I don't know if anyone remembers the story Better In Time…it was on my friend's page how2live and it was a NaruSasu/KibaSasu story…it was really up to the readers in which direction it was going, though it was leaning toward KibaSasu…it was one I was helping her with but she stopped writing it…I was going to finish it, but I never gotten around to it…I'm thinking about working on it when I'm done with this story, so if you've read it and remember it let me know if it's a good idea…

Also, I'm working on chapter 12 right now, it has Yukio in it and I think that it's going to be a pretty interesting chapter…remember that if you want to see something happen in the story don't hesitate to say something, I may use suggestions or a form of them…this is also the last week that I'm taking one-shot requests, I start school again starting Tuesday…

This chapter is based off of an Art of Dying featuring Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace

Chapter 9: Raining

Sasuke was sleeping rather peacefully. For once in a very long time he had allowed himself to sleep in, but a certain friend of his ruined it. "Sasuke," a voice called, interrupting his sleep. He could hear Naruto laughing as he watched Suigetsu try to wake Sasuke up. "Sasuke," he called a little louder, shaking his friend. "Come on Uch…" his sentence was cut short by Sasuke quickly turning over, tackling his friend to the ground in the process. "What the hell Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked, finding himself pinned to the floor by an angry Uchiha.

"Shut up," he said threateningly. They both knew that Suigetsu was about to call him by his last name, though Suigetsu didn't know why that angered the man so much. He didn't want Naruto to know his last name; he didn't want to be treated differently. When people would first meet him, they'd usually pity him and he didn't want that from Naruto.

"What were you about to insult him or something?" Naruto asked confused as he looked at the scene in front of him. "Or are you really not a morning person? I mean tackling someone seems a little extreme if you're not a morning person," the blond continued asking.

"Both of you, just shut up," Sasuke said angrily as he got off of his best friend. He sat on his bed, knowing that he shouldn't have reacted so recklessly. He knew that it was a little bit of an extreme way to shut someone, but he felt it was necessary.

The tension in the room was broken for a moment when they heard, "Suigetsu, Sasuke." It was the sound of a girl yelling for the two, sounding rather angry. "Open up and let me in," she said, banging on the door. "I'm serious Uchiha, open the door," came from the other side of the door.

Sasuke got up angrily, "It was unlocked you moron." A redheaded girl, Karin, stood in the hallway, "Well how was I supposed to know that?" She pushed her way into the room, "Now tell me what happened last night." The girl was persistent and didn't care if it upset Sasuke. When it came to her boyfriend she wanted details.

Naruto sat on his bed, shocked, by finding out Sasuke's last name. He didn't know how he didn't realize it before; Sasuke had all of the Uchiha features. 'Is that why he's such a bastard?' Naruto wondered, staring at the other man.

Sasuke hated the way Naruto was staring at him; it was as if he pitied him. The one thing that he liked about his roommate was that he didn't know who he was because it made things easier. "Ask them, I'm going to take a shower," Sasuke said as he practically stormed into the bathroom.

Karin looked at the expression on Naruto's face, "You didn't know his last name, did you?" Naruto just shook his head, signaling that he didn't. Karin nodded, "He must not have wanted you to know." In that moment she felt a little bad, she knew how most people treated him because of what happened all those years ago.

Suigetsu agreed, "That's why he stopped me this morning from doing it." He looked at the blond and said, "Really it'd just be better if you act like you didn't know." He paused before adding, "He really doesn't like to be pitied."

Naruto didn't respond for a moment, but when he did, he said, "Like I'd ever pity that asshole." The shock wore off and Naruto switched to lying position. While what he found out was shocking to him, he knew that Sasuke was just another person and that he couldn't pity the bastard.

"Well, now that that's done," Karin said, switching her attention back to Suigetsu. "Tell me what you boys did last night," she demanded. Suigetsu groaned, hoping that she'd just drop the subject, but he had no such luck.

Naruto looked at the other man, who looked slightly scared. He chucked as he answered for him, "Don't worry, he was a good boy."

"That didn't answer my question," Karin pointed out with her hands on her hips. "So please, one of you tell me what you did," she said. "Other wise I'm going to think the worst," she added.

"We went to a strip club," Naruto told her, seeing that Suigetsu wasn't going to. "It was all looking and no touching," he assured the woman. His words didn't seem to soothe her anger.

"What am I not good enough to look at? You have to go to other girls?" she asked, pulling Suigetsu by the arm out the door. Naruto pitied the man; he knew he never wanted to be on the receiving wrath of any woman.

"It's not like I knew that was where we were going," Suigetsu argued. As they got further down the hall, Naruto couldn't hear their conversation. He just shrugged and closed his eyes, deciding to relax for a while.

NS

Sasuke stared in the mirror for a moment. He wanted to break it, but knew that it wouldn't be the best of ideas. At times, he hated looking into the mirror. Everyone told him that he looked like his mother more than his father, however, whenever he looked in the mirror all he could see was the qualities that he had obtained from his father. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

He turned on the shower, but instead of getting in, he just sat on the floor, leaning against it for a while. 'I'm nothing like him,' he assured himself. He didn't want to be anything like his father. In a way, Sasuke felt like he didn't even know the man that he called father. He didn't remember a time when his father was gentle or nice, it made him wonder what his mother saw in the man.

He ran a hand through his hair, not wanting to think about his father. His father was the cause of why Sasuke was socially inept. He had damaged Sasuke to the point that he was hesitant to let anyone close, he didn't trust people easily, and he always thought that the worst was going to come from any sort of relationship. Sasuke put on a cold exterior, thinking if no one was close to him, then he couldn't get hurt again.

Sasuke stripped of his clothes, needing a shower to wash away all of the thoughts of his father. He stepped in, closing his eyes and letting the water beat down on him. He let all of his thoughts release from his body, wanting it all to go away.

He got out of the shower and realized that he didn't bring any new clothes with him. 'Damn it,' he thought. 'Hopefully everyone left,' he thought, not even convincing himself that the room would be empty. He looked at his clothes, but it made him disgusted at the thought of wearing old clothes after he'd just taken a shower. Instead, he grabbed a towel and dried himself off the best he could before wrapping it around his waist. He grabbed his other clothes before walking out. He didn't pay much attention to the blond as he threw his clothes into the dirty clothes pile and went in search of new ones.

Naruto looked up to see a practically nude Sasuke. The blond bit his lip as he watched water drip off of his hair and onto his back. He followed the water drop with his eyes until it disappeared into the towel. He couldn't help but think how much he'd love to be one of the water drops. He started to stare at Sasuke's ass, thinking, 'His ass almost looks as good in a towel as it does in his skin tight jeans.'

Sasuke turned around to see Naruto staring at him. He had his clothes in his hand and was ready to go back to the bathroom, but was caught off guard by the other man's eyes roaming his body. "Why are you staring at me?" he asked, for a moment forgetting that his roommate was gay as well.

"Because you have the perfect body," Naruto said, though he didn't really mean to. He was staring at Sasuke's toned chest, making his censor not work as much as he'd like. He stared back up at Sasuke's face and couldn't help but love the way Sasuke looked with his hair weighed down by water.

"Right," Sasuke said awkwardly before returning to the bathroom to get changed. After he got dressed, he leaned on the bathroom counter and thought, 'At least he finds me as attractive as I find him.' His smirk wore off as he realized what he'd just thought, 'No. Hell no, I do not find him attractive.' He wasn't sure why he was still denying it considering that he had already admitted it to himself multiple times. Perhaps it was the idea that if he said it enough times than it'd be true.

NS

Naruto didn't want to make things more awkward than they were so he left the room while Sasuke was changing and headed over to Kiba's dorm. He knocked repeatedly on the door, "Kiba let me in." He grew impatient as he waited for the door to open. "Thank you," he said as he pushed his way into the room.

"Please do come in," Kiba said sarcastically. "What do you want?" he asked as he sat down on his bed. "You're interrupting a very good show," he added, signaling to his TV.

"I don't care," Naruto said as he grabbed the remote and turned off the television set. He was slightly freaking out because of what he had said. He wasn't sure how Sasuke would react to his words, but he knew it probably wasn't going to be good. "It's so awkward in my room and I think I just made it more awkward," he said, though still didn't sit down. He found that he couldn't sit when his mind was racing.

"Back up," Kiba said as he looked at his friend, confused. "What do you mean more awkward? The brunet asked.

"Well," Naruto said, not knowing where to start. "You see, last night we found out that we're both gay," he started. Kiba just nodded, signaling for him to continue. "It was awkward, I mean one minute we're kind of fighting and then the next it was complete awkward silence," he told him. He was pacing and so Kiba knew he must have done something wrong.

"And how'd you make it more awkward?" he asked, not sure that he really wanted to know. Naruto was so unpredictable that it could be a multitude of things that he'd done to make it awkward. For all he knew the blond might have kissed the man.

"Today before I came here," the blond said, trying to think about how to phrase it. "He came out of the bathroom with only a towel on," he continued. "And trust me, he looks hot in only a towel," he gave a perverted grin. His mind had drifted away from the problem and back to images of Sasuke dripping with water and only in a towel.

"Just get on with it," Kiba said, annoyed with how long Naruto was taking to tell him. He didn't really need the vision of a nude Sasuke to plague his mind.

"Well, I just kind of sat there staring at him," the blond explained. "He had water dripping from his hair and the water drops ran down his body and it was just sexy," he said in somewhat of a daze from just thinking about it. "Anyway," he snapped back to reality. "He asked me why I was staring and you know how my censor is when I'm distracted. So, well, I told him what I thought and I think I kind of freaked him out," he finished.

"Kind of?" Kiba asked. "If your gay roommate told you that wouldn't you be freaked out too?" the brunet asked. At times he couldn't believe how dumb Naruto acted.

"Hell no," Naruto responded. "Sasuke's hot, I wouldn't mind at all if he thought I was too," the blond once again gave a perverted grin. "He may be a bastard but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't tap that," he added. He had a sly grin on his face knowing that he had just completely disgusted Kiba.

"I really didn't need to know that," the brunet said. "It really was a rhetorical question," he said, slightly disturbed by the idea of Naruto and Sasuke having sex. He didn't mind Naruto being gay, but that didn't mean that he wanted to hear about it.

"Right, sorry," the blond said with a little laugh. He always found it funny that Kiba was uncomfortable when he talked about the men he liked. He finally sat on the bed across from Kiba, relaxing a little.

"Can we please talk about something else now?" Kiba asked, earning a nod from the other man. "Good, because I need some help," he told him.

"Well we all knew that, but I can't provide mental help," Naruto chuckled. "I think you should see a professional for that," he grinned, knowing that it wasn't what Kiba meant.

"You know that's not what I meant," Kiba said, again getting annoyed with his best friend.

"Yeah, yeah, I know," said Naruto. "So what is it then that you need help with?" he asked. They were each other's go to person, when one of them had a problem the other was always there to help. More times than not their helping got them into trouble rather than actually helping the situation.

"Hinata," Kiba replied. "Or more how to ask her out," he added. "You know I've liked her for a while," he continued. "I just don't know how to ask her out." He was nervous because he wasn't sure if Hinata felt the same way. They did talk a lot, but sometimes he felt as if he were stuck in the friend zone.

"Just ask her," Naruto suggested. "She's a simple girl, right?" he asked and Kiba nodded. "Then just ask her, you don't need to do anything special, it's not like it's a marriage proposal," he said.

"I guess you're right," the brunet agreed. "I just hope that I don't embarrass myself by getting rejected," he frowned. He dreaded the idea of getting rejected, but he knew that he had to take the chance.

NS

Sasuke sat across from his brother, just like he did every Friday. "So Sasuke, tell me, what's new with you and your roommate?" Itachi asked. He gave his brother a knowing look, which Sasuke decided to ignore.

"He's being a moron like usual," Sasuke shrugged. "He finally found out that I'm an Uchiha though," he added sadly.

"You don't like that he did?" Itachi asked. He wondered why, considering that Sasuke usually took pride in his name. The Uchihas were a wealthy family of prominence. Until that day, most people usually associated the Uchihas with money, not murder. Even then, Itachi was the one that was considered the bad seed, the rebel, but everyone else was still of high stature.

Sasuke looked down, unsure how to respond without seeming as if he liked the blonde. "Well, it was just nice to have somebody that didn't know. You know, someone that didn't pity me because of what happened," he explained.

"Ah, so that's why you like him," Itachi said with a smirk. "He doesn't treat you special because of your last name," he said. "He treated you just like he treats everyone else," he added. He could read his brother like a book, even if Sasuke didn't want to admit it, Itachi knew that he was right.

"I don't like him," Sasuke quickly said. "I said I liked the fact that he didn't know my last name, that's all," he told his brother. He hoped that his brother accepted his excuse, but he had a feeling that he didn't believe him.

"Right," Itachi smirked. "Anything else?" he asked, wanting to know more about his brother's roommate. He was intrigued by how Sasuke acted when the boy was brought up. The older man sensed that Sasuke wasn't telling him everything.

Sasuke looked down, causing Itachi's eyebrow to rise. He knew that Sasuke was usually able to make eye contact, so it always made him curious when the younger Uchiha wasn't able to look him in the eye. Finally Sasuke showed a little blush as he said, "He found out that I'm gay."

"So you do like him," he smirked, making his brother uncomfortable. He could see that his brother was ready to protest. "Okay, I get it, you don't like him. There is no need to look at me like that," Itachi said skeptically. He didn't let his brother continue the conversation instead he switched subjects. "Are you still doing well in your classes?" he asked. He knew that school was a more comfortable subject for Sasuke to talk about and as much as he wanted to he wasn't going to make the younger Uchiha talk about something that he wasn't ready to talk about.

"Of course I am," Sasuke answered, allowing the subject change. He only had a limited time to speak to Itachi; he didn't want to fight with him the entire time. He decided that it was better to answer his brother's questions and enjoy any time he could spend talking to him.

TBC….

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