Disclaimer: I wish...
Warnings: Yaoi, OOC-ness, Language
A/N: I wish I could apologize big enough for making you wait for more than a month but I can't so please accept this chapter as my apology.
You are the God of StupidityIt didn't take a genius to figure it out, it really didn't. Sasuke woke up the morning after the party in so much pain he was sure his head might explode. He could hardly move his body to get out of bed. There wasn't a point anyway. He'd just make Kakashi carry him to the car. The pain was unbearable.
However, he had to go downstairs sometime. When he opened his eyes the light stung them. He only squinted though. He wasn't a wimp; he could take a little headache. But what he really didn't like was the way that everything around the center of his vision was blurred and even the smallest sound echoed like the Bells of Notre Dame.
And when he got downstairs to find everyone hustling and bustling around getting ready to depart, it sounded like a giant party where everything was happening around him but not to him.
Somewhere in his mind he realized he must have looked like shit so he put his hood up and got to helping in anyway he could.
Which turned out to be so unhelpful that Kurenai put him on the couch with aspirin and told him not to move. He didn't have a problem with that.
So he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
His head really hurt.
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Naruto woke up in worse condition than Sasuke. Partially because he wasn't as big of a morning person as the other but mostly because he'd hardly been to sleep in the first place.
If anyone bothered to look close enough they would have seen the tear streaks that darkened his unusually pale skin. His eyes were blood shot and his hair was a mess. His nose was red, his throat burned, and to top it all off his head felt so heavy he could hardly keep it up.
Still, Iruka might notice if he stayed in bed too long. In order to hide his haggard appearance, Naruto put on the biggest hoodie he could find and lifted the hood.
Then, in an attempt to blast his headache away, he put his headphones in and cranked the Used.
He felt it fit the occasion.
Even though the music flooded out the outside world, it didn't stop his thoughts. Kiba's voicemail played over and over again in his head...
Listen man, don't sleep with Uchiha. He's bad news. He's in with another bet. Don't do it. Call me when you get this.
Sasuke was just betting on him. Naruto swallowed hard. Kiba wouldn't lie to him. And it wasn't like this hadn't happened before. But...
You don't understand. Naruto loves Sasuke. A lot. And to watch him disappear would be even worse than watching his parents disappear.
So he was going to ask Sasuke. Not dump him right away... that would be too hurtful.
Maybe Sasuke didn't take the bet and Kiba just got some bad information. Kiba was known to exaggerate after all.
Then Naruto took a step away from the stairs and his gaze fell on Sasuke's form lounging on the couch and swallowing some medicine. Tears flooded Naruto's eyes.
Okay... maybe he'd ask him once he was a little more emotionally stable.
If he was ever emotionally stable again that is.
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"Alright, we'll see you later!" Kurenai shouted, waving as Iruka and Kakashi got into the front seats of the car. "Be sure to visit more often!"
Iruka nodded and waved one last time before slamming his door shut. Naruto and Sasuke were already sleeping in the back seat and if he wasn't so tired himself Iruka would have noticed that they were both leaning on opposite sides of the car. As it was, he was very tired and should not have let Kakashi keep him up so late last night but he did and so he didn't notice it.
Kakashi didn't really notice it either. If he did he didn't make anything of it. So they just stayed that way for the whole ride. No one really talked because two of them were asleep and the last one didn't feel like talking a whole lot today.
And that is how the car ride, which should have taken forever, felt like ten minutes. And before they knew it Iruka and Naruto were being kicked out of the car and thrown onto their lawn. To some extent, at least. Really they were carefully shaken awake and Sasuke and Kakashi helped carry the bags up to the house and everything. But when they look back on it they could have at least said something to each other.
But since they didn't it seemed just as mean as if they actually had kicked them out of the car and thrown them onto their lawn.
Anyway, Iruka and Naruto fell asleep in the living room and stayed like that until around eight o'clock that night, when they woke up to set the alarm clocks and went back to sleep.
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Kiba pounded furiously on the door. Didn't bushy brows know that he was supposed to answer the first time the bell was rung? Not the eightieth.
You know, Kiba actually had a really full life, and wouldn't normally spend such a long time trying to contact his friends if it wasn't for his fetish with high numbers. If whoever he's calling can't say "That lunatic called me -insert number over fifty here- then Kiba just doesn't feel complete.
So he stood there pounding on the door and ringing the bell over and over again until he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Lee standing there with Neji not far behind him and both of them wearing amused expressions on their faces.
They wouldn't be so amused when he told them what he had to tell them. Oh no they wouldn't. He'd be bombarded with questions concerning the important information, which resided in his brain.
And they'd all worship him for telling them. World domination baby. Boo-yah.
"Kiba! What are you doing on my porch?" Lee shouted, fishing the keys out of his pocket and ushering Kiba to the side so he could get in. Neji was standing behind them, apparently asleep with his eyes open.
"I found out something horrible! You've gotta call Shikamaru and tell him to get over here as fast as you can!"
Lee sweatdropped.
"Why didn't you just get him first?" Kiba scoffed and motioned his hand as if swatting away stupidity.
"Don't question my methods. Just do it." Pretending to be completely above arguing with Kiba, Lee rolled his eyes and opened the door while flipping open his cell and calling Shikamaru, who surprisingly answered on the first ring. Like he was expecting the call.
"What?"
"Kiba's going crazy again."
"I'll be over in five."
"Hey!"
Snapping the phone shut Lee threw his jacket down and took Neji's. They all sat around in the living room in a comically awkward silence waiting for Shikamaru or the imaginary elevator music. Whichever came first.
Eventually (Though it took him six minutes, not five as he said before) Shikamaru got there and Kiba shouted out his information. Neither of Naruto's close friends took it too kindly and Neji wasn't happy about it either. They all wore looks that promised death to Sasuke and whoever else got in their way.
"Wait," Neji said, interrupting the silent plotting going on in the other three's minds. "Did you say Gaara? Crazy red hair, no eyebrows?"
Kiba nodded furiously, thinking that Neji was going somewhere with that but disappointed when the boy returned to his thinking pose.
"Do you know him?" White-eyes looked up to meet Lee's and Neji shrugged.
"I've heard of him. Apparently he was used in a bet too. It turned out really nasty. When he found out he was being used he tried to...er..." He made a crude notion, dragging his thumb across his neck and Lee shuddered.
"I'll bet you anything it was Sasuke." Kiba growled out. Shikamaru sighed, which wouldn't seem like a horrible thing to anyone who didn't know him, but this sigh was incredibly different from his other "bored" or "tired" sighs. This was a sigh of anger and death.
After a few minutes, they decided to split and talk again tomorrow at school. They couldn't do anything for now and it would be best to calm down just a little bit before they saw Sasuke.
According to Shikamaru anyway.
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Finally... Peace. Sasuke sighed as he settled into his comforter. Although he really couldn't possibly be at peace with everything that's going on, I'm pretty sure he meant in the general sense. Like... Finally... Peace from the world. You know?
It was as if he could sink into his sheets and never come back out again. That way he wouldn't have to face Naruto tomorrow. Which would definitely be helpful for his sanity. He was sure he'd loose it as soon as his next conversation with Naruto was over. Because that would be the conversation about how low Sasuke is and how big of an asshole he had been.
How could he convince Naruto that it wasn't all a lie? Sure, the original reason was a total lie. He hadn't been interested in the other romantically in the beginning. But he really had grown to love him. Every single time he saw Naruto after their movie night he knew that he loved him.
But he refused to stop the bet.
When he first figured out that it really was love, he thought that he'd continued the bet because of denial... Don't look at him like that. Sasuke loves to psychoanalyze himself.
Anyway, after thinking about it more and more he figured out that it was because of what had happened on his last bet. The one with Gaara.
Gaara had told Sasuke that he loved him so much he'd given him his whole heart. That he didn't care if it really was a bet. But Sasuke just pushed him away and said that if Gaara had truly given him enough of his heart to break, he shouldn't be asking him back.
Because Sasuke knew that Gaara didn't love him. The redhead was kind of like the Naruto of his old school. Everyone thought he was a freak. The difference was that Naruto has some people who love him. Gaara didn't really have anyone.
So he went crazy all because of Sasuke.
And Sasuke figured that if that were love then he wouldn't want to risk it. Sure he "loved" Kakashi but that was because he was his guardian. Not because he had a crush or anything.
But then he met Naruto. And he felt like he was floating. And it felt so fantastic that it persuaded Sasuke to take that chance.
Unfortunately it was too late. He hadn't dropped the bet and the month was over tomorrow. He'd have to pay those jocks a thousand dollars.
You must be confused. See, Sasuke decided that he wasn't going to tell them that he succeeded. That would make it absolutely impossible to make Naruto believe him.
Speaking of the jocks...
Sasuke looked down to see his phone blinking and ringing so he answered it.
"Times up, Sasuke my boy! So did you nail him?" Dark eyes rolled and he took a deep breath to keep from blowing up at them. It wasn't their fault he was so easily persuaded by money.
"No." He flipped shut the phone and threw it across the room. Tomorrow was going to suck.
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06:00
Alarm clocks go off. Slowly everyone gets out of bed and stumbles into their bathrooms.
Naruto looks in his mirror and shudders. He looked like he'd already been dumped. He washed his face, brushed his teeth, and did all of his normal morning stuff while constantly choking back tears.
Sasuke was so ashamed that he couldn't even meet his own eyes in the reflecting glass. He kept his head down and completed everything he needed to, taking his time. Because he was not looking forward to school today.
Kiba had pretty much the same morning as Lee and Shikamaru. The three of them wore matching glares, thinking about what they were going to do to Sasuke as soon as they could.
Kakashi refused to wake up at Six A.M. He didn't want to get up until he felt he had too.
Iruka watched Naruto playing with his breakfast and shuddered. He had a very strong feeling that today was going to be a horrible day.
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It was lunchtime at school and two boys were missing from the lunchroom, which didn't make sense since that's where students should be during lunch...
But we'll forgive these two because they had special reasons for not being there. See, these two boys were Naruto and Sasuke. And they were having a private meeting in the chapel above the school building.
And it was incredibly awkward. Neither one was really talking. They were just sitting in one of the pews, looking at each other and thinking over everything that needed to be said.
It took a while, and more than half of the lunch period, but Naruto eventually sighed and licked his lips pulling Sasuke out of his trance.
"Sasuke," he started. The other flinched when he heard the crack in Naruto's voice from crying. "I-... Kiba told me that you bet on sleeping with me... With some of the jocks in school... S-so... Did you?"
Naruto knew that it helped to just spit out everything you needed to say as fast as you could. Like ripping off a band-aid. And in a twisted metaphor he could be ripping off a band-aid.
When those other people bet on him, it tore his heart a little bit that people actually thought of him as so big of a freak that he didn't matter. And even though it took some time he got over the pain and "put a band-aid" on that tare.
And Sasuke could be tearing it all over again.
"Look, Naruto." Sasuke looked down into his lap and refused to meet the pleading blue eyes that were boring into the top of his head. "I know that you have been bet on before. And as disgusting as it is, I know what it's like to bet on a person. Every time I've had to leave a school in the past it was because I bet on some kid and couldn't stand the looks I'd get afterwards.
"So when I got here, I didn't see why it should have been any different. I figured I could use the money and everything. So yes, I did bet on you." Naruto flinched and narrowed his eyes at Sasuke. How could he have been so stupid? "But-" Sasuke cut off his thoughts. "This one didn't end like all the others. I really started to like you a lot and I know I should have stopped the bet when I realized what was going on... But I didn't.
"You have every right to hate my guts," he met Naruto's heated glare. "I know I'm worse than the amoeba on the fungus on the dirt on the rats that live in the sewers and I'm probably not going to be able to sleep because I'll be thinking about how horrible I've been to someone that I actually... well... love."
Sasuke swallowed and sighed very deeply. Man that was a load off. And judging by the look being sent his way, Naruto was definitely going to practice his right to hate Sasuke's guts.
"How much?"
Sasuke furrowed his brow at Naruto questions.
"What?"
"How much money do you get for sleeping with me?" Naruto growled out. Sasuke tried to answer quickly.
"No-"
"I can't believe you! That's all I am is just a fucking bet?" Naruto scoffed and stood up. "I am through with listening to you Sasuke. It is only going to be a bunch of lies. Lies that make me believe that all of those fairytales I used to be told about are real. Lies that make me think that finally, finally, someone other than my friends and my dad actually looked at me as something more than a toy. You really are a bastard."
Before Naruto ran out of the chapel and to the cafeteria, he tore off the necklace that he always wore. The blue gem on a silver chain that Sasuke had given him two weeks ago. He threw it on the floor and stopped on it, shattering it to a million pieces. Finally he sprinted out of the chapel.
And Sasuke was left all alone. He couldn't believe he'd been so stupid.
Way to go. You are the god of stupidity..
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Naruto was just about to enter the cafeteria. He hadn't started crying yet and was going to try and wait until he got home. No one had ever seen him cry before except his friends and Iruka. He refused to give anyone else that satisfaction.
Unfortunately there were some people who were apparently waiting for him in front of the only doors to the cafeteria and his friends.
The Jocks.
"Well, well, well, look who it is! It's the freak!" The leader of the gang sneered and stalked up to Naruto cockily. "Did you break up with your boyfriend already? Only lasted a month I see. Pity you can't hold onto anyone longer than that."
Naruto narrowed his eyes and snarled. Who were these bastards to mess with his life like this? Who were they to decide if he was fuckable?
"Get out of my way." He tried to push passed them, but the two big goons from the back held him in place. He heard the leader fumbling with something behind him and he started wriggling around and trying to break free. They wouldn't relent.
He heard something start to spray and felt something cold on his back. He flinched away from it but couldn't move his legs because the two jocks were standing on his feet. He started to smell pain fumes and gasped.
These bastards were spray-painting him!
"Let go! Get off of me!" The three just guffawed and the leader continued with his painting. "You got what you wanted! Sasuke got me! So what more do you want from me?"
The spray sound suddenly stopped. Either he finished or Naruto said something to him...
"What? Uchiha said he didn't nail you."
Why would Sasuke say that?
"Well he did." The jocks finally let go of him and Naruto looked up from the floor to see that the cafeteria doors were open. Everyone had seen that...
Including everyone he'd tried to keep in the dark about how weak he was since kindergarten. But they were either smirking or looking at him in pity. He wished more than anything that his friends were there. Or Iruka. Or-
"Get. The. Fuck. Away. From. Him." Naruto turned from all of the horrible looks he was getting to see Sasuke standing in front of him fuming.
The jocks grinned cheekily.
"Uchiha! Why didn't you tell us you-" but he was cut off by a fist connecting with his face. He would have screamed if he hadn't felt his jaw break.
"I said leave." It was clear by the look on Sasuke's face that anyone who disobeyed him at the moment would get severely punished. So the Letterman jacket wearing assholes scattered and the cafeteria doors shut.
Naruto nervously looked up to see Sasuke. When he looked at the dark eyed boy's face, he saw surprising tear marks on his cheeks. Without a word Sasuke advanced on him and stood twelve inches in front of him. He took off his jacket and his shirt then handed them to Naruto.
That was when the blonde snapped back to reality and remembered that he had graffiti on his back. But he didn't understand why Sasuke was standing in front of him in the middle of the school hallway after ripping out his heart without a shirt on.
"You want to switch shirts with me?" At Sasuke's nod, Naruto took off his black, long-sleeved shirt and gave it to Sasuke, who handed Naruto his black shirt and white sweat jacket.
Once they had their shirts on, Sasuke nodded again and said one final thing.
"Sayonara, Naruto." Naruto blinked back tears and nodded back.
"Sayonara, Sasuke."
And Naruto watched his first love walk away down the hall. In bright neon green letters on his back was written "Easy" with two money signs underneath it.
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The next chapter will be the last one. Sad, I know. And I hate doing this to Naruto and Sasuke. It's killing me!
Please review.
Yobster