Title: Failed Attempts
Authoress: Darka-Chan
Summary: AU The sand siblings stay in Konoha for 2 months, and Sasuke and Neji make a challenge; whoever wins Gaara's affections wins. More pairings inside
Main-pairings: SasukexGaaraxNeji, ShikamaruxTemari, DeidaraxKankurouxItachi, SakonxUkon, KakashixIruka rest undecided at the moment, but will be reported at further notice, requests possible and welcome
Chapter 2
IN CELEBRATION TO ME AND CORVIN BEING MARRIED XD
Chapter 2IN CELEBRATION TO ME AND CORVIN BEING MARRIED XD
Lunch
"So, your siblings are going to come here, yeah?" Deidara asks Kankurou who nods.
"Hai, they should be here any minute now."
"Ah…" Deidara looks at his hand which is playing with the grass, pulling it out and heaping up. "If ya want me to leave now, I understand, yeah…"
"Iie, why?" Kankurou asks confused.
"People can see me here with ya, yeah. They'd make ya an outcast too, yeah…"
Kankurou shakes his head laughing, making Deidara look up confused. "Look at my outfit and dare to say I'm not an outcast already." Deidara smiles slightly, but still doesn't seem convinced. In his mind, Kankurou is wasting a lot of friends just sitting here with him, but Kankurou isn't finished yet; "And besides!" the puppeteer grins. "I want you to meet my siblings, they're crazy; should be able to make you laugh if not run away in fear for your sanity"
Deidara smiles widely at the other. "You sure, yeah?"
"Hai, totally." Kankurou grins.
Deidara lets out a relieved sigh. "Thanks, yeah…" 'Maybe he's different…'
"KANKUROU!" A female voice yells, making Kankurou look up;
"TEMARI!" he grins, seeing Temari advance together with three other unknown persons.
"Bro." Temari grins, plopping down next to Kankurou. "Meet Tayuya, TenTen and Shikamaru." She says, pointing at the persons. "You all, meet Kankurou."
"Hey Kankurou."TenTen says seductive, leaning against him.
Kunkurou's eye twitches "I'm gay."
TenTen pouts "Darn it!"
Temari can't help but to laugh at her brothers' expence. "Ne, Kanky. Have you seen Gaara?"
"No, and don't call me Ka-"
"Damn it! Leave me alone!"
"Iie!"
"Hai!"
"I love you!"
"Say that again and I'll kill you."
The group looks up, only to see a very thicked off Gaara stomping towards him with a blonde prep hanging on his leg.
"Damnit Ino!" Gaara yells. "Leave me alone!"
"You remember my name." Ino says with a lovey-dovey sigh.
"Let go of me now!"
"Will you marry me?"
"IIE! DAMNIT! I HAVE A BOYFRIEND ALREADY!"
"I DON'T CARE!"
"WELL NEITHER DO I, BUT LET GO OF MY FUCKIN' LEG NOW!"
"… Can I hold onto your arm?"
"IIE!"
By now, all the people that are currently outside and in hearing range are staring and laughing at the fuming Gaara and the lovesick Ino.
"Someone has to save her." Temari laughs.
"Her? Why her?" Tayuya questions, looking at her blonde friend.
"Gaara is a martial artist with a short temper." Kankurou grins.
"AND NOW YOU LET GO!" Gaara yells, preparing his fist to punch the girl's face in, but his hand is grabbed and pale slender fingers are tightly wrapped around it.
"Hmm… That's no way to treat a lady…" Neji says tauntingly, placing a small kiss on the fist before letting go.
"Well sorry, Lady." Gaara snaps at Neji, wiping his hand off.
Neji's eye starts to twitch madly. 'Did he just-' "What did you just call me?" he hisses.
"Uh-oh." TenTen murmurs.
"Hm?"
"He gets pissed when someone calls him a girl… and he's a karate black-belt."
Temari's eyes widen. "Gaara! Shake the whore off and come here!"
Gaara looks at his sister and growls. "The least you can do is help me!"
Temari rolls her eyes, before rising from her place on the grass and making her way to Gaara, pushing Neji face-down to the floor on her way. She cracks her knuckles and smirks her infamous Never-Mess-With-A-Sabaku smirk before kicking Ino against a tree in a moment of unreal anime strength making Ino fall unconscious with little stars and birds flying around her head.
The group and Gaara look at her like; O.Oll while the rest of the audience backs away slowly, fearing for their sanity, including black-belt Neji who had just risen from the dirt.
"Coming, brother?" Temari asks sweetly, smiling at the youngest Sabaku.
"Hai, sure." Gaara replies, recovering quite easily; after all… Temari did train with him a few times.
Then all of a sudden Kankurou laughs and starts clapping, soon followed by the rest of the group and the bystanders; even Neji can't help the smirk even though it looks quite ridicules with the few smudged of dirt on his face. "Way to go, sis!"
Whistles, clapping and cheering engulf Temari who scratches the back of her head embarrassed, before dragging her younger brother with her to the spot they were sitting.
"Ne, only 10 minutes left." TenTen complains while she checks her watch, while Temari introduces Gaara to everyone.
"Ne, Kanky." Temari says, making her brother twitch at the nickname.
"What?"
"You still have to introduce us to your friend."
Kankurou blinks before breaking out in a grin. "Oh! Right! Guys, meet Deidara! I sit next to him in class."
Deidara smiles slightly. "Yeah…"
"Nice to meet you." Temari smiles.
"Say, are you the only straight one of the family?" Tayuya asks Temari after everyone said his or her greetings to Deidara.
"Hehe, Kankurou is the only one not." Temari chuckles with a slight grin.
"Didn't Gaara say something about a boyfriend?" Shikamaru points out.
"I'm bi-sexual." Gaara says flatly.
"Ah…"
"So, what are your sexualities?" Kankurou grins, looking at everyone.
"Lesbian." Tayuya says proudly, pointing at herself.
"How troublesome…" Shikamaru says, but one look of Temari makes him re-consider his answer. "Straight.
"So am I." TenTen grins.
They all look at Deidara now.
"… Gay, yeah…" Deidara mumbles, staring at the ground with a small flush.
"Aren't we a fucked-up group." Tayuya grins, making the others laugh.
They continue talking for a little while longer, until the bell rings, signalling the start of a new lesson.
"Well, there we go again." Temari says with a sigh.
"Here again next lunch?" Kankurou asks as the all start to get up.
"Sorry, Kanky, but our class doesn't have a period after lunch, so we're free then." Temari grins, sticking out her tongue.
"WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE LESS HOURS THEN ME?"
Temari grins. "Don't worry, Kanky. You have 2 free periods tomorrow."
"Yeah, before lunch and my last period." Kankurou scowls as they start to walk.
"Then ditch." Gaara says blunt.
"… Good idea."
"I don't think so." Temari states. "You will both follow complete days."
The two brothers scoff at their older sister as the rest watches the scenario in amusement.
"This is where we split, bye." Gaara walks towards his class.
"Bye, Gaara!" Temari waves, before turning to Kankurou and Deidara. "Bye, guys."
The two last groups part, and they all make way into their classes.
Gaara walks into his class, expecting Ino to bitch at him, but she doesn't. She just smiles at him and waves before continue to whisper –probably gossip- with her pink haired friend; Sakura.
Walking to his seat, Gaara let's out a tired sigh. His next subject is French; something he's never had before. As he plops in his seat, he's greeted by Neji's white eyes.
"… What?"
Neji just smirks, before turning around again.
Checking his bag, Gaara scowls as he notices that his French book isn't in it. Temari told him that morning that he might still be missing one or two books because the school didn't have it yet, and apparently, his French book was one of those books.
Letting out a sigh, Gaara let's his head rest in his arms, as the class fills in with the last people, including Sasuke who didn't argue about the seating arrangement this time and just calmly sat down next to him. Class starts and everyone starts taking their books out.
"Where is your book, Gaara?" Iruka asks about 5 minutes into the lesson.
"I don't have one yet." Gaara replies.
"I'll share." Sasuke offers, making the class stare at him in shock. "I'm next to him anyway." Sasuke snaps, placing his book in the middle of the table.
Iruka nods dumb folded. "Aa… Thanks, Sasuke… Gaara, did you have French before?"
Gaara shakes his head. "Iie."
"I'll help." Neji says lazily, making two or three people faint because the two most anti-social persons of probably the complete school just offered to help the new guy.
"T-Thanks, Neji." Iruka stutters. 'WTF?'
"My pleasure." Neji says smirking, before turning in his seat and sending Gaara a wink.
Gaara blinks. 'Maybe I should've told them I'm A-Sexual…'
Temari yawns. German to her is just as boring to math, and the fact that she sucks at it doesn't really help her case. It's not like she wants to learn it either, the possibilities of her going to go to German are slim to none, so why bother?
"Man, this sucks." She mutters, staring at the clock on the wall.
"You tell me." Shikamaru groans from behind her. "This is so troublesome."
Temari smiles at him over her shoulder. "Does Kakashi-sensei even like it?"
Shikamaru snorts. "Iie, but we need the class or something." He let's out a sigh and looks out of the window at the other side of the class, gazing at the sky.
"Ne, Shikamaru?"
"Hm?"
"What do you think of my brother?"
"… Troublesome." Shikamaru replies, making Temari snicker.
"Temari, translate 32 C." Kakashi says, not looking up from his book.
Temari looks at him and blanks, before thinking about what a German girl once told Gaara. "Du bist kanst verrückt" (1)
And even when she is dumped on the hallway with a dictionary, she still doesn't understand why she was kicked out.
"Hehe, this is easy shit." Kankurou grins as he makes his math work, while Deidara bangs his head on the table repeatedly.
"This" ¤bang¤ "Sucks" ¤bang¤ "Ass" ¤bang¤ "Yeah" ¤bang¤ ¤bang¤
Kankurou blinks at his friend. "Do you want me to help you?"
"YEAH!"(2)
The whole class falls silent and turns to Deidara who blushes a bright read and stares at the ground nervously. "Oops, yeah…"
A few snickers come from Itachi's group, but everyone returns to their work pretty fast.
"Ne, Itachi." Kisame says, poking his friend's shoulder. "Why didn't you tell the guy to fuck off after he reclined?"
Itachi shrugs. "I don't know, I guess he interests me."
Kimimaro looks at him confused. "Since when does anyone interest you? I thought you were A-sexual"
Itachi smirks, "So did I." before he lets his gaze rest upon Kankurou's head.
"Get it now?" Kankurou asks.
"Hai, thanks yeah." Deidara grins.
"No problem. This is nothing compared to what we got at Suna High."
Deidara pales visibly. "Remind me never to transfer to that school, will ya, yeah?"
Kankurou mock-pouts. "Not going to visit me there? I'm hurt."
Deidara looks at him confused. "Don't you live in Konoha, yeah?"
Before Kankurou can reply, the bell rings.
"Art now." Kankurou groans while Deidara grins now, reaching for his stuff.
"This is one of the few times we change class, yeah." He says, motioning for Kankurou to pack his stuff as well. "PE is the other time, and sometimes biology; though that's only when we have to do things outside or with things this classroom doesn't have, yeah."
"Ah." Is Kankurou's brilliant reply, as he also packs his stuff, "You good in art?" he asks at which Deidara shrugs.
"I like to think so, yeah."
Kankurou groans. "I can't even draw a stick figure… Hence I can't even draw a straight line!"
Deidara laughs at his friend's expense as he shoulders his bag. "We have PE after that, yeah. Bring your stuff, yeah?"
Kankurou shakes his head. "Nah, that's still in one of our bags, hehehe."
Deidara shakes his head. "Hopeless, yeah."
Kankurou grins. "Hai, but that's why everyone luuuuuuuuuurves me."
Deidara smiles. "I'm sure, yeah."
Skipping a few hours, it is now lunch again.
"Kankurou!" Gaara yells, storming towards his brother and Deidara. "Tell them to leave me alone!" he growls, pointing at Sakura and Ino.
"Eh?" Kankurou looks up from his conversation with his blonde friend.
"Oh Gaara, you looked so hot in those tan shorts! I loved the red line in it!" Sakura squeals.
Kankurou sweatdrops. "Did you forget your shirt again?"
Gaara glares and Kankurou burst out laughing. "Oh, Gaara. This isn't Suna, you might need a shirt here."
"I noticed." Gaara grumbles, angrily plopping next to Deidara while trying to ignore the swooning girls. "What class do you have next?" he asks, changing the subject, anger seemingly gone.
"Erm…" Kankurou glances at Deidara. "What do we have next?"
"Art again, yeah."
Kankurou groans and Gaara rolls his eyes. "Che. I have math."
Kankurou smiles, "That's not that hard." he says, earning a glare from both Gaara and Deidara.
"Not everyone got the good genes like you and Temari." Gaara scowls, making Kankurou grin.
"Sucks, hm?" he teases his younger brother.
"HAI!"
Deidara smiles at the red-head. "Your brother is really good at math, yeah. Helped me out big time, yeah."
Gaara nods. "Hai, he's stuck helping me out a lot too."
Kankurou just grins. "Ha! That just proves I'm smarter then the both of you!"
"I'll help you out, Gaara-kun." Sakura coos.
Gaara sweatdrops, "I forgot you two were still here." he says dryly.
"Don't worry, Gaara-kun!" Ino pipes up. "We'll make sure you'll never forget us!"
Gaara groans and looks at Kankurou and Deidara. "Next time the three of us have lunch, we sit in the bathroom." He says, at which the two only laugh.
"Aww, you don't mean that!" Sakura draws, hugging Gaara's neck from behind.
"DAMNIT! HOW MANY TIMES DO I STILL HAVE TO TELL YOU! I HAVE A BOYFRIEND ALREADY!" Gaara yells, throwing the arms off.
"Don't be like that." Sakura pouts.
"Hai, you know you want us." Ino adds in a way she thinks is seductive, but we all know better, don't we?
Gaara growls before jumping up and running inside, followed closely by Sakura and Ino who are yelling at him to wait up.
Deidara blinks before bursting out laughing, soon followed by Kankurou. "Your brother's weird, yeah." He grins at Kankurou.
Kankurou grins and nods. "Hai he is. But we still love him."
This only made them laugh harder.
Gaara leans against the wall of the bathroom he has taken his refuge in, letting out a shaky sigh. "I thought I'd never get rid of them." He mumbles, skidding down to the floor.
The sound of a toilet flushing makes Gaara look up again, just as Neji walks out one of the stalls, a relieved look on his face. The two stare at each other for a bit before Gaara blinks.
"Shouldn't you wash your hands?"
Neji's feeling of total bliss disperses as he shrugs. "The tabs are the dirtiest things in the bathroom. Everyone touches them with their pissed over hands." He replies before smirking. "And besides, I have cleaning lotion."
To proof this point, the white-eyes bishie produces a small bottle from his pocket and cleans his hands with the lotion inside.
"Now the dirt has nowhere to go." Gaara says dryly.
"Iie. I'll just wipe them off on Uchiha's shorts." Neji replies, smirking his sexy smirk, at which Gaara just rolls his eyes.
Kankurou blinks stupidly. Looking at the other occupants in the classroom that are slaving over their work. He lets out a sigh before turning his attention back on his white sheet.
Seated next to Kankurou is a grinning Deidara who is drawing on his sheet rapidly. All hope of making a decent stick figure has left our poor little Kanky.
"How come you draw so good?" Kankurou mumbles.
Deidara grins at his friend. "Art is a bang, yeah."
¤thump¤ and that was the sound of the meeting between Kankurou's head and his table.
"Kankurou."
Kankurou looks up. "Oh hey, Kurenai-sensei." He greets.
Kurenai frowns. "Why haven't you drawn anything yet?"
Kankurou looks at his paper. "I have, Kurenai-sensei. I have drawn my imaginary friend." He grins
"You haven't drawn anything!"
Kankurou smirks. "That's because I don't have an imaginary friend, Kurenai-sensei."
Gaara pokes his math-book.
"It's not going to eat you, yannow." Sasuke mutters.
Gaara narrows his eyes at his book. "You never know…"
Sasuke and Neji share a look that clearly means; 'will you call the mental ward, or will I?'
"Look, if you want help or something…" Neji says frowning.
"Then I know where my brother is."
Sasuke lets out a sigh, before opening Gaara's book to the right page. "This is what we are doing now, do you want me to explain?"
Sasuke and Neji look at Gaara and they can swear they see question marks popping above Gaara's head.
Closing his book, Gaara huffs, before taking out the art assignment that was appointed to them in the 5th period.
"Kankurou?"
"Hai, Kunerai-sensei?"
"…"
"…?"
"What is that?"
"This… This is art! I have drawn the meaning of life! The scents! The heavens! THE GLORIES!"
By now the whole class is staring at Kankurou who had jumped on the table somewhere in the speech.
"Kankurou…" Kurenai says slowly. "This is a line.
Kankurou pouts, plopping back in his seat and crossing his arms. "You have no respect for art."
"…"
"…"
Sasuke and Neji glance at each other before looking back.
"…"
"…"
Gaara in the mean time is just drawing. According to the assignment, you have to draw a person you respect. On Gaara's paper is a second Gaara, almost identical to the real one.
"… Will you draw me some time?" Sasuke asks blunt.
Gaara looks at him. "…"
Sasuke looks back. "…"
"Anou…" Neji starts "Iruka-sensei is here."
As the two look up, they see Iruka scanning Gaara's paper. "Very nice, Gaara," He says "but this assignment is to draw someone you respect, now a self-portrait."
Gaara looks up at his teacher. "I respect only myself, my siblings and Sunagakure."
"Gaara-kun! I respect you!" Ino yells, shoving a badly drawn Gaara in the real Gaara's face.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
Gaara, Sasuke Neji and Iruka look at her as the total randomness she is.
"Right." Iruka says, coughing slightly. "Well, anyway. It's a math-period, Gaara."
"Hai, I know."
"Then why are you acting like it's art-period?"
"Because math sucks."
"FREEDOM!" Kankurou yells, running outside, followed by a laughing Deidara.
A few people still stare at the Sabaku sibling, but most of them have already got bored with the weird behaviour.
"Now I'll just have to wait for Panda-chan." Kankurou says, plopping down on the grass.
"Panda-chan, yeah?" Deidara questions.
"Hai, Gaa-"
"Kankurou…" comes a hissing voice.
Both turn to the source, and Kankurou's eyes widen in fright as he gets back to his feet, only to come to face Gaara who's rolling up his sleeves looking like an evil and totally pissed off maniacal murderer... or at least a baby-eater. "Pa-Gaara!"
"Home. Now." Gaara states, turning around and stomping off.
Kankurou waves at Deidara before following Gaara, while Deidara just laught softly.
Crimson eyes narrow as they watch Kankurou leave. 'Just you wait, Kankurou… Just you wait…'
15 pages, show me the love o.0"
or I'm never writing this length again :p
Gomenasai for taking this long to update, though n,n"
Gaara's bf will be revealed next chap ;)
1 - typo in the wording because I SUCK at German, but it means you're completely crazy, not meant nice
2 - no hai here on purpose, indicating to the yeah he always ends his lines with.