This Is How A Heart Breaks

By Jasmine Starlight

Full Summary: Yaoi/het. Neji/Sasu Sasuke's slightly mordant; Itachi just might be a sociopath. Maybe Gaara is from a broken home. Neji just may be in the closet. Maybe Naruto might be lonely. Maybe Kabuto needs someone to love. Maybe Kakashi might need someone to hold. Maybe Sakura might need real friends. Maybe Temari needs a reality check. Maybe Kankurou needs anger management. Maybe Jiraiya needs Tsunade. Maybe Orochimaru needs them both. Maybe Hinata needs freedom. Maybe Kiba might need acceptance. Maybe Ino needs confidence. Maybe Tenten needs medication. Perhaps Shikamaru needs love. Shino, quite possibly could need companionship. Maybe Tayuya is hiding behind her personality. Maybe Haku fears rejection. Maybe Kimimaro desires friendship. Maybe Lee is crying out for attention. Maybe Obito needs compassion.

Merry Fucking Christmas.

Pairings:…Neji/Sasu…Kimimaro/Haku…Obito/Kakashi eventual…then Itachi/Kabuto…perhaps I could stick some rape in there somewhere. Tenten/Kankurou…Naruto/Gaara…Orochimaru/Jiraiya/Tsunade… Open to suggestions. Shikamaru/Temari…Kiba/Ukon! Zaku/Kin…Hinata/Shino…Tayuya/Lee. Dosu/Kidoumaru…Zabuza/Haku…then…Zabuza/Kisame! Shisui/Sakon! New Pairing! Ino/Sakura.

CHAPTER NINE

DISPELL

"No one else is here
And I cant get, since I'm nothing
No one else gets high
And I cant sleep cause I got nothing
Feeling I am lost
Control to a higher force

Music is my, my love

No one else is here
And I cant get, since I'm nothing
No one else comes clean"

---Kasabian; I. D.

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Love is cliché.

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Kabuto shivered in the night air as he desperately awaited Itachi's arrival, "How long have you been waiting here?" Itachi asked as he worriedly sat down on the dilapidated wood.

"Not long." Kabuto replied tiredly.

"Are you alright?" Itachi said as he brushed Kabuto's silver bangs back.

"'m fine, just a little cold."

"If you're sick then you shouldn't have come."

"No! I needed to tell you something." Kabuto said before coughing violently.

"What is it?"

"I'm not going to be in school for awhile."

"How long is "awhile"?"

"I'm not sure." Kabuto sneezed, Itachi frowned.

"Come on, we can talk in the car." Itachi said as he led Kabuto away from the harsh wind.

Kabuto wheezed, "I think you have a fever."

"I don't. Since when are you a doctor?" Kabuto demanded weakly as he allowed himself to be led into the car.

Itachi turned to ignition and cranked the heater before sitting in the backseat with Kabuto and handing him a blanket. "Didn't you know? I'm going pre-med."

"Funny." Kabuto sniffed.

"Yes, I'm also charming—did I mention that I'm a great listener? Why won't you be in school?"

"I have to do something."

"Something what?"

"Just something."

"Alright, for who?"

"My dad."

"Why?"

"Because—because I have to."

"Kabuto, don't be so obvious! Leave a little to the imagination."

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Does love really transcend all barriers? Age? Gender? Race?

Family?

Is Love pain?

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FanManAvenger: So, how have you been?

DestinyIsDeath: Given up?

FanManAvenger: Perhaps.

DestinyIsDeath: Fine. You?

FanManAvenger: Bored.

DestinyIsDeath: Interesting.

FanManAvenger: Are you a girl?

DestinyIsDeath: No.

FanManAvenger: Are you straight?

DestinyIsDeath: ….

FanManAvenger: Suddenly shy?

DestinyIsDeath: No.

FanManAvenger: I can take that as an answer for the former?

DestinyIsDeath: Fine.

FanManAvenger: Cool.

DestinyIsDeath: No mental breakdown?

FanManAvenger: I wouldn't have asked if I there was a chance I freaked out.

DestinyIsDeath: How very self-serving.

FanManAvenger: So you don't know me that well.

DestinyIsDeath: …

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"I'm bored." Naruto announced—twenty seconds into their trip to the music store.

"No one told you to come, Dobe." Sasuke remarked boredly as he studied LP's. Gaara was enthralled in a poster by the far wall of the deserted store. Naruto shuffled over to him.

"Gaara—let's go for ramen!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly.

Gaara barely bat an eyelash—"What about Uchiha?"

"Sasuke's a dumbass anyway." Naruto said, stifling a large yawn.

Gaara sighed, "What kind of ramen do you want?"

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If you kiss a girl? Does it make you a lesbian?

I mean baking one cake doesn't make you a baker. Painting one picture doesn't make you a painter. Kicking one goal doesn't make you a footballer.

One kiss?

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I like someone. A lot. But I'm not sure if she feels the same way.

This sucks monkey balls.

I don't like crushes—they interfere with my grades. This isn't even a crush—more like an infatuation. A strong infatuation. An infatuation with a huge rack and legs that go on for days.

Goddamnit.

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The thumping sounds were starting again; punctuated by angry banging and echoing sounds. Then there was a hollow screech, chalk was being crushed into a fine lime powder.

Soon afterwards there was a popping sound as one—two—three—and finally four buttons were ripped off.

A metal legged chair made a screeching noise as far past its allotted weight was pressed down upon it. Metallic squeaks were emitting from a belt buckle colliding with an abused leg. Hissing soon followed—as nails were being dragged across pale skin.

The sound of an open wound is a quiet one.

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I'm in a lot of pain right now—mostly physical pain. I don't think I can move my jaw. So talking might be optional for a little while—I'm lucky my eyes didn't swell up this time or I wouldn't be able to write this entry.

There is a sizeable bruise on my left hip, but cutting gym for a few weeks doesn't really hurt my GPA anyway. I hope my wrists don't bruise again—I got a few weird looks with all the bandages covering them up.

I looked like a cutter.

Oh well—better than telling people what really happens to me when I disappear for a few days.

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I find myself in quite a quandary—two people both of which are close to me in different ways.

But I'm hiding from both of them.

It doesn't make sense.

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"What do you want Shisui?" Sasuke demanded sourly as he tried to escape from the ever present form of his elder cousin.

"I have to have a reason to walk you home."

"You have to have a reason when you show anything besides violence towards me."

"Hey!"

Sasuke yawned and continued walking, "Where's your ferrety brother today?"

"Somewhere—it's not like I'm his keeper or anything." Sasuke began walking faster. Shisui kept pace.

"I see you don't get the hint, fuck off." Sasuke said annoyedly.

Sasuke sighed loudly when Shisui had not followed his advice, "What do you want?" he demanded belligerently.

Shisui coughed and cleared his throat several times before mumbling inaudibly, Sasuke heard: "I heed um smelp."

"What?" Sasuke said belligerently.

"Want to go for coffee?" Shisui asked suddenly.

Sasuke sent him a blank look.

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Once they were seated in a rather private booth, situated with pretentious coffee, Shisui decided to speak again.

"So, how's your life?"

Sasuke glared at his elder cousin over the rim of his grande blah-blah-blah.

"You're not seriously going to do this for another fifteen minutes are you?" Sasuke asked vehemently.

Shisui cleared his throat awkwardly, Sasuke took a large gulp of his drink and that's when Shisui decided to drop his bomb.

"I'm gay." He said suddenly, causing Sasuke gag on his coffee and spat it out.

Shisui patiently handed him 100 percent recycled paper-napkins and waited.

And waited.

And waited.

"You couldn't have waited until I'd already swallowed, could you?" Sasuke hacked and coughed.

"Don't you have anything to say?" Shisui said edgily.

"No." Sasuke said bluntly.

"Why not?" Shisui exclaimed in irritation.

"I've know forever."

"What!" Shisui yelped, unnerved.

"Yes, shocking, I've known since the first time you dumped sand on my head and then pantsed me."

"You were eight."

"I was a very insightful child."

"I'm serious."

"As am I."

Shisui just stared at his younger relative, who stared back—those Uchihas.

"Anyway, now that you're technically "out" what're you going to do next?" Sasuke asked idly.

"What?"

"Obviously, you want me to do something for you—or you wouldn't have told me first—unless you already told Itachi which wouldn't make sense because then he would be fixing your problem."

Shisui cursed his cousin's intuitiveness, "I need your help."

"I figured that out already, Genius."

"Right." Shisui said eloquently.

"So Queer Boy, name your favor."

"Don't call me that."

"Why does it offend you? Fairy Wings."

"Shut up."

"Seriously, what do you really want? Do you like someone or something?" Sasuke said blankly, leaning his head on his palm.

Shisui flushed slightly, Sasuke just stared at him.

"You have to communicate these things you know, or I won't be able to help you and mock you at the same time." Sasuke quipped tartly.

He still remained silent.

"Maybe you should have asked Obito with this, he seems to have had a lot of experience with mutes. He's also slept with everything that moves."

More silence.

"It's sad when I'm the most talkative person in a conversation."

"I like Sakon."

"I'm sorry?" Sasuke said boredly.

"Sakon."

"Interesting, you've picked the most sadistic and cruel jock KHS has ever seen—aside from Orochimaru-sensei of course. Are you into masochism?"

"What? No."

"Then why did you pick him?"

"I didn't pick him! It's happened that way."

"Right, so have you spoken with each other yet?"

"What?"

"Right, I'm talking to you let me rephrase, have you pushed him up against a locker and demanded lunch money, yet?"

"I don't do that."

"You used to."

"Only to you."

"I'm touched."

"That's nice."

"So if you like him, do you know if he plays for our team?"

"Our?"

"Oops."

"…"

"Does he?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe you should find out."

"Is that my homework?"

"Good plan."

"Huh."

"Uke or seme?"

"What?"

"You heard me, are you uke or seme?"

"I hadn't thought about it yet."

"Yes you have, you just don't want to admit it, probably because you want to be his uke, and feel his penis inside you."

"What! I'm sorry?"

"Don't be, it's nothing to be ashamed of."

"Speaking from experience?"

"Of course not—so I guess I can live vicariously through you—but not as a uke."

"I am not going to be a uke!"

"I don't think the people in Beijing heard you. But it's nice that you have that determination, he might not agree though."

"What do you mean?"

"Shisui, why are you such a straight homo?"

END

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