SasuNaru

Locked up with You

Discalimer: I do not own Naruto

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The world was spinning. Spinning round and round in circles. He felt drunk- high on air. Nitrogen. Carbon dioxide. Helium. Oxygen.

Where did that stuff go anyway?

There were voices chattering away inside his skull, laughing and sneering and being loud and annoying. Lights were blinding his vision. Fairy lights. He was awestruck at the sight.

Wait- wasn't he in his room?

He felt a chuckle erupt in his throat at what one of the voices said. He didn't know what it said. He knew it was funny though. The chuckle soon morphed into giggling. Which was eventually full blown hysterics.

Must be the shit in the air. Maybe it was nitrogen. Or magnesium. That stuff was in the air, right?

His hysterical laugher rang in his ears, the female voices soon all joining in. He felt like his head would explode. Thump. Thump. Thump. Pulse. Pulse. Pulse. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter. Bang. Bang. Bang.

Then the voices started to scream. A gun went off. One of the voices had gone crazy.

Naruto was shrieking as loud as his lungs would let him. He didn't like the sound of the gun. When did he get a gun?

Maybe it was a fridge door slamming. He couldn't really remember.

As soon as it had started, it had finished, and he was staring at wooden boards that were the bottom of the bunk above him. He wasn't breathing. Wide blue eyes glanced to the left. Gaara was propped up, reading and nodding his head in agreement. Maybe he'd heard the women too. He turned to the left and saw Haku pretending to be asleep. He knew she was pretending. Oh wait, Haku was a boy, wasn't she?

He looked up to see piercing black eyes boring into his. He stared back. Wide blue eyes.

He couldn't remember shutting them. But he did.

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Delusional was how Neji felt at that moment in time. He was banging his head lightly against the window, staring out at the sky outside the window, mumbling to himself. Yami didn't want to be quiet today. He kept talking about jumping out the window. Neji pointed out the fact that they were only on the second floor. Yami said he didn't mean to kill himself. Neji said there was no point if it wasn't to die.

Eventually, he clapped his hand over his mouth to shut Yami up. He wanted to start a fight with someone, but Neji promised Ino that he wouldn't. He continued to stare at the sky blankly.

Gaara was in the corner, engrossed in a book. Sasuke and Naruto were in front of the TV, watching some kid's show. Kiba had leave. There was nothing to do.

"Hey, Sasuke-teme," Naruto muttered. "Why do you watch children's TV?"

The man sighed. "Because I feel like it."

The blond raised a brow in question, but all he got were those onyx coloured eyes staring at him. He honestly didn't mind for once and stared back. Maybe the Uchiha simply didn't want to talk about it in front of all these people. Maybe he didn't have a childhood like Naruto's and was compensating for it.

Naruto smiled softly. "You're so weird."

Sasuke scoffed, turning back to the TV. Naruto missed the light flush of the pale male's cheeks. "Says you."

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Sasuke held the blond as tightly as he could, trying to stop him from thrashing. No one wanted a nurse in the room at that moment, and the amount of noise the blond was potentially going to make would not help. Haku was by the door, resting against it, while Kiba and Gaara were trying to talk to the male, to snap him out of his panicked state. Sasuke had their limbs intertwined, and when the blonde's mouth opened Kiba held a hand over it.

"Naruto," Gaara ground out. "Listen to me."

Tears burst their banks.

"Naruto…" Haku muttered quietly from the door, voice croaky and word pronounced like a baby making his first word. Incorrectly. "Naruto…"

The blond screamed.

Kiba cringed as teeth crunched on his hand.

Sasuke winced as he was violently hit.

Gaara continued to try talk to the blond.

Haku stared.

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Naruto stood on the left of the window as Neji sat at the right, both looking out of the gate way to the real world. Rain pitter-pattered against the window and dark clouds loomed over head. Naruto saw cars driving about on the motorway outside of the hospital grounds and into the car park of the hospital. He watched the little people walk around from his throne on the third floor.

"What do you look at?" Naruto muttered quietly. "All the time."

"The clouds," Neji replied curtly.

"The clouds?"

"Yes. Shikamaru liked to watch the clouds."

Naruto looked up. "Ah, I see…what's so interesting?"

"Imagining what's up there."

Naruto stared for a few moments, mind blank before he started to think. What was up there? Evaporation, water that was waiting to fall, or falling in this case, large puffy objects of gas and liquid, marshmallows.

That was where Ino found Neji and Naruto when it was time for the Hyuuga to see Tsunade. Staring out the window up at the dark clouds as they slowly turned a off-white colour. She looked on for a moment, taking in the scene, almost awed at the way within a few moments the rain was stopping and the sky was becoming blue and bright. Almost as if the two pairs of blue and white eyes were willing it to be happy.

"Neji, it's time for you to see the doctor," she eventually said with her usual bright smile. "I can't go in without you!"

The man gave her a look before standing and leaving, muttering something under his breath. Naruto didn't move.

That evening, it was Karin who found them, getting ready to announce the final smoke break. She paused at the sit, much like Ino had done. Sakura caught this lack of movement and joined her to see what was wrong, unable to help the smile at the sight.

Five boys were curled up on chairs around the window, staring out at the world. It almost looked like they were bored. But there was no looks of longing, no looks of pain or sadness. Just curiosity and boredom. One of them might say something, causing a wave of responses.

"I think this needs to go in the reports…" Karin said softly.

Sakura nodded. "Definitely."

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Progress Report of Sasuke Uchiha

Sakura stared at the screen in thought before she started to type. Ino was with her, as was a few other nurses, but most of them were drinking coffee and chatting happily.

"It's not like you to delay your report writing, Sakura," Yamato commented as he looked at her computer, mind stopping at the name on the screen. "Especially not Uchiha's…"

Sakura sighed softly. "Go look into the living room and tell me that I don't need to write another one. Four of our longest-stayed visitors are in there sat together."

As she was once again left in her own thoughts, she started to write the progress of her longest stayed patient.

…has been getting closer to Naruto Uzumaki-

She remembered the time in the church.

- who seems to have a great influence on Sasuke. I believe that this is a good influence, as Sasuke has become more open when talking to me or the doctor, and he seems more willing to make friends. He no longer sits in the lunch hall and draws, but watches TV with a few of the other patients and cares about them.

Meanwhile, Ino was sat at her own computer, glaring at the simple six lettered surname with a passion. Why did he have to be moved to his own room, when he was much better off in the group room. She didn't understand.

Glancing at the pinkette next to her, blue eyes softened and she thought back to the reason why Neji was in his own room. The fights with Sasuke.

Neji has shown an improvement in the recent few days, as he is no longer talking out loud in public, and is communicating much better with other patients, particularly the ones in his old room. He has also been getting closer to Gaara…

…and has shown interest in visiting Shikamaru, his old nurse, Karin wrote with a huff. He has been spending a great more amount of time with the quieter members of his room, and is a lot calmer in the past few weeks.

She knew Shikamaru was expecting the brunet to be released soon. The boy was a lot more stable than he had been when he was first emitted into the hospital, but she reminded the younger nurse that he became less stable when the topic came up.

He said that he had a plan. She bloody well hoped he did.

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Shikamaru rubbed his sweaty palms on his trousers as he thought of the couple at the hospital. While he knew that they weren't officially a couple, Neji and Gaara knew in their own minds what they were. And it didn't slip past Shikamaru. None of it did.

He'd mentioned it to Ino once. She put it in her report.

Now, he was waiting outside the hospital for Kiba, standing outside his car with a large white dog barking at the window, smoke from the cigarette dancing in the air. The first thing he saw was Karin's flame red hair. The second was a blur of black as Kiba came rushing out the automatic doors with a large grin on his flushed face, throwing his arms around Shikamaru in a large hug.

"Dude!" Kiba started. "You wouldn't believe what happened yesterday evening. I was sat with Sasuke and Neji, who were having a civilized conversation! It was the weirdest thing- Akamaru!"

Shikamaru chuckled, shaking his head as the attention went from the story to the dog. Karin was standing next to the couple with a bored look on her face. He smirked at that.

"Okay everyone, get in the car," he said in his usual lazy voice. "We have a dog to walk."

Karin got in the front with Shikamaru, leaving Kiba to fuss over his dog.

The two nurses started up a quiet conversation.

"So how's this plan coming along?" Karin asked.

Shikamaru didn't need to ask about what plan. "I'm going to ask him today."

She frowned. "If he wants to leave?"

The male looked into the rear mirror at the object of the conversation. He wasn't paying any attention. "If he wants to move in with me when he gets out."

Karin's eyes widened slightly. "You sure you could handle that?"

He paused, a smile tugging at the edge of his lips. "I'll be damned if I can't."

She snorted. "I should've seen this one coming. Especially with the fuss he made when you changed shifts."

"How long till we get there?" Kiba asked as his dog settled down on his lap.

"Troublesome…" Shikamaru muttered. "I hope you aren't going to ask that question all the way there again!"

Kiba grinned mischievously. "Don't put the idea in my head then, sweetheart!"

"Whatever. Five minutes."

Karin smirked at the pink tinge in her co-worker's cheeks. "You're right. You would be damned."

Kiba raised a brow. "What now?"

Shikamaru glared at the female. "Nothing, Kiba."

The brunet huffed. "No, tell me. If it was nothing, it wouldn't matter if you told me."

Shikamaru shook his head. "If it was nothing, then it won't be that interesting."

"If it was you say?"

Shikamaru cringed. "It is."

"Sure. Now tell me."

"Don't be so annoying, Kiba."

"Don't be so retarded, Shikamaru."

Karin sighed mockingly. "Don't be such lovebirds, boys."

The two gave her matching looks of horror and embarrassment. "Shut up, troublesome woman!" they said together.

She sniggered at this. "If you say so."

Kiba turned his eyes to Shikamaru in a begging way, hands on the man's shoulders. "Come on, Shikamaru. Tell me."

"Please don't distract the driver," Karin muttered.

"When you're let out of hospital, where will you go, Kiba?" Shikamaru asked smoothly, ignoring the comments previously.

Kiba paused, tensing against Shikamaru's chair. "Why?"

"Because Akamaru stays at my place, and I don't think a nursing home would let him stay there."

Kiba leant back in his chair and glared. "I'm not leaving the hospital."

Shikamaru sucked in a breath, looking at Karin. She was looking out the window. He looked back to the road. "Because there's room in my house for two."

There was a pause of silence.

"What are you getting at?" Kiba asked in a small voice.

Shikamaru sighed in annoyance. "Will you move in with me when you get out of the loony bin?" he gave the shocked brunet a look. "Is that plain enough for you?"

There was another pause of silence. Karin tried not to laugh.

"Geez, dude, you could've asked me when Karin wasn't here. Embarrassing much?"

Shikamaru punched the horn. "You wouldn't let it go! That's what we were talking about!"

Kiba fumed. "Then you should've told me you'd tell me later!"

"Like you would've listened!"

"How the fuck do you know?"

"Screw it, I'm uninviting you to live with me."

Kiba smirked. "Well too late, because I'm saying yes."

Shikamaru groaned as the strong arms wrapped around his neck. "You're going to drive me up the wall."

"There's a spare bed in my dorm."

Karin choked on her laughter. "Kiba, don't distract the driver!"

The boy lent back in his seat with a large grin on his face, taking Akamaru's face in his hands. "We have a home, Akamaru!"

Shikamaru relaxed in his seat as a lopsided smile graced his features. "Troublesome boy."

Karin shook her head, a smile on her own face. "Yet that doesn't stop you."

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Kivea: OMG I WROTE

-has a party-

I now have a list of 39 songs that could possibly be of inspiration to this story. All my Bright Eyes music is on it.

The beginning of this chapter was a release for my own past couple of weeks. I tried to make it as insane as I could.

The end was more cheerful than I expected. I'm not happy with the hospital atm. Buuut, my dad has leave for two days before Christmas 3

Ja ne ~

Kivea

"You're…leaving?"

"Possibly. And if I do, I want you to look after Haku."

"But…you're the only sane person here with me!"

"I'm not sure 'sane' is the write word, but let's go with that."