Here's the next chapter! Chapter eight - my favorite number! Back to Sasuke's blind POV! I missed Sasuke's view, but Kakashi and the drunk people was kind of fun. Anyways, enjoy!
Death would be more pleasant. Even being molested by Orochimaru would be more pleasant than this hell… Sasuke groaned, as he turned over onto his back. His head felt like someone was hammering a nail into it, slow and painfully… Ugh. Damn Kakashi! He had only drank that first glass of sake because the fucking older man wanted him too. But, knowing his fantastic luck, his mind had became very blurry after that first drink. Of course he would have a low alcohol tolerance.
Sasuke rubbed his eyes, and opened them, trying out his chance. Black darkness invaded his sight. Sasuke whined, as he closed his eyes and covered his head with a pillow. He just wanted to see, was that too much to ask!?
A loud knocking sound suddenly pounded into the room. Sasuke whimpered, as he pushed the pillow harder down onto his head. Whoever was knocking on his door was going to die! He jumped up into a sitting position, when he heard the unmistakable sound of the door opening. Hadn't he locked it!?… Oh, yeah. Sasuke snorted mentally, as he remembered that he couldn't even remember how he had gotten here, in his room.
"Ohayo, Sasuke! How are you feeling?", Kakashi asked, cheerfully. Sasuke groaned, as he clutched at his head. The elders voice sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
"What the hell do you want!?", Sasuke growled, while he glared at where he was pretty sure Kakashi was standing.
"Calm down, Sasuke. I was just wandering if you had seen Naruto or the Kazekage?", Kakashi asked, smoothly.
Sasuke shook his head, before he buried his head under his pillow again. "I just woke up", he mumbled.
"Okay, then. When you're ready for the outside world just come get me or one of the others, okay?", Kakashi said.
"Whatever", Sasuke murmured.
Sasuke didn't hear anything else out of Kakashi, except for silence, before the sound of the door closing was heard. Sasuke whined, as he burrowed himself under his covers, trying to go back to sleep. Kami… Today was going to be hell.
Sasuke woke up a little later, the pounding in his head as heavy as ever. He groaned, as he sat up and rubbed his forehead, wishing that his damn headache would go away. He got on his knee's and crawled to the end of the bed, before he stood up off the bed. Whoa! Bad move! Sasuke fell back onto the bed, as his head spun. He lay on his back, holding his head, waiting for the spinning to stop.
While Sasuke was trying to control the spinning in his head, he heard the faint sound of the door opening, before snapping shut. "Who's there?", he groaned, through the dizziness.
"Relax, teme! It's me!", Naruto whispered.
"Not that I don't appreciate the whispering, but why are you? And what are you doing in my room?", Sasuke mumbled.
"If I talk any louder my heads gonna split in two", Naruto whispered, as Sasuke felt the bed dip next to him.
"Second question?", Sasuke asked, as he turned his head and pointed his head to where Naruto's voice was coming from.
"Hiding", Naruto whispered, simply.
Hiding? Why would Naruto being hiding? Or, more importantly, who would the blond be hiding from? Sasuke shrugged, not really caring at the moment. All that concerned him now, was making it to the bathroom… If the damn spinning would just stop.
Sasuke groaned, as he sat up again, and stood up, trying to stay up. His head spun a little, but it wasn't anything major. Sasuke knew the door was off to the left of where he was standing, while the bathroom was to the right of him. He turned towards his right, and held his hands out in front of him, as he walked as carefully as he could. It took a minute before he reached the wall, his hands coming into contact with it. He felt along the wall, until his hands met air, from the open door.
Entering the bathroom, Sasuke closed the door, and leaned against, taking a minute to rub his forehead. Sasuke then stripped of his clothes that absolutely reeked of liquor, and searched for the shower. When his hands met a shower curtain, he stepped inside of the shower, and closed the curtain. He turned the shower on to a comfortable temperature, before leaning his head back, as he let the water wash over him.
When Sasuke finished showering, he turned off the water, and stepped out of the shower. He held his hands out looking for the towels, although they weren't that hard to find, seeing as they hung from a rack right next to the shower. Sasuke grabbed a towel, and wrapped it around his waist. He then headed for the room since all of his clothes were in his backpack, that was sitting next to his bed.
Sasuke paused though, when he reached the door. He could hear voices on the other side of the door. He cracked open the door, and put his ear to it, wandering what was going on.
"What!? How did you find me!?", Naruto whispered, his voice edging on severe panic.
"It wasn't that hard… You didn't even hide your chakra", another voice mumbled, quietly. Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows, trying to think of who that voice belonged to. It was very familiar… Wait… Was that Gaara? Naruto was hiding from Gaara!? Was there really an apocalypse on it's way?
"W-What do you w-want?", Naruto whispered, stuttering. It was clear to Sasuke that the dobe was panicking for some unknown reason.
"I told you… I want to talk. You didn't have to runaway", Gaara stated.
"What!?", Naruto yelled, before Sasuke heard a thud from the next room, as he whined, "Ow! My head! Look what you done"
"You shouldn't have yelled then", Gaara told him.
Sasuke heard someone moving around, before the sound of struggling was heard. "Leave me alone! I don't need your help!", Naruto grumbled, in a hoarse whisper.
"You're acting like the Uchiha… Why won't you just accept this? Kyuubi has", Gaara whispered, himself. Sasuke winced, at the near heartbroken tone of the Kazekage.
"Because, you're wrong. I love Sasuke…", Naruto whispered, uncertainly.
Sasuke's eyes nearly popped out of his head, with how they grew so wide, so alarmingly fast. Naruto loved him!? When the hell did that happen!? Was Naruto insane!? Sasuke jumped, when he heard the sound of the door to his room closing. He quickly closed the bathroom door himself, and leaned his back against it, trying to figure out what he was going to do. Kami, what do you do when you find out your best friend is in love with you?
Naruto was like a brother to him, no matter how much he put Naruto down and yelled at him, or no matter how much Naruto annoyed him to death and yelled back at him. Things had been so much simpler without him knowing… this. Sasuke groaned, as he rubbed his forehead, trying to push the unwelcome news out of his head.
"Hey, Sasuke! Did you drown in there?", Naruto whispered, on the other side of the door.
Sasuke jumped away from the door, momentarily forgetting he was blind, which resulted in him tripping over the rug on the floor. He fell backwards, his back slamming into the tile floor. Sasuke whimpered, while wincing at the sharp pain that jolted through his head. Dammit!
"Sasuke?", Naruto called, a little louder.
"I'm fine!", Sasuke snapped back at him. He stood up, and tightened the towel around his waist, so it wouldn't fall off. "Can you bring me my backpack? It's next to the bed", Sasuke requested from his friend. In his mind, it was a great idea. He would be able to stall before he had to face Naruto again.
"One sec!", Naruto told him.
Sasuke heard him retreat from the door, before coming back, with a very quiet knock on the door. Sasuke opened the door a crack, and snatched his pack from Naruto, before snapping the door shut in a flash. He was sure Naruto was blinking on the other side of the door, wandering if he had taken the backpack, or if it had just disappeared into thin air.
After dressing quickly, Sasuke grabbed his backpack, and went to the door. Déjà vu seemed to pass, as he felt that familiar dread to just stay in the bathroom, like he had runaway from the bridge. He was the best at running. Sasuke sighed, and shook everything from his head, and opened the bathroom door. He stood in the doorway for a second, as he listened to everything that was going inside his room.
Sasuke couldn't hear anything though. "Dobe?", Sasuke asked. No answer came, so he breathed a sigh of relief, glad that Naruto had conveniently disappeared.
Sasuke threw his backpack on his bed, before laying on the bed himself, wishing that he had someone to talk to, to help work everything out. Right now his mind was just a muddled up mess, and he didn't really know how to handle Naruto now… So, his best friend was in love with him, huh? And poor Gaara… Sasuke had never really sorry for others, besides the few times with his team, but now his stomach was twisting itself into knots over the Kazekage. Sasuke knew how it was to love someone else, and fear that that someone loved someone else besides you. But to just have it thrown in your face like that? Hmph, Sasuke was surprised that he wasn't buried six feet in sand right now.
Sasuke turned his head towards the door, when a knock sounded from it. Wow, he sure was popular today, wasn't he. He groaned, as he got up and stumbled over to the door. Once his hands reached it, he turned the knob, and pulled the door open. The scent of flowers met his nose. Sakura. "Hn?", he murmured.
"Ohayo, Sasuke. Uh… Um, I was wondering, whether uh…", Sakura stammered.
"Spit it out, Sakura", Sasuke snapped.
"Sorry, I'm just worried. No one's seen Naruto or Gaara, and Temari-San's talking about sending out search parties… And, well, she's not very pleasant today", Sakura said.
Sasuke sighed, as he rubbed his forehead. He was about to go Shikamaru and complain how troublesome this all is. "Look, Sakura, I'm not feeling very pleasant myself. So could you just tell Temari that the search parties aren't needed. I've seen both Naruto and Gaara. They're fine", he told her.
"That's wonderful! Where are they now?", Sakura asked, cheerfully.
"Don't know. They both left separately", Sasuke said.
"Oh…", Sakura said, the disappointment in her voice ringing clear, "Well, could you tell Temari?"
"What!? No, you can do it! My head is killing me", Sasuke hissed at her.
"Please! She may kill me! You should have seen her last night! Last night, after you passed out, Temari and Kankuro were fighting over sake, and… well, let's just say that Kankuro isn't looking so good right now", Sakura said.
Sasuke snorted, while shaking his head. Too bad that he wouldn't actually be able to see the damage, though. Sasuke crossed his arms, as he pointed his eyes where he was sure Sakura was standing, while considering just closing the door on her, and leaving her on her own. Sasuke gave in though. He had nothing else to do, and Sakura was practically begging him.
"Whatever", Sasuke muttered, as he held his right out towards her.
"Oh, thank you! Thank you, so much!", Sakura exclaimed, as she took his arm, and dragged him down the hall, before he could even close his door.
Sakura led him somewhere, and before he knew it, she pushed him inside a room before closing the door behind him. Sasuke turned back, to see where she had gone, but he ran into the door. He groaned, as he rubbed his forehead. Today really wasn't his day. "Oh, did you not know there was a door there, Sasuke?", Kakashi's voice floated to his ears.
Sasuke turned towards where Kakashi's voice was coming from, feeling a little relief that he wasn't alone in this. "Kakashi? Where are we?", he asked, softly.
"In Gaara's office, baka", an annoyed voice called. Temari.
Sasuke glared his eyes where he heard her voice. No wonder Sakura was scared. Temari sounded like she was about jump across the room and slit someone's throat. "You better be nice, or I'm not going to tell you what I know", Sasuke said, with a smirk.
"Is it about Gaara!?", Temari asked, hopefully, "What do you know!?"
"Just that Naruto came and hid in my room. I took a shower, and when I got out I overheard him arguing with Gaara about… something. Gaara left after their argument, and Naruto left shortly after. Neither said where they were going", Sasuke informed them.
Temari cursed softly, before Sasuke heard footsteps crossing the room, and passing him to the door. The door opened and closed in a flash, leaving Sasuke and Kakashi alone. Sasuke turned towards where Kakashi was, as he crossed his arms. "Where's she going?", he asked.
"Hm, I think she has a hunch to where Gaara's wandered off to… Are you hungry?", Kakashi asked him.
"Please. If I eat, I'll puke. I hate you for shoving that sake down my throat", Sasuke growled.
"Who? Why, I'm innocent!", Kakashi said, lazily, although Sasuke knew that he heard a mischievous lilt in his voice.
"Whatever. I'm going back to my room", Sasuke said, as he turned towards the door.
"Wait!", Kakashi said, suddenly. Sasuke paused and waited for whatever Kakashi wanted to say to him. "What was Naruto and Gaara's argument about?", Kakashi asked him.
Sasuke bit his lip nervously, as he kept his back to Kakashi, knowing that if he turned around the man would be able to see his nervousness over the issue. "Uh, I didn't hear what they were saying. Is that all?", Sasuke asked, awkwardly.
"Sure… We'll be leaving as soon as Naruto and Gaara are both found. Your eyes really need to be looked at by Tsunade. So, please pack your things and tell Sakura to do the same. When your both done, come back here, and we'll wait for the others. Okay?", Kakashi instructed.
Sasuke nodded, and left the office without saying another word. He found Sakura and had her lead him back to their rooms, so they could pack.
Ugh, this chapter was a nightmare. I deleted and restarted the part after Naruto and Gaara's argument four times, because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. Not really satisfied with the last half of this chapter, but it's enough to carry on to what I wanna do for the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed, if you didn't… Sorry. Had problems with it! Aishiteru!