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Chapter 4
Neji was once again the first person to wake up the next morning. Gaara shifted slightly but remained fast asleep, his one wrist dangling over the side of the bed and revealing his injuries. Neji had the strong urge to change the bandages but decided it would be best to wait until he was up.
With one last glance at his boyfriend he quickly crossed the room into the bathroom and started showering, visions of Gaara last night filled his mind. When he'd taken off his clothes to tend to his wounds he'd seen just how badly Deidara had hurt Gaara. Black and blue marks covered his body and his wrists were deeply cut from whatever the blond had tied him with.
Upon walking out of the shower and back into the bedroom Neji saw all of his friends were now awake. Naruto and Sasuke were watching TV while Haku and Gaara appeared to be deep in conversation. The instant they noticed him in the room they fell silent.
"Hey, guys." Neji said, walking over to Gaara. He sat down next to him and picked up each wrist, examining them with concern. "Gaara, come with me. I need to re-wrap the wounds. They look like they are getting worse." Gaara obediently followed his boyfriend to the bathroom.
The second they were alone Neji sat Gaara down on the edge of the tub and began skillfully replacing his bandages. The entire time he was working Gaara kept his emerald eyes fixated on the floor, refusing to make eye contact even when Neji looked at him imploringly.
"Gaara, what's wrong? Did I do something bad?"
"No but yes." He replied vaguely, still refusing to look at his boyfriend.
Neji really hated it when Gaara did things like that. It meant that a fight was about to erupt.
"You know how much I hate this, why are you doing it? I haven't done anything to you." He tried his best to keep his anger in check but he could still feel it boiling to the surface.
"That's exactly it! You haven't done anything! You said you were going to protect me, Neji and then look what happened last night." Gaara finally raised his head up and looked at him, eyes glinting with rage.
"Gaara please calm down. I said I would protect you as long as I was around you but I can't be around you 24/7. I wish I could but it's not possible!" He opened his arms and attempted to hug the redhead but was promptly shoved away.
"Don't touch me! I was locked in that room all day! How could you not notice?" With each word his voice grew louder and louder until he was practically screaming, face reddening from the effort.
Neji's fists clenched and his eyes narrowed defensively.
"I'm trying my best! I don't think you understand how hard this is! I don't want you to get hurt! It kills me to see this happening and I don't think you understand that" Neji snarled.
"I don't understand? I don't understand?" Gaara looked disbelieving. "You know what, Neji? FUCK YOU!" He slammed his fists down on the cold marble of the tub and jumped to his feet. He made it through the room at record speed, slamming the door on his friend's bewildered expressions and running down the hallway.
In the room, everyone looked at Neji questioning what just happened. Neji looked down and sat on his bed. He was still pissed about the whole things and even more mad because he left Gaara go out by himself. He felt like an ass.
"What happened in there?" Haku asked, worrying about Gaara.
"It's just a fight. We usually get in fights once and a while. He'll come down soon…. I hope." Neji murmured, laying back on the bed.
Sasuke suddenly got to his feet.
"Deidara and all his friends are still out there. I'm going to make sure Gaara doesn't run in to any of them." With that he stood up and walked out the door, not sparing any of them another glance.
The other three stayed in the room. Naruto and Haku were trying to calm Neji down and fortunately it was working.
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Gaara was walking down the halls. He went outside and sat on the wall outside his dorm. He was still mad that Neji said all those things and needed time to himself. He tilted his head back and stared at the sky, but turned his head when he heard approaching footsteps.
"It's nice to see you, but you should go before anyone else knows you're here." Gaara mumbled.
"I know, but you look as upset as you did the day Neji dumped you and I couldn't ignore that. Honestly. Gaara you're a lot like me, you can be a little hard to deal with sometimes. Neji's trying his best." The person looked around. "I've got to go now. Sasuke is coming up behind you. Keep him near you. I don't want Deidara to get a hold of him." Gaara's friend walked off and into a crowd of people.
Gaara turned his head to see Sasuke running up to him.
"Was that...?" Gaara answered him before he could finish.
"Yeah it was. He wants me to keep you near me in case Deidara comes after you and me. But I don't want to see Neji yet…" Gaara looked at his feet. Now he felt bad for yelling like that.
"Don't worry Gaara. We can go to the café and get something to eat." Sasuke smiled.
"Why don't we just walk? I mean Neji is far away and if we stay still for too long Deidara will get both of us."
"Even if we walk around there's still a chance of being followed by him. Besides we might lead him directly to our friend. Only we know about him and I want to keep it like that for as long as possible."
"Actually that's not true…Sasori knows too. I don't know how but he does." Gaara looked at the Uchiha. "Let's just go to the café." Gaara got up and left with Sasuke right behind him.
What they didn't know was that the blond himself was keeping a careful eye on both his new "toys." He didn't know who they were talking about, but he knew that the boys couldn't hide it for long. He was going to find out one way or the other. He followed the Uchiha and the redhead to the café, deciding to wait until one of them was alone to make his move.
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In the café Gaara and Sasuke were talking about the things they did in class. Well Sasuke was talking; Gaara just sat there and listened. After a while Sasuke told Gaara that he needed to get back to the room and check to see if Neji was okay. He told Gaara to hurry up and come to the room right after he was done eating.
The Uchiha left and Gaara was now sitting by himself. He was thinking about Neji and how bad he felt for yelling at him. Neji did start it but like always Gaara ended an argument by telling Neji to fuck off. After he was done eating, the redhead went to the bathroom and locked himself in one of the stalls, desperately fishing out the piece of broken glass. Something about its presence comforted him and made him think better.
'I'm tired of this. It seems like anything I do is wrong. Neji don't even understand how I feel. He wasn't raped in high school. He wasn't raped last night. He's never been raped! It's so unfair…' He twirled the glass around. 'But this isn't right, I need to go apologize.'
After a few more minutes Gaara got up, shoving the glass back into his pocket and heading out the door. He decided to take the shortcut to his dorm, cutting through the outside. He was just about there when a hand suddenly closed over his mouth. He was slammed against a tree and turned to face Deidara leering at him with a knee between his legs.
"It's nice to see you again my dear little Gaara. I hope those marks aren't hurting too bad." His eyes scanned up and down the redhead's body. "I see that your boyfriend re-bandaged your wrist." Deidara lean close to lick the shell of the redhead's ear. "You were a good fuck last night Gaara. I had more fun with you then anyone else." He laughed. A cold hard laugh that was full of malice.
"Shut up and go to hell." Gaara pushed the blond back and started walking away but before he could get far Deidara had pulled him back against his chest.
"Now, now little redhead I'm not done with you yet. I had more fun yesterday then I've had in a long time and I'd like to repeat it. So what do you say? Keep in mind that if you refuse me I'll just go after your silly boyfriend. Or that pretty little Uchiha, he looks like he'd be an even better fuck than Itachi." Deidara snickered, blowing air into Gaara's ear.
"I'll do anything. Just keep Neji and Sasuke out of this. You guys want me not them." Gaara hated himself for giving in but it would be even worse if something happened to Neji or Sasuke.
"That's weird. I never thought that the Gaara that killed Itachi would be so weak," Sasori smirked, stepping out of the shadows.
"Shut up! Both of you! I hate you guys. Now let me go before I-" Gaara was cut off as Deidara grabbed his manhood.
"Look Sasori, I shut him up. I think we should take him back to our room. I really want to-" Deidara stop talking, his face paling a shade.
"What's wrong?" Sasori looked at his boyfriend questioningly.
Deidara let go of Gaara's manhood shoving the boy away so he fell on the ground. turned to his boyfriend
"Let go Sasori. I don't want to be around here anymore. I think I just saw...no it can't be. My eyes are playing tricks on me." the blond hurried away, dragging Sasori along by his elbow. Both the redhead's knew what made Deidara leave in such a hurry.
Gaara was grateful that his friend had been there to help. He dragged himself to the room and immediately locked himself in the bathroom for a long hot shower.
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Five hours later and the redhead still hadn't emerged. Worried, Neji forced the door open. What he saw horrified him. His boyfriend lying on the cold floor, rolled into a small ball. The Hyuga rushed over, wrapping his arms around him and rocking back and forth.
"Gaara what's wrong? What happened? Please talk to me! I'm so sorry about this morning. I should have been there to save you." Neji was on the verge of tears, playing with the redhead's hair.
"He won't leave me alone. I've tried everything." Gaara looked at Neji. "If it wasn't for our friend. Deidara would have dragged me back to his room and did what he did last night to me all over again." Gaara started shacking violently.
"It's okay Gaara. I'll try my best to be there for you." He kissed Gaara's lips and then got up pulling the redhead along with him. "Let's go back out with everyone else."
"Fine...I will but I just want to go to bed. Tell everyone but Haku to leave, he can stay with us until this Orochimaru thing blows over." Thusly the duo went out into the main room, Gaara crawling under the covers while Neji delivered the news to their friends.
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Haku was eager to move in, he rushed to his room, flinging the door open and not bother to look around. He pulled a suitcase out from under the bed and started filling it with his things.
"So where are you going Haku?" Orochimaru stepped close to Haku, the effeminate boy just noticing that he and Deidara were in the room.
"I'm just going to be in my friends room for a few days. I have things to do." Haku tried to move as fast as he could but it was a difficult thing to do seeing as Deidara and Orochimaru were both looking at him.
"It seems that your little roommate is leaving you, Orochimaru. I guess he can't handle all the things you've been doing to him." Deidara smirked, folding his arms.
"Yeah, poor brat. Now he is going to run off to Neji and Gaara's room because he doesn't want to deal with me. You know Haku, that really hurts." Orochimaru laughed
Deidara chuckled too.
"You should be glad you're not my type, kid. Just ask Sasuke and Gaara their lives are living hells right now…but who knows? Maybe when I'm done with them I'll give you a try."
Haku felt Deidara move his hand along his spine. It scared him and he started packing even faster.
"So why are you leaving in a big hurry Haku? I'm not done with you yet. You still got things to tell me. Who is that guy Sasuke's been calling?" Orochimaru grabbed Haku by the shirt and held him against the wall.
"I won't tell you anything!" Haku yelled, struggling to get free.
Orochimaru grabbed Haku around the neck and started pushing their bodies together. Deidara watched the whole thing. He wanted in on some of this fun.
"Just give him to me Orochimaru. I'll make him hurt as much as his redheaded friend." Deidara started walking up to Haku as Orochimaru held him.
"Alright! Look, I don't know who the person is but Sasuke told him about the things that have been happening. He told Gaara that the guy made a promise that he would help us out. I don't know who the person ism Gaara, Neji and Sasuke won't tell me." Haku cried out, feeling ashamed of himself for selling out his friends.
"When is this guy coming?" asked Deidara.
"I don't know. I just know that Sasuke called him and that was it. Please let me go, I don't want to be hurt anymore then I already am." Haku let out a sigh of relief when Orochimaru let him go but before he could walk out the door he was stopped.
"You know, just because you're moving out of this room doesn't mean I won't be able to get you. There are a thousand ways to corner you around here" Orochimaru laughed, turning to Deidara so they could continue their conversation about what Deidara had done to Gaara.
Haku didn't want to hear it, he knew what happened to Gaara and he didn't want it happen again. The poor little redhead was hurting more now than he ever had with Itachi. Hopefully the guy Sasuke called would be able to help them out.
'I just hope he doesn't turn out to be two faced or something, Gaara really doesn't need that.'
After leaving Orochimaru's room Haku started wandering around the halls a little. He saw the kid that looked like Sasuke but he knew that by the time he got to where he was Sai would be already be in his room so he picked up the pace. When he got a little closer he realized that it wasn't Sai, it was some guy he didn't recognize.
'That's odd…'
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After a few hours Haku went back to Neji and Gaara's room. As he opened the door, Neji was sitting on the bed with Gaara. The redhead looked scared to death and was in no mood to talk to him or Neji.
Neji's anger at being ignored was painted clearly across his face and Haku was worried. If this fight lasted much longer then he was afraid it would be irreparable. He didn't want that to happen to Gaara, they had been each other's first friends and he cared deeply for him.
He remembered all the days in grade school…. At one point he had nursed a small crush on the redhead. Then Itachi started coming after him. It's true that in the beginning Itachi had been kind to Gaara but when he still got rejected he refused to take no for an answer.
After a while Neji get off the bed and walked over to Haku.
"I've tried everything, Haku but he still won't talk to me. I have no idea why he's so angry…I need help." Neji looked down at the floor. "I should never have yelled at him."
"Don't be so hard on yourself, you were only protecting him. Yeah, you shouldn't have yelled at him but still, your heart was in the right place." Haku straightened up." I'll talk to him. Remember I was the first friend he ever had. Just go to Naruto's room and I'll come get you after we're done." He smiled confidently.
"Fine...see you guys later." he walked over to kiss Gaara and then walked out of the room.
Haku walked over to Gaara and sat next to him.
"You know that you are hurting Neji, Gaara. He just is protected over you. I can't blame him. I mean look at the things you went through and Neji help you out with them." said Haku.
"I...know. I just want to not be protected so much. I know that it isn't his fault that we don't have classes together. Kimimaro even beat him up. I wasn't their to stop him from hurting Neji. It bugs me Haku. I want to protect Neji and Neji to protect me. I just couldn't be there. I was knocked out at the time too." Gaara looked at his hands.
"Gaara, it is neither yours or Neji's fault that you got hurt. It's Deidara's! Please, if you don't work this silly fight out now I'm afraid it'll just keep escalating." Haku examined his friend with pleading eyes; he could see the boy's anger evaporating.
"You're right. I've been letting everything else get to me and I took it out on Neji once again." He hesitated, looking at his feet. " I guess I should go talk to him."
Haku ran out the door and down to Naruto's room to let Neji know that Gaara was ready to talk to him. Then he left the room to give the couple some privacy.
Neji walked over to Gaara and held him.
"I'm so sorry for yelling at you, Gaara. You were right. If I'd walked you to class Deidara never would have gotten the chance to hurt you."
Gaara sighed softly.
"It's not all your fault, I was being stupid too. I should have run away but I didn't, I held still and gave him the chance he needed."
"It's not all your fault either, Gaara. I didn't do a good job as a boyfriend. I should have never let you out of my sight with someone like Deidara being around."
"So basically we're both idiots?" Gaara smiled coyly up at his boyfriend and Neji laughed.
"Yeah, I guess so." The Hyuga glanced over at the clock." We should probably go to bed now…"
Gaara nodded and with that the two crawled into bed, Neji with his arms wrapped comfortably around his lover. Before they knew they both fell into a comfortable sleep.
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Outside the door their mysterious friend reclined against the wall, listening to the whole thing. Sasuke had filled him in on the details of the fight that morning and he'd been curious to see if they could work it all out.
'I'm glad everything is okay between you two, after what happened in high school neither of you should have to feel pain like that again…I'm so sorry I didn't stop back then, but I'm going to make up for it now.'
With a firm nod of his head the figure turned, hurriedly walking back to Sasuke's room before anyone had the chance to spot him.
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END OF CHAPTER
I hope you guys like this. I worked hard on it. I'm not telling who the friend is. And I'm going to keep it like that for a few more chapters. Well see ya guys.
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