Chapter 31

Naruto

I can be pissed off all I want at Sasuke. He didn't exactly make the first few days back 'home' comfortable nor exciting. Today was day five after being released from the hospital, and he was trying to help me with my homework … and like I said … he was 'trying'.

"Teme, you're making no fucking sense whatsoever and you fucking know it." I yelled from my wheelchair. God, when Sasuke came push to shove on tutoring me in Algebra … he was the worst teacher ever. Sure, he might be a smart ass and pass with flying colors in the class, but he didn't have a single fucking clue on how to explain anything.

"Well you're thick headed!" Sasuke screamed at me. "Maybe Itachi or Gaara can help you from now on! At least I'm going out of my way to help your sorry ass!"

"Maybe I will ask one of them! Maybe they can explain clearer!" I yelled, removing the brakes on the wheelchair and wheeled myself out of Sasuke's bedroom" and towards the kitchen. I didn't care if moving my wheelchair by myself hurt my back, I was too pissed off.

"Itachi!" I yelled, hoping he was here to help.

"Yes Naruto?" Itachi yawned from the kitchen table and I skidded the wheelchair to a stop since it picked up speed leaving the carpet and falling straight on the polished wood floor in the kitchen area.

"I want you to help me with my damn homework, Sasuke makes it too complicated." I snapped, putting the brakes on, on the chair and crossed my arms angrily as I glared at the eldest brother that looked exhausted in front of me. It made me regret asking him because he honestly looks like he needed to be in bed.

"I can't right now, Naruto." Itachi yawned. "I have my business partner coming in a few minutes to have a meeting with me and I really need you two to be quiet, okay?"

"Alright." I sighed, all my anger gone because I really didn't want to piss him off right now. "How long will the meeting take?"

"About an hour or so, but I honestly don't know." Itachi shrugged, sipping at what I believed was coffee in his mug when there was a knock on the front door.

"I'll go to my room." I sighed and unlocked my wheelchair before wheeling myself to my room, only to find myself frustrated because I couldn't get the chair to turn the way I wanted.

"I hate this stupid ass fucking chair!" I found myself yelling just as I heard a door open, but I didn't care as I reached up and pulled at my hair, growling angrily at myself before I let my hair go and locked the chair. I didn't care if it hurt like fucking hell. I'll walk into my room if I have to.

"Get out of that chair Naruto and I'll strap you down so you can't get up." I heard Itachi say behind me before I found the wheels on my chair unlocked and the chair jerked just slightly before I was finally wheeled into my room. And I felt nothing but embarrassment because he helped me.

"Thank you Itachi." I grumbled, though I was thankful.

"Your welcome Naruto, now call for Sasuke if you need anything." Itachi said and he left my bedroom, closing the door and I was grateful for him to close the door. It gave me an excuse to try and get myself moving before Sasuke came in and made my mood worse.

Locking the chair, once again, I heaved myself up out of my chair and into a standing position and let go of a breath I didn't realize I was holding at all until I heard a knock on my door.

"What?" I snapped.

"May I come in?" A familiar voice asked, and I squinted my eyes as I turned to look at the door. It was familiar, I heard him in one of my classes, but never really talked to him … hell I can't even put a name to him.

Growling, I sat back down in my chair and unlocked it before wheeling towards the door backwards, turning the chair so I could open the door whilst sitting correctly and opened the door, only to be greeted with two sets of eyes, one black; Sasuke's, and the other a pale white, yet I still couldn't put a name to his face yet.

"And who the hell are you?" I asked, my attitude showing because I was still pissed off.

"Goddamn it Naruto, can't you hold your tongue even while Neji's here?" Sasuke hissed as he pushed himself into my room and jumped onto the bed, making himself comfortable which pissed me off more.

"Neji … doesn't sound familiar." I huffed as the pale eyed male now walked into my room and actually looked like a gentleman and sat down in the computer chair I asked Sasuke to bring over from my bedroom across the street.

"Do you know a girl named Hinata?" The pale eyed man asked.

"Yea, I know her … she's too timid and shy around people …" I said, hopefully not trying to be rude as I crossed my arms.

"She's my younger cousin." Pale eyed man said, and I could tell he agreed with my choice of words, but didn't like it either way.

"Oh … OH! Now I know who you are!" I said loudly, now pointing at him with wide eyes. "Your family works with Sasuke's!"

"Bingo!" Sasuke said with a bored tone and a raised fist. "Give the dobe a prize."

"Shut up teme!" I yelled. "I'm still pissed off with you ya know."

"Keep your voice down you fucking moron!" Sasuke hissed as he shot up into a sitting position. Great, I completely forgot that Itachi was in his meeting … I hope I didn't piss him off.

"Well I forgot you fucking jerk." I hissed right back as I glared at him.

"So what's going on between you two?" Neji asked, and I was glad he didn't ask about why I'm in the wheelchair.

"The fucking jerk over there doesn't know how to explain anything to the point it makes sense!" I said. "He can't even simplify algebra for someone like me who hasn't really been in school to hear the lectures!"

"I'm dumbing it down so much that I'm having a hard time saying anything right for you stupid idiot!" Sasuke said, and I felt my blood boil.

"I can help, if you want Naruto." Neji said, and I stared at him, blinking.

"If I can understand how you explain algebra to someone as stupid as I am, then yes, you can help." I said, half hoping I'd be able to understand a single word coming from him, unlike the guy laying on my bed that I want to lay on right now.

"I'll go get it." Sasuke said as he slowly climbed out of the bed and left the room.

"Hey, Naruto, why are you in the wheelchair anyway? Yea, I know you hurt your back and all … but shouldn't you be healed already?" Neji asked the second Sasuke was out of the room and I felt the color drain in my face as I tried to find the words to answer.

"Well … uhm … on one of the vertebrae, a fragment of bone broke off and healed where it stopped and it was pinching my spinal nerve …" I answered, now reaching up and scratching the back of my head nervously. I couldn't bring myself to make eye contact with him.

"Oh … well can you feel anything from your waist down?" Neji asked, and I nodded.

"Yea, but it took a few days to get complete feeling back."

"I bet, remember when Lee hurt his back in that martial arts tournament a couple years ago?" Neji asked, and I had to think back, but I nodded. It wasn't something anybody could forget, it was tragic. Lee was told over and over again that he'd never walk again in his life after that incident by many people, but Tsunade-baa-chan proved them all wrong!

"Yea, he was worse off than I am now." I said. "I'm surprised he kept his spirit up through all that though." I nodded. "But I'm glad he made it through."

"I am too." Neji sighed, and I blinked at him again. If I remembered correctly, Neji was always the one that was with Lee, before and after his injury … and a thought made me smirk, causing Neji to stare at me like I was fucking mental. Hell, maybe I was.

"Why are you smirking like that?" Neji asked, an eyebrow raising and I couldn't help but chuckle like an evil clown.

It took Neji a couple more moments before I watched his whole face and neck turn to a shade of tomato red and his eyes widen. I couldn't help but howl with laughter just as Sasuke walked back into the room with my Algebra homework.

"What the hell is going on in here?" Sasuke asked loudly as he closed the bedroom door. I could feel the daggers boring into me, but I was laughing too hard to care.

"Neji … Lee …" I laughed out, raising a finger from each hand per name and brought them together. I couldn't stop myself from laughing to say any of it. But Sasuke got it quickly, and he burst out laughing like I did.

"It's not funny you two!" Neji howled over the laughter, by that time , I was heaving for air in my parched lungs from lack of air.

"C-Come on N-Neji." I heaved, wiping my tears from my face before wincing in pain. "You know we don't mean it."

"I don't care." Neji hissed, Sasuke's laughter now dying down and now I wished I didn't laugh so hard as my back started feeling like it was on fire.

"Calm down Naruto or you'll have to take some more pain medication, and you're already up to your limit for another two hours." Sasuke said, a little pant in his breathing, but he was calmed down more than me.

"Some ice sounds nice … it feels like it's on fire." I suggested in a heavy breath, my eyes closed so I don't know If Sasuke heard me or not. But when I took a heavy sigh and opened my eyes, he was gone. I guess he heard me.

"So, Naruto … you need help in Algebra?" Neji asked as he rolled the computer chair in my direction. I just now realized he was holding my stuff as I nodded.

"I laughed too hard …" I admitted just as Sasuke walked through the door and put the ice between my back and the chair for me since I wasn't allowed to reach back there just yet. I hoped it was soon because I don't know how much longer I can deal with this bull shit. Frankly, this is all embarrassing!

"So what is it you need help with?" Neji asked, and I completely zoned out as I showed him what I was having trouble with and he tried to explain everything to me.

The only thing I could think of once again … was the fact that Gaara hasn't called, texted or come over to visit me since I got out of the hospital. And I was getting seriously pissed off about it.