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Chapter 9: Thank You
To say Naruto was frantic while looking for Sasuke would be an understatement. Kiba had told him that it was time that they told Sasuke the "truth" and he knew that Sasuke wouldn't listen to him if Kiba just told him and didn't get to hear Naruto's side first. Kiba was his friend and he knew that the brunette wouldn't really do anything to purposely hurt him, but he also knew that Kiba hated Sasuke and would do anything to make him feel like shit. 'I have to find Sasuke! Where the fuck could is he?'
Naruto hated the fact that Sasuke always turned his phone off until after school. If he had his phone on then everything could be worked out, but he didn't and Naruto had to deal with that. The blonde knew that he shouldn't have played the stupid game, it wasn't worth it, he just wished that he would have known that sooner. He wished that he would have known before that he was going to fall for the raven. He wished that could just say no, it was always his biggest problem; he had to say yes, if he said no he feared his friends wouldn't like him. But there was something different about Sasuke, the raven wasn't like them, he would get mad if Naruto didn't do what he wanted but the blonde didn't feel like he had to fear losing him.
The blonde knew that people in his life had only hurt Sasuke. Naruto didn't want to be added to that list, he didn't want to lose the raven's trust. He knew that he had to find him first.
As he scanned the crowd he finally saw the raven, and Kiba was nowhere to be found, or at least he thought. The blonde made his way to the raven and put his hand on the raven's shoulder to turn him towards him. "Sasuke, we need to talk," the blonde said, not realizing how much he sounded like he was going to break up with him.
The blonde pulled Sasuke through the crowd to a place where he thought that they could talk. "Listen," he started but a hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"Hey, you weren't going to tell with out me, right?" a loud voice boomed from behind Naruto.
"Tell what?" Sasuke said as a hurt look started to form on his face.
"Sasu-dork, you should know, this guy hasn't been honest with you, and you don't mind if I tell right?" Kiba said as he looked from Sasuke to Naruto.
Naruto couldn't say anything; he had to make a choice, Kiba or Sasuke, but not both.
Kiba just let out a chuckle, "Did you really think that you two were friends?"
"What?" Sasuke asked, as a frown was more apparent on his face.
"This was all just a little game, a way to make you look stupid, I mean get real, why would someone like Naruto even talk to a geek like you unless needed?" Kiba said with a smirk, he knew he hit a weak spot, but he didn't realize just why.
Sasuke didn't say anything; he just shook his head and walked away, not even able to look Naruto in the eyes.
'FUCK!' Naruto's mind screamed, I should have said something. It was too late in his mind; he didn't think to run after the raven, that it could be saved.
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Sasuke was sitting in the park, his guitar next to him, he was angry, not only with Naruto, but with himself. He knew that the blonde was up the tree, but chose to ignore him as he closed his eyes and had his little rant. 'How could I have been so stupid? Why would I think a guy like that would fall for me? How could I tell him all that I did? Why did he have to lie to me? How can I still have feeling? Why am I so fucking stupid?'
The raven sighed as he wrote down a song for his feelings he couldn't keep it in. The raven had to sing, he had to get it out, and he didn't care who heard him. He picked up the guitar and started to play his feelings.
So not all of his feelings were exactly the words he said, he didn't feel that he could always count on the blonde, and he knew things could come between them, and they never actually said that they'd stick together, but he did feel stupid and was broken down, and probably wouldn't be the same. Sasuke had remembered a quote he heard by Carl Jung that said "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." He agreed with it, and from his side he felt a reaction, he had been transformed a little, even if it was just a lie. He was being transformed again as an angry reaction took a hold of him, though he didn't like to get angry often.
Sasuke hated how he felt, he felt betrayed, like he was a wounded puppy that had been kicked. Why people had to be so vicious he'd never know, nor want to know. He didn't have the energy to keep his life going in the direction it was. He felt hurt and betrayed and he was sick of it. He was sick of being kicked when he was down.
First Naruto makes him see that he truly is gay, and then it comes out that he was just being toyed with. He didn't understand why his life was how it was. He didn't know what he did wrong in the past to make the present like it was. All he knew was that he was sick of it, and he was sick of being hurt. He wouldn't stand down anymore and he wouldn't just take it.
At that moment there were really two things that Sasuke hated. One, that he wouldn't just come down from the tree and leave since he's already hurt him enough, there really wasn't need for more. And two, that Naruto even came to the park he knew that Sasuke always went to in the first place.
Sasuke didn't know how, but he was going to make Naruto regret what he did, of course he didn't know that the blonde was already feeling bad about it. He was ready to do whatever to make the blonde feel stupid. He wanted to make everyone feel stupid for doubting him, for making him out to be just "the nerd" or "sasu-dork" he was just sick of it.
The blonde listened to the entire song with a frown. It was not even a question if the song was for him; he knew it was for him. He let out a sigh as he watched the raven, feeling somewhat like a stalker. He knew that the raven probably knew he was up in the tree, he usually did know.
"Go away Naruto," Sasuke said as he looked around for something to throw at the blonde.
"I can be in the tree if I want, you don't own it," Naruto said, which made the raven madder.
Sasuke just sent him the Uchiha death glare, which sent a chill down his spine, and said, "Just stay away from me."
Naruto jumped out of the tree and ran to catch up with the retreating Uchiha. "You haven't even heard my side of the story!" Naruto argued.
"You messed with my head, you made me think that you like me, I thought you were my friend, but all this time it was just some joke for you and your friends. I only have one thing left to say to you: go fuck yourself," Sasuke said as he started to turn away.
Naruto grabbed his arm, "Just listen!"
"I don't want to hear what you have to say," Sasuke said as he yanked his arm free.
Naruto was about to respond when a hand came onto his shoulder, "I believe he said to leave him alone."
Both boys' eyes widened at the tall man with his hand on Naruto's shoulder. He was taller than average and had wild dirty blonde hair, his clothes were tight black pants that had chains and a black wife beater and he looked like he could possibly be mentally unstable. "You should go," the guy said.
Naruto just looked at Sasuke, whom glared back at him, before he looked down at the ground and started to walk away, mumbling something along the lines of, "I'll talk to you later Sasuke." The blonde didn't go far, he wasn't about to leave Sasuke with some guy they didn't know, especially some creep.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked as he stepped back.
"Juugo, I'm new," the tall man said.
"Oh," Sasuke said.
"You don't have to be afraid of me, I'm not going to hurt you, I told you I'm new, me and my friends just moved here," he said.
"Oh…wait…you're that lineman from Sound's football team," Sasuke said, recognizing the other boy.
"Yeah, I was, but as I said we moved, I saw he was bugging you and I thought I should help," Juugo said.
"Well, I'm Sasuke and thanks, it's nice to meet you," the raven said before turning to walk away.
"Hey Sasuke?" Juugo called after him.
"Yeah?" the raven asked as he stopped walking and turned toward the other teen.
"We should hang out sometime," the other boy suggested.
"I don't know if you'd like hanging out with a guy like me," Sasuke said.
"I'm sure we'd get along," Juugo smiled.
"Yeah, maybe," Sasuke said before walking away, he didn't know his friendship with Juugo would change his life.
TBC…