Imitating Myself
By: Late-Sleeper
Beta-reader: Pay Backs a Bitch
Disclaimer: I don't own a thing…or else Naruto would be rated NC-17
Chapter 4: Adjusting
Naruto sipped his morning coffee as he tried to calm down his nerves. Waiting was such a drag to him especially when you were waiting for your death or the source of it. He patiently stood by the window peeking ever so often to check if his soon to be housemate had arrived. He sighed in exasperation. He still couldn't believe that he agreed to do this prank. He was such an idiot. He couldn't even comprehend the money he would be shelling out for this project of their so called revenge. To think he would even live with a total stranger, here in his own, precious home.
The only consolation he could get out of this was that seventy-five percent of the money would be coming from his friends, mainly Kiba since it was idea after all. Damn Dog breath.
The door bell ringing snapped Naruto from his thoughts and once again plunking him back into his dilemma. He slowly walked towards the door, trying to calm himself. Psyching himself that it was all for the better. He gingerly opened the door only to reveal the smiling man who he had just hired. A sudden quickening of pulse had Naruto on the edge as he led the man inside.
"Ah, Shino-sa…"
He earned a quirk of an eyebrow as he said the raven's name. "I mean Sasuke. Is that all you've got or are we expecting your other things later?"
"No, this is all I've got." Naruto blushed at the raven head's smile and the sultry voice he made. He felt the familiar quickening of his pulse like it did yesterday when Sasuke touched him. It was quite vexing actually to have your chest throb and your stomach flipping.
Naruto stared at Sasuke as the man walked towards the room in a steady confident stride, like he owned the place. He watched as the raven sat down in one of the chairs and grabbed the remote control to watch what was on TV. He watched as the raven's face broke into a small grin at whatever the host was saying on TV. He saw Sasuke's chest rise up and down as he was breathing. He ogled at Sasuke's well sculptured chest that was hugged nicely by his tight white wife beater. He could also see that the man also had nice legs as the tight jeans were hugging it. He was like a porn star, not bulky, just tone in perfect places.
'Shit! Am I turning gay?"
Naruto eyes went wide as he realizes his feelings for the raven. Was he falling in love? But wasn't it too soon? He wasn't gay right? No, it couldn't be!
The throbbing on his chest, the butterflies on his stomach, this is…
"Oi dobe put my things in my room and also prepare the bath. I want to bathe before eating."
…this was not love.
Not even a crush.
Not even a remote feeling of admiration…
This was the feeling of dread.
The feeling that your life was spiraling down to hell…that life was gonna be crap for the next few months or so…a feeling, that you just handed yourself to the devil himself.
This is the feeling of…
"Oi dobe, fix me a meal for a king and hurry up with that bath."
Armageddon.
"You're here too?" Kiba pulled his chair as he sat down near the lazy irritated genius waiting for their friend. "That baka just said 'meet me at Sakuragi's dinner now' then hung up."
"Same here."
"What do you think he wants?"
"Well we're soon gonna find out." Shikamaru cocked his head towards the approaching blond. Kiba looked over his shoulder and gaped at how the blond look like.
Blood shot eyes, slightly paling skin, chapped lips. Man was he like a walking zombie.
"What the hell happened to you?!"
"He…He's driving me insane." Naruto leaped towards Kiba and hugged him tight as he cried openly. Kiba was slightly freaking out.
"What did he do?" Shikamaru was slightly worried since it was their cute blond they were talking about here, but the blond did take things exaggeratedly.
"He made me clean our room. He even made me wash all the dishes…it was horrifying." Kiba rolled his eyes. He was somewhat miffed that he was actually feeling genuine concern for the blond. 'Damn that large puppy eyes!' But he just let Naruto stay in his position for all its worth.
"He made sure that I cleaned the house everyday! He even said that I should do laundry every week. He's…"
"Well Naruto welcome to the real world of human beings…glad you decided to leave Slob land." Kiba grinned at the blond who was still clutching his shirt like a baby. Naruto snorted at him and slightly pushed off the grinning man to properly sit on his own chair. "Jerk!"
"Is this all you wanted to say? You know I think it was a good thing we hired him. It's like a two-in-one thing. We could really use him to straighten you up." Shikamaru sighed and shook his head in exasperation.
"Whaa?! Shika."
"…"
"Okay fine. It was a little exaggerated…but he's using my clothes to. Isn't it a bit annoying?"
"Maybe the guy doesn't have enough clothes. Did you buy him clothes like you were supposed to?"
"Err. Well, still he shouldn't use my towel…"
"Che! Then buy him one."
"…and my toothbrush."
"Oh, that's so gross. It's like an indirect kiss." Kiba made a gross out face at the blond who now resembled a tomato. "Shut up dog breath."
"…"
"He's using everything I have. He's parading in my house like he owns it. Eating my food like he bought it. Soon, he'll be going to my work and working there. Or say stuff like 'Hey, I'm Naruto what's your name? And soon he'll be calling you guys up to meet like old friends and you would be strutting like girls while holding hands toward the end of the rainbow with him. Then I would be here, left alone by you two. You would then be asking me 'Who are you?'…then…"
Kiba grabbed both Naruto's hand and rubbed them soothingly. "There. There. Don't worry Naruto. You just need a therapy. Dr. Psycho would happy help you."
A jabbed from Naruto didn't even stop the erupting laughter inside Kiba. He was laughing out loud and banging his hand on the table which in turn made Shikamaru burst into suppressed chuckle. Naruto was all left pouting at the two idiots, suppressing tears to pour out. "Some friends I have."
This made Shikamaru stop chuckling and felt slightly guilty for making the blond pout. He was on the verge of reaching out to Naruto to hug him when the said blond was suddenly yanked by the dog man and hugged him for himself. "Sorry. Sorry."
Shikamaru was felt a tad bit jealous as he watched the circling motion of Kiba's hand on Naruto's back to soothe him. "So why don't you just blow him off?"
Naruto broke free from Kiba's clutches and grabbed onto Shikamaru, who by the way earned a small annoyed groan from Kiba. "But I already did! But he said he would spill out my entire plan to Sakura herself. The plan would be ruined before it even began!!"
"Smart guy."
"I'm going to die by his hands. I knew it, he's the devil! He's the prince of the underworld. I'm going to DIE!!" Naruto grabbed his hair with both hands and made a terrified look that Kiba and Shikamaru freaked out a bit.
"And you two are going down with me!! I'm going to haunt your fucking asses when I die. I'd gonna fuck up every night dream you have." Naruto gave a sinister laugh and made a menacing face to both his friends.
"I'm going to…."
RING.
RING.RING.
"NO!! The devil is calling me!"
:Tsuzuku: