"Oh come on Sasuke, how long have we known each other?"
"I'd say about two months Gaara, two months."
"Still, we should be able to talk to each other about personal things like friends."
"That's just it, we're not friends Gaara, I hardly even know you!"
"Ouch, that hurt Uchiha, that hurt, I didn't know you could be so judgmental, so cold, that makes me wanna' cry."
Gaara sat there and started to pout, but with the bottle of alcohol the innocent look he was trying to pull off just wasn't going to happen.
"Oh fine, if you wanna know that desperately, and if it'll shut you up."
"Hell yeah!"
Sasuke sat rooted on the spot giving Gaara one of the coldest death stares in the history of man causing Gaara to realize his folley and take the situation a lttle more seriously.
"So here's the deal, I think I'm falling for someone."
"So what does that have to do with this trip, and why you were screaming?"
"Maybe if you shut your mouth and listen I'll tell you."
"Sorry, I'm just curious."
"Okay, so I think I'm falling for someone, and that someone is Naruto."
"Ohhh, that's it?"
"I know it must be, wait, what do you mean 'that's it'?"
"Well, I mean, it's not exactly the biggest mystery that you like Naruto."
"WHAT?"
"Y'know, I had my suspicions for a while, but I thought you would put your feelings behind you to keep your friendship with him."
"And how many people know this?"
"Oh it's just me, but everyone knows that under the contempt and competitiveness you two share for each other you're really good friends, no but, I don't think any of the others know that you like him, well, like that."
"So, why aren't you, shunning me or something?"
"Shunning you?" Gaara snorted, "Who do you think I am, some gay bashing mongrel, please, I thought you knew me better than that."
"Sorry, I just didn't expect for people to be so accepting so quickly, so what do you think I should do?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Well do you think I should tell him or what, I mean-"
"Hey, I can't tell you what to do, that decision is for you and only you, in fact, letting someone else make it for you is probably the biggest mistake you can make, so just, bear that in mind."
Gaara left Sasuke with the bottle of alcohol and a pat on the back, telling him to just, 'think about it', and for the second time Sasuke was force-fed a small piece of wisdom from one of the Subaku children.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Haku rolled over expecting to feel his arm land on the chest of a particular redhead, and maybe cop a feel, then again, that would probably get him killed, he would just settle with latching it on and passing it off on being asleep. But on that particular day Haku's arm met nothing but air and then floor.
"What the hell, where is he, he should be right here."
Haku waved his arm about while searching the area the redhead had previously occupied, completely perplexed as to why Gaara wasn't in the spot he should've been. Haku finally opened his eyes and received quite a shock. Gaara was kneeling over him raising one non-existent eyebrow to the questionable action Haku was partaking in.
"I-um, uhhh, I was having a uh, a sleep seizeure!"
Haku began to spasm and roll on the floor, attempting to reinforce the poor lie he had just tryed to pass off on Gaara, Haku continued to make random movements on the hotel floor, occasionally glancing up to see if Gaara was buying his act. Gaara just sat there, brow raised, wondering whether he should laugh his ass off, tell Haku to stop, kill Haku, or just jump him a hump right then and there.
"Haku, stop just, no, whatever you're doing, stop, I just can't stand, whatever it is that you're doing."
"Sorry I just um, I kinda had a little miniature freak out there for a second."
"I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what was with the arm movements and groping the air where I was sleeping?"
"Uhhh, I was um, I was dreaming, about playing, football, and you see, I was trying to stiff arm a runner!"
Haku gave a flailing that vaguely resembled him running and sticking an arm out.
"Uh-huh, why don't you just tell me the truth, even if I didn't know you were lying right off the bat, it would be shamefully aparent now, so really, why don't you just come clean with me?"
"I'm not sure if I really want to say..."
"Gotcha, well, whenever you feel like telling me, I'll be waiting for you."
Gaara walked away, hands on his hips, sighing to himself.
"He couldn't know," Haku thought to himself, watching Gaara walk away. Haku shook his head and Gaara took one last look at Haku, smiled, and proceded to wake the others in the room.
"Could he?"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Oh oh, look at that one, Knudshoved next exit," "There's another one, Middlefart, 207 miles south."
It was at this point that the group had gotten genuienly bored, picking out signs and cities that sounded or looked funny, the one at the top of the list so far was one with a generic outlined black stick person, squatting in the middle of the road and a red circle with a slash going through it.
"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Haku asked, "No shitting in the road, they wouldn't put a sign up unless someone already tried to do that!"
"Uhhh guys, where are we going?" And it was Shikamaru who brought up the all-important question.
"We're going on a roadtrip duhhh," Naruto answered, "How could you not know that, and you claim to be the smart one."
"No but I mean is there any particular place we're going to visit on the way, we can't just do this flying by the seat of our pants, we've gotta have enough money to buy sufficient amounts gas to get us there and back unless we feel like getting stranded,"
Naruto gripped the wheel tightly, thinking things over, he rested his head at twelve o' clock between his hands.
"Fuck."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX It could be easily speculated that the side of a dusty Illinois highway is a bad place to be planning anything, even as an exceptionally smart person, let alone six twenty-some odd old idiots planning a spur-of-the moment roadtrip. That would actually be wrong considering they had already dipped almost two weeks into the trip, the more correct term would be a shortly thought out and now choosing to start making decisions to prevent their would be very soon, and very painful end.
"Well, we are officialy in the South and that means we are officialy boned."
"Y'know Haku," Naruto said, cracking his knuckles, "For my best friend, your snarky one-liners are beginning to get on my nerves, so unless you have anything useful to say, please just shut up!"
"Hey!" Garra snapped, "You don't have to be such an ass, God knows some of the people here need to lighten up."
"Are you implying something, Gaara?"
"Not you Naruto, I mean, some people." Gaara ended his sentence by jerking his head back toward Temari.
"Oh, does little brother have a problem with me, would it happen that he would so suddenly forget who saved him from the hazing at the start of the year?"
"Oh good job Temari, way to bring up the past, if you want to open that can of worms again, how about the time I caught you ma-"
"You wouldn't dare." Temari said darkly, her voice dripping with venom.
"Oh I would i would."
"SHUT UP SHUT UP, evreyone stop bickering and bitching, and trying to settle old scores now," It was finally Sasuke who split the yelling, "all of us are part to blame for this mess, Naruto, take it easy on Haku, he usually means for the best even if it doesn't seem like it, Haku, there's a time and place for the jokes, just use a little common sense when deciding to drop a one-liner, Gaara and Temari, it's apparent that there's something a little deep rooted between you guys and it hasn't yet been resolved, but now is NOT the time for it, so apologize for the time being and just, try to get over it for everyone else's sake."
Sasuke sighed like he had just said something he had been wanting to say for a long time, clearing his hair out from in front if his face before continuing.
"Now it's getting late, let's just get a hotel, and pick this up tomorrow, this is just not going anywhere fast."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "How long has been out there?" Naruto asked peering out the curtains of the room.
Upon Sasuke's suggestion they had taken up a temporary residence at a small out of the way hotel room for not the first and most likely not the last time of their journey, upon arriving Sasuke had went down to the pool and remained there for now almost five hours.
"C'mon Naruto," Gaara coaxed, "He's been down there, what time is it, yeah ten, he's been down there about five hours, you should really go and get him."
"Alright fine." Naruto exited the room, slightly annoyed that he had to go get Sasuke, but not saying anything about it considering the fact that Sasuke was probably the only reason evryone else didn't end up hitchhiking back to Massachusetts, so Naruto walked out into the small area behind the rooms, fenced off, the water of the pool casting ghostly shadows onto the nearby hills that began to conceal a setting sun. Naruto entered through the small chain link gate, studying the surroundings, and to his shock, Sasuke's clothes lay in a crumpled pile a couple of feet away from the pool's edge, and to confirm this Naruto looked up and a completely nude Sasuke lay lounging on a forgotten raft.
"Uhhhh, Sasuke?"
"Hmm, what, what do you want Naruto?"
"It's getting kinda late, so you might wanna-"
"Come over here." Sasuke said without taking his eyes off the sky.
Naruto obeyed without question and walked the perimeter of the pool over to the corner where Sasuke had drifted.
"And um uh, why did you need me over here exactly?"
"Lean out here, closer, a little closer."
"What do you need to tell me, whoa!"
Upon leaning far enough out over the water Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the collar and pulled him in wihtout even a second thought.
"What was that for Sasuke!?" Naruto said sputtering and taking off his shoes and shirt.
"To make you more comfortable." Sasuke replied, rolling off the raft into the water and breaking the surface dangerously close to the other boy.
"Sa-Sasuke, what are you doing?"
"Naruto," Sasuke took a deep breath, "I think I love you."
Sasuke pressed Naruto against the pool wall and thrust his lips upon Naruto's.
"I'd say about two months Gaara, two months."
"Still, we should be able to talk to each other about personal things like friends."
"That's just it, we're not friends Gaara, I hardly even know you!"
"Ouch, that hurt Uchiha, that hurt, I didn't know you could be so judgmental, so cold, that makes me wanna' cry."
Gaara sat there and started to pout, but with the bottle of alcohol the innocent look he was trying to pull off just wasn't going to happen.
"Oh fine, if you wanna know that desperately, and if it'll shut you up."
"Hell yeah!"
Sasuke sat rooted on the spot giving Gaara one of the coldest death stares in the history of man causing Gaara to realize his folley and take the situation a lttle more seriously.
"So here's the deal, I think I'm falling for someone."
"So what does that have to do with this trip, and why you were screaming?"
"Maybe if you shut your mouth and listen I'll tell you."
"Sorry, I'm just curious."
"Okay, so I think I'm falling for someone, and that someone is Naruto."
"Ohhh, that's it?"
"I know it must be, wait, what do you mean 'that's it'?"
"Well, I mean, it's not exactly the biggest mystery that you like Naruto."
"WHAT?"
"Y'know, I had my suspicions for a while, but I thought you would put your feelings behind you to keep your friendship with him."
"And how many people know this?"
"Oh it's just me, but everyone knows that under the contempt and competitiveness you two share for each other you're really good friends, no but, I don't think any of the others know that you like him, well, like that."
"So, why aren't you, shunning me or something?"
"Shunning you?" Gaara snorted, "Who do you think I am, some gay bashing mongrel, please, I thought you knew me better than that."
"Sorry, I just didn't expect for people to be so accepting so quickly, so what do you think I should do?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Well do you think I should tell him or what, I mean-"
"Hey, I can't tell you what to do, that decision is for you and only you, in fact, letting someone else make it for you is probably the biggest mistake you can make, so just, bear that in mind."
Gaara left Sasuke with the bottle of alcohol and a pat on the back, telling him to just, 'think about it', and for the second time Sasuke was force-fed a small piece of wisdom from one of the Subaku children.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Haku rolled over expecting to feel his arm land on the chest of a particular redhead, and maybe cop a feel, then again, that would probably get him killed, he would just settle with latching it on and passing it off on being asleep. But on that particular day Haku's arm met nothing but air and then floor.
"What the hell, where is he, he should be right here."
Haku waved his arm about while searching the area the redhead had previously occupied, completely perplexed as to why Gaara wasn't in the spot he should've been. Haku finally opened his eyes and received quite a shock. Gaara was kneeling over him raising one non-existent eyebrow to the questionable action Haku was partaking in.
"I-um, uhhh, I was having a uh, a sleep seizeure!"
Haku began to spasm and roll on the floor, attempting to reinforce the poor lie he had just tryed to pass off on Gaara, Haku continued to make random movements on the hotel floor, occasionally glancing up to see if Gaara was buying his act. Gaara just sat there, brow raised, wondering whether he should laugh his ass off, tell Haku to stop, kill Haku, or just jump him a hump right then and there.
"Haku, stop just, no, whatever you're doing, stop, I just can't stand, whatever it is that you're doing."
"Sorry I just um, I kinda had a little miniature freak out there for a second."
"I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what was with the arm movements and groping the air where I was sleeping?"
"Uhhh, I was um, I was dreaming, about playing, football, and you see, I was trying to stiff arm a runner!"
Haku gave a flailing that vaguely resembled him running and sticking an arm out.
"Uh-huh, why don't you just tell me the truth, even if I didn't know you were lying right off the bat, it would be shamefully aparent now, so really, why don't you just come clean with me?"
"I'm not sure if I really want to say..."
"Gotcha, well, whenever you feel like telling me, I'll be waiting for you."
Gaara walked away, hands on his hips, sighing to himself.
"He couldn't know," Haku thought to himself, watching Gaara walk away. Haku shook his head and Gaara took one last look at Haku, smiled, and proceded to wake the others in the room.
"Could he?"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Oh oh, look at that one, Knudshoved next exit," "There's another one, Middlefart, 207 miles south."
It was at this point that the group had gotten genuienly bored, picking out signs and cities that sounded or looked funny, the one at the top of the list so far was one with a generic outlined black stick person, squatting in the middle of the road and a red circle with a slash going through it.
"And what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Haku asked, "No shitting in the road, they wouldn't put a sign up unless someone already tried to do that!"
"Uhhh guys, where are we going?" And it was Shikamaru who brought up the all-important question.
"We're going on a roadtrip duhhh," Naruto answered, "How could you not know that, and you claim to be the smart one."
"No but I mean is there any particular place we're going to visit on the way, we can't just do this flying by the seat of our pants, we've gotta have enough money to buy sufficient amounts gas to get us there and back unless we feel like getting stranded,"
Naruto gripped the wheel tightly, thinking things over, he rested his head at twelve o' clock between his hands.
"Fuck."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX It could be easily speculated that the side of a dusty Illinois highway is a bad place to be planning anything, even as an exceptionally smart person, let alone six twenty-some odd old idiots planning a spur-of-the moment roadtrip. That would actually be wrong considering they had already dipped almost two weeks into the trip, the more correct term would be a shortly thought out and now choosing to start making decisions to prevent their would be very soon, and very painful end.
"Well, we are officialy in the South and that means we are officialy boned."
"Y'know Haku," Naruto said, cracking his knuckles, "For my best friend, your snarky one-liners are beginning to get on my nerves, so unless you have anything useful to say, please just shut up!"
"Hey!" Garra snapped, "You don't have to be such an ass, God knows some of the people here need to lighten up."
"Are you implying something, Gaara?"
"Not you Naruto, I mean, some people." Gaara ended his sentence by jerking his head back toward Temari.
"Oh, does little brother have a problem with me, would it happen that he would so suddenly forget who saved him from the hazing at the start of the year?"
"Oh good job Temari, way to bring up the past, if you want to open that can of worms again, how about the time I caught you ma-"
"You wouldn't dare." Temari said darkly, her voice dripping with venom.
"Oh I would i would."
"SHUT UP SHUT UP, evreyone stop bickering and bitching, and trying to settle old scores now," It was finally Sasuke who split the yelling, "all of us are part to blame for this mess, Naruto, take it easy on Haku, he usually means for the best even if it doesn't seem like it, Haku, there's a time and place for the jokes, just use a little common sense when deciding to drop a one-liner, Gaara and Temari, it's apparent that there's something a little deep rooted between you guys and it hasn't yet been resolved, but now is NOT the time for it, so apologize for the time being and just, try to get over it for everyone else's sake."
Sasuke sighed like he had just said something he had been wanting to say for a long time, clearing his hair out from in front if his face before continuing.
"Now it's getting late, let's just get a hotel, and pick this up tomorrow, this is just not going anywhere fast."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "How long has been out there?" Naruto asked peering out the curtains of the room.
Upon Sasuke's suggestion they had taken up a temporary residence at a small out of the way hotel room for not the first and most likely not the last time of their journey, upon arriving Sasuke had went down to the pool and remained there for now almost five hours.
"C'mon Naruto," Gaara coaxed, "He's been down there, what time is it, yeah ten, he's been down there about five hours, you should really go and get him."
"Alright fine." Naruto exited the room, slightly annoyed that he had to go get Sasuke, but not saying anything about it considering the fact that Sasuke was probably the only reason evryone else didn't end up hitchhiking back to Massachusetts, so Naruto walked out into the small area behind the rooms, fenced off, the water of the pool casting ghostly shadows onto the nearby hills that began to conceal a setting sun. Naruto entered through the small chain link gate, studying the surroundings, and to his shock, Sasuke's clothes lay in a crumpled pile a couple of feet away from the pool's edge, and to confirm this Naruto looked up and a completely nude Sasuke lay lounging on a forgotten raft.
"Uhhhh, Sasuke?"
"Hmm, what, what do you want Naruto?"
"It's getting kinda late, so you might wanna-"
"Come over here." Sasuke said without taking his eyes off the sky.
Naruto obeyed without question and walked the perimeter of the pool over to the corner where Sasuke had drifted.
"And um uh, why did you need me over here exactly?"
"Lean out here, closer, a little closer."
"What do you need to tell me, whoa!"
Upon leaning far enough out over the water Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the collar and pulled him in wihtout even a second thought.
"What was that for Sasuke!?" Naruto said sputtering and taking off his shoes and shirt.
"To make you more comfortable." Sasuke replied, rolling off the raft into the water and breaking the surface dangerously close to the other boy.
"Sa-Sasuke, what are you doing?"
"Naruto," Sasuke took a deep breath, "I think I love you."
Sasuke pressed Naruto against the pool wall and thrust his lips upon Naruto's.