A/N: Okay first off thank you to the followers, I am extremely happy that you want to keep reading this. It brings me great joy. Second, if any one is curious about the character monologue thing at the end, in the A/N please, don't hesitate to ask.
Wahoo this one is longer, thank goodness. Sorry the showdown isn't in this one. maybe next one.
as always don't own anything but I want Shino's car!
Warning: for bad language, things mentioned and boyXboy kissy.
Previously: "We'll have a race with the three of them" Sasuke suggested and Shino nodded in agreement.
"Winner's the team member" he finishes.
"Time?" Konan asked.
"Seven tonight" Sasuke answered.
"See ya then" she blew a kiss before hanging up.
"Sai's first, then shark bite's, then the girls" Shino proposed and Sasuke's nodded in agreement.
Chapter 3
Sasuke swallowed hard and knocked on Sai's door. Shino was talking animatedly on his phone. A minute later the door opened to an ashen man standing in black skinny jeans and drying his ink black hair with a fluffy white towel.
"Sasuke-kun, what a surprise?" he asked suspiciously. Before Sasuke could answer…
"Sai, come back to bed?" a male's voice whined, a familiar male voice.
"I'll be right there" Sai called behind him. Two pale arms wrapped around his ashen torso.
"Whoever it is can wait, I want you- Sasuke?!" screeched the man with violet eyes and pasty blue hair.
"Suigetsu" Sasuke was somewhere between shocked and irritated.
"Look there is a perfectly good explanation for this" Suigetsu stepped to the side, so he was now standing next to Sai.
"Why don't you put some pants on and then I'll be more than happy to listen?" Sai's eyes narrowed at the Uchiha's tone.
"I don't see why we need to explain anything to you" Sai crossed his arms defiantly.
"Sai!" both Shino and Suigetsu exclaimed in unison.
"You should be satisfied that Naruto's free for you to take now, right?"
"Sai! Excuse us?" Suigetsu shut the door in Sasuke's face. "What the hell was that about?"
"I was only telling the truth and since when did you answer to Uchiha's every beck n' call?"
"Since Shino was standing next to him!" Suigetsu sighed, "You know what happened two years ago. Every time he sees me I can tell he wants to kill me!"
"He needs to get over it, Kiba has" Suigetsu shrugged as he grabbed his pants. "Unless you're not over him?" Sai suggested.
"What?"
"Are you…?"
"What?!" He nearly fell over, one leg in his jeans while trying to get the other in. "Of course I'm over it! Damn it, Sai!" he sighed. "How long have we been in this relationship?"
"Nine months" Sai frowned.
"Exactly, nine months, it's given me more than plenty of time to fall in love with you" Suigetsu sighed again when the brunet looked away. He grasped Sai's chin gently, forcing him to look at him and placed a soft gentle kiss on Sai's pouting mouth. "Do you believe me?" Sai nodded and kissed back this time. Shino knocked on the door.
"Sorry to interrupt what is probably a disgustingly touchy moment, but we are in fact on a tight schedule today." Suigetsu broke the kiss, buttoned his faded blue skinnies and answered the door.
"What do you want?" Sai grumbled as he pulled on a white t-shirt after discarding the towel.
"There's a driving showdown at seven tonight"
"Between who?" Suigetsu asked intrigued.
"Sai, you and Konan" Sasuke answered.
"What?!" Suigetsu exclaimed. "You've got be kidding? We can't battle her, she'll smoke us!" he complained.
"You mean you" Sai smirked – one of the many traits picked up from Sasuke – and folded his arms. Suigetsu turned a purple glare on Sai. He simply chuckled. "What's in it for us?"
"The winner becomes a member of our team." Shino explained
"Who are the current members?"
"Me, Sasuke, Kiba and Gaara" Suigetsu frowned.
"You're letting Kiba drive, after what happened?" he threw an accusing finger at the dark brunet.
"I don't have a choice. He said he'd run if I didn't."
"So your just gonna do as he says?!"
"If I want to keep him, yes!"
"How can you do something so stupid?"
"At least I care about him!"
"I did too!"
"At least I didn't rape him!" Everything went quite after Shino's outburst.
"Shino!" Sasuke grabbed his shoulder. "Get in the car!" Shino begrudgingly shrugged off his friend's hand and went back down the stairs to his car. Sasuke turned a glare on Suigetsu who looked mortified. "I never got the whole story about you and Kiba, but that? Tell me next time." Sasuke turned and left and yelled out from the car. "Remember seven tonight, usual spot!" as Shino drove off.
"I don't want to talk about it" Shino muttered and judging by the death grip he had on the wheel, Sasuke decided to leave it alone, not wanting the wheel to be his neck.
"Okay" he took out his phone and rang Naruto.
"Hey Sasuke, where did you two disappear to?"
"We had errands to run"
"Oh, some package arrived for you and Itachi's here"
"Hey!" Sasuke's brother yelled into the receiver.
"Tch, more freeloaders" Shino grumbled.
"Thanks Naruto, we'll be home soon." He hung up and put his phone back in his pants. "Shino, you shouldn't complain about freeloaders considering you converted a freaking warehouse into a mansion."
"I did it so Kiba and Akamaru had more room, not for freeloaders."
"Hn, whatever" Shino glanced at his friend every now and then and when he noticed the look of puzzlement cross the raven's face, he sighed letting out all his irritation.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just… strange."
"Life is strange, what's new?"
"Ha, ha, dumbass, you sound like my brother"
"Okay, that's just creepy. I never want to be compared to that guy." Sasuke glared at Shino when he was still interrupting. "I'm sorry, please continue"
"Don't you find it strange?"
"Eh?"
"Sai and Suigetsu"
"I don't care about shark bite; he can shrivel up and die for all I care. If Sai's happy, with a fish out of water, then good for him" Shino shrugged. Sirens interrupted Sasuke before he could speak. "Shit!"
"Why are they on you?"
"They track any car to a known racer and your done for" Shino slammed the accelerator to the floor and shifted up gear, weaving between traffic.
"I fucking hate riding with you when you're like this!" Sasuke gripped the seat and the handle above the window.
"You know you love it" Shino smirked and looked at him.
"Look at the fucking road, you fucking moron!" Sasuke (manly) screamed as Shino's electric blue Lexus came close to a semi-trailer. Shino pushed the wheel lightly to the left, then hard to the right as they drifted sharply around the corner. When the police car that was tailing them continued down the street that they just turned off, Shino smirked.
"Dumb pig" he started the car again and slowly made his way back onto the road.
"You're insane!"
"Come off it, Sasuke. That was exciting" he unashamedly grabbed Sasuke.
"Fucking pervert" he grumbled and Shino quickly retracted his hand before it was swatted at.
"You should see it when Kiba's with me"
"I don't want to see that" he growled.
"Let's just say it's hard not to trade paint" he smirked and although Sasuke couldn't see it because of his dark glasses, he knew Shino's eyes held some sort of perverted sparkle. It was silent again until something that kept niggling at Sasuke's mind, spilled out.
"How did you know about Kiba?" he watched as Shino's hands tightened on the wheel, his knuckles going white.
"There are some images you can't get rid of, no matter how hard you try" Shino vaguely explained.
"You found them?" Shino didn't answer. Sasuke took that as a yes. "Fuck" he mumbled under his breath. "No wonder you want to kill him" Sasuke put his hand on Shino's shoulder in comfort.
"I almost did on the spot, Kiba stopped me. It was horrible, man. It killed me to hear him beg me not to kill shark bite." He bit his lip almost hard enough to bleed. He parked the car and stayed for a minute. "You go in first, I'll be there in a few minutes" he placed his forehead against the cool leather of his steering wheel. Sasuke nodded and got out, hastening towards the entrance of the warehouse. He opened the door and walked through.
Miss-matched eyes read the information carefully as he relayed it through the phone.
"Konan huh? Gaara too?" the voice on the other line mused. "This could be interesting. Keep me posted"
"Of course" he closed the file and hung up.
Sasuke felt he couldn't look Kiba in the eye. It was one thing knowing bits and pieces of an unknown story but now he knew everything, it was hard. Kiba was conversing loudly with Naruto as they came down the stairs, Akamaru by his side.
"Then Deidara was like, 'Dude, that ice cream was mine!' I swear I hadn't seen Sasuke bitch like that in a long time." Both Kiba and Naruto laughed loudly.
"I bitched like what?" Sasuke growled, glaring at the blond. Naruto's loud, obnoxious laughter turned into a nervous chuckle, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I pray for you. Where's Shino?" Sasuke avoided the brunet's almond eyes.
"He's still in the car" Sasuke walked into the kitchen. Naruto followed Sasuke into the kitchenette as Kiba went outside to see the dark brunet still sitting in the car. He ran over to the Lexus and knocked on the passenger side door. Shino nodded and Kiba opened the door, closing it behind him.
"What's the matter?" he ran his tan hand through Shino's hair.
"I screwed up" Shino mumbled.
"How so?"
"Sasuke knows what happened between you and Suigetsu."
"So that's why he couldn't meet my eyes inside."
"I'm sorry" Shino turned his head and Kiba noticed that he wasn't wearing his shades.
"It's okay, how'd it happen?" he asked, staring into Shino's mercury eyes.
"We saw shark bite and we started arguing and it kind of… just… slipped out." Kiba smiled softly and dropped his hand to Shino's pale cheek.
"It's okay, Shino. I'm not mad."
"I shouldn't have said it, I'm sorry" he sat up. Kiba leaned over and kissed his cheek. His smile was warm and though it was supposed to make him feel better, it instead made him feel worse. Kiba had changed drastically after what happened. Sure he was still loud when around other's but alone, he was quiet and soft spoken, always wearing a smile. Shino hated it. The mask that Kiba showed people, it hurt.
He knew he shouldn't sound so selfish but he just wanted his Kiba back. He pulled Kiba closer and ran his tongue demandingly over the younger brunet's lips, Kiba smiled and opened willingly, letting Shino pull him onto his lap.
"Sasuke, what's wrong?" Naruto asked as he munched on an apple while sitting on the bench.
"I thought you didn't like fruit?"
"I don't like vegetables. There's a difference."
"Tomatoes are a fruit"
"I still class it as a vegetable. You can cook with it" was Naruto's superior logic.
"You're a moron"
"Hey!" he cried indignantly and Sasuke smirked. Naruto smirked and slipped off the bench. He stalked over to the raven whom had his arms folded over his chest.
"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked with amusement in his eyes. Mischief twinkled in Naruto's blue eyes as he got closer. "Well?"
"Hmm?" he brought his hand up and ran it through Sasuke's hair.
"What are you doing?" he asked again after clearing his throat.
"What do you think?" he whispered before pulling his hand back. "Leaf" he showed the green object and he left. Sasuke collapsed against the counter. That was way too close for comfort.
"Sasuke!" Itachi launched himself at his brother. He had a manic grin on his face as held his younger brother in a bear hug, before his eyes went wide.
"Either remove yourself from me, or I will remove you using force" Itachi felt the muzzle of a gun against his ribs.
"I do not want to see a gun in my house, put it away!" Shino ordered. He was standing in the hallway with an arm tightly wrapped around a fairly dazed, satisfied looking Kiba. Sasuke smirked.
"Yes Dad" he mocked before returning the safety lock and holstering his Barretta.
"Bastard" Shino mumbled.
"So I've been told" he grabbed his bottle of beer and left the kitchen, before being tripped by a now smirking Shino. Naruto snorted from the couch and Kiba failed to hold in his own laughter. Deidara was laughing into Itachi's shoulder where the eldest was snorting behind his hand as they all looked at the youngest Uchiha sprawled on the floor soaking in his beer. "You prick!" Sasuke growled from the floor.
"Mine's bigger than yours" Shino grabbed a beer from the fridge and continued upstairs with a laughing Kiba.
"Actually-"
"Shut up, Itachi!" Everyone yelled at the eldest. Before they knew it, night had descended, Sasuke watched from the fire-escape as the sun sank down, over the ocean.
"Time to ride" he tipped back the last of his beer and went back through the window.
So I know typically you wouldn't find Sai and Suigetsu together, but I believe they get neglected a lot so I decided to put them together. Sai is no emo in this. And Suigetsu hasn't gotten to tell his story of what happened between him and Kiba, and Kiba being to traumatised has forgotten. Shino only knows what he saw. I will elaborate but not till a few chapters.
Elena: You are so mean!
Me: Why~?
Elena: Look over there? *she points to the back corner where light shines down on two boys, one blond and the other, Adam*
Me: Do you have a point drama queen? *monotone*
Elena: *sputters* I am not a drama queen!
Me: *sighs and looks in back corner with the two boys. Fangirl squeals because they are making out*
Elena: BOYS! *a black haired boy wraps his arms around a flailing Elena*
Nate: My brother is busy so I will do this. Please review.