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SO! It's *looks at clock* 4:03, Gargoyles is on and my classical music is playing (which really helps to type.. just saying) which means I need to go to sleep. There's probably loads of grammar mistakes but I'm not fixing them right now. I'll fix them letter.
As always: None of this is mine. Though Alex is. She's apart of me and you can't have her. Borrowing hers cool, you just can't keep her.
Happeh Reading!
Chapter Eight
Alex's POV
Sasuke and I sat on the couch in the living room as usual. He was watching something on TV while I was randomly surfacing the internet. My stomach growled as I smelled the delicious food that Deidara was cooking up in the kitchen. Itachi walked into the living room and sat on the floor in front of the couch.
Placing his hands on the table he asks, "So, how are you guys and your men doing?" he asked.
"Itachi, go away. You are not psychologying us." Sasuke said barely glancing up away from the TV.
"I'm not psychologying you as you put it, I'm just wondering how things are going for you both." he responded with a shrug.
"Deidara! Come get Itachi and drag him to the kitchen! He's trying to invade into our personal lives!" I shouted, leaning over the edge of the arm rest.
Deiadra walked in all his hair up in a messy bun, one hand on his hip, the other hand wielding a wooden spoon pointed in Itachi's direction while his maroon apron hung around his neck covered in flour. "Itachi, if you do not leave those kids alone and help me with dinner." he said.
Grumbling to himself, the older Uchiha got up from his place on the floor and walked in the direction of the kitchen.
"Thank you Dei!" I said with a grin while Sasuke gave him a thankful nod.
"No problem." the blonde said kissing the young girl on top of her head before walking back to the kitchen where a mini argument could be heard. 'Those two need to just go out already.'
Then my phone went off, "How did it come to this? How did I know it was you? It was a bad dream, asphyxiated watch me bleed. The life support was cut, the knot was too tight. They push and pull me but they know they'll never win…" I stood up and walked towards the front door, earning a raised eyebrow from Sasuke as I went.
"Talk to me." I answered the phone.
"Damn girl, it's never a hello or anything with you." The silver haired man muttered, "Anyway. We've got another race for you coming up. Some poor bastard from outta town. You game?"
"I dunno Hidan.. I think Sasuke knows I'm racing again.." I told him.
"Well fuck. We don't need him and Itachi coming out here wanting our heads again.. Call me and tell me for sure later alright?" Hidan asked.
"Alrighyt. Talk to you later." I said before hanging up the phone and walking back into the house, taking my place on the couch.
"What was that all about?" Sasuke questioned after a minute or two of silence.
'Quick lie!' "Oh, Tobi wanted to know if he could brow some of my paints." I said shrugging, hoping he bought it.
"Why answer it outside?"
"Didn't want to bother you. You seemed really into.." I looked at the TV and let out a small laugh, "Happy Days? Really Sasuke?"
"Hey, can't hate the classics." he answered with a shrug, "And you've never done that before."
'Shit.' "Well sorry for trying to be a bit considerate." I said looking back at my laptop, hoping he would let it go.
He didn't.
"You're drag racing again aren't you?"
"What does it matter?" I asked, getting fed up.
"The fact that you could get hurt! I don't wanna have to visit you in the hospital or plan your fucking funeral!" the raven said throwing his hands up and turning towards her, "Why do you keep doing it?"
"Because it's one of the few places I feel like I fucking belong! And it kills me a little bit inside when I ask Itachi or you for money. I hate being a burden on you two!" I closed my laptop, threw it to the side and stood up.
Sasuke joined me, "When have you ever been a burden?" I could see the confusion all in his eyes. He placed his hands on my shoulders, "You. Are. Family. You're my little sister, blood or not."
"Well sorry for not ever having a family and knowing what it feels like." I said before putting on my shoes and walking out the front door.
Once about halfway down the street it dawned on me how bitchy I just was. "Shit." I muttered before continuing to the cafe where I immediately when to the couch and collapsed head first. 'I can't believe I said that. What the fuck is wrong with me?' I was brought out of my self pity by a voice saying:
"You know that's a good way to suffocate yourself."
Barely moving, but turning my neck in some weird owl-like fashion and almost breaking my neck, I saw Gaara standing beside the couch with two coffee cups. I sat up fully and gratefully took the cup he handed me, "From my cousin." he said nodding to the cup.
"Thanks." I called over my shoulder to Shukaku with a lopsided smile. Sipping the coffee, I sighed in satisfaction, 'Nothing like a caramel macchito to soothe the soul.'
"You seem like something's bothering you." Gaara commented, sipping his own drink.
I let out another sigh, this one tired, "I had am argument with Sasuke over my drag racing and said some really stupid things." I fell back to the couch, my hand running down my face, but stop about half way through when the redhead said:
"I understand."
Moving my hand and turning to him, I tilted my head to the side, "You do?"
He nodded and leaned back himself and let out a sigh, "I'm sure Naruto would have a hissy fit if he found out about my racing, so would my brother and sister. They only one who knows about it is Sasori and that's cause he helps run everything."
Shaking my head slowly, I let out a laugh, "I've never met someone who understands me."
"Sometimes it's good to have someone understand you." he said with a shrug and a smile that was hidden by his cup that he brought to his lips.
'So maybe something good came outta that argument..' I thought calling out to Shukaku some cookies.
Gaara opened his mouth to speak, but his phone went off: "The city is at a war Playtime for the young and rich Ignore me if you see me 'cause I just don't give a shit..." He answered it, but couldn't get a word in because of the screaming from the other end. After a minute or two more a yelling the line went dead and the redhead closed the phone.
I raised an eyebrow, "Do I wanna know?"
"The idiot probably did something stupid again." he commented with a shrug.
"Oh yeah he did." Shukaku said bring a plate of cookies over to Gaara.
Neither of them decided to talk about it, rather talking about the up coming race.
Sasuke's POV
I let out a long sigh as I ran my hand through my hair, fell back on the couch and ran my hand over my face. Itachi and Deidara come running in hearing the door slam. It took them both a minute to analyze the situation before Itachi asked, "Where's Alex?"
"Alex and I were fighting cause she was racing again." As I said this, Deidara twirled the lone strand of hair that had escaped from his pony tail. I wasn't the only one to notice it, for Itachi looked at the blonde, "Deidara?"
The blonde sighed and ran a hand down his face, "I knew she was racing again."
"You.. WHAT?" the Uchihas questioned together, both standing in front of the blonde.
"Deidara, you knew and you didn't tell me?" Itachi said, I could hear a bit of hurt in is voice, masked by the anger.
"How could you let her do that?" I asked also.
"Both of you don't look at me like that! Especially you dammit!" he said pointed at Itachi. "The other week I went to The Hangout to get my paint from Tobi that I let him borrow and she was there. I know she just got done with a race because Kakuzu was counting his money. I was going to tell you both she didn't want to worry you and more than she did."
Itachi opened his mouth but Deidara held up a hand, "And I don't blame her. I know when Konnan and Nagato took me in, I tried everything I could not to be a bother to them. It because we don't want to be a bother and a bit of a pride thing."
Itachi ran a hand down his face and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Alright, I get where bother are you are coming from. I might not like it, but I understand it." Taking a deep breath he said, "Let's go eat dinner. It's ready right Dei?"
The blonde nodded, "Yep. Come on you two." he said before walking towards the kitchen.
I was still upset over it all and Itachi seemed to sense this, "It'll be okey little brother." he said ruffling my hair like he knows I hate.
"If you say so." I said with a sigh.
"If you two do not get in here and eat! I will be mighty upset if this gets cold!" the blonde angrily shouted from the kitchen.
"We might as well go before we bare the wrath of Deiadra upon us." I said with a laugh walking into the kitchen, Itachi by my side.
The three of us sat around the dinning room table after getting our drinks and serving ourselves. We began having random conversations until, of course, Itachi had to bring him up: "So, how are you and Naruto doing?" he asked.
My eye twitched, I opened my mouth to responded before thought popped into my head, 'Oh two can play this game.' With an off hand shrug I said, "Oh, I dunno.. how are you and Deidara doing?" Deidara let out an "Ep!" as Itachi coughed on his drink. Both of us had a staring match before The blonde coughed and said:
"So, Alex's birthday is coming up." he said trying to break the small tension that was in the room.
"It is isn't it?" Itachi rhetorically, "What should we do for it?" he wondered aloud as we began cleaning off the table and putting left overs away.
"Ooooh! I know what we should do!" Deidara said, "We should throw her a surprise party at The Hangout!"
"That sounds like a pretty good idea." Itachi said with a nod, "Now for presents..."
Walking back to the living room, I bumped my elbow on the wardrobe and muttered a curse. It was then it dawned on him what to get his best friend. "Don't worry about gifts, I know just what to get her." I said, "You guys just handle everything else."
The two nodded before I walked up stairs to my room. I went straight to my iPod dock, plugged in my iPod and pressed play. "Monster" by Paramore began to play through the speakers. Despite my better judgment, I found the blonde popping into my head. 'Okey brain, I get it. I like him. Now leave me alone!'
I walked over to my window seat and dropped down to it. 'I could just casually talk to him in Gaza's class.. but he might find that weird..' Throwing my hands up, I sighed and decided to pull out my sketch in my book that I picked up off the floor.
I slowly wake up and found myself in bed. Confused, and still mildly asleep, I looked from the window seat to the bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a sticky note on my phone that sat on the night stand and picked it up. It read:
Came to talk to you, but you had fallen asleep on the window seat. Me being the wonderful big brother I am, carried you to bed and tucked you in all nice. See you in the morning.
-Itachi
Shaking my head, I took the note and stuck it on the side of the night stand before looking at my phone and seeing that I had a text from Alex saying:
From: Alex
"'Sorry for being a grade 'A' bitch.'"
There was also a picture of her making her signature "puppy dog face". I replied that I was sorry too though I knew I wasn't going to get a reply till at breakfast that morning. I fall back on my bed and slowly drifted back to sleep listening to music as he did:
"..You always want what you can't have But I've got to try I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have For you I will.."
Naruto's POV
I was not amused. Here I sat in my own living room tied up to one of the kitchen chairs, yelling, "Let me go! This isn't fair!"
"Oh yes it is." my dearest older brother, (and I say that with as much sarcasm as possible) aid walking towards me with a bottle in his gloved hands.
"No its-" Mom walked in from upstairs, "MOM! Thank god. Tell Kyuubi this isn't fair!" I shouted, hoping mother would get me out of this.
"I told you to pick your pranks carefully and to take the consequences." she said with a shrug before walking around the island into the kitchen.
Dad walked in from the backyard and I tried the same with him, only to get shot down, "It doesn't affect your soccer playing and you heard your mother."
Cringing as I felt, Kyuubi applying the hair dye, I prayed for someone to save me. There was a knock at the door before Gaara walked in. "You bastard! Why didn't you come sooner? You coulda stopped this!" I shouted at him as he walked over to the island to take a cup of drink from my mother.
He nodded in thanks before walking to the couch and sitting down facing me. Even my dog betrayed me and joined the redhead on the couch. 'I need to get better friends.. And a dog... Bad Max!' I mentally yelled at him, but it fazed him little. "So what took you so long to get here?" I questioned.
"I was at the cafe taking with Alex." he answered after taking a drink.
"Who's Alex?" Kyuubi asked, still dying a bit of Naruto's hair.
"My chemistry partner from school."
"MmmHmm, sure she's just that." I said, knowing the redhead liked her.
"Does our little Gaara have a crush?" The older Uzumaki asked.
"Oohh yeah. Big time."
Kushina walks over, "Boys leave him alone." she said in her "mother-tone" as we called it. She turned to Gaara, all smiles, "Who's this girl?"
Gaara glared at me and I swear the temperature dropped a couple of degrees. "How's Sasuke doing?" he asked, his voiced cold as he sipped his drink. We had a glaring match, before Mom broke it up by saying:
"Naruto, you should invite them to your birthday party next month!"
"I thought it was just a family thing.." I said raising an eyebrow.
She waved the comment away, "A few friends won't hurt. Ask them about it! And if they say yes, then get their parents to call me."
"Mom, actually it's just Sasuke's older brother looking after them both." I told her, wondering how she would react.
"Well get him to call me, duh." she says beforegoing back to finish dinner.
Dad looked up from the letter he was reading before commenting, "How's the hair coming along?"
"Oh yeah!" I began attempting to flail around, but failed.
Kyuubi sighed, "Dad, he was finially still. Guess it's fine now seems-how I'm done." He untied me from the chair and pushed me towards the stairs, "Go wash it out."
I ran upstairs to the bathroom and rinsed out my hair. Reaching for a towel on the railing beside the sink, I ran it through my hair before looking in the mirror. 'My hair.. It's..' "KYUUBI MY HAIR'S PINK!" I shouted running down stairs and starting and all out chase war with my older brother.
"You traded all my cologne and deodorant for Brittany Spears "Curious" perfume!" he yelled, "Now everything in my room smells like it."
We began arguing back and forth with each other, trying to top each other in our pranks. We shoulda known it wasn't gonna last. Sure enough, Mom walked over, grabbed both of us by the ear and dragged us to the table. In her "mother voice" she said, "Sit down and eat." And as always, told Gaara to come join us with a smile.
Gaara's POV
I honestly couldn't stop staring at my best friend's hair.. It was just so blonde and pink now. Every now and then I would hear Kyuubi chuckle from the kitchen where was helping put left overs away. 'You have really done it this time Naruto..'
"Will stop staring at it?" the blonde shouted reaching for a pillow and sitting it on his head.
"Alright, alright. I'll stop. But man.. I don't know think you're gonna roll back from this one."
He let out a long sigh and partly a whine, (no I don't know how he manged it, but he did) before falling back on the couch, "So what were you and Alex talking about?"
"Her and Sasuke had some kind of falling out and it seem liked she needed somebody to talk to, so I talked to her." I told him with a shrug.
"I guess you both go to the cafe when you're upset." Naruto commented with a laugh.
"Coffee heals the soul." I said wisely, earning a laugh from Naruto.
"I dunno how you guys drink that stuff." he said shaking his head.
"You can talk all you want but my skin is really thick I'm the leader of the crowd and my game is pretty slick I'm unstoppable.."
Pulling my phone from my pocket, I looked at the text from Temari:
"'Come home now.'"
'This doesn't sound good..' I thought standing up.
"What's up?" Naruto asked.
"Temari needs me back home. Talk to you later?" I asked, mildly distracted.
"Yeah, no problem. Don't forget you can talk to me no matter what." he said giving me his signature foxy-like grin.
I could help the small smile that made it's way to my face, "I know. Thanks." I said before calling a good bye to the rest of the Uzumaki family, getting in my car and driving home. When I pulled up to the house, I saw my brother and sister's car (which was normal) but I also saw my uncle and cousin's car (which was by far not normal: as in they can't stand each other).
Parking the car, I got out and walked into the house where everybody was sitting in the living room. Temari was at the head of the room in the reclining chair her and either side of her face. Her blonde hair was let out of it's four pig tails and Kankuro stood beside her running his hands through it like we both did when she was stressed. My brother was in sweat pants, as if just woke up and he had none of his face make up on. Sasori and Shukaku sat on the couch, though they sat on the far ends, it still amazed (and sacred) me that the were even sitting that close to each other.
Having enough of all the tension and silence going around the room, I asked, "What the hell is going on?" Temari looked up and I could see the tiredness in her face, but not only that I could see the tears running down her cheeks and her red eyes. I walked quickly over to her and knelt beside her, rubbing her back comfortingly, "Mari, what's wrong?"
"They've let him out of prison. The courts say his case won't hold and all the charges have been dropped." she said, her voice cracking.
My eyes widened as what she said begun to sink in. 'Out of prison.. case won't hold.. charges.. dropped..' I looked to Kankuro who just nodded and with scratchy voice said, "I know little brother."
Turning back to Temari, I saw her blue eyes tearing up again as she saw what was on the tip of my tongue, "Dad's back Gaara." she said.
What's in store at Alex and Naruto's birthday parties? Will Sasuke talk to Naruto? How will Naruto get back at Kyuubi? What's up with Gaara's dad? All this and more will be answered in the next chapter of *dramatic music* Only One! [- That there is better if you read it like one of those To Be Contiued things.. just saying..]
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