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Sky-eyed Kitsune: This is a sorta filler…but it's not boring!!! (I hope…) In case you case haven't gotten it by now, everyone is OOC! Bwahaha, I updated quickly ;3
Reviewer Replies (Cause I'm not using the button anymore)
To berkie88: Thank you! Yes, that's what I meant and it has been corrected. whacks Gomi-kun Gomi-kun: What!? Sky-eyed Kitsune: You're my beta! IZ UR FAULT!!!
To Bianca Chang: I sry, I dun write lemon . But maybe some heavy lime? Dunno, have to see!
To moonlit dew: Arigatou! Thanks so much! ;)
To Catat: I kno, I want that fox plushie too! T.T Luved your review!
To Miyaki Kurata: Both actually. If you look in my profile, I explain that I dun live in America, but Japan! And yes, that makes me Japanese . I speak English really well, but I can't write a dang thing! Gomi-kun here, my best and amazingly still straight friend, moved here from America, so I forced him to translate all of my fics into English. Ahem…I mean, I asked him very nicely….—shifty eyes— After he translates them into English, he reads them back to me to make sure that I like the flow of the story, then he edits grammar mistakes and posts them. Viola! A new chappie!!! ;3
To TheDreamQuill: Sorry, Sasuke was supposed to be all love struck in the last chappie, but dun worry, I didn't make him all soft and squishy. HE'S ALIVE N' BITCHIN! And their relationship isn't quite set yet, as Sasuke has a rival after this chapter…
Inspiring songs for chapters will be posted here. ;3
I didn't mean it when I said I didn't love you, so
I should have held on tight, I never shoulda let you go
I didn't know nothing, I was stupid, I was foolish
I was lying to myself. I could not fathom that I would ever
Be without your love. Never imagined I'd be
Sitting here beside myself. Cause I didn't know you
Cause I didn't know me, but I thought I knew everything
I never felt
The feeling that I'm feeling now that I don't hear your voice
Or have your touch and kiss your lips cause I don't have a choice
Oh, what I wouldn't give to have you lying by my side
Right here, cause baby (We belong together)
[chorus
When you left I lost a part of me
It's still so hard to believe
Come back baby, please
Cause we belong together
Who else am I gon' lean on when times get rough
Who's gonna talk to me on the phone till the sun comes up
Who's gonna take your place, there ain't nobody better
Oh, baby baby, we belong together
I can't sleep at night when you are on my mind
Bobby Womack's on the radio
Saying to me "If you think you're lonely now"
Wait a minute this is too deep (too deep)
I gotta change the station so I turn the dial
Trying to catch a break and then I hear Babyface
I only think of you and it's breaking my heart
I'm trying to keep it together, but I'm falling apart
I'm feeling all out of my element
I'm throwing things, crying trying to figure out
Where the hell I went wrong; the pain reflected in this song
It ain't even half of what I'm feeling inside
I need you, need you back in my life, baby
[chorus
When you left I lost a part of me
It's still so hard to believe
Come back baby, please
Cause we belong together
Who else am I gon' lean on when times get rough
Who's gonna talk to me on the phone till the sun comes up
Who's gonna take your place; there ain't nobody better
Oh, baby baby, we belong together, baby
[chorus
When you left I lost a part of me
It's still so hard to believe
Come back baby, please
Cause we belong together
Who am I gonna lean on when times get rough
Who's gonna talk to me till the sun comes up
Who's gonna take your place; there ain't nobody better
Oh baby, baby
We belong together.
Chapter Dedication:
This be for Catat, Masu-chan, and TasteLikeBlood. You guys rock my sox! XD
Chapter Seven: Welcome to Hell
"FIIIIIIVVE AM! TIME TO GET ROLLING!!!" Jiraiya bellowed as he swung open the door to Naruto's room, the blonde in turn shrieking and falling off the side of his bed.
"C'mon Naru, let's go! Let's go!" Jiraiya said, walking over and picking up Naruto easily underneath his arms, plopping him on his feet.
Naruto groaned and slumped where he stood, shivering a bit from the chilly morning air hitting his bare chest and traveling up his toes.
"CHEST UP! EYES FORWARD! KNEES STRAIGHT! NO SLOUCHING!" Jiraiya cried, slapping Naruto on the back, elbowing him in the chest, tapping the back of his legs, and stamping his foot.
Thus Naruto stood at a forced attention position like a soldier in front of his commander.
"Whuz goin on?" Naruto drawled, still half asleep though he forced his body to stand erect.
"You missed three days work, that's what's goin' on!" Jiraiya boomed. "We need to make up for lost time! You have a rehearsal, a shoot, a meeting, a signing, and that music video! LET'S MOVE IT NARUTO!!!"
Naruto stretched out his arms and yawned, not even realizing that he was falling back in the process, thus resulting in the loud thunk as he collapsed onto the floor.
Naruto groaned.
"Nothin's ever scheduled before 9 Jirai…" Naruto whined. "It's freakin' 5 in the morning!"
Jiraiya let out a hearty laugh.
"We need to get you ready for your busy day!" he said, his arms crossed as-a-matter-of-factly. "And to make sure you stay on your toes as you do so, I brought in your trainer!"
Naruto's eyes popped out of his head as he heard footsteps, and he gulped.
"Kill me now…"
"LET'S GET MOVIN' BLONDIE!!!"
Naruto gasped as he felt a sharp tug on his arm, and the world flipped as he was forced up roughly only to come face to face with his trainer, Anko.
"SHOWER TIME NARU-CHAN!" she shouted, grabbing the whistle from around her neck and blowing it in Naruto's ear.
"GAH!" Naruto cried, welding his palms to his ears as the high pitch whistle reverberated throughout his brain.
A/N: Who wants to follow Naru into da shower!? –counts hands— Thought so! Here's the link, lol! –I did not make the pic… http / shadowkatz. deviantart. com / art / SSS-Jumpable – 19852882 (DO NOT PUT IN SPACES!) Carry on!
Naruto groaned as he leaned his head against the shower wall, hot water droplets pouring his gorgeous million-dollar tanned back and defined shoulder blades.
He numbly grabbed the conditioner bottle and tilted his head back, his blonde hair falling onto his shoulders as he massaged the cold substance into his hair.
He sighed and let himself relax, happy that he had left off the bathroom light above him. After all, it was still dark outside, so why not inside?
Naruto rinsed his hair out, massaging his scalp soothingly as he tried to chip off the early morning stress that was his life. Maybe he could just stay in the shower forever?
Naruto's dreams were crushed as the lights flipped on.
"YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN IN HERE FOR TEN MINUTES!" Anko shouted, and Naruto groaned in response.
"GET MOVIN!"
Naruto yelped as the curtain was flung back and Anko poked her head in angrily. Naruto hurdled out of the shower like his butt was on fire, landing hard on his ass. He scrambled into the corner of the bathroom and grabbed the nearest object to cover his manhood.
Anko turned off the shower and crossed her arms at the blonde.
She raised an eyebrow and Naruto looked down when his unmentionable quacked.
"WTF IS THIS DUCK!?" his mind screamed as he realized that he held an oversized rubber duck in his hands that…was quacking on its own.
"Naruto, get mov-"
"Quack!"
"Get movi-"
"Quack! Quack!"
"Get movin-"
"QUACK!"
Naruto gasped as the duck suddenly started to vibrate against his libido, and his eyes bugged out of his head.
"Quack! Squeeze me, quack!" the duck said, and Naruto turned a bright shade of red.
Anko blinked.
"Just get your ass dressed…" she grumbled, heading for the door. "Oh," she said, stopping. "And leave that damn duck!"
"Squeeze me, I quack!" the duck replied as Anko shut the door.
Naruto's whole body was beet red as he removed the duck from his libido and lifted it up to eye level with him.
He turned it on its side and found the on/off switch he had accidentally flipped. He raised an eyebrow when he found a label on the bottom of the duck.
Pleasureduckie 4.0
"JIRAIYA YOU PERVERT!" Naruto bellowed. "KEEP YOUR KINKY SEX TOY CRAP OUTTA MY BATHROOM!!!"
"NARUTO!" Jiraiya yelled from behind the door. "ARE YOU PLAYING WITH MY MR.FWOOPSYSHAFT DUCKIE!?"
Naruto caught his breath as he jumped off the treadmill after his first rehearsal, Anko by his side with her arms crossed.
Naruto reached for his water bottle on the nearby bench when it was suddenly swiped by Anko.
"Anko, I'm thirstyyyyy!" Naruto whined, dropping to his knees as he panted.
"Then drink the chlorine, cause' you don't get a break until you give me thirty laps in the pool!" Anko ordered, pointing a finger at the sliding glass doors leading to the outside pool.
"Uh, you should be pointing to that door," Naruto said, pointing his own finger to the other glass doors to the inside pool.
"Oh no Naru-chan, you're doing those laps OUTSIDE!" Anko cried.
"It's winter! I'll freeze!" Naruto said, his mouth dropping open.
"You won't if you work up a sweat doing those laps! We have three days of lost gym time to make up for, and I'm not going to waste a second!"
Naruto slapped his hands over his ears as Anko blew her whistle again.
"IIAAAAAAAAAKK!" Naruto yelped as Anko shoved his bathing suit clad self into the pool, the icy water hitting his skin like a truck.
"IT'S FREAKING FREEZING!"
"Too bad blondie! Get moving!"
Naruto let his head thunk down on Jiraiya's office desk as a glass of sake was shoved into his hand.
"C'mon Naruto!" Jiraiya said, taking a sip of his own glass. "You're halfway through the day and you're done with Anko. Cheer up!"
Naruto groaned.
He gripped the glass in front of him and emptied it in one go, slamming it back down to the table as an indication for more.
Jiraiya raised an eyebrow.
"That rough, eh?" he said, pouring more sake into the glass until it was half full. Naruto was never a big drinker unless it had been a tiring day.
"Mmf," Naruto replied.
Jiraiya rolled his eyes and pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, placing one in his mouth and flipping out his lighter.
"At least you'll have a less tight schedule tomorrow," he said, pausing to inhale and let out a puff of smoke.
Naruto swished the sake around in his glass nonchalantly before taking a small sip, a pink tinge already adorning his cheeks. (He really wasn't good with alcohol…)
Suddenly Naruto lifted his head and his face lit up.
Jiraiya moved back a little in his chair.
"Are you ok?" he said slowly.
Naruto grinned like a maniac and nodded. He stood up and grabbed his coat from the rack at the door.
"Well, gotta get going to that meeting!"
Naruto nodded to everything the manager of the company named Genma or something to that affect said during the meeting, his words going in one ear and out the other.
Tomorrow…how could he have forgotten? Tomorrow he would be with Sasuke through his crazy day to day ritual.
Sasuke…
Naruto inwardly sighed.
There was something about Sasuke that made him feel so…comfortable. His smooth and forever calm voice, his moonlit skin, his subtle glances…
Naruto had never been with someone he felt he could so easily open up to. In fact, Sasuke had, whether or not he knew it, opened up to Naruto as well. During their interview, at which Sasuke stopping recording Naruto's responses halfway through, he threw in comments here and there about his own likes and dislikes, or aspects of his life. Naruto was pretty sure now that he knew just as much about Sasuke as Sasuke knew about him.
It felt so……amazing. Even when Naruto had gotten the chance to talk to non celebrities, he was never interested in what they had to say. All they saw were his A-list career factors and hot body, never anything else.
But Sasuke…he was different. Naruto could feel it.
He was so…..
"Uzumaki-sama?"
Naruto blinked a few times.
"Huh?" he said, looking at Genma who had pulled out a chart and a couple graphs.
"Are you listening, Uzumaki-sama?"
"Yes, yes, continue."
A girl squealed as the red velvet rope holding back a line of hundreds of star-struck fans was removed, and he scurried forward with a poster in her hot hands.
"OH MY GOD, UZUMAKI-SAMA! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU!" she screamed at Naruto, slamming the poster of the model she had with her down on the table in front of her. She leaned forward as if trying to breathe in his essence, and Naruto bent back in his chair.
"Er…thank you," the blonde said uneasily, signing the picture of himself and handing it back to the girl.
She shrieked in joy as Chouji ushered her to the exit and Shikamaru allowed the next billionth fan within that hour to come forward.
"Nice to meet-"
Naruto's breath caught in his throat as he looked up.
"Naruto," Kiba said, his brown hair falling around his face as his lips pressed together into a thin line. He looked the same as always, a dog-like collar choker around his dark tanned neck, a black shirt outlining his thin but toned frame, and a pair of ripped jeans hanging comfortably around his hips.
He was as handsome as ever.
"Kiba," Naruto breathed. He looked down to the table quickly, not wanting to meet Kiba's eyes.
Suddenly his chin was lifted by a set of familiar slightly rough fingertips, and Naruto found himself looking into a pair of pleading dark orbs.
"Naru," Kiba breathed, his breath drifting over Naruto's lips. "I need to talk to you, please. I've been trying to call you, but then again, I'd rather do this face to face.
"HEY! HE'S TOUCHING UZUMAKI-SAMA!" the woman behind Kiba said, and the rest of the girls (and some guys) shifted to the left to get a better look.
Naruto stood from his seat, pulling away from Kiba's gentle grasp as he looked at the fans eyeing him up hungrily.
He flicked his eyes to Shikamaru, and the brunette nodded.
Naruto took off like a bullet through the exit, dragging Kiba with him as choruses of squeals were let out and a fangirl stampede for the door began.
Shikamaru and Chouji flagged the exit immediately, keeping the girls at bay as they gave Naruto time to escape.
Naruto hopped into his car, Kiba following suit next to him, and locked the doors.
There was an uncomfortable moment of silence between the two.
Naruto gasped as his head was suddenly tilted forward and Kiba crashed his lips against the blonde's.
Naruto let out a startled yelp, and Kiba took that chance to invade his mouth, twisting his tongue against Naruto's.
Naruto pushed against Kiba's chest, causing their kiss to break with a smack.
"Kiba! I-"
Naruto was cut off as Kiba's lips crushed against his again in a searing kiss.
Kiba looped an arm under Naruto's right leg and curled it around his waist, allowing him to press his body against Naruto's more and kiss him more deeply.
"Hah…s-stop, Kiba!" Naruto gasped in between another break for air.
"Naruto," Kiba whispered as he placed his head in the crook of Naruto's neck. "Why…what happened that night?"
Naruto sighed and dug one hand into Kiba's brown mat of spiked hair.
"Kiba…I don't love you," Naruto said quietly. Kiba pulled back to look at the blonde, searching his sapphire eyes.
"It's not the same as high school Kiba," Naruto said. "You're just….just my best friend. I don't feel anything else."
Kiba was silent for a few seconds, then lowered back to his seat and released Naruto, staring at the floor of the car.
Naruto sighed again and leaned over to cup Kiba's face in his hands.
"I did love you before, Kiba," he said. "That'll always be true. But…I guess we just…fell out."
Naruto's felt his heart ache as he saw a lone tear drop from his best friend's black eyes and dissolve into his own golden skin.
"Kiba…" Naruto said, pulling his friend into a tight embrace.
Kiba limply held one hand on Naruto's arm in an attempt to hug back.
"It's not…it's not your job, right?" Kiba croaked.
"For once, no," Naruto replied, not letting his friend go. "But that's definitely another reason why I can't be with you. I'm an A-list celebrity and model. The media and paparazzi would follow and probe you to no end about being together with such a high ranking star. You might be ok with that…but I couldn't subject you to that. And sneaking away from Jiraiya, Shika and Chouji all the time would be impossible."
"I don't care about all of that…I love you Naruto!" Kiba said, pulling back to look at the blonde.
"I know, Kiba," Naruto said. "But I don't love you. I don't think you want a one-sided relationship."
Kiba nodded, and then suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Naruto, back in high school, you fell in love with me?" he said.
"Yea…so?" Naruto said, not following.
"So all I need to do is make you fall in love with me again!" Kiba said, straightening from his depressed position.
"Kiba, I don't-"
"I will Naruto, just watch. I will make you fall for me again," Kiba said, his face determined as he shot Naruto a grin.
With that he pecked Naruto on the cheek and hopped out of the superstar's car, leaving a certain blonde's mouth hanging open.
"It's done! I can't believe it's done!!!" Jiraiya chortled, running into the living room with a bowel of popcorn and a DVD in his hand.
Naruto already lay sprawled out on the plush beige couch, face down as he practically melted into the cushions.
"Let's watch it!" Jiraiya cried. "Can we? Can we pweeeeaaasseee Naru???"
"Mrf," Naruto replied, and Jiraiya popped the disk into the player beneath the flat screen plasma TV on the wall.
He plopped on top of Naruto's back and crossed his legs.
Naruto let out an "oof!" and a groan as he back let out a sickening symphony of cracks.
"Get off!" he choked. Jiraiya pressed play on the remote, ignoring his adoptive son, and threw a piece of popcorn into his mouth.
The video started out with the Jpop star singing her top song, sitting on a roof and looking out over the ocean.
The camera suddenly fuzzed over as the song continued, and it refocused on the star walking down the boardwalk hand in hand with Naruto, who was dressed in casual clothing.
The scene continued to flip between memories of the two, supposedly lovers in the video as the song progressed.
As the song slowed to the bridge, the camera zoomed in on the star's eyes and refocused on a view of herself on a bed with her eyes closed, Naruto shirtless and kissing her neck as her lips moved to the words of the song, singing of lost love.
"Check you out Naruto! Babe magnet, ne?" Jiraiya said, pointing to the screen and bouncing a bit on top of Naruto.
Naruto looked at the screen and grimaced.
If there was one thing he hated the most about his acting career, it was pretending to love them and show physical affection such as the make out scene displayed on the screen.
The scene faded back to the ocean, and back to the Jpop star on the roof as the song ended and only the sound of the waves were left.
She looked down and saw Naruto looking up to her from the front door of her house. He smiled softly as the camera blinked out, and Jiraiya clapped his hands loudly.
"That was awesome Naruto!" he cheered. "It'll be front page music news by tomorrow!"
Naruto groaned as he felt his spine break in two.
Sasu-chan got a rival! ;3
Yami-shin on Deviantart had the original idea for the vibrating duck with one of ther Ed, Edd, and Eddy fanarts. The situation it was used for and da duck talkin was my idea ;)
Sky-eyed Kitsune
Translated by Gomi-kun