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IM NOT DEAD! IM ALIVE! life has been crazy and work and college prep! but never fear! i will eventually get it up! don't lose faith in me! for i have not lost faith in this story! i hate to see the reviews begging me to continue and i have to run! but i will finish it! for all my bizzillion fans! this story is loved by loads and i love each and everyone of you! glomps all i'm revamping the first chapters, making them longer and making them make since so when i fill in the holes i'll post asap!
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III
Naruto cringed at the flat note. He heard Sasuke snap at his latest victim. He sighed, turning back to his dishes. I should really stop slacking on cleaning the dishes…but I hate doing them…He gave a small smile to himself. It's nice that Sensei's not as hard on me to do these damned chores anymore. Not like when I started all those years ago. Naruto pulled to plate he was washing out of the dirty water, rinsed it and put it on the drying rack. God…It feels like a dream now. Not living here, in this house with 'Sasuke.' Even in his mind it was hard for the blond to truly get over calling his instructor 'Sensei' to 'Sasuke.' Though, secretly that was one thing that he was always jeleous of Sakura of. Well, the only thing he was jealous of Sakura over; Being close enough to Sasuke to call him by his first name.
He grabbed the end of his opened, button down light blue and white cotton shirt, drying his hands off on it as he walked to the fridge, pulling out an apple, biting into it as he walked out of the room towards the sounds of what sounds like a crying girl.
"Geeze, Sensei! Give her some slack, its not like she's been playing all her life." Naruto rolled his eyes at the scowling man.
"She has-"
"She's six, relax Sasuke…" he smiled down at the quivering girl, "You know…" he whispered, crouching down to her level, her big brown eyes widening at the warm blue ones in front of her, "You know, Sensei-baka still plays his violin." He chuckled as she gasp lightly, looking over to her scowling teacher. "Yup, he sure does and you know what he does!"
"Naruto-" Sasuke growled. All the dark haired man got was a wave off as the other boy seemed to be jumping in his shoes. "Sensei-baka gets his notes wrong too!" Naruto barely caught the small instrument as the girls eyes went wide and covered her mouth in a gasp.
"He's lying," he stared hard at the giggling girl. "Naruto, I think that you have some dishes to do…"
Naruto looked up at his teacher and smiled madly, "Already did them, sensei!" He gave the small girl a pat on the head and stood back up, handing the almost destroyed instrument back to the girl. "Now! Remember! Uchiha-sensei is a stupid old man who's only wish in life is to make little girls cry." The small girl giggled even harder as her teacher slapped the younger boy upside his head. The blond seemed unfazed. "So whenever he starts to be mean just remember that he's trying to make you cry! So be a big girl and just listen to what he says and nod." He looked back at his teacher and grinned, "And then do what I always do and forget it a moment later! It really makes him angry!"
"That's enough for the day, Sonya, you can put your instrument up." Naruto cackled, walking back towards Sasuke.
"See Sonya-chan! His face is slightly red? Doesn't he look like a duck?!" He smiled at the girls new tears; tears of laughter, "See his little 'duck butt?!" Sasuke's fingers twitched as Naruto rubbed the hair on the back on his head. The little girl was all but rolling on the floor. "So make sure that you play your notes wrong so sensei 'duck butt' gets mad!"
"I will see you next week Sonya, and practice." Sasuke led the small girl to the door, "Good bye." He opened the door.
"Bye, Uchiha-sensei! Bye Naruto-san!" she giggled, running to where her mother was waiting in the car.
Sasuke, closed the door softly. "Naruto…"
"Oh come on Sasuke! You made the little girl cry! I've told you to stop doing that or you won't be able to keep students. Then we'd be poor, living on the streets! Living in a-" When Sasuke felt the hand on his shoulder, grabbed the wrist, spinning the other body, against the door, making it groan. "Sasuke-the door knob! It's in my spleen!"
"Never inturupt my lessons. I will do what I need to. If you ever interuppt my class again I will kill you." Sasuke pressed Naruto's face into the door, and his 'spleen' farther into the doorknob. Sasuke's grip tightened when he heard the boy laugh. "Something funny?" he felt Naruto nod.
Before Sasuke knew what happened he felt the wind be knocked out of him and his butt slammed into the floor. He looked up at the manical grin plastered on the sixteen year old. "You're just mad that I compared 'big scawee sensei' to a duck butt…"
"You…You fucker!" Sasuke snarled, leaping.
"Oh shit…" Naruto jumped over the diving Uchiha, cackling madly as he ran down the hall and into the living room. He laughed hearing the older man barraling down after him.
"I'm going to kill you!" he heard Sasuke hit a wall as he turned to coner, bolting up the stars after the fleeing blond.
"See Sasuke-chan! I told you not to wear socks on hardwood! You slide everywhere!"
"Naruto!" Sasuke snarled, pumping up the stairs three at a time, smirking as he was within arms reach of the blond.
Naruto felt the world slide from underneath his feet. "Omphf!" he felt the shag like carpeted floor meet his face a two hands wrap around his neck.
And clench.
"Sasuke!" he choked out. "Stop! You're-killing me!"
"Good!"
"Sasuke!" Naruto moaned in his plea, relaxing underneath the other. His eyes closed and he held his breath.
After a moment of the boy not moving, Sasuke stopped his ministrations. "Naruto…" he let go of the boys throat, "Naruto!?" Sasuke started to panic. "NARUTO!" he shook the lifeless boy. "Oh god, NARUTO! Wake up!" Sasuke flipped him over, "Naruto!"
"What!?" Sasuke jumped as the blue eyes snapped open and the face came to life. "What's with that look Sasuke!? Isn't that what you wanted? For me to be quite? For me to die?!"
Sasuke grabbed his neck again, "SHUT UP!"
Naruto felt Sasuke shake. "Sasuke?"
"I don't want you dead."
"Are you crying?" Naruto's voice wasn't full of its usual mockery but full of concern. He felt the hand slide down from his neck to his lay on his chest. "Sauske?"
"Please…don't…don't talk about dying on me…I don't want you to die."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "I was kidding you doofus." Naruto looked strangly at Sasuke, who avoided eye contact. "You're acting weird, whats wrong?" Sasuke felt Naruto's hand on his cheek, pulling his eyes to look at his. "Are you alright?"
"I over reacted earlier. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that to you…threatened your life and all." Sasuke played with the button on Naruto's open shirt. "I was just mad…you know…"
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Sasuke, ever since…then…(they silently agreed never to speak of the incidnet ever again.)…you have been such a girl…" Naruto snickered as Sasuke scowled. "Now, that's my Sasuke!" he pulled him ontop of him into an akward hug. "It's alright Sasuke, I promise never to play dead, ever again. Well…as long as you don't try to kill me." Sasuke smirked, pulling himself up slightly. "Alright deal." Sasuke smiled at the younger boy. Sasuke let his arms give out and laid ontop of the other man, content in just hearing his heart beat against his. Naruto… he felt Naruto's fingers flitting through his hair, "How do you get your hair to stick like this?"
Sasuke grunted. Not moving away from the touch, feeling a fluttering of sorts in his stomach as he leaned into it slightly. He felt Naruto's other hand lay calmly on his lower back. "It has to be some sort of gel or something, ya know?"
"It's not." Sasuke murmmered as he felt Naruto's fingers search his roots.
"Ya know…I've always wanted to touch it…it seems as if it sticks up on its own, but I never had reason too…"
"Mmmm…" Sasuke hummed, taking a deep breath, inhaling Naruto's scent, licking his lips silently againts Naruto's shoulder.
"But now I know…it's a demon to physics. A really crime against nature…your duck butt head…" Sasuke felt Naruto laugh softly, Sasuke opened the eyes he didn't know he had closed, to retort, but fell short when he noticed where he was.
He was next to Uzumaki Naruto's ear.
A very tasting looking ear at that. If only I could just nip- Sasuke jumped up. Oh god. Sasuke scrambled to his feet and straightend himself. He looked down at the bewillared looking Naruto; shirt wide open, legs apart, slightly bent at the knee, hair messed up even more from the carpet and the door.
"Sasuke?" Naruto tilted his head, propped up on his knees.
Sasuke took a unsteady step back…Oh god…he looks…
He looks…
…delicious…
"Sasuke!" Naruto jumped up as Sasuke took another step back, and with Naruto advancing on him, another.
Only to have Naruto catch him before he realized he ran out of floor.
The next thing Sasuke recalled was having the wall behind him and Naruto in front of him. "Sasuke are you crazy!? What's up with you today? You almost kill me, then yourself…Are you alright."
Sasuke tried not to focus on the fact that Naurto was no more than two centimeters away from his face. He gulped silently. "I'm fine…I'm going to lie down for a moment…" he pushed the blond away for a moment and took a wobbily step.
"Come on." Sasuke felt Naruto hold his shoulders as he steered the older man to his bed room across the hall. "We don't want you to fall down again." Naruto opened the door and steered Sasuke to the bed and shoved him down hard. "Sleep sensei…" He saw Naruto give him a look of concern before he walked out of the room and closed the door.
Sasuke sighed. "Damnit…what's wrong with me?" He heard Sakura's voice softly in the back of his mind, "Whatever Sasuke, but when the day comes and you want nothing more than to bang him hard, don't come crying to me…"
Sasuke moaned into his pillow, cursing Sakura's name. "It might not want to…that…but…Jesus…" he moaned into his pillow.
Because moaning was the closest thing to crying that Uchiha Sasuke was ever going to do ever again.
III
"Naruto!" Sasuke groaned as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Sakura, shouldn't you be somewhere else rather than barging into my house uninvited at nine in the morning?" Sasuke slouched in his high stool, spinning the small chair away from him.
Naruto cackled, jumping up from his chair (and his fruit loops) to give his pink haired friend a hug, "Sakura-chan? Would you like to come in?"
She laughed as Sasuke rolled his eyes, "I would love to, but Kakashi is waiting out in the car and for some reason he doesn't want to keep the car running. .." she shrugged.
"Then why are you here?" Sasuke spun his chair, giving her the famous death glare he seemed to have invented.
"Sasuke!" Naruto snapped, slapping him in the back of his head, almost making the older man spill his coffee all over himself. "Just because the weather is cold doesn't mean that you have to be too." Sasuke resumed his posture with his back turned to them as Naruto snickered softly to his back.
"What is it that you needed my dear?" Naruto bowed deeply, legs crossing and right arm crossing his stomach as he left flew in the air.
Sakura laughed, "I came to give you this, I thought that you would be interested." She dug into the back slung around her neck, (a light pink messenger bag that fitted with her hair.) and she pulled out a flyer.
Naruto's eyes widend as he saw the heading 'First Annual Concerito Contest-All Ages and Talent' "Sakura…"
She smiled warmly, "You have been taking lessons for years now Naruto and have done nothing with them, it's about time that you did!"
Naruto grinned from ear to ear. "Thanks Sakura!" he grabbed her around the waist and spun her around. "Have I ever told you how much I love you Sakura?!"
She giggled, "No, but you can start now."
"If you weren't already taken I'd take you myself-"
"You know," Sasuke snapped, setting his cup down perhaps a little 'too' hard onto the counter. "If you are going to try out for something like this, perhaps you should check with your teacher to see if its okay."
"Oh, come off it Sasuke! You know that he's ready, he'd knock the socks off that competition!"
"But he's never preformed! He doesn't know proper edidictit."
"Fuck eddickit." Naruto brushed it off, "Sasuke, I know that I can do this."
Sasuke stood from his stool, strolling over to the kitchen entrance and stared Naruto down. Sasuke had to take in how He didn't really have to look down on the younger man so much anymore, but his glare didn't lessen because of it. "You think that you can do something like this? We've never gone over a proper piece, nor have we gone over proper stage presence."
"All you do with him is drill him and do scales and more scales! That's all a song is! Let him do it!"
Sasuke huffed. "Fine, but don't get depressed when you don't win."
Sakura rolled her eyes, "Well, since he won't have confidence in you…" she elbowed the dark haired boy in the ribs. "I will." She leaned up and kissed Naruto on the Forehead, "Don't worry about it Naruto, its in four months, pick out a song and work hard." He smiled kindly at her, "Good luck on your practicing! I'll be there! Promise!" she gave Naruto one last hug then dashed down the hall.
The stood frozen till the door, slammed close and peace reigned over the house for a few seconds.
"Sasuke-sensei?"
Sasuke cringed at the honorific. Since he started letting Naruto call him without it, he started to destest when his pupil used it. "Yes, Naruto?"
"Why do you not have faith in me?" Sasuke was startled by Naruto's spin around, no longer facing the door, but he himself. Sasuke's heart clenched at the sight of pain in his eyes, a pain that perhaps only Sasuke has ever been able to see.
Sasuke showed no emotion as he spoke, "Because you can't do it. If you want to make a fool of yourself on stage, then by all means do so. I will pick out a piece and I expect you to work on it." Sasuke didn't wait for Naruto to acknowledge what he had said.
He had to get out of there before Naruto started to cry.
III
Sasuke pinched the bridge of his nose and groaned. "God damnit Naruto!" Sasuke shouted, picking up his coat and stormed out of the house, noting that his shouts earned him a loud screeching sound that even a deaf man would cringe to.
Sasuke made sure to slam to front door hard, almost cracking to wooden door. Once the door was the close, the screeching stopped and "music" could be heard.
If that's what Naruto kept calling it.
Sasuke sighed, picking a direction and walking away from his now personal hell. Sasuke looked up to the sky and cursed himself, pulling the coat closer to body against the chill of the september day. Why the hell did I say that for? Ever since Sasuke predicted Naruto's failure, the said boy has not spoken one word to the older man. Instead of talking, the young muscicain has replaced his endless chatter with endless practicing.
Naruto decided for the competition to start anew without the help of Sasuke, since Sasuke (in Naruto's words) had no faith in him and hated him. Sasuke groaned, turning down a random street., remember the phone call with Sakura three hours after the incident.
"Why did you tell him that? You know how much your opinion matters to him…"
"I didn't think he'd react this way…"
"I understand what you're doing, it's a good way but Naruto is sensiti-"
"You think after six years of living with the boy that I don't know that he's sensitive!?" Sasuke could feel her tense on the other side of the phone. "Sakura listen-"
"No Sasuke, you listen. You need to tell him why you said that. That it will make him practice harder and make him more determined. He thinks you hate him now. You know he loves you."
"He told you all this didn't he?"
"Did you hear what I said; he-"
"Sakura," he cut her off. "Let this just die down okay? Naruto will get over this in a couple of days and we can get on with our lives."
"Sasuke, you know that's not true."
"Naruto is a kid, that's what kids do." He lied to her and himself.
"Sasuke…"
"Bye, Sakura."
Sasuke shuddered, it'd been three weeks and he still hadn't gotten over it. He was no doubt worse. His heart clenched, I should probably say I'm sorry…but then…hell I don't know… Sasuke looked up to wear his feet had taken him and gave a small laugh. A bar…great.
III
Sasuke knew that God was trying to smite him. And it was working. Of all the bars in town. Sasuke tried to surpress his need to return the death glare Kakashi was giving him from the other end of the bar; Sasuke learned fast; don't pick fights with those that can kick your ass. "What do you want Hatake?"
"I want you to fix whatever you've done."
Sasuke glared at the silver haired man. "I haven't done anything."
Kakashi rolled his eyes, sauntering over to where the other man sit. "Every day for the past three weeks, Sakura has talked about nothing but you and the little blond kid. It's pissing me off."
Sasuke shurgged, "What do you want me to do about it?"
"Tell the blond you're sorry." Kakashi pulled a glass from behind the bar and filled it for Sasuke. "On the house," he murmered, his glare not lifting.
"I have done nothing wrong."
"Reverse physology don't work on everybody pal, and especially when they don't know that's what going down." Sasuke gave him a weird look. "Just do something. I don't think I can take another two months of it."
Sasuke downed his drink. "I'm sorry…I don't know what to do. His constant playing is driving me mad. I can't even think when I'm at home."
"Neither can I when she goes into music mode with him."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Naruto's been over there?"
Kakashi nodded, waving off a customer that demanded his service, "Every day man. Must be when he's not practicing or whatever. He sits in the living room and either sulks or demands help from Sakura. It's depressing, seeing the little guy get worked up over you."
Sasuke looked down as Kakashi walked away to help the threatening man. I can't do anything though…damnit! Sasuke stood up, throwing all he had in his pocket and walked out. "Do something!" he heard Kakashi holler at him.
I'll try.
III
ITS LONGER! HURRAH!
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