AN: So, we meet again... finally... I'M SORRY! I thought I hadn't written anything, due to time constraints, but imagine my shock when I come to write and I find this chapter already finished! Oh, my deepest apologies! Though I have the flu now, I will push on to write the next chapter ((world spins)) but perhaps a nap is needed first before I pass out. *heheh* mata ne min'na!
Note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae, Kojika Nara © Anna Uzumaki
Pairing(s): Naruto/Sasuke With: Neji/Gaara, Shika/Kiba, Sakura/Lee, Hinata/Shino, Ino/Choji, Kankuro/Kojika, Temari/Tenten, Itachi/Kyuubi, Hidan/Kakuzo, Pein/Konan, Deidara/Sasori. later mentioned pairings.
Warning(s): Yaoi, lemon(s) in later chapters, sexual content (Duh!), slight nuggets of OOC-ness (bear with me), adult language, blood/gore, angst, drama, possible rape and KARMA.
Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto
Chp. 15-1
November 24th
J. Cole- Power Trip
8:54Am
Blurred vision, followed by another night of crazy drinking games, such as being dared to run around the large cabin naked, great friends and family and with nothing but deep forest separating them for civilization. Every year since either of them could remember they've been coming here every winter, be it with the entire family or just the young group of friends, and this year made it another gathering of young friends, seeing as how all the adults were now flooded with catching up with work since they took leave during thanksgiving to spend time with everyone. However, the young group of friends had no problem at all with being in the wilderness by themselves, after all, there was always Kyuubi and Itachi to keep handle on things should something go awry.
"S'ho much for… whut's'it call dat 'dey're 'posed to be doin'?" A very inebriated Naruto slurred while glaring at the fire red-head passed out on the couch next to an equally snoozing long haired raven.
"…. Huh?" Sasuke responded after a long second.
"Uhh, cock-blockin'?" Kiba retorted after downing the remains of the beer he currently had before grabbing another one.
"Nah, piss breath, dat's—wai... ya know, ya're fuckin' dumb shit!" Naruto began to waive off his answer before cocking his head towards his animal loving friend, "how 'da fuck 'dey gonna cock-block and's dey're KO'd drunk?" He clipped with a sarcastic expression.
"Well excuse da fuck out'a me, ya shrimp dick cat!" Kiba leaded towards the blonde with a victorious smirk.
"W-hat!? You son-of-a-" Naruto growled and proceeded to yank the brunette off the couch and playfully beat the drunkard out of him, even so, their banter was easily ignored by the others in the room.
"Idiots…" Sasuke and Shika, who was fairly hammered themselves, said in unison.
"Heh, I think it's f-funny…" Hinata giggled with a noticeable hick and yawn at the end.
"Ehh, no no no, what's funny 'nata is that ya're pretty drunk ya self!" Ino snickered which only turned into a full blown laugh as she watched the purple haired girls face go completely pink.
"Indeed, hn, you should prob stop now sis and get some sleep." Neji slurred slightly, even though he was probably just as drunk as the two now resting blonde and brunette, he was trying his best to remain in control of his vocabulary, too bad the same thing could no longer be said about the snoozing red-head on his lap.
"Agreed…" Shino second from beside the lavender eyed girl. However, he may have been sleep talking, seeing as how he seemed to be in and out of consciousness.
"I say let her be! We are in the prime of our youth my friends! And since I am on a special detox training and can't drink, I say she drink my fill!" Lee exclaimed causing everyone to look at him as though he may have already cheated and had a shot or five.
"That'd kill her you-asdfghjkl…" Kyuubi stated before whatever else he said turned to a garbled mess.
"Too much noise I swear…" Itachi mentioned with a blurry glare before standing with the red-head half slung over his shoulder, "ya know where to find us, be good…" he finished as he stumbled with a heavy Kyuu.
"I-Itachi, I'll help," Hinata stood too fast and cause the world to spin around her, however just before her face became acquainted with the floor, Shino snapped into alertness and caught her.
"Get her to bed, she's already had too much," Itachi mentioned and tossed Kyuu over his shoulder with a grunt, "I'm not tryna hear Tsunade when we get back if she's sick." He continued with a glazed over look, as though he was speaking on auto-pilot, and continued his sluggish march up the stairs, followed by Shino who was carrying a fainted Hinata bridal style.
"Geez, it's'a bout time 'Tachi and 'Yuu left," Sakura exhaled and pulled a confused looking Lee back down to the couch, "ah, da word's 'chaperone' Naruto." She mentioned and eyed another wine-cooler, inwardly contemplating how bad her hangover would be if she drank more.
"Yaaa! Dat's it!" Naruto exclaimed while still straddling a pinned down Kiba and snapped his head back from following after the exited group.
"'Ey, ya just gonna stay like that?" Shika eyed the position the two were in.
"Huuuuh? Whut'zit? Ya jealous Shika?" Kiba slurred and ran his hands up the blondes' thighs.
"O-oi?! Huh…" Naruto flinched at the touch and glanced at the raven glowering at them, "Ooo, Kiba don't stop!" He smirked and ran his hands up the mischievous looking brunette beneath him. However, before either of the playful two could do anything, the room was filled with a quick and loud pop, followed by a string of curses.
"Fuckin' shit! God dammit!" Naruto fell back and off of Kiba, gripping his nose in evident pain.
"Shika!?" Sakura exclaimed and slid off the couch to examine the still cursing blonde.
"Damn, my bad, I thought it was empty." Shika scratched his head with an expression mixed between apologetic and irritation, though his tone came out as just irritation.
"Heh, I'd say nice shot if he were bleedin'…" Sasuke raised a raven brow at his writhing boyfriend, "oh, he is bleedin'… nice shot." He continued with a drunken snicker and picked up the beer can that had popped open from the impact.
"Shika what da hell man!?" Kiba growled and pounced on his murderous boyfriend, "'dat's goin' too far!" He continued and proceeded to strangle the pineapple haired male.
"K-kiba calm down!" Lee went to the struggling Nara's aid.
"Sheesh, is he okay Sakura?" Ino leaned over a somehow still snoring Choji.
"If he'd stop twistin' around I could see!" Sakura grunted and pinned his arms to the ground, "be still for ten seconds idiot!" She warned and was relieved to have him cooperate, "hm, from da looks it doesn't look broken… but Naruto, ya nose is cut, heh, you look like Iruka." She surmised and released him.
"Whut!?" Naruto exclaimed and looked at the large amount of blood on his hands, "mah face! Shika ya're deer meat!" He slurred out and made a lunge to join Kiba in wailing on him, however before he could successfully get to his feet he was halted.
"Oi, dobe, chill and go clean ya-self up." Sasuke mentioned and tugged him back before finishing off his beer. However the only reply he received was a glass of water being sloshed over his head, followed by a loud accusation.
"Ya insensitive duck ass!" Naruto exclaimed before drunkenly stomping off towards his bathroom, all the while grumbling and cursing, not even caring if he'd wake the passed out occupants. Aside from when he passed Kyuu and Itachi's room and tried his best to block out the sounds of ecstasy coming from within. Though, once he made it back to his bedroom, tripping and falling over a suitcase, he crawled his way to the bathroom to observe the damage done by the beer can, and as he looked himself over in the vanity mirror, the only thing that was clear to see was the blood on his face. However, after cleaning away everything, he was all too glad to see that Sakura was exaggerating about the apparent cut on his nose, though it was a cut, it was a small one and nowhere near the one Iruka had, in fact he was sure that he wouldn't even have a scar from it, "ugh, thank gosh…" He sigh into the washcloth pressed to stop the remaining bleeding, however without warning or sound he heard his name being called followed by a hand on his shoulder.
"N-naruto?" Hinata whispered and took a surprised step back as he spun around in shock, "O-oh my g-gosh! A-are you alright?" She flustered as she took in the spotted cloth.
"Ah, Hinata!? Y-ya I'm good, dis' is nothin', believe it!" Naruto waived off her worry, "jus' wrestlin' gone wrong, heh." He amended before being snatch by his wrist.
"H-here, let me s-see…" Hinata grabbed the first aid kit from under the sink and with wobbly legs pulled the blonde back into the room and sat him on the large bed before removing the cloth and examining the damage, which to her internal relief it really wasn't that bad, though she went to work cleaning up and bandaging his nose.
"Ahh," Naruto hissed as she spritzed and antiseptic on the cut, "dat buns ya know…" He slurred as she blushed and finished bandaging the cut.
"S-sorry, but look, a-all better…" Hinata blushed and packed away the remaining contents of the kit.
"Ya, heh, just like ol' times, eh." Naruto chuckled drunkenly and fell back on the bed as he recalled a time back in high school the two of them had been dating.
"Hah, y-you're right, but at l-least this time it was a friends' f-fault." Hinata reminisced having tended to the wounds he received while in the 'Akatsuki' gang.
"Mn, back den I was always in fights, heh, doe a goo' amount of my wounds came from mah ma'." Naruto mumbled out and rubbed at the marks on his cheeks.
"… I-it's too bad you h-have those scars by leaving that g-gang though." Hinata said after a short silence after watching him.
"Ehh? What'zat? Ya think dey make me uh ugly monster now? Ya're meanie 'nata!" Naruto slurred and faux a blubbering sob, which left the lavender eyed girl in a tipsy fluster.
"N-no no no! N-not at a-all! You're still h-hot…" Hinata amended and felt her face growing hot, a sure sign that she was blushing.
"Hm? Well, even with this?" Naruto sat up and removed his shirt, exposing his bare torso, "does this tattoo make me any less hot?" He smirked at the now red faced Hyuga.
"… N-no…" Hinata looked at the swirling tattoo with bleary eyes and watched as her hand reached out to trace it, "you'll a-always be hot… but, I'm still jealous… your body is p-perfect." She continued in a reserved tone and gripped her shirt absentmindedly.
"Ash if…" Naruto furrowed his brows knowing exactly what she was talking about, and thusly proceeded to remove her shirt, "ya're body is perfect…" He mentioned and leaned in to kiss the surgical scar over her heart, even in his drunken state he could feel her tremble from the action and thusly grinned as he rested his head on her chest.
"I-I never understood h-how you could stand to see such an h-hideous scar, let alone kiss it or even…" Hinata said but trailed off with a shaky voice and instead cradled his head, she was trying to best to remain calm, but with the memories of when he first saw and kissed her scar flooding back to her, she couldn't help the few tears that fell down her face.
"Cuz Hinata's beauty outshines everythin'," Naruto mentioned with another kiss and removed her hands to look up at her with half lidded eyes, "'nd if ya're gonna ask how I could eben have sex with ya havin' 'zat scar, I loved da whole package…" He finished and pushed the purple haired girl back on the bed and looked down on her.
"I-I still don't s-see how, it's ugly…" Hinata stated and would've blushed harder if it were possible.
"Nuthin' bout Hinata is ugly, I'll prove it again…" Naruto smirked and leaned down to trail kisses down her body, starting with her forehead, to her lips, at which he spent quite a while at seeing as how she had wrapped her arms around him as soon as their lips met after three years. However, after parting from her lips he continued kissing down to her scar and kissed down the length of the scar, and grinning once she let out a moan as he switched to kissing and sucking one of her pink nipples as he palmed and pinched the other. As he continued to devour her, he finally sheathed himself with in her and even in their drunken daze, relished her moaning his name, until at one point which each thrust, the moans turned into something that froze him to the core.
"N-naruto, Naruto…" Hinata moaned and hung onto the tanned body drilling into her.
"Naruto, oh, Naruto!" Kyuubi's voice penetrated his thoughts and had him snapping his eyes' open and staring his grinning brother no more than five inches in front of him.
"K-kyuu?! What da fuck!?" Naruto started and jerked away from the long red-head so fast that it left him slamming onto the floor.
"Aww, you looked like you were really enjoyin' your dream! Why'd you have to wake up?" Kyuu gave a look of faux hurt, but as usual, the smirk on his face showed that he was enjoying himself.
"Why?! Because you were moanin' my fuckin' name!" Naruto shot up, grabbed a pillow and proceeded to beat his brother.
"W-wait, wait! I wasn't moanin'! I wasn't!" Kyuubi whined and ran around the large room to escape his blonde hunter, who immediately froze in place as he realized what was said and the dream, rather the memory that he just dreamed about.
"….Holy shit!" Naruto cursed and fisted his hair, "shit shit shit shit shit!" He mussed his hair to hopefully rid the memory.
"Heh, well, well, must've been a great dream, un." A familiar voice said in a teasing tone and as the blonde looked towards the long haired blonde male that stood in the doorway, he quickly followed to where he was pointing… which was followed by another curse.
"Fuck me…" Naruto looked down at his half hard dick and quickly escaped into the bathroom to take the coldest shower of his life.
"Aww, I wanted to point that out Dei-Dei!" Kyuu sulked and walked over to the bathroom door, "Oi, Nar', hurry it up! Dad is calling us to their suite." He mentioned just before the sound of the shower could be heard.
"You take too long, un, it would've gone down by the time you got to it, unn." Deidara shrugged with a smirk and plopped down on the cushiony couch near the floor to ceiling window.
"Oh 'Un' ya self! You know-" Kyuu's voice faded as Naruto stepped under the shower.
As Naruto forced himself to stay under the ice cold spray, he went over what just happened using extreme caution to leave out the… more detailed parts of the memory turned to dream. He even tried going over the past few days events that might have even triggered the memory, but he was coming up with a blank at every turn, he even thought that it might have been a late response to things that have been going for the past couple of months… the past two months to be precise, two months and a break up… a nearly three month break up as a matter-of-fact.
"Huh…" Naruto realized something, something that was already standing in the fore-front of his mind and that could've very well be a factor in why that memory had resurfaced. That factor was, ever since the raven decided to give him another chance after admitting to having slept with Hinata, the two of them hadn't gone past simple foreplay, "you've g-gotta be kidding me…" He shivered a groan and thusly washed himself quickly and making sure that his previous problem was resolved before he stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around himself before heading back into his room, too deep in thought to even register the other two occupants continuing whatever topic they were going on about. As Naruto entered his closet, he was still mulling over the possible lack of sex bringing up such a memory, 'Isn't this like blue balls or something?' The blonde mentally mussed as he automatically dressed himself in whatever his hands grabbed, which upon looking himself over briefly in the mirror was glad that the outfit was matching and simple, a black V-neck and black skinny jeans, which would be completed by his black converses. Though, before he went back into his room, he knew he'd better pull himself together before Kyuu and Dei could pick-up that something was bothering him, so with a deep sigh he walked back into his room, "Alright, let's go." He shrugged and moved to exit his room before being halted by a blatant observation.
"Damn Nar' who's funeral you goin' to?" Kyuu noted as he took in the emo look his younger was giving off.
"Seriously, un. We're just goin' to ya parents suite, it's no march to death, un." Deidara second and continued after the two whom had taken to walking again and were now out of the blondes' suite and heading down the hall to his parents' suite.
"Oh ha ha, its' warm out, so I wore something light, I like these jeans, so I wore them. Not my fault they're both black." Naruto shrugged and opened the door to their parents' suite, "matter-of-fact, isn't it too early to be-" He continued only to be cut off and startled to near death as they heard a loud crash come from the kitchen.
"Yo! Mom, pops, what the hel-" Kyuubi sprinted around the corner to where the kitchen was, however, no sooner had he rounded said corner did he slam into his fathers' back, which in turn sent him tumbling to the floor.
"Huh? Oh, Kyuubi, Naruto, Deidara, you're here…" Minato turned and greeted the trio and helped his eldest to his feet.
"Umm… p-pops…" Naruto called in a detached voice, "what is mom doin'?" he continued and looked at the fumbling, now ponytailed haired, woman remove various pots and pans from the cabinets.
"Uncle, this has to be a joke, un." Deidara looked at his concentrated looking aunt.
"B-but… today is…" Kyuubi mumbled with a look of silent horror.
"Heh, sorry, but it's no joke. There's a reason why I'm standing over here as well." Minato grinned in evident humor and scratched his head.
"M-maybe we should just cater…" Naruto mentioned towards his mother.
"No…" Kushina answered without looking at him and place a turkey tray on the countertop.
"Un, uncle why don't you-" Deidara began to say before being cut off.
"No…" Kushina interjected without looking up and began flipping through a cookbook.
"… Sorry boys, but I already promised this last year." Minato gave the boys an apologetic look, that wasn't missed by the violet eyed woman who's eye gave a hard twitch at the conversation.
"B-but… I'm so close to graduating…" Naruto whimpered and unconsciously placed a hand on his stomach, which was sending signals of S.O.S. to his brain.
"Tsk, honestly!" Kushina snapped and slammed the cookbook shut, "You are all wracking my nerves, YouknowwhatImean?! I'm not going to poison you!" She continued in a fuming rage and gave a pointed glare at the men still standing a distance from her.
"… Not on purpose at least, un…" Deidara mumbled and thought back to a time when everyone contracted food poisoning from something she cooked.
"What was that!?" Kushina seethed and took a threatening step towards her blonde nephew.
"Um! W-well boys, the other women should be here shortly! Let's grab a drink… now." Minato started and pushed the smack talking boys back out of the suite, but just as they got to the door, there was a knock, "Ladies'! Just in time, well…. We'll just be…" Minato quickly greeted Makoto, Karura, Hisae, Chiharu and Tsume, before trailing off and proceeded to quickly move the boys down the hall before his fiery crimson haired wife came after them.
"Yo, dad, is it really okay to leave mom in charge of cookin'?" Naruto inquired as they made their way to the elevator.
"Ya, she might burn the whole building to the ground, un." Deidara mentioned as they waited for the machine to come to the top floor.
"Hahah, boys' I think all will be well… as long as the other women are there we have nothing to worry about…" Minato reassured, however, just as they stepped into the elevator, they hear a distinct barking coming from down the hall, 'How did I miss the dog?' Minato mentally pinched his nose.
"But then there's Kiba's mom…" Kyuu sighed as the doors shut and lowered them from the doomed floor.
"… Yeah…" Minato deadpanned with no rebuttal for that and shared a nervous laugh with the others, seeing as how the dog loving woman was without a doubt a worse cook than Kushina. And as they came to the garage after a moments ride, they all exited in to the garage with measured steps, not sure of where the older blonde male was taking them, "Ah, right, I forgot to mention, we're going to head to 'Gama' to meet up with the others, Jiraiya is opening the bar early for us." The cerulean eyed man noted with a thankful grin as he lead the group over to one of the families blacked out SUVs, sure it was nine in the morning, but a little drinking never hurt.
"Eh? So everyone is already there?" Naruto furrowed his brow and stopped short.
"Key word son, 'meet'," Minato laughed at the sarcastic look his son threw him, though before he could say anything else, the elevator dinged, "Huh, well, well, still a hard one to wake I see." He focused his gaze on the three raven haired men making their way over, one looking more like a zombie than the other two.
"A habit that I hope breaks soon." Fugaku mentioned with a pointed look at his youngest.
"I swear that Shikamaru is rubbing off on him." Itachi mentioned with a chuckle and didn't miss the tensing of his younger.
"Shut up, Itachi." Sasuke grumbled and dragged a hand over his face before focusing on the whiskered male eyeing him stoically, "what?" He narrowed his eyes, it was already known that he wasn't a morning person, so the blonde just brushed off the agitated tone.
"Nothin'," Naruto shrugged and turned towards one of his personal cars, "Hey pops, I'm gonna take my car and meet you there." He mentioned and opened the door to his dark orange 2012 Mercedes E350 Coupe.
"Huh? Alright son." Minato nodded and closed the door to his car and waited for the others to pile in.
"Just a minute, Naruto," Fugaku's deep voice called just before he closed the door, "take this one with you and wake him up will you? Shikamaru is a smart kid, but I don't need that laziness getting into this one." He continued and placed a hand on his youngest head, not noticing the twitch his son gave, before prodding him off towards the blonde.
"Hahah, no prob, Fugaku." Naruto gave a bright grin and waited for the raven to slink over, though by the time he was settled in the car, the others had already pulled out of the parking deck, "geez, can you move any slower?" He mentioned with an amused smirk.
"Shut it dobe, it's too early to be a smart ass." Sasuke grumbled from the passenger seat.
"Ha, dude it's one hour earlier than when you wake up for classes," Naruto scoffed and ordered his car to start, "and speakin' of 'ass', has somethin' gotten up yours again?" He questioned with a raised brow at his raven and his lazy attire, which was made up of black sweat pants and a tight deep blue tank-top, even on his lazy days the pale male still managed to make anything look good.
"W-what in the hell are you talkin' about?" Sasuke stuttered slightly with narrowed eyes and tried to keep his face as stoic as possible, 'Shit… does he know? No, he couldn't, there's no way…' He mentally freaked.
"… You're still mad huh?" Naruto stated after a moment of silence.
"… I've told you a hundred times this month, no." Sasuke exhaled as evenly as he could, seeing as how his thoughts weren't right.
"Then why haven't we had sex ever since I got back?" Naruto hurled out and crossed his arms, not even bothering to look at the pale male anymore.
"… Seriously Naruto," Sasuke dragged his hand over his face, "we have had sex and you have memory loss." He continued and stared into the side of his blondes head.
"You're the one with the memory loss," Naruto tensed and looked over to stare his boyfriend dead in the eye, "last I check, foreplay doesn't count as havin' sex." He deadpanned not even caring that he may have just opened Pandora's Box. 'I wonder what his excuse will be…' He inwardly mused.
"…" Sasuke gave no reply at all, at least not a spoken one, 'Shit… he's right…' He mentally counted the days and came to the reoccurring fact that ever since he and Shika slept together, he hadn't slept with him, as he said, the most they've done was foreplay and blowjobs', "Naruto—" He began to continue before getting cut off.
"I'm kiddin' teme, forget it, I'm not gonna pressure you for anythin' like that, I'm no perv." Naruto brushed off the topic and forced a grin before putting the car in gear and driving out of the deck.
"… Hn, not a perv huh?" Sasuke smirked and reluctantly let the topic change. Though he knew it would be for the better that he let it drop, before he ending up spilling the beans about him and Shika. As they made their way through the early morning city streets, their conversations carried on without effort, though both males deep down wanted to finish the conversation from the deck and as they finally pulled up the bar, Sasuke mentally decided that he would find some place to finish that conversation without getting disturbed.
9:48Am
"Well look who finally decided to show up." An irritated voice spoke from across the room as the two males entered, and from the occupants in the room, it was clear to see why he sounded like that.
"Yo, Kiba, heh, you sound so happy!" Naruto grinned as he looked between him and the spiky pig-tailed blonde sitting next to an exhausted looking teal eyed male.
"Hm? Temari, what are you doin' here? I thought all the women were back at Naruto's place." Sasuke inquired as he and his blonde took their seats.
"Hmph, she's hardl—" Kiba began to interject before Shika quickly placed a hand over his mouth.
"… Continue." Shika nodded with a look of indifference.
"Anywho," Temari sent Kiba a death glare, "I don't feel like standing on my feet all day, so here I am… simple as that." She continued with a shrug and drank from her beer.
"Heh, I thought for sure you'd say you didn't want to risk your life by being in the kitchen with me and Kiba's mom." Naruto laughed as one of the bartenders brought a few extra beers.
"Ahh, that too, that place is like ground zero now, save for the women who can actually cook." Temari laughed.
"Right, hopefully mine, Choji's, Gaara's and Neji's moms' tie them up somewhere." Sasuke added with a yawn.
"I don't know, our mother has cooked up some odd things over the years." Kankuro amended with a worried expression.
"Right…" Temari and Gaara second.
"And to make it evenly worse, Hana is helpin' this year to." Shika said with a voice full of irritation.
"Man, with Hana there I think she'll make somethin' only dogs could stomach to eat." Kiba hung his head back over his seat.
"Hn, like you could do any better, mutt." Temari clipped with a snide smirk… and that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"You know what," Kiba slowly pulled his head up and glared at the thorn in his side, "fuck you Temari! At least I can admit that I can't cook, but can you admit that you're a fuckin' butch bitch!?" He snapped and briefly thought of how much trouble he'd be in if he blacked her eye.
"Hah, damn sis he—" Kankuro began to laugh, but quickly stopped once the female in question glared him into an early grave, "I-I mean, uhh…" He coughed and took a large swig from his beer.
"Oh my god, you two are like fire and gun powder…" Shikamaru groaned and rubbed his temple, to which the whole group laughed at on his behalf.
"Aww, poor little Shika!" Kyuu glomped on the pineapple haired males back.
"I'm surrounded…" Shika sighed again and didn't even bother to wriggle out of the red-heads grip.
"I sympathize with you." Itachi mentioned and peeled his tanned male off of the spiraling Nara.
"Hey, where are the old men at?" Sasuke inquired and looked around the empty bar, the only other sound being the conversation worthy music playing.
"They're all in Jiraiya's office, though I don't think it's by choice." Neji answered with a somewhat thankful expression, most likely due to the fact that he was glad that they weren't being subjected to whatever topic the perverted white-haired man would be talking about, and with that everyone gave a sigh of relief and pity before carrying on many different topics. One topic being, that neither Lee, Tenten or Guy would be attending the thanksgiving dinner this year, due to Guy dragging his family to the next state over for some fall martial arts competition going on. The conversation then turned to those that would be attending the dinner this year, and the person of topic this time was Akurei, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro's father, who hardly ever flew out to California unless there was a business matter to handle or if Karura dragged him down to visit, which wasn't often seeing as how she also had a tight work schedule, but seemed to make more time for visiting than him. Though, if you asked his children, they didn't mind it in the least.
AN: Whew, I'm gonna keep this A/N short cause I'm burning up. Next chapter coming soon I swear! *faints*
Reason for song: This song begins the roller-coaster ride of the story. So hang on tight.
Please note: Kojika Nara, Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae are mine, well my versions of Neji, Hinata and Gaara's parents names, as well as Shikamaru's sister's name. But mine none the less.
- Anna Uzumaki