Hello my lovely readers that I adore so veryvery much! Hopefully you don't want to kill me.. but I understand if you do cause it's been forever since I've updated.
Let's just say senior year was alot more then I bargained for. But all's well! I have graduated from high school and i have a full summer to write for you lovelylovely readers!
I think you all will enjoy this chapter. Atleast I hope you will... It has what almost everyone has been asking for so, I'll shut up so you can read. =]
Chapter Fourteen
"I cannot believe that he still hasn't asked Sasuke out! I have the perfect thing in mind for Itachi too!"
Gaara looked up from the book he was reading and across the room to where his girlfriend was looking. Naruto and Sasuke sat in the library working on their lines for the play. It had been a month since Mizani and Itachi had come up with the bet, but neither of them had won it because neither of the boys had asked each other out.
"Maybe if I just give Naruto a little push.." her voice trailed off as she begun to stand.
"'Zani." Gaara called softly.
She looked back at her boyfriend, knowing what he meant, "But!" He shook his head. "Fiiinnnee!" she said sitting back in her seat and pouting.
The red head shook his head with a small smile and turned back to his book. 'Mizani, you are such a mess.' he thought. "Don't do it Miz." he said without looking up from his book.
"How did you do that?" she asked still halfway frozen from where she was about to get up. "You've been taking lessons from Iruka haven't you?"
"No I haven't. I know you and I know that you wouldn't be able to resist trying to set them up." he answered closing his book. He looked at the time. "Looks like it's almost dinner time, are we heading to your house?"
"Yeeep. Let me go drag the two love birds from each other and-"
"How about you go ahead to the car and I'll get them two." Gaara said handing her the set of keys.
Mizani pouted, "You never let me have any fun." She smiled as the red head kissed her cheek. "I'll see you at the car." she said before picking up her bag and his book and walking out of the library.
Gaara walked over to the table the two boys were sitting at. "Just how long are you two planning to keep this up?" he asked.
Naruto's eyes widened a bit while Sasuke just glared at him. "Whatya mean Gaara?" the blonde asked.
"I know you two know about the bet. No doubt Deidara told you about it. And you're purposely not asking each other out so neither of them win the bet."
The blonde opened his mouth to say something but then closed it again. Sasuke closed the notebook he had open and stood up. "We will keep this going for as long as we want too." he said in a grumble.
"If you wanted both of them to loose, all you have to do is ask each other out at the same time." Gaara said with a roll of his eyes. "Now come on. Dinner's probably already ready and I'm hungry." He stated before walking away. The redhead could feel the pair's eyes on him as he walked away, 'Sometimes I think they are both such idiots.' he thought walking out of the library, down the hall and out the doors towards the parking lot. He couldn't help but chuckle at the sight that greeted him when he got in the car.
Mizani was sitting in the passenger's seat with a small bag of cookies in her lap. She had the radio playing and was singing along, "Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman. Maybe he won't find out what I know: you were the last good thing about this part of town." She played an air guitar with a cookie still half in her mouth.
"And who said you could have my cookie stash?" he questioned.
The raven girl reached for the cookie she had and broke it in half, handing it to the redhead while she ate the other half. "You did!" she said with a grin that could rival Naruto's. Her boyfriend shook his head as he started the car fully and drove to her house.
When the couple pulled into the driveway, they saw Kakashi sitting on the steps pouting. Gaara looked to Mizani with a questioning look to which she answered with a shrug. Getting out of the car, the walked to the steps and stared at the silver haired man. Mizani chose to speak up, "And exactly why are you pouting on the steps...?"
"Apparently you have a visitor who doesn't like the way I show love to my Iruka." the man said sounding much like a child.
At this, Mizani's eyes lit up and she went running into the house. Gaara looked from the door to Kakashi and then back to the door. With a shrug, he followed his girlfriend into the house. "Mizani where are-?" he didn't get a chance to finish his question for he was dragged into the living room and was staring at a young girl with the oddest styled hair.
The girl's hair was similarly styled like Sasuke's except being shorter, blonde and her bangs covering her right eye. The bangs were a hot pink, while the spikes in the back were a sky blue. She wore red skinny jeans with a black shirt that had a field of white roses printed on it. "So this is him, huh?" she said crossing arms over her chest.
"Yep! Fayree meet Gaara, Gaara meet Fayree." Mizani introduced with a grin.
"It's nice to meet you. Mizani has told me a lot about you." Gaara said with a nod.
Fayree's brown eyes widen, "Don't believe a word she says! She lies!"
"Fay!" Mizani shouted with a laugh, "I promise I've only told him good things about you."
"This is true. She has told me what a great friend you are and how much you two would hang out when she lived over in the United States." Gaara added.
"Oh.. well then. That's good cause it's not like there should be anything else added to that..." she said with a nervous laugh.
The door opened and a voice called into the house, "Iruka! Why is Kakashi sulking on the porch-? AH! FAYREE!" Naruto stood in the hallway, his blue eyes widen in a mix between shock and fear.
"Hello Naruto." Fayree said with a grin that caused Naruto to jump back and into Sasuke. "Oh so this is the little friend Mizani's told me about." She began walking forward towards the two of them.
Naruto's eyes grew even more. "'llbehomebeforeelevenokeybye!" He said all in one breath before grabbing Sasuke and running out the door.
"Hey! Doesn't that count as-!"
"No Mizani that doesn't count." Gaara interrupted her knowing what she was going to ask.
"Awwhhh man." the raven haired girl then sat on the couch and pouted.
"Alright all of you, it's time for dinner." Iruka said walking across the hall to the living room. "Mizani could you let Kakashi know please."
"Okey!" she said before walking over to the door and stepping outside as Fayree followed Iruka back into the kitchen.
'This is going to be an odd night...' Gaara thought walking into the kitchen.
Naruto could feel the raven's eyes on him as they both got into the car. As the blonde started the car up, Sasuke decided to speak up, "Who and what the hell was that?" he asked with an eyebrow raised.
"That was Mizani's friend Fayree. She's eviler then Mizani is. Actually I think that's where she learned to be evil from." the blonde said pulling out of the driveway.
"She looked harmless." Sasuke said.
"Didn't Mizani?"
Sasuke was quiet for a minute, "This is true..." he said his voice trailing off.
"Exactly." Naruto said with a nod. They drove for a few minutes before Naruto stopped at a stoplight. "So what're we gonna do?"
"I have no idea." Sasuke said, "Where do you wanna eat?"
The blonde let out a laugh, "Where do I always want to eat?" he asked.
"We are not having ramen. I've had enough ramen to last me for a while." the raven said.
"Boo, you're no fun." Naruto said with a laugh. "Fine then you pick the place."
"Fine then, I will." Sasuke said before appearing to think for a moment.
'Well doesn't he look cute with his little thoughtful look? What? Naruto stop- Oh, I give up.. I like him..' He thought mentally sighing in defeat. 'Now, just how to ask him out but still get around Mizani and Itachi's bet...'
"Naruto.. Naruto! Are you even listening to me?" Sasuke said before slight popping the blonde in the back of the head.
"Hey! Why'd you Gibbs me?" the blonde asked, nursing his abused scalp.
"Gibbs you...?" the raven echoed questioningly.
"You know from the show NCIS, Gibbs pops people in the back of the head, I call it being 'Gibbs'."
Sasuke nodded his head slowly, "Uh... huh... Well did you hear anything I said?"
"Umm.. well.. no." Naruto scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.
Rolling his eyes, Sasuke said, "Just drive and I'll give you directions."
"Okey Mr. Bossy-Ah!" the blonde shouted dodging a slap in the back of the head from the raven. The two laughed, the Uchiha rather chuckling, on the drive to the restaurant Sasuke was directing them to. "A pizza parlor?" Naruto asked as they found a park and got out of the car.
"What? I like pizza." Sasuke said defensively as he lead them both into the buliding. Inside was pretty big, but the vastness had a rather homey feel to it. The far left side was a raised platform where the bar sat with other tables that were far up from the ground. The rest of the place was filled with tables, booths lining the walls and the windows.
"'Sup Sasuke, normal order and seat?" a tall brunette man said.
"Normal seat, hold off on the order. No telling what this guys gonna order." Sasuke answered pointing at Naruto.
"Hey! What does that mean?" Naruto asked as the two walked away. "Seriously! What did you mean by that..." 'That jerk... gonna say something like that then just walk away.' Naruto glared at him. 'Why do I even like you?' he wondered.
"Dobe will you stop pouting and get your ass over here." Sasuke said with a smirk. 'Oh, yeah.. no I remember.' Naruto thought walking over to booth in the far corner next to the window with the orange curtains. "Look, the curtains are even your favorite color."
The blonde stuck his tongue out at the raven as he took his seat across from him. The brunette man sat a menu in front of him, "Drinks?" he asked.
"Pepsi for me." Sasuke said.
"Same." Naruto answered not looking up from the menu. There was a few minutes of silence before Naruto asked, "So what do you usually get?"
"A medium meat-lovers with extra sauce." he answered.
Naruto looked up from the menu, "A medium.. just for you? And you're still as scrawny as you are?"
The Youngest Uchiha sat back in the booth and crossed his arms. "I told you I liked pizza." he said with a slight pouted.
The blonde could help but laugh, "Well why don't we make your normal order a large and just share it."
"That sounds good." he said with a nod right as their waiter came back with their drinks. "I'll have my usual, but make It a large." he told the brunette.
"Gotcha. It'll be up in about 15 minutes." the waiter said writing the order down and walking away.
There was a moment of silence until the ringing of their cell phones went off, both playing the same song: "Cut my life into pieces this is my last resort suffocation no breathing don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding..." They both reached for their cell phones and read the text message out loud, "Have fun on your date."
There was another moment of silence, this one a bit more awkward then the previous one.
'Way to go Gaara. I seriously cannot believe you just sent that. I am so kicking your ass when I get home.' Naruto thought thinking up exactly how many things he could do to the redhead without Mizani kicking his ass.
"Well.. Is this a date..?"
Naruto looked up from his brooding to Sasuke who was fidgeting with a piece of his hair and glancing out the window. 'Well doesn't he look adorable.' "I don't know.. Do you want it to be a date..?"
"I don't know.. do you?" the raven said glancing out the blonde.
"Okey, on the count of three will say it. Okey?" the blonde said. Sasuke nodded. "One.. two.. three."
"It's a date." they said at the same time.
"It's about time you got a date."
The two looked to the waiter who sat their pizza on the table along with their drinks with a smirk on his face. He let out a laugh at the glare sent by the raven and the shocked expression on the blonde. "Looks like the older Uchiha didn't win his bet."
"Okey, was there anybody who didn't know about this bet?" Naruto asked throwing his hands up.
"With Deidara nothing is a secret." Sasuke said reaching for a slice of pizza.
"Enjoy your food." the waiter said with a chuckle before walking away.
"So since neither one of them won the bet, what happens now?" the blonde asked, mouth full of pizza.
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde lack of manners, "There's not telling what'll happen. They'll probably try to argue that one of us asked the other out."
"Welp, they're both gonna be outta luck." The blonde said grabbing a slice of pizza for himself.
The couple ate their pizza in silence for a few minutes. Naruto glanced at the raven and let out a laugh. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the blonde. "What are you laughing at?" he asked around his pizza, hand in front of his mouth.
"You've got sauce on her face." the blonde said through his laughter.
Sasuke attempted to wipe the sauce off his face but failed, causing the blonde to laugh even more. After a few seconds, Naruto took pity on the raven. Picking up a napkin, he reached over and wiped the sauce from the raven's face. "There you go." he said muffling his laughter and sitting back down.
"Thank you." Sasuke muttered as he continued to eat his slice of pizza.
'Is that a blush I see?' Naruto wondered. He mentally chuckled. 'This is turning out to be a very great day.'
"Fayree! I've missed you so much!" Mizani said glomping her friend that was sitting on the couch. They had all just got through eating dinner and were sitting in the living room. Well, Mizani, Gaara and Fayree were. Iruka and Kakashi were in the kitchen putting leftovers away and washing dishes.
"I know! I've missed you too!" Fayree said hugging her friend back. "I see you've gone and got yourself a boyfriend and played match maker since you've been back here." she said with a laugh.
The raven girl took Gaara's hand with a smile and a laugh. "Yeah.. I'm glad I moved back to Japan. Ooohh! Also we got the leads in the play were doing of Aladdin!"
"No way! Iruka! You're gonna have to video the play and send it to me!" The multi-colored hair girl shouted in the direction of the kitchen.
"Don't worry Fay, I will." The brunette man called from the kitchen. It was then followed by muffled yelling, more-in-likely at Kakashi.
Fayree shook her head, "How do you deal with those two?" she asked.
Mizani laughed and shrugged, "You kinda get use to them after a while."
"How do you deal with it?" she asked the redhead.
"Sasuke's brother and his boyfriend are the same way, so I've been around It before. After a while it's normal." Gaara said with a small smile and a shrug.
"Well aren't you just adorable." Fayree said with a laugh. "I approve of you. Though do know if you hurt her I will hunt you down and hurt you 50 times worst." her tone went cold.
"Trust me, I do not plan to hurt her at all." Gaara said kissing Mizani's cheek.
"Awh! So cute!" Fayree said. The raven girl twitched her nose and turned away, attempting to hide her blush. 'Fay, shut up.' she thought. "Is this Mizani blushing? Iruka get the camera! The queen of controlling her emotions is blushing!"
"Fayree! Shut up!" Mizani shouted her cheeks even pinker. Fayree busted out laughing while Gaara chuckled. She turned on her boyfriend, "Hey! You're suppose to be on my side!"
"I apologize baby." he said kissing the back of her hand as he laced their fingers together.
"Are you sure you've never met each other before?" Fayree asked. "Cause you guys seem really close for having only known each other for a month."
"I don't think we've ever met each other." Mizani said looking at Gaara who shook his head, "Though we thought the same thing."
"Well, I hope you two have a happy relationship." she said giving them a smile.
"I do have a question though." Gaara said.
"Shoot."
"Why did Naruto run outta here like you were the devil himself?"
Mizani and Fayree busted out laughing. 'This is a good story.' The raven thought. "Do you want the short version or the long one?"
"Short one will be okey."
"Okey basically, it was back in America about middle school I think. Me and Zani were hanging out and Naruto comes over and pushes her over. I didn't know they were cool with each other and I don't like people messing with my friends so, I beat him up in front of the whole playground. He ended up with a broken arm cause I pushed him outta the swing."
"Needless to say Iruka wasn't happy and Naruto has always been afraid of Fayree." Mizani said with a small laugh.
"I see." Gaara said with a chuckle.
"So are they on a date? Cause if they're on a are I totally won the bet cause Naruto dragged Sasuke off." the raven haired girl said.
"Even if it was a date I don't believe Naruto dragging Sasuke off saying their going out somewhere counts as him asking Sasuke out." Gaara said.
"You always rationalize things." Mizani said with a huff as she leaned back on the couch.
"And it's not nice to bet on weather or not people are gonna date each other." Fayree said with a laugh.
Mizani stuck her tongue out at her friend as Iruka walked into the room, "Alright girls behave."
They both muttered a, "Finnee."
"I'm going to go work on some paper work on a few recommendations." the brunette man said gesturing upstairs.
"Alrighty." Mizani said with a nod. "Let me guess, Kakashi's going to follow you like a lost puppy?"
The brunette man sigh with a small laugh, "Of course, but he has his own work to do isn't that right Kakashi?" he asked turning around with his hands on his hips to look at Kakashi who was frozen half ready to pounce on Iruka.
"How does he do that?" Fayree whispered to Mizani.
"I have nooo ideaa." she answered back in a whisper.
"Good night guys. Fay, you're welcomed to sleep on the couch or just to crash in Mizani's room." Iruka told the young girl.
"Gotcha." she said with a mock salute.
The trio watched the older couple walk up the stairs. They were playfully bickering over something that sounded like 'If they made a movie about Morgan Freeman, who would narrate it?'. Iruka shook his head while Kakashi grinned and kissed his cheek.
"You know," Fayree began, breaking the silence, "They may be weird, but they make a cute couple."
"That they do." Mizani said nodding in agrement.
"So what to do now?" Gaara asked.
Fayree and Mizani turned to each other with grins on their faces, "Just Dance!"
Sasuke sat with his hands covering his face, 'This has been the worst day for me in the history of ever. If anyone finds out about this I will be dead.' Needless to say the rest of the day did not go as the raven would want it to. Not only did he spill drink, cheese and ketchup all over the table (and partly himself), but almost everything he said either came out the wrong way or would get jumbled up when they were being spoken.
"Oh come on, I'm not that horrible of a person to be on a date with am I?" Naruto asked with a laugh.
The raven's head shot up, "No! No of course you're not. You're a great person to date." He froze as the words he just said registered in his brain, 'Oh god, please tell me I did not just say that..'
"Well thank you." Naruto said with his fox-like grin.
"Let's just go." Sasuke said standing up and snatching the ticket off the table.
Naruto followed him to the counter while laughing. Once they were at the register and Sasuke handed over the ticket, the blonde pulled out his wallet. "I got this. Since you know I'm a great person to date and all." he said grinning even more.
Throwing his hands up, the raven walked out of the restaurant muttering under his breath about, "Stupid blondes and their stupid grins." He walked over to Naruto's car and leaned against it with his arms crossed. 'If Itachi ever hears about how this date went I will never live it down..' He was pulled out of his brooding by a beeping/honking sound that all but made him jump out of his skin.
Naruto was near tears from his laughter. He leaned against the building with the keys in his hand attempting to contain his laughter. 'I am going to kill him before the night is over with.' Sasuke mentally growled. "Naruto, get your ass in this car before I set you on fire!" he shouted at the blonde.
"Now you would-"
Sasuke pulled out one of Gaara's spare lighters that he kept around and lit it, "Try me."
"Okey, I'm getting in the car now." He said holding his hands up and walking to the driver's side while Sasuke got in the passenger's side. As they pulled out of the parking lot, Naruto asked, "So what do you wanna do now?"
"I have no idea." Sasuke answered leaning back in the seat. 'Go somewhere that I can hide in shame. I really want to go to the boardwalk..'
"Why don't you show me where you get inspiration for you're song writing? Or you know where go go when you want some peace and quiet. That is if you don't mind showing me." Naruto asked. The raven started at the blonde, 'Can he read minds?' "What?" said blonde questioned.
He shook his head, "Nothing. Head to the park, I'll show you my favorite place to go."
The pair sat in silence on the drive to the park. Once there, Sasuke directed the blonde to park at the far end of the parking lot. Sasuke began walking down a side walk that lead away from the park. Naruto followed him, but asked "I thought we were going to the park?"
"We are. There's another part to it." the raven answered. "Now come on, it's a little walk down this way." The two began walking side by side talking in the trees far above them. Naruto, being himself, had to chase a few ducks away that were sitting on the river banks. After a few minutes Sasuke walked onto a boarded place at the end of the side walk. "Here it is." he said taking a deep breath and leaning on the railing.
The sight in front of the two was one of natural beauty. The near setting sun shined through the trees making them appear as if hey were glowing. The trees themselves hung over the river as if they were reaching for their reflections. There was a slight breeze that stirred the smell of honeysuckles in the air and rustled the trees into a beautiful natural orchestra. Sasuke took a deep breath and almost immediately felt a sense of calmness.
"This place is beautiful." Naruto breathed as he leaned on the railing beside the raven, "How'd you find out this was here."
Sasuke let out a small laugh, "It was actually by an unfortunate accident. It was the summer before I was suppose to start high school. My mom had promised me that her and dad would take a week off from work and they would do anything that me and Itachi wanted. I got angry over the fact that I would have that time with them and ran to the park. They were doing construction around this part, building it I guess, I snuck in and found it. I've be coming her ever since. Whenever school got too much, I didn't want to deal with the world or I just wanted to play my guitar."
"I'm really glad you showed me this place Sasuke." Naruto said looking the raven dead in the eye, "It means a lot that you would show me and tell me about it."
"Don't worry about it." the raven said with a small smile. "I'm glad I have someone I could share it with." They stood there in a comfortable silence. Not only enjoying the beauty around them, but also each other company.
At least it was silence until Naruto all but screamed blood-murder and jumped onto the bench that was behind the off to the side, "OH MY GOD IT'S A SNAKE!" he yelled pointing at the spot he was standing before where a five foot snake was slithering into the water.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "You act like it's going to hurt you or something."
"What are you talking about? It's a snake! A very poisonous one at that! Of course it could hurt me or something!" the blonde said still freaking out over the reptile.
"See, it's gone. Nothing to worry about." the raven said beckoning the blonde back over to he railing.
Naruto shook his head, "Hell no, I'm perfectly fine right here. I can see everything that I saw right there where that things was." he said sitting on top of the railing, his feet on the bench.
Shaking his head at the blonde's antics, Sasuke joined him sitting on the railing. 'I think this turned out to be a very nice date.' He thought as he looked at the scenery around him. The small smile grew on his face when e felt Naruto's hand lightly touch his.
And we have the date everyone's been waiting for! Did you guys like the date? Did you hate it? Have any ideas for other dates? Tell meh! Cause I wanna know what you guys think!
As always, sorry for grammar and spelling mistakes. I tried to read over it buuttt that doesn't always go so well. If you wanna know what place Sasuke took Naruto too, you can find it on deviantart. You can find it here: epitomeofadreamer.()/#/d3ita9u Just take the parenthesis out. If it doesnt work, message or review and I'll send you the link.
Until next chapter!