ok chapter 3! and Gaara makes his appearance! YATTA!
The first thing that registered in my brain when I stepped over the threshold in my new room, was the scent. It hit me like a tidal wave, and surprisingly, made my knees shake. But not with fear. It was from me trying to stay upright.
The scent was so. . . so intoxicating, it threatned to make me fall to the floor. It was a fresh soapy scent. But it was warm. You could almost feel the heat emanating from the odor itself. It smelled so delicous. In a way where I wanted nothing more than to just breathe it in. That and nothing else. It was so ...alluring was the only word that I could use to describe it.
I tried to clear my head, if only a little, to take in my surroundings. A stereo was propped on a windowsill, playing 'The Game' by Disturbed. Vaguely I was happy that at least my new roommate had good taste in music.
On either side of the window, since it was in the middle of the room on the north wall, were two beds pushed up against the wall. One was bare with only a pillow on it while the other one adorned crimson sheets with a black comforter and a pillow in a black pillow case.
A desk resided on either side also, its dark colored wood contrasting well with the deep colored beige paint on the wall. Posters littered the wall here and there, most of them of random bands, and some were what seemed to be blown up pictures of people in front of famous Japanese monuments.
From my place by the door, I could see one enlarged photo with Naruto, Kiba, and a few other people standing in front of the one-legged Tori at the Sanno shrine, making funny faces. All except a red head who looked a little older than Naruto and Kiba, who stood with his arms over his chest. Though he wasn't making a face, he wore a content expression as he gazed at the camera with pale jade eyes.
I was instantly drawn to the red head on the picture. His eyes seemed to have something in them. Like they were bait waiting for someone to take the hook and reel you in. Reel you in to a world of mystery and adventure. Just like the incense in the room, it was alluring.
"Damn. We must have just missed him. Probably gone to lunch." Naruto sighed as he looked at the watch on his wrist that had been covered by his white button up school shirt.
"He shouldn't be gone long though, lunch is almost over anyway. While he's gone, we could help you get settled in Mat." Kiba gave his wolfish grin.
I snapped back out of my thoughts and nodded to him, as I walked over to the unhinabitated part of the room and dumped my bag and backpack on the bare bed.
"Hang on and I'll get your bed sheets. They should be in the closet." Kiba stated as he sauntered over to a door to the right, half his body disappearing inside.
"There are two empty drawers for some of your clothes in the dresser." Naruto pointed to a dresser in the corner by the door.
"Thanks."
I dug in my duffel bag, grabbing my boy jeans, socks, and boxers (much to my annoyance. I made sure to stuff girl underwear deep into my folded jeans so no one would see.) and stuffed them into the two drawers.
"You can hang your shirts up in the closet. Hangers are here to." Kiba grinned as he brought over to the bed some clean sheets and a handful of black plastic hangers.
"Do those belong to Gaara?" I pointed at the hangers as he layed them on the bed with my sheets.
"Nah. They belong to the school. You can use them." Naruto answered as he began to help me put my school shirts and t-shirts on hangers and hand them to Kiba who hung them in the empty space in the closet.
"So where did you come from Mat?" Kiba asked conversationally as he walked back and forth from the bed and closet.
"Small town in Konoha." I answered as I put another shirt on a hanger. "You?"
"Same. Most of our friends are from Konoha."
"Who is Hinata and Sakura?" I asked suddenly as I rememberd them coming up when I was collecting blackmail. Mentally I reminded myself to post those pictures on the net later.
Kiba laughed happily, and Naruto grinned like an idiot.
"Our gilfriends. Hinata Hyuuga and Sakura Haruno." Naruto's eyes sparkled as he spoke the last name.
"So I'm guessing Hinata is yours." I pointed to Kiba. "And Sakura is yours." I pointed to the grinning blonde.
"More like he is Sakura's." Kiba chuckled.
I smirked as I watched them begin to bicker about who acted more like a loyal lap dog, and who actually wore the pants in their relationship. I spoke over them with a smirk on my face.
"Your both whipped."
A small break of silence was heard befor their yells shattered it.
"WE ARE NOT WHIPPED!" both of their faces seemed to have turned red with embarresment.
I stared at them for a moment, before I fell on the ground in a fit of laughter. Oh, they were so whipped. You could tell just from the expressions they had on their faces that they were puddy in both of those girls' delicate little hands.
Kiba and Naruto took a moment to cool down while I laughed on the ground, before they to joined in with their own nervous chuckles.
"Yeah yeah. Enough laughing. This the last shirt Mat?" Kiba asked as he rubbed the back of his head, his face a light shade of pink.
"Yeah." I laughed out as I got back to my feet. "That's the last of my stuff. When is my roommate gonna be here?" I asked as I sat on my newly made bed.
"Mmm. A few minutes probably. Everyone stays out a little longer since it's Sunday and no school." Naruto answered as he sat on the other bed with Kiba.
"So, what is there to do when there is no school?" I asked, cocking my head to the side.
"There is a park close by here, and a few vendors there. Thats about it." Kiba tapped his chin as he thought.
"Actually there is a movie theatre not to far away. Kiba only knows about the park because that's where him, Akamaru and Hinata go all the time." Naruto elaborated.
"Akamaru?"
"His dog."
"Oh ok. Ugh, where is this Gaara guy?" I asked imapatiently with an undertone of anxiety. Thankfully the guys didn't catch it.
I had no idea really why I was so anxious to meet this person. He had put a guy in coma for Kami's sake! But. . . he couldn't be that bad. If this was his scent in the room, and I was fairly sure it was, I was going to have a hard time keeping my head clear.Just thinking about the scent made me take deeper breaths, taking in the smell of him. It was addicting.
"I think I hear - " Naruto was cut in the middle of his sentence by the bedroom door swinging open and someone coming through.
Oh Kami, must you be so cruel.
If I wasn't supposed to be acting like a guy, I would have immediatly dropped to the floor in a dead faint. I'm guessing the one who stepped through the door was 'Gaara'.
His hair was a spiky disarray of crimson red locks with bangs falling carlessley over his brow, half-way obscuring a kanji tattoo for love above his left eye. Black rings circled his pale jade orbs, showing years of insomnia.
He was wearing a tight fitting maroon shirt with a long-sleeved white shirt underneath, with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows exposing his forearms. His chiseled chest could be seen easily through the thin fabric. His left hand, that was stuffed into the pocket of his jeans, had a leather cord tied loosly to it.
His dark blue jeans were faded at the knees a little, and frayed at the bottom where they dragged the ground. His jeans hung low on his hips, but only low enough to show the top fabric of his black boxers which were somewhat hidden by his shit. His choice of shoes were black Kswiss shoes that had three red stripes on each one.
The scent that had clouded my mind before, came back with a new force and I was certain that if I was standing, I wouldn't be for long. That clean, fresh, warm scent was even more delicious now that the source of it was standing in front of me.
He gave off such an intimadating aura, that it would have made an olympic champion's gaze waver. For me, it threatned to make my face go red with nervousness.
"Naruto?" he asked.
And Kami, if he wasn't already a dead knock out, his deep husky voice seemed to make the room itself vibrate. I had to try hard not to let the tremors in my hands take over my entire body.
His light colored eyes shifted to the blonde on what I assumed to be his bed. Naruto grinned cheekily back at him while Kiba gave a lopsided smile.
"This is Mat. Your new roommate Gaara." Naruto waved a hand at me.
I forced a smirk on my face and nodded to him. His eyes seemed to bore straight through me, making me feel like he could see right through my disguise. I was like a mouse trapped in the gaze of a deadly cobra, I would not be able to look away until his eyes released me.
With a nod in my direction, he walked over to the empty chair at his desk and pulled it close to his crowded bed. I sighed in relief as his gaze released me, and shifted my black eyes to Naruto and Kiba on the bed, while keeping Gaara in my periphal vision. He straddled the spinny desk chair, and rested his elbows on the backbrace while propping his chin up on his folded arms.
All three were facing me now, and I got the impression that I was silently being interrigated by them. But at the moment all I could think of was,
KAMI-SAMA! MY ROOMMATE IS A GREEK GOD!!
Rate and comment minna-san! oh and Matsuri visited the school a week before she came, so it is another sunday. Remember in Japan they have school Monday thru Saturday. Sunday is there weekend. Speaking of school, my writing may slow because i also have school. curse the person who made summer so short to the deepest pit of hell! anyway R&R!!