Author's Note; Here's another update to Help Me :) I hope everyone is enjoying this story so far! I'll be updating Monsters Inside Me and The Slow Road to Insanity within the next hour or so. I need more time to do the last minute touches to both.

Naruto; You're so cruel ;-;

Sasuke; I know ...

Gaara; ... Cruelty is her specialty remember?

Itachi; Yea, no kidding. She is an Uchiha after all. -Smirks.-

Me; Lets get on with the story already please?

Naruto; Oh Gawd! The Uchiha said please!

Sasuke; She's a weird Uchiha, the rules of politeness destruction doesn't apply to her.

Itachi; She's a lot like mother ...

Me; Shut up! DX

Chapter 19

Naruto

Tsunade wouldn't let me leave the hospital for another week to make sure my head was doing okay from my fall and that my back was healing the way it was supposed to be. Surprisingly enough, it was already half way healed and I no longer needed the wheelchair except when it hurt too much to walk. And it was another week before she let me go back to school, which I thought was bullshit.

I still wasn't allowed to carry my school stuff, but I was alright with that, each one of my teachers let me leave class early and leave my stuff there that I needed for the class and was pretty much sympathetic with me. It was kind of weird, because not all of them even liked me. I'm just going to take a wild guess and say that Tsunade talked to them, set some ground rules and expected them to follow because they all knew her wrath.

But what was shocking me, though, was that I felt that Sasuke was avoiding me somehow, and it was pissing me off. Gaara, on the other hand, changed his class schedule so he could be with me at all times and clung to me like moss to a tree. It made me extremely happy and almost forget about Sasuke all together until school was done with and I had to go home to his place, all because my father was still in rehab.

"I'll call you later, okay Naruto? I have to help my father with some stuff so I have to go." Gaara whispered into my ear quietly, the two of us between his car and Sasuke's brothers' car, hiding from the other students, and kissed our good byes.

"I know, you told me this morning. I'm okay with it." I smiled, kissing him one more time before I hugged him tightly and let him go. "I'll call you if I don't hear from you by dinner time."

"That sounds good." He smiled and got into his car, the back seat since his brother took the passenger seat and her sister drove, since it was her car in the first place.

"Bye Naruto." Kankuro, Gaara's older brother, said as Temari, the oldest of the three, backed her car out and drove off, all three of them waving out their windows before I climbed into the car behind Itachi and sighed heavily.

Today had been nothing but questions after questions with everyone I was friends with. All of them asking where the hell I've been, if I was doing okay, and why I was wearing a back brace. But I answered them all with words I wanted them to hear and they left it at that. I was glad, it meant I didn't have to remember the truth and go into another great depression.

"Hey, Naruto, what would you like to do when we get home?" Sasuke asked, knowing that once Itachi dropped us off, he went back to work because he always picked us up during his lunch hour.

"I don't know, really, what would you like to do?" I asked, smirking because I'm sick and tired of Sasuke asking me what we could do all the time, even before I got hurt and we weren't around each other as often.

"You won't like what I pick." Sasuke said after a moment of silence, and I started wondering if asking him was the best thing I could do.

"Sasuke, not anything drastic, okay?" Itachi said, and that made me worry even more.

"Don't worry, I personally don't think Ichiraku is dangerous, or drastic." Sasuke said with a smirk, knowing that he was making me worry over nothing and I glared at him before I started drooling. I missed my miso barbeque pork ramen. "We're not walking there, but we're going to have him drop it off at the park that's half way between home and the restaurant so we can get out of the house for a little bit. It shouldn't hurt too bad to walk to the park and back, right Naruto?"

"You said it." I smiled, almost bouncing with joy and I would too if my back didn't hurt.

"And make sure you take your pain medicine, Naruto. Tsunade was strict on making sure you took it because it will help with the inflammation and will help you heal faster." Itachi said as we drove into their drive way and he put the car in park.

"I'll make sure he takes it." Sasuke said, but I got worried again and hesitated getting out of the car. I didn't want to take the medicine to begin with, and Tsunade knows my concerns when it comes to prescription narcotics.

"Is everything okay Naruto?" Sasuke asked, pulling me out of my daze and I realized that Itachi had already drove off and headed back to work.

"I'm fine …" I said before the two of us went inside his house and changed out of our school clothes into something that was more comfortable.

"If you were fine, you wouldn't be looking so pale, are you in pain?" Sasuke said, and he was right, but I didn't know I was pale enough for him to worry.

"I just need to lay down for half an hour, I'll be fine." I nodded, kicking my shoes off before I sauntered into the couch and laid down on my stomach. I could immediately feel relief and I closed my eyes, wanting to sleep for a few minutes before I felt a tap on my good shoulder, making me open my eyes again and see Sasuke kneeling next to me with a glass of water and two pills in his other hand.

I only glared at him and turned to look the other way.

"Take them, please, Gaara would want you to take them." Sasuke said, and I felt insulted for him dragging Gaara into this.

"You don't get it, none of you get it." I hissed, grabbing the pillow that my head was barely touching and clung to it. It was a soft pillow and I never realized how soft it was until now.

"Tell me so I can understand, please." Sasuke said, and just hearing him say the word please made me want to tell him, but in all honesty, I didn't want any of them to know.

"Don't tell Gaara what I'm telling you. He'll be pissed when he finds out I told you first instead of him." I said as I turned to look at him, watching him nod and I sighed heavily. "Addiction runs on my fathers' side of the family. His dad was addicted to narcotics, his grandma was addicted to alcohol and even OCD and hoarding run in the family." I explained in one breath, hoping he got it all so I wouldn't have to repeat any of it.

"No wonder your father caught onto alcohol so quickly." Sasuke mumbled, though I know he never meant for me to hear it.

"Sasuke …" I mumbled.

"Yea?"

"Don't make me take them, please." I begged, and that's something I never do.

"Take them, Naruto, and once Tsunade says the inflammation is gone, you can stop taking them immediately. You don't have to take them more than you feel like it." Sasuke said, now sitting himself down on the floor as he put the water down next to him. "Gaara, Itachi and I will make sure nothing happens. We all promised to help take care of you. And besides, I think Gaara would kick our asses if something happened to you and we didn't protect you when he wasn't around."

"Fine," I sighed heavily and sat up just enough to help get it down my throat as I opened my mouth for him to put the pills on my tongue and I reached out to grab the water from him, but he brought the glass to my mouth and I drank, not wanting to argue with him anymore and swallowed my pills, letting him take the glass away from me and set it on the table between the couch and the recliner.

"I think a walk might be out of the question." I said before Sasuke stood up and walked out of the room. "I feel like I'm going to fall asleep."

"Tsunade did say that they'd make you drowsy." Sasuke said as he went to the kitchen, probably to get the pill bottle. And I was right, he came back to the living room and sat on the recliner reading the pill bottle. "Yea, causes drowsiness, and may cause dizziness if sudden moves are made while standing after taking this medicine."

"Fuck this bullshit." I mumbled as I made myself comfortable again.

"If it helps, Naruto, it helps. You know Tsunade wouldn't make you take anything if it didn't." Sasuke said, but that still didn't make me feel any better as I closed my eyes, wishing sleep would take over so I could relax a little bit.

"Hey, Naruto, it's dinner time." I heard someone say as I was woken up from my peaceful slumber of dreaming I was with Gaara and we were at his house when there was actually no one home for once. When I saw Gaara speak, it was with Sasuke's voice and Gaara and I were just about to do the unthinkable in his room when I snapped my eyes open and saw Sasuke kneeling in front of me and his face a little closer than I wanted it to be.

"I'm awake." I said quickly and quietly as I slowly sat up and stretched the best I could before yawning and rubbing at my eyes.

"You have five minutes to wash up, okay?" Sasuke said as he stood up and helped me to my feet. I wobbled for a few seconds, but I found my balance and thanked him before I walked around the couch and down the hall to the bathroom and locked the door shut behind me.

I was shaking by the time I put the toilet lid down and sat on it. I couldn't believe I had a dream like that about Gaara, when I'm in someone else's house!

I knew full well that I had a 'problem' to get rid of, and I had five minutes to get rid of it.

Growling to myself in embarrassed frustration, I grabbed a handful of toilet paper and unzipped my pants, pulling out my throbbing erection and started pumping it, slowly at first but it became too slow too quickly and I had to start jerking myself off while holding the toilet paper steady so I wouldn't release all over myself.

I had to bite my bottom lip hard before I could let out a mangled moan of pleasure and pain mixed together as my whole body tensed as I reached my limit and came hard into the toilet paper and my hand that was slowly riding out the experience.

This wasn't the first time I did this, no, it all started when I started dating Gaara last year, two months after he and his family moved here.

Panting hard from my pleasurable experience, I sat on the toilet a few more minutes to get my breathing back down to normal before I decided to finish cleaning myself up and flush away the evidence of what just happened. Proud with myself that nothing got on my clothes and washed up before I walked out of the bathroom, hoping no one heard me because I know, for fucking sure, that I let out a small moan before I bit my lip. When I looked in the mirror, my lip was swollen and bleeding slightly from how hard I bit it. I just prayed that no one asked me what the hell happened while I was in the bathroom.

"You took long enough Naruto." Sasuke smirked as he sat in his usual spot at dinner with his arms crossed and he looked like he found out a horrible secret about someone and was going to use it as blackmail.

"What the hell are you talking about teme?" I almost screamed, but I only squealed and sounded like a girl as I stood there, now looking down at the chair in front of me and blushing like a tomato, something I couldn't help doing. It was a natural reaction for me.

"Nothing, Gaara called and asked if you wanted to go see a movie with him in half an hour." Sasuke said, now I know why he was smirking. Thank fucking God that he didn't eavesdrop on me while I was in the bathroom. I'd never live that fucking down if he did.

"You can go Naruto, if Tsunade calls, I'll tell her you're sleeping." Itachi said as he took a bite of his food.

"Don't lie to her, tell her I'm with Gaara seeing a movie." I said. "I'm going to call him back and go get ready." I said, my blush gone and a smile upon my face as I left the kitchen and rushed to the guest room and closed the door.

A date, with Gaara, something we didn't do often, and I always treasured each moment we spent together each date we'd have. And I was going to make this one go into our 'bingo book' of dates as number one.

I couldn't help but grin at the ideas I had after we'd watch the movie, but I knew that my mind was being influenced by the dream I had, so I quickly looked for my best black skinny jeans and threw off the sweats I had changed into earlier before I took my nap and shoved them on carefully so I wouldn't hurt my back and searched for my favorite orange and black long sleeve that hugged my feminine curves perfectly and the sleeves reached just past my hands, which I loved, then remembered I needed to wear my brace over it, and hissed to myself for forgetting.

Then I got the idea of putting on a black tank top and wearing the brace underneath the shirt, and I needed Sasuke to help me, and it made me more embarrassed than I was while at the table waiting to see if Sasuke knew what I did in the bathroom or not.

"S-Sasuke-teme!" I yelled out, making sure that there was no pain behind calling his name, and I know teme being at the end of his name would let him know it wasn't an emergency.

"Whatcha need help with dobe?" Sasuke asked as soon as he walked into my room without knocking on the door. That irritated me, but hell, this was his house.

"I need help getting this blasted thing off." I said, blushing because I had yet to figure out how to undo the locks on this stupid ass brace. Tsunade did a great ass job in finding something that I couldn't figure out. And she knew it'd piss me the fuck off.

Sasuke only chuckled as he sat on the bed next to me and undid the brace like it was nothing and I lifted my arms a little so he could take it off and rest it on the bed. I felt so stupid because of this.

"I'm going to take a look at your back real quick, okay?" He said, and his hands felt cold on my skin once I had my tank top off that I had been wearing underneath the brace.

"Your hands are cold." I hissed, though it felt good at the same time as I turned so he could see it better.

"It looks much better than it did three weeks ago, and the stitches have finally dissolved." Sasuke said, and I could tell he was amused in my so called rapid healing, though I don't know why.

"Dude, teme … it's been almost a month, it actually should have been completely healed by now." I said, and he knew I was right.

"You are so impatient." Sasuke sighed as I put my fresh, clean tank top on and he helped me put the brace back on, then I threw the long sleeve over top so I could hide the hideous thing.

"Me, impatient? I'd like to see how. I'm the most patient person there is, I have an abusive father that I refuse to give up on who doesn't really deserve anyone in his life and to waste away in his fucking booze." I said, all in one breath as I looked down so I wouldn't meet his eyes. "Tell me again, that I'm impatient, Sasuke." And I walked out of the guest room and grabbed my cell phone out of my back pack that was near the couch.

"I wasn't being serious, Naruto." I heard Sasuke say as he followed me, I could tell he was getting irritated. Good.

"I don't care, Sasuke, leave me alone. I'm going over to my house so I can get a few things." I said and shoved my feet into my dress shoes and walked out the door and over to my place. I didn't have my key, but I knew where the spare one was.

When I got to my house, I bent down to get the spare from the dead pot plant and froze when I heard voices coming from inside my house. Curious, I leaned against the door quietly so I could hear who it was, most importantly, so I could get a name to give to the cops for trespassing.

"I need more time, I have to have the perfect excuse so he'd come willing." I heard, and it was my Dad's voice … what the fuck was he doing here instead of at the rehab center?

"Of course you're going to get him, but am I going to get the money you promised?" My Dad asked. Money? And who the fuck was who getting? Now I'm starting to actually get pissed off.

"I already told you, he's sixteen, stubborn, but he'll listen if you give enough force." My Dad added after a moment, almost yelling, but I had heard enough and bolted from the front porch and down the street without getting the necklace that Gaara gave me; something I always wore only when we went on dates, and ignored the pain that came from my back. I just hoped Dad would never find it, nor ever find out that I heard him inside our house.

When I got down the street and turned into a parking lot for a small book store, I called Gaara, but I knew I should have waited for my breathing to go back to normal before I did, because now he was yelling at me.

"What the hell did you do to get your breathing like that?" He said, his voice loud and I had to pull the phone from my ear to keep my ear from ringing.

"I'll tell you when you pick me up, I'm at the book store down the street from mine and Sasuke's place. Please, hurry." I said, and I didn't know I was starting to cry until I heard I was sobbing into the phone.

"We're almost there, just two more minutes and we'll be there. Does Sasuke and Itachi know where you are?" Gaara said, and I knew he'd ask that.

"I'll explain when I get in your car." I said and hung up the phone, forcing my sobs to stop as I looked around for a place to hide when I noticed that the book store was actually open and quickly went inside. I was glad too, because I watched Dad walk by the store through the front window and just continue to walk on. It seemed that he didn't notice me.

And when I saw his face when he walked by, he looked as serious as a heart attack. I knew who he was talking about. Who else does he know that's sixteen, stubborn and will listen when you force them to? Sasuke might be stubborn, but he is a few months older than me and is already seventeen. Gaara is the same age as me, stubborn, but always listens when he's told to do something.

That left only me, and he was ready to sell me to someone, he didn't give a rats ass about me, and I should have known it from the start.