Mornings turn out to be a bit more than Sasuke bargained for...
There was a loud explosion from somewhere upstairs and Sasuke was immediately jolted from his sleep. Almost automatically, he flung himself off his bed and landed in a tangled pile of sheets as a startled Suigetsu dissolved through the roof and tumbled straight down onto his bed in a pile of water, before quickly reforming as human.
"Sorry," Suigetsu chuckled; eyeing the ruffled Uchiha on the floor.
"…Fucking hell…" Sasuke growled as the other boy casually headed for the door; not looking in the least bit sorry. It was Monday morning again…and the morning routine of this household was driving him absolutely insane; even after only a week!
Last week…
Monday morning had come around, and the younger Uchiha had been filled with apprehension about his first day of school. Unfortunately, he had had a rather rude awakening by apparently having a large bucket of water dumped on him.
Coughing and spluttering and completely drenched, Suigetsu had formed as a human on top of him; laughing his head off.
"You should have seen your face!" he snorted, grinning wildly, "Sorry man; Deidara likes to shock me out of sleep and well…" He looked up at the roof where there was a large patch of moisture to indicate that he had fallen through the floor of his room as a puddle of water.
"…Get off me…" Sasuke snapped, shoving the other boy off him and realising that he was completely drenched. After managing to have a shower and find some dry clothes, he'd headed off to the kitchen to discover that there was a fire on the kitchen bench and Deidara was apparently cooking toast over it.
"What the hell?" Sasuke exclaimed.
" –Move over," Sakura snorted, shoving him aside. The force propelled him so hard into the wall that he was slightly winded and could only gasp for breath as she snatched one of the pieces of toast levitating in thin air as she passed. "Naruto! Go get Shikamaru up!"
"On it!" Naruto chuckled to himself as he appeared in a flash of light; grabbing a piece of toast before vanishing again. A few seconds later, there was a hoarse yell and something went flying out from one of the second storey windows; only to vanish again before hitting the ground. All the toast suddenly dropped; being caught narrowly by Sakura and Deidara.
"What was that?" Sasuke demanded.
" –Shikamaru," Sakura shrugged.
"You threw him out a window?" he exclaimed flatly.
" –He's not very good at getting up," she replied, "Dei; where's the coffee at?"
"Quit bossing me around, yeah!" Deidara snapped huffily as he clicked his fingers. A fire started up under the kettle and it quickly began to boil. Sasuke just moodily grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl; only to have it snatched by a severed hand that just happened to be running through the kitchen at that time.
"OW! Deidara, you little shit!" Hidan crowed from the foyer as Deidara smirked and a fire appeared underneath the hand.
"Keep your nasty hands to yourself, yeah!" the blonde shouted back aggressively. Sasuke had decided that going to school without breakfast couldn't hurt.
Tuesday morning
Sasuke woke up shivering and completely soaked through.
"Suigetsu!" he shouted angrily, shoving the other boy off his bed. The white-haired teenager laughed hysterically at the sight of the rather annoyed Uchiha. The raven had grabbed his towel and headed off to have a shower.
So there he was, fuming away and trying to warm up again, when all of a sudden…
"WAHHH!" Sasuke suddenly felt something heavy connect with him and he went plummeting to the floor of the shower with something on top of him. The sound of the yell and the familiar blonde hair indicated that it was Naruto.
"Why are you in my shower?" Sasuke snarled, shoving Naruto's face away from him as the blonde squirmed about; his clothes quickly becoming drenched.
"Sorry; sorry!" Naruto snapped, getting up from the Uchiha's lap and pushed back the curtain, "Kiba made me sneeze!" Sasuke immediately dragged the curtain around to try and preserve a bit of modesty. "Oh please, Uchiha; we've both got the same bits."
" –Neji says Sasuke seems to have a considerable bit more of those same bits," Shikamaru suddenly remarked; half his body appeared through the wall; the rest of it a simple shadow. He ran his lazy eyes across Sasuke's pale, naked body and raised an eyebrow.
"Oi, Suigetsu! Tell Neji he's right!" Shikamaru hollered as Sasuke aimed a punch at his face.
"Get the fuck out!" Sasuke snapped as Suigetsu's head appeared from through the roof. Naruto headed over to the mirror and began attempting to wring out his soaked shirt.
"Of course Neji's right," Suigetsu snorted, "He's the one with the X-ray vision –"
"Get out!" Sasuke snapped; a vein twitching in his brow as he wrapped a small towel around his waist and dragged Naruto out of the bathroom by the scruff of his neck.
"Come on, Sasuke; can't you take a joke?" Naruto snorted; sitting in a sodden pile outside the bathroom.
"Obviously not," Neji remarked flatly, from where he had been standing outside the bathroom and peering in at Sakura's request. Shikamaru suddenly materialised through the wall –apparently having been flung out as the door slammed shut.
"Well, he's not a morning person, is he?" Shikamaru muttered flatly.
"I can still hear you," Sasuke assured him in a cold voice from through the door.
Wednesday morning
"Deidara! Get out of the bathroom; you're taking forever!"
"Piss off Sakura! You always take ages, yeah!"
Sasuke jammed his pillow over his head and groaned; rolling off his bed and landing in a tired heap. There was a resounding explosion and the smell of burning hair filled the air.
"Now look what you made me do, yeah!"
Sasuke glared at no one in particular; pulling on his clothes as he decided that it was probably a better idea to shower after school today. Upon making an appearance in the hallway, he came across a shirtless Neji in a towel; probably having just finished his shower.
"Morning, Sasuke," he greeted cordially. Sasuke made a tired, non-committal noise as he looked over to see Sakura physically punching a hole in one of the bathroom doors and a flame immediately come rocketing out from it.
"Deidara!" Sakura was yelling.
"Deidara, get out of the fucking bathroom!" Hidan could be heard yelling from downstairs, "Don't make part of me come up there!"
"I'm doing my hair, yeah –" His complaint was suddenly halted by a wild yell and he and Naruto appeared in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the stairs in a flash of light.
"Thanks, Naruto!" Sakura called out cheerfully.
"Bitch!" Deidara snapped crossly, his hair flopping into his face. One of Hidan's hands scampered up onto his shoulder and tugged at his cheek mockingly. He just pouted; folding his arms and huffing out a small puff of fire. Sasuke had just reached the stairs when all of a sudden something shoved him from behind and he went tumbling head over heels down the staircase to land on top of Naruto at the bottom.
"Morning, Sasuke!" Naruto greeted with that ridiculous grin of his.
"Tch…" Sasuke muttered, his face turning up in disgust as he removed himself from on top of the blonde; only to be pushed back on top of him as a large, smelly, furry weight landed on his back. Naruto burst out laughing.
"Hey Kiba!" he greeted, reaching up past Sasuke's shoulders to grab something from the shaggy dog's mouth. Sasuke flinched as he felt soft hands accidentally brush against his cheek and settled with glaring at Kiba over his shoulder until the heavy dog leapt up. Kiba the dog barked several times before chasing his own tail and then sprinting after Hidan's fleeing hand.
Sasuke groaned; laboriously dragging himself off Naruto and rubbing his aching body. Damn, that fall down the stairs had hurt. He'd been lucky he hadn't broken anything.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings had progressed in much the same fashion; the same terrible wakeup; the same inability of the housemates to let him shower in peace and privacy…Deidara had set him on fire twice and so of course Suigetsu had 'felt obliged' to completely drench him twice. Thursday morning he was the one being thrown out the window as a good morning…Kiba bowled him down the stairs on both Friday and Saturday…
He'd also sort of given up on breakfast. There was no way to get in on a piece of toast or a coffee when there were eight other people getting ready to go to school. They'd snatch up all the food and all be off out the door; yelling some sort of farewell to Kisame.
And so, as usual, Sasuke had been left to walk to school by himself. He was totally fine with that; he didn't think he could deal with the idle chatter and the yelling all the way to school as well. Sunday he'd slept in and hadn't noticed everyone leaving. When he'd finally emerged, he'd found Itachi in the kitchen and been informed that most of them had headed out to work –much like they had on Saturday. He hadn't known that most of them had jobs.
And now…now it was Monday again. Oh hooray.
As he exited his room he ducked as a flaming lamp went flying past him; only to be caught by Suigetsu as he emerged from Sasuke's room.
"Oi! Deidara; dad said not to light the furniture on fire or you're grounded!" he hollered to the landing up a floor.
"Hidan was in my fucking room!" Deidara shouted back; his hair falling messily across his face, "He stole my hair-straightener, damn it!"
"Oh you're such a fucking girl, Dei-Dei," Hidan's head chanted mockingly; rolling down the banister and being caught by the rest of his body, "Now who the fuck stole my left foot?"
"It's in Shikamaru's room," Neji called, heading downstairs stiffly, "Someone get him up? It's not my turn –"
"I'll do it!" Ino cackled gleefully, and Sasuke just knew that there were vines growing up into Shikamaru's room. The vines would grab him and dangle him out his window.
…A shout of "INO!" informed him that his guess was correct. Apprehensive, he headed over to the nearest bathroom for a shower. No sooner had he stepped under the hot water that the door was completely kicked in.
"What now?" Sasuke growled, wrenching back the curtain; not even caring who it was this time.
" –I just needed my shampoo…" Sakura remarked; leaning into the shower and smirking at him, "…Man…Such a pity you're not straight…Although to be fair, you're kind of a jackass…"
"Get out," the raven glared darkly. She just rolled her eyes and left the bathroom again. He pulled the curtain closed again rather irritably and held his hands over his ears as there was a serious of explosions from upstairs; presumably as Hidan discovered that his foot had been hidden in Shikamaru's room by Deidara as punishment for something…He lost track of what Deidara got angry about.
After managing to get clean after only having two more people see him naked, Sasuke headed down to the kitchen; really hoping that there were few enough people that he might actually be able to nab a coffee this morning.
Before even reaching the kitchen, however, he was knocked to the floor by Kiba the human as he sprinted off with Akamaru in tow. Sasuke huffed crossly; brushing his bangs back into place as Suigetsu promptly stepped on him as he traipsed towards the front door with his skateboard.
"Sorry; didn't see you there," he cackled with a smirk. Glaring and rather annoyed, the raven tried to stand up again; only ending up getting kicked in the ass by one of Hidan's legs that had gone walkabout.
"…You're fucking kidding me…" he snapped in irritation, grabbing the leg by its ankle and promptly flinging it up the stairs as hard as he possibly could.
"You bastard!" Hidan snapped from somewhere upstairs.
"Don't kick me," Sasuke growled back; finding himself roughly shoved into the wall by some unseen force as Shikamaru used his telekinesis to clear the way for he and Neji to head off to school. "Shikamaru –" Before he could finish his threat, Shikamaru had flicked his wrist and forced the raven to non-too-gently whack his head on the roof before slumping to the ground; the force removed.
"Itachi…you're going to fucking pay for bringing me along…" he vowed as he retrieved his bag; rubbing his throbbing head. He pushed open the door to the kitchen and promptly swore as a flaming knife went soaring past him; singeing the edge of his sleeve.
"Oh…thought you were Hidan, yeah," Deidara muttered crossly, flicking his hair and stalking out; extinguishing the fire as he did so. Sasuke groaned when he saw that the jug was empty and the coffee gone. It was going to be another of those weeks, wasn't it?
With a sigh of resignation, he turned to leave and found his way blocked by a familiar blonde.
"Yo, Sasuke!" he greeted brightly.
"What do you want?" Sasuke inquired darkly; not in the mood for the blonde's exuberant personality after this string of rough mornings.
"No need to be a jerk," Naruto snorted, casually throwing him an apple and holding up a takeaway coffee cup, " –And to think, I went to the effort of saving you some coffee!" He grinned that ridiculous grin once again. Sasuke caught the apple and scowled darkly. "I thought we could walk to school together? You always look lonely."
"Lonely? Give me a break," Sasuke snorted flatly; taking the coffee and leading the blonde from the kitchen and out of the house. Naruto chuckled.
" –I can't read minds like Ino or Shikamaru," he remarked conversationally, "But I sure as hell know when someone feels lonely…" He gave the raven a sympathetic look but saw that Sasuke was ignoring him. Blue eyes softened slightly. He recognised the coldness around Sasuke; and the distant look in his eyes –it was a look of a person who, even surrounded by people, felt very alone. He knew the feeling…and didn't like seeing it on someone else.
He didn't know why someone as well off as an Uchiha could feel so alone, but didn't want to pry. So he just grinned, and the two of them walked to school in silence for the start of a new week.
So these kids don't like 'normal' kids all that much, do they? They have no time for Sasuke...except maybe our favourite blonde! Will Sasuke make a friend? Will life at the Manor get easier? What is school like?
Well, we'll find out soon, won't we?
Review, my pretties! xD