yeah?" came Naruto's soft voice. Sasuke blushed a little. "Naruto, I'm sorry... the toilet paper is out." "Oh, shoot. Is it under the sink?" Sasuke laughed nervously. "That would be the appropriate place, but no, actually, I've got it." Naruto laughed. "OK. Just pass it through the door." Sasuke blushed a bit brighter. "You want me to...?" "The door." Naruto giggled softly. "All right." Sasuke was scarlet by now. He opened the door but didn't look in as he passed the toilet paper. He felt Naruto take it from his hand and heard him say, "Arigatou."

Sasuke just kinda stood there for a moment before he heard Naruto ask, "Do you wanna close the door?" Sasuke snapped out of his trance. "Oh, yeah. I'm sorry." He closed the door. "Did you guys grow up together?" Naruto asked. "We met playing Unreal Tournament online." Sasuke waited for a reply but didn't receive one. "You know, Unreal Tournament... Right, you don't play." Naruto opened the door and smiled. "I can dig it." Sasuke smiled a little and shook his head. "I'll let you finish. Just hold the handle down for at least five seconds." Naruto giggled. "OK." He closed the door again. When the door was closed, Sasuke asked himself, "What the fuck is my problem?"

Oooooo is our dear Sasuke falling in lurve? X3 Read on and find out!