Chapter four: Jealousy?
That was the most horrible, excruciatingly hurtful experience of his life, never in his 17 years of life did he ever wish to be in such a situation.
Here he was sitting in Itachi's allocated green house, sitting among the famous bonsai trees; bonsai was an ancient Japanese art of making miniature trees by stumping their growth.
Naruto's tear tinted eye's looked up at the older Uchiha, he just ignored Naruto going along with his business of potting more of the little freaks of nature. Itachi was even quieter then Sasuke, Naruto seriously had to wonder what type of parents these two brothers had, they were not family people.
At this moment Naruto felt like a bonsai tree, being held to the earth by many small ropes, never being able to rise higher then a metre.
*sigh*
His chest was going to give way on him, this was more painful then fat camp could ever be. Food had no comparison, to what was happening to his feelings.
"I'm a bonsai," Naruto muttered, not even getting a strange look from Itachi, that was probably a good thing.
How could Naruto have been so stupid to have just pushed the door open, it was the teme's fault how was he supposed to know that, that…
He had known about Ino and Sasuke's relationship for about three weeks now, but even if he thought he had got his feelings under check, nothing could of prepared him for what he saw as he enter the Uchiha's bedroom.
The slight click of the door knob as he entered the room, or the loud shriek that left Ino's luscious red lips, as she clung her legs tight around Sasuke's middle, her nails digging into the white skin of that angel's back. They started to shack as they reached the peak of altermate pleasure, Ino had started to moan, she sounded like she was having the time of her life, and all Naruto could do was stand their like a ton of bricks, his feet glued to the wood below him. Naruto thought nothing could ever get possibly worse, but as Sasuke gave out one last moan, there body's moving closer together as Sasuke's orgasm rocked them both. This feeling that had completely consumed Naruto, the feeling that penetrated his heart as Sasuke's body fell in an exausted heap on top of Ino, kissing her passionately, nothing could be worse then this feeling.
"Fuck"
The rest was a blur, Naruto had ran from the room, his feet carrying him as fast as he could run. He knew that the Uchiha couldn't possibly chase him being in that state of nakedness, but he ran anyway.
He was mad at himself, he was mad at Ino, but above everything he was mad at Sasuke, how could that cold bastard do that to him.
Now he would have that daunting images of Sasuke's toned bare ass to carry him though the rest of his lonely nights in Japan, and it stung, it wasn't one of those memories you could bury away in the back of you're mind. No this was going to haunt him, it already was.
That's how Naruto had found himself sitting, bare footed in Itachi's greenhouse. Sulking, it would seem.
Everything had looked like it was getting better, ok Sasuke wasn't talking any more, but it wasn't like he was teasing him with Japanese words either. Gaara had been helping with the cabinet and it was entertaining to see the two squabble, even though Gaara wasn't what Naruto would call a friend, he was still nice to Naruto, Naruto had got over the fact that he didn't say much. Then there was Neji, who was probably the only person close enough to be friend material, it was all looking up.
Was it silly to think that Sasuke was a virgin…
Now Naruto just felt young and immature, like the teme had something over him, well he did, the teme was, was mature…
It was stupid to think that he, Naruto had been having these stupid thoughts, well fantasy's about something happening between them two.
Sasuke was straight, that was clear.
Sasuke was so much more experienced then Naruto, it made Naruto feel sick.
It had now been hours that Naruto had been sitting in this one place, he was covered in grass stains and dirt. His head lodged between his knees it was even getting dark.
He could hear the sounds of distant animals, a bird squawking, it sounded like it was dieing, Naruto was sure he would be making that noise that is if he could even speak at all.
Stammering up, Naruto noticed that Itachi had left, he didn't know how long he had been sitting there alone, but it really didn't seem to matter.
He decided it was probably time to go up to Sasuke's room and get ready for dinner, great dinner, one of the things he despised most.
Walking over to the green house door he ran his hand over one of the small tree's, even though they were freaks of nature, they were very beautiful, maybe It was ok to be a bonsai.
Naruto ran towards the house his feet felt like ice agenst the cold green grass, it had been raining.
The Uchiha Mansion was stationed on a land mass of about three acres, fuck it was giant seeing as this was Japan, Not many Japanese people could live on such a giant property, maybe it was a little selfish.
Reaching the back door Naruto wiped his feet on the mat before stepping into his slippers and jogging towards Sasuke's room.
Pushing the bedroom door open, Naruto felt slightly scared to say the least but was thankful to see that it was only Sasuke, sitting their reading.
Naruto closed the door behind him, staring at the teme, it was apparent that he had just had a shower; the Uchiha always looked great after showers.
Naruto tried to look away, but his will power was completely gone he just had to keep staring, but at that moment he knew he would stop trying to talk to the teme, there was no point, it was embarrassing and always made him look like he talked to much, made him look desperate and he didn't like it.
As the door slammed behind Naruto to his dismay, maybe his inner feelings were starting to show out to the world.
Sasuke looked up, a smirk engrossed on his face.
Well that was the last look Naruto had been expecting, what was he reading a bloody porno, he had expected something more then a smirk, what about a death glare. Seeing as he had just saw Sasuke's bare ass, and Sasuke's girlfriend naked, lord a death glare was nothing.
Sasuke looked down at what he was reading once again before slamming the cover shut.
*eeek* was Naruto going to regret the next thing that came out of Sasuke's mouth.
"Dobe," Sasuke's voice rang though Naruto's thoughts as the book he was holding flew at the blonde hitting him in the chest and falling to the ground.
At first Naruto was stunned in shock, great the Japanese insults were back! That's before he looked down at the book laying in front of him, his shock turned to embarrassment, no humiliation.
'When life gives you Lemons.'
This was one of Naruto's most incriminating manga's, it was more like a series of short manga's all of them a short lemon about some Yaoi pairing.
*shiver*
Naruto just glared at the teme, he already told himself he wasn't going to speak with him, and how dare he throw his stuff around, or read them.
Stupid teme, fucking hell, why couldn't Naruto get the vision of Sasuke's ass out of his head!
Naruto showered and went straight to bed, knowing that no matter what he did, he wouldn't be able to sleep, it was a feeble attempt though to stay away from Sasuke's amused looks.
**
Naruto felt like grabbing the red head and shoving his head into the table, didn't he know it was rude to stare.
Here Naruto was at lunch time, Neji had gone off to get something to eat and Gaara, well Gaara was like he always was sitting there silently staring at the sulking Naruto.
Naruto hated this feeling that always washed over him like he had to break the silence or something, like Gaara always expected him to talk first, but he wouldn't, god damn, he just wanted to wither away and die.
"What happened?" Naruto looked up shock washed over his face, the read head actually talked, oh wait, he always did when you weren't expecting it.
Naruto looked up at the boy sitting next to him, his tone filled with anger, "What happened? Nothing the fuck happened, everything's," Naruto gulped, he didn't want to talk, what was the point in telling Gaara anything, he didn't look interested.
Was that a look of empathy on the red's face?
"What happened?" He asked again, and to Naruto's annoyance it was a exact repetition of how he said it before.
Naruto gulped hard, trying to hold himself back from screaming, "What happened?" Naruto started to answer what he said before, "Nothing the fuck happened, everything's like it always is, I mean fuck Gaara, when the person you bloody live with doesn't talk to you, how the fuck can anything happen. Apart from walking in on him fucking and you're personal manga's being read, but what does it matter, what does it matter when you can't even voice you're fucking thoughts!"
The whole table had been silenced at Naruto's little out burst maybe his voice had come out louder then first thought, but to Naruto's relief he knew they couldn't understand a thing he was saying.
Gaara sighed bringing the coffee that was in front of him to his lips, the boy was always filling himself with caffeine
"Lighten up Naruto," Neji said making himself known as he sat down on the opposite side of Naruto.
"Look, I got you something to eat," He placed a sandwich on the table, smiling.
"Thanks, but no thanks Neji I haven't got the will to stomach it at the moment," Naruto said looking down at it, was that salmon in it…
Neji frowned pushing it towards Gaara who also shook his head.
"Oh i forgot, Gaara doesn't eat or sleep, all he does is rape and pillage," Neji snorted, shoving the snack back into his bag.
Lord was Neji getting mad over food.
Silence filled the three once again as Neji sat there, crossed armed, maybe he was having male PMS, But Gaara didn't even seem to hear what Neji had commented as he continued to stare at Naruto.
"We can talk later," Gaara stated, yet again not a question, it was a demand.
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Whatever," with this Naruto got up from his seat the bell was going and it was time for gym class, a whole double of gym.
**
Naruto wasn't the best at gym, he sucked at eye and hand coordination, it didn't matter how many times that stupid Lee kid yelled some Japanese word at him it wasn't going to make him preform better.
In actual fact, the stress of hearing his high pitched booming flamboyant voice made him preform even worse.
"sugoiiiiiii."
Screamed every time he did something nearly at the expected level.
So Naruto had gave out a sigh of relieve, as Lee got teamed up with Kiba as his tennis partner. At least, just for today he would be safe from that bowl haired boy, who took wearing the school PE uniform to the next level, everything he wore was green, to match the school logo on the sport top…
Oh course this was before he was paired up with none other then Ino… Sasuke's bimbo girlfriend….
Naruto clutched his racket close to his chest, he was expecting something, a smack in the face, he knew Ino was capable of making people scream… that's right not only in a sexual way.
But she just stood there, her face scarlet, she wouldn't even get closer then five steps away from him, her racket being held close to her chest, like she was protecting herself.
What was she protecting? Her modesty, oh please, it wasn't like she had anything to hide anymore.
Ino frowned as Naruto rolled his eyes, he had, had enough of this stupid Childish behaviour.
Yeah, Ino and Sasuke matched each other in one respect, they had childish tendencies.
After standing quietly together for a few seconds, to Naruto's dismay and immediate approval, Lee had called them over, challenging them to a match.
Ino didn't come any closer to Naruto, staring at him throw the corner of her eye as she ran to the court, she took the right side, as Naruto geared himself up on the left.
Lee and Kiba were fighting over the right side, so it took more then a few minutes for them to be all set, for the start of match one.
Lee served, sending the tennis ball flying at Naruto, it was all so fast, Naruto looked to his racket and then to the ball, he waved the racket, he missed, Lee clapped anyway…
Lee served again, getting basically the same results.
But as Lee sent another quizzing ball towards Naruto's head, Ino's body slammed into Naruto her racket hitting the ball with such force that the ball flew threw Lee's legs, leaving him motionless.
Point one agenst the green side!
The game went pretty fast, Ino was everywhere on the court, Lee wasn't even a match for the blonde haired girl. And for that matter Kiba defiantly wasn't!
Lee started to look a little like Macintosh the famous tennis player who got famous from his agro out burst's and tendencies to chuck his racket.
Especially as he did chuck his racket at Kiba, and especially when he walked out of class.
Naruto was left laughing to himself, he had been waiting to see the boy crack. And all thanks to Ino it was achievable.
He smiled up at Ino, he was expecting her to be wearing a look of evil enjoyment, to see Lee run off like that would of had to get some sort of action like that.
But it was the complete opposite, Ino had a grave look on her face like she was sad, pfft Naruto could never understand girls.
Everyone was now packing up, and most people had started to walk towards the change rooms, but Ino just kept standing there, holding her racket close.
Naruto was completely queer but he had to admit she looked cute, in a sorta stupid way.
"Naruto," The girls usually high pitched squeaky voice came out in a soft whisper, Naruto took a step forward, he could hardly hear the girl, even so his advance startled her.
"Yes," Naruto said, before remembering that he was now talking with a Japanese girl, "um, Hai."
"Gomenasai," with this she bowed before running to the change rooms, no wonder Naruto wasn't attracted to girls, he didn't understand them.
Well he did, Ino had just apologised to him, but what the hell for. For him walking in on her having sex?
Could the day get any stranger?
Naruto shrugged he wasn't going to try and understand something that he couldn't even comprehend, female minds seemed to stump him. Well any person's mind, especially the teme's one.
If Naruto thought he had some sort of skill of reading people, he had lost all hope when he came to Japan.
Their was Gaara who talked when you least expected, he was strange, one second he was all hot for Naruto and the next he was completely ignoring him, while he worked his magic on the SasuNaru cabinet! One second he was completely oblivious and the next he appeared to be undressing Naruto with his eyes, he was one closed book.
Their was Neji, the calm and collected one, the helpful gentleman, but he had this strange tendency to go all pms near Gaara… Gaara usually didn't have this effect on people, usually people just shut there mouths and stayed away, but not with Neji, Neji would over talk…
Naruto walked into the dressing room, many of the boys had already dressed and were leaving, guys always dressed fast. Naruto pulled his sports T-shirt over his head and stuffed it into his bag, the bell for the end of the day had rang.
But out of everyone, even more then Ino, Naruto found Sasuke hard to read, maybe that's why his small crush had grown; he was obsessed, and hurt. He didn't want to have these feelings for the boy, he didn't want to even talk to him again, not after what happened. Pfft what was the point, he only ever uttered some words to him, and those words sucked.
Naruto sighed, searching his bag for his school shirt, shivering as a breeze wafted though the change room.
Naruto moved his head to the side, the red hair the first thing he saw.
"What?" Naruto uttered rather rudely, he felt sort of strange standing their half naked while Gaara just gave him the.. well his famous stare, if that's what you could call it.
"I'll drive you home," Gaara said, walking in he let the door slam behind him, his mouth formed a small smile as he made himself comfortable on a bench.
"You're what?" Naruto asked though clenched teeth, he pulled his white shirt over his head, hiding his abs from Gaara's keen eyes.
"I said we were going to talk," Gaara said with the usual monotone voice.
"Oh," Naruto said letting his sport shorts drop to the ground, here he was standing in boxers, something he never thought he would do in front of Gaara.
"Oh?" Gaara asked questioningly, watching Naruto pull his black pants on.
"Oh, Ok then, I really don't want to walk with Sasuke, his a bit of a bore you know, never talks." Naruto tried to hide the stabbing feeling he always got when he mentioned the teme's name.
Gaara led Naruto to his 'Jeep' yes the one that Gaara had suggested was just big enough for the both of them, it was ages ago now, but Naruto didn't like the thought of them getting to close to the black monster.
Gaara smirked as he opened the passenger seat for Naruto, watching as Naruto jumped in, "Scared?" he uttered, licking his lips.
Naruto stiffened in his seat, before Gaara's laugh filled the space between them, oh was that some sort of sick joke.
"Ehh, should I be?" Naruto said under his breath as Gaara walked around to the drivers seat, they were soon on the road.
"So tell me," Gaara's deep voice filled the silence again hmm someone must be happy today.
"Tell you what," Naruto said, may as well keep the mute talking.
"How was it like being Ino's tennis partner?"
Naruto turned his head slowly, squinting his eyes at the read head, "How do you know we were tennis partners?"
Gaara just shrugged always keeping his straight face.
Sighing Naruto kicked his school bag, may aswell talk, who was Gaara going to tell? He never spoke to anyone.
"Well seeing as I saw her and Sasuke…." Naruto shivered, Gaara giving him a strange look, "Well in the act," *gulp* "hmm well it was strange I guess at first, I expected to be slapped or something along those lines, but then she apologised to me, of all things, I don't get girls."
Gaara smirked leaning over and patting Naruto on the leg, to Naruto's shock, "Well you have the upper hand don't you?"
"What do you mean upper hand?" Naruto gave out a breath of relive as Gaara took his hand away.
Gaara's voice had now adopted his usual monotone as he stared at the road ahead of him, the speed, was way over the speed limit.
"Things are different here, do you think Ino would like it for the whole school to know that she is fucking Sasuke?"
'Well if I was fucking Sasuke I would tell the world,'
"Arhh I guess she wouldn't," Naruto said lightly.
"She probably doesn't want you telling people, what if her parents found out, no more bedroom visits." Naruto laughed at this, a little too loudly.
Gaara raised his eyebrows at the blonde, "Why are you so bothered about Ino and Sasuke fucking anyway?" Gaara's eyes seemed to gleam, like he already knew why.
"I'm not jealous of them," Naruto's voice sharpened by one degree, Gaara just smirked.
"I never said jealous," Gaara said, his eyes gleaming with pleasure.
"Whatever," Naruto grumbled, as the jeep stopped outside of the Uchiha manor, grabbing his bag he started his stalk towards the front door, ignoring the fact that Gaara was following close behind.
What was with this red head, it was like he had a fascination with Naruto's life! Or just found it hilariously funny to tease him in his own demented way…
Naruto wasn't going to bite the bait and yell at the boy following him, he was going to play along, let him come in, see what he wants, maybe he could play him, haha yeah.
Naruto stopped in front of the house, pulling his spare key from his pocket he poked it in the lock, opening the door.
Sasuke was probably still walking home right now so it was just Gaara and Naruto, who were now making themselves comfortable in the lounge room.
Naruto stared at the silent boy, it was happening again, why the hell would someone come into your house and just not talk, and to make things worse he looked like he felt comfortable about it…
It was killing Naruto he had to break this silence that was eating away at him…
"You know what, I could kick you're 'ass' in a game of mortal combat " Naruto said this while setting up Sasuke's PS3.
Gaara raised his head his piecing green eye's hitting Naruto's blue one's, "What is that, a bet, Uzamaki?"
Naruto laughed half heartedly, what, did this Gaara honesty think that he could beat Naruto! He was the champ at consoled games, he use to play them all the time in Australia and at late a lot here in Japan, seeing as Sasuke was a mute by choice.
"Alrighty, it's a bet, what do you wager?"
"You're pants," Gaara said jokingly, making Naruto roll his eyes.
"No seriously."
"Ok who ever wins get's to ask the other a question,"
"Ok deal,"
And the battle started, Naruto and Gaara both picked their chars, all that was heard though the house was the carnival like music coming from the computer and the sharp sounds of buttons as 'X' got pressed over and over.
Naruto cheered as he did a super kick combo, hitting Gaara's char, lord Gaara was a gorner! Naruto laughed under his breath tilting his head to the side to look at Gaara, he was still straight faced, oh the teme…
"feeling the heat?" Naruto sneered.
"Shut up, you're pants are mine," Gaara smirked, still staring at the screen.
Naruto laughed evilly, "In you're dreams Jeep boy."
Gaara tilted his head towards Naruto the smirk still evident on his pale face, "I'd look at the screen if I were you."
Naruto stuck his tongue out at the red head before looking towards the screen and just when he did Gaara's character had jumped out of no where sending Naruto's ninja dude flying and crashing to the ground.
Nearly all his life was now gorn, one hit from Gaara and he was dead…
"Why are you so jealous?" Gaara voice seemed to bring the blonde back to reality.
"You haven't won yet," he said though gritted teeth.
"Answer my question, or I beat you're high score," Gaara's char was now flying towards Naruto's, he didn't want to lose, but how could he win.
Naruto sighed, pausing the game, Gaara's char in mid air.
"Why are you so jealous?"
"Shut up will you, I guess I have no choice but to tell you," Gaara leaned back a smug look painted on his face, why did he have to look so god damn good!
"This may surprise you," Naruto paused, looking down at his hands, how was Gaara going to react, well it was pretty obvious that he was gay himself, so why did Naruto feel bad telling him, "I like Sasuke."
*silence*
A blush had filled Naruto's cheeks, why was Gaara such an asshole, becoming silent again, well could he expect anything less.
"That's pretty obvious, but why are you jelouse?"
Naruto rolled his eyes, he should of never said anything, "Because I like him dobe, do you think it's fun seeing him parade around with that bimbo?"
"oh so strong with the Japanese words asshole, but what makes you think you can't have sex with Sasuke, I assure you it isn't that hard."
Naruto felt like he was going to yell at the boy sitting next to him when suddenly the front door opened with a thud, Naruto felt his body stiffen as he saw Sasuke's form fill the doorway, Gaara just leaned back and gave out a yawn.
Sasuke closed the door behind himself, he nearly jumped when he saw Gaara sitting on his couch, what the hell was he doing with Naruto? Sasuke knew for sure Gaara wasn't looking for friends.
"nani…"
Gaara cut into what Sasuke was going to say by raising his hand, in rather a rude fashion, like he was trying to silence him or something, how fucking dare he, even in his own house, what the hell was Gaara doing.
"Speak in English, or don't speak to us at all."
'Us,' the word for some strange reason seemed to stab at Sasuke, was he upset that Naruto was making friends, or was he upset that Gaara and him now seemed to be quiet acquainted.
"Ok, what the fuck are you doing?"
Gaara smirked wrapping an arm around Naruto, "Can't you see that Naruto and I are hanging out? Can't I hang with someone I like? Or doesn't Sasuke like that?"
Sasuke eye's tightened, who the hell did Gaara think he was, and what was this feeling that was eating away at him, like he wanted to rip Gaara apart.
"whatever," Sasuke uttered, storming though the lounge room he walked into the kitchen slamming the kitchen door shut behind him, not before hearing Gaara's vicious laugh damn him.
"And you said he was easy to fuck," Naruto muttered as he watched the door slam.
"He is," Gaara said laughing.
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked, still in monotone, something he had adopted off Gaara.
Gaara just shrugged.
They sat in silence for a little while, before Gaara finally got up to leave, he said that they would talk tomorrow, talk… Their conversation's never seemed to get anywhere.
**
Naruto pushed the Kitchen door open, he let his eyes fall to the ground as he saw the icy Uchiha look up at him. It was always like this, no eye on eye contact was required, Naruto knew his place.
Walking towards the table, Naruto sat himself down as he started to pull out his exercise books, like every night all he had to do was do homework, boring he knew, but what else can one do.
Naruto shuddered as he heard Sasuke take a long sip of his drink, what did he look like when he drank? It was too much for Naruto to cope.
Lifting his head slightly he shot his eyes towards the dark haired teme, their was the hug in his hand, his lips full and pale, and then his eyes, his dark eye's staring derectly at Naruto.
Naruto coughed lightly before pulling his eye's away staring down at the paper in front of him once more, why, why was Sasuke staring at him, and why hadn't he called him some sick Japanese word yet?
Naruto felt himself start to heat up, was there a fire in the house, or was it just him, but he just wanted to rip his clothes off it was so hot.
Naruto gulped as he heard the Uchiha push his chair back, he was now walking towards him what the hell, what was happening, why.
Sasuke was now standing on the opposite side of the table, standing, staring down at Naruto, Naruto gulped again, reaching up he loosened the tie around his neck, it was truly a sauna in here.
"Do you want me to help you with your homework?" was this a dream?
"Do I what?" Naruto asked rather stupidly.
"God dobe must I ask again for you? Is your hearing as bad as your intelligence?"
'OK definitly not a dream' "Why would I need help from someone like you," Naruto sneered, finally looking up at him, he was now glaring.
"I should of never offered."
"No, no," god why was Naruto such a cop out, " fine, it would be great if you could help me."
The next hour was filled with Sasuke's voice, as he tried over and over to explain what the ending mashita meant, but It wouldn't really matter what he was saying, all that mattered was that he was speaking, and he was speaking to Naruto.
AN// kyaaaaaaa wasn't that great! Sorry I haven't updated in ages it's just that school started again and the chaps are getting a little longer, do you like the chapter length? Will anything happen with Gaara and Naruto? What's up with Sasuke?
