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"And this is Gaara from the Suna division. He is quite popular there, and to double both of your particularities we figured why not create a collaboration?" Neji grinned and greeted the red head. Naruto did the same, a big smile on his face as he walked with them behind stage. I scoffed and brushed my bangs out of my face as I did some paperwork. "Sasuke~, why don't you take me out on a date?"

I groaned and forced myself to face towards the pale-eyed blonde in my doorway. "I don't have time for that, Ino."

"Sasuke~! You can make just a little bit of time, can't you? After that one night in Paris I haven't been able to forget your face ya know. You just drove me crazy when-"

"Ahem. I'm sorry to interrupt, Ino," Neji's cold voice sprung out behind her, successfully scaring her out of the area. "I really don't like her…"

"What did you need, Neji?"

"The collab video stream is up on line six." He shut my door right after he announced some helpful news, my desk clearing and making room for my special notebook. I watched them, the pale man creeping me out more than he had the first few times I met him. I took the notes necessary, sighing as the day was coming to a close. I was about to shut my computer down when something caught my attention.

"Naruto, come here for a second." The blonde did as he was asked, asking what was up with the other. "I just wanted to say that I enjoyed our practice together," He smiled at him, his weird eyebrow-less expression giving me the wrong impressions.

"Well thanks! I enjoyed it too; I can't wait to see how this final performance turns out." I got up, keeping my eyes and ears trained on the video.

"You know, you're really handsome." Gaara took a step closer to him, his eyes becoming sugar coated and too innocent for his experience.

There is no way I'm letting that asshole do this to him.

"Ah, thank you? Haha," Naruto scratched the back of his head awkwardly and kind of shrugged his shoulders back away from the other. "You have a Mate, right Gaara? How is she?"

"Just because someone has a Mate doesn't mean that they can't play around and enjoy themselves every once in awhile," He grabbed the other's arm, and I was already walking to the stage. "C'mon Naruto; come home with me tonight. I could dance for you,"

"Mr. Sabaku, I believe Tenten is waiting for you, am I wrong?" I stepped onto the black platform, my dress shoes clicking against it's surface. The creeper didn't let go of the blonde's hand, but instead both of their heads turned my way.

"Mr. Uchiha…?"

"Oh Sasuke, how nice to see you again."

"Your rehearsal ended a few minutes ago. I'm about to close this place up for the night, so I think it's time you take your leave."

"Oh that's fine, since Naruto and I were just taking our leaves anyway." He smirked, a gesture that pressed against my buttons and caused my eyebrow to twitch. "Let's go," Naruto's mouth was open and his eyebrows were knitted together out of confusion and I knew I had to act.

I took a few quick steps forward. "I do believe you can victimize someone else tonight, yes?"

"Whatever do you mean? We were just going to get some dinner and chat a bit,"

"You really think I'm going to fall for this bullshit, Gaara? Let him go." Naruto opened his mouth to speak but screeched instead when the red head tightened his grip.

"G-Gaara?"

"I don't have to listen to your rules, Uchiha. It's none of your business what I do outside of the stage anyway, now is it?"

"Go pick one of the other hundred of girls that would sleep with you; Naruto obviously isn't interested,"

"I guess that would depend on what he thinks, huh?" I turned to the blonde, a blank expression plastered on his idiot face. I frowned even more than I already had been at this. "I really don't think he minds." I focused my attention back to the pale guy holding him hostage, a strange type of pain shrouding in my chest. I mustered up one of my death-glares knowing full well that it wouldn't do much but trying anyway.

"Let's be real about this, hn? You can pick any other person to fuck with; It doesn't have to be him."

"Why are you so concerned for him, huh? The last time I checked in with Sasuke Uchiha he didn't care what people thought, did or wanted. He was just some selfish, rich foreigner with more chances than he knew what to do with." I stilled, considered his first question and asking myself the same.

It's all genetic, just genetic; remember that.

"Let him go; I'm not asking." He smirked.

"Ohhh, I see now. This is all because you think you're sooo big and bad now that you can't stoop down and have a little reunion with your old buddy, right?" Gaara let go of the tanner of us all, stepping past him and closer to me. I remained still and calm, my nerves trying to calm down.

It's okay, Sasuke. You'll be fine; there's no way he'd ever say anything about it.

"Gaara, be careful."

"Oh, go on ahead Sasuke. Tell your friend here how close we are; I'm sure he'd love to hear all about it." I started to panic, old nerves and a slight slip of fear pooling into me.

Stop it, Sasuke! You're an Uchiha, you mustn't fear; everything will be fine.

"W-What is going on…?" I almost forgot about the blonde idiot behind the ginger.

"Naruto, stay away from him."

"Oh come on, Sa-su-ke. Don't be so mean to me." He chuckled, his laughter still so emotionless it only creeped me out further. "If you don't let Naruto in on what's going on, he'll just have to hear it from me."

"Naruto, go home!" Kakashi's warning popped up in my head and I forced my authority to surface. It must've worked, because the other began stepping away quickly and I just prayed he got out of here before the creep said anything else he wasn't supposed to.

"What are you so scared of, huh? That he'll overhear me catch up with you since the last time we hooked up?"

The blonde wasn't quick enough, unfortunately, and turned around at this. "W-What?"

"Naruto seems more fitting than you, however; probably ten times nicer too."

"Can't you just take what you were given and claim that as enough?" I bit out coldly.

"Well I don't really know Uchiha; you tell me. It was your idea after all." The conversations were so sarcastic, yet serious, that this could've been casted for a scene in a drama movie.

"I didn't know what I was doing, Gaara. You didn't have to continue anything after you found Tenten, but you did even after I left."

"I really, really don't know what is going on…"

"Go the hell home, Uzumaki! I don't like people who dig where they don't belong or who don't do what they're told!" I felt a twinge of regret at my harsh tone but let it diminish.

"This is all coming from the guy who did these very two things himself."

"Why the hell are you here, Gaara? Couldn't you come directly to me instead of having to involve Naruto?"

"Why are you so protective of him, is my question." He smirked, knowing full well that there was no way I could counter this without ruining me somehow.

I let out a mental exhale, ten pounds more of stress about to lay on my shoulders. "Because he's..." I sighed.

"...he's my friend." Both of their faces went slack at this.

"You're kidding, right? Naruto, just come home with me so he can leave you alone."

"W-Wha..." Naruto held his mouth wide open yet again, gaping like a fish that he does so well. "F-Friend?"

I nodded, staring intensely at him and hoping he got my hint to leave.

"The only person who has ever been able to talk with you for more than thirty seconds has been me, and this idiot doesn't look any better than I am." I turned to the other pale man, curiosity arising within.

"You're not the type to get jealous,"

"Sasuke has been my friend for a while ya know. I just never actually heard him say it," I noted his change of tone and was both relieved and worried because of this. "But it's really time Sasuke and I to leave. It was nice meeting you, Gaara." He smiled and grabbed my wrist, an act that accidentally caused my heart to race and my mind to cloud.

Stop acting like a girl.

We stopped at my car and I came back into reality to realize that he was telling me to open it and drive, and I was relieve once we were able to drive away from the place.

"Thanks." His voice was a lot quieter than I was used to, and it was even so soft that it barely disturbed the dead air in the expensive piece of machinery.

"Hn."

"I mean it. I really don't know what I would've done if he had dragged me out with him and somehow managed to take me to his car or house. I could've been the next one on the news for a date rape!"

"He isn't the type of person to rape anybody. Actually, I don't think most sane people are." I added for good measure when he was ranting.

"Oh, yeah. Speaking of that; what was going on back there? Between you and him?" I could tell that he knew he was pushing his limits, and he was, but I felt exhausted and didn't care too much about what I was giving out at this point.

"Just some old old news that nobody needs to know."

"Well, if it involves me I have a right to know!"

"I think you forgot that you simply stated 'between you and him' just now and not 'between us three' or 'all of us'." He sucked his teeth, slouching back against his seat.

"You know what I mean."

After a minute of complete silence I sighed and turned onto the road leading to a nearby beach. "It's just some...stupid things we used to do."

"So you guys were like...friends?"

"...That's one way you could say things," I could sense the question traveling through the air and sighed yet again. "I was an assistant, like Nejj, when I first started in UDA." I turned onto the small dirt path connected to the salty area. "Gaara started out that way too, and we ended up working together when I came to Suna for a huge tour." I parked my car above the rocks and let my engine shut off. "We were sort of like friends, but really more business associates than anything, and on my twentieth birthday we went out and had a crazy idea that-"

I felt his eyes in me in an unsettling way and stopped to confront him about it. "What? What're you staring at me like that for, idiot?"

"I-I just...how old are you?" I blinked, slightly confused from such a simple question.

"I'm twenty-two," Naruto screeched and put his hand on his mouth. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Nothing! Continue, please!" I rolled my eyes but complied.

"Anyway, Gaara kind if started it. He's a little older than me so he was drinking and he started complaining about how much he wished he had a Mate so he could fuck with them whenever he wanted." I felt my wrist tingle with an urge to be exposed to the blonde, but made sure to keep myself in check and keep it hidden. "I was actually feeling a little off myself from the stress of work and well, somehow we ended up in the same bed. I thought that was the end of things but Gaara is the one that kept coming back for another night and that went on until he found his Mate. I left back to Japan at around the same time due to a promotion and family issues and he did whatever he wanted. The end."

There was a deep silence after I finished, something I wrapped myself in from talking for so long and I just hoped that he wouldn't ask anything else.

I turned the car back on and set my hand on the clutch. As I was about to shift gears, Naruto finally said something. "It seems like there's more going on than just an awkward reunion with your fuck buddy." I left my hand fall from the clutch and looked out my door window in remembrance.

"Hn."

There was a small pause in activity after that. "Sasuke..." It almost surprised me to hear him call me by my first name, but it was something I had really missed and caused my harsh demeanor to diminish slightly. "For some reason, there's something inside of me that feels like I know you a lot more than I actually do, and it hurts and warms me at the same time."

My wrist was burning very painfully now and it was becoming harder and harder not to speak up about it. "Sasuke," I tried to ignore him, his voice, calling out to me when I was at a weak point. "Sasuke, look at me." I didn't listen to him, but I felt that he would ask again at any second so I slowly turned my head in his direction.

Sasuke, stop it. What the hell are you doing? Man up and get past this little moping session you're having right now so you can drive home before the soulmate that doesn't know he's your Mate brings some attention to Itachi!

I tried, like I really did, to listen to my subconscious and pull myself away from this worsening situation, but I couldn't. I kept my eyes trained on the beach and not the guy in front of me, jumping when I felt a warm hand on my cheek. "What the hell do you think you're-"

"You have a bruise! Damn, stop freaking out!" I could tell that he was annoyed by my weird actions. I let myself calm after a few strokes of his thumb against the said wound. "Why...?"

"Hn?" I let my eyes fall close from the relaxing movements.

"Why do you let him hit you?" I clenched my jaw and tried to ignore this. "I know you heard me."

"I..." I was about to mention something when my wrist began to seemingly singe my skin. I winced loudly, Naruto's hand retractin back to his chest.

"I'm sorry! I didn't know it hurt that bad,"

"No, it's not you. Just heartburn," I was kind of disappointed when he didn't automatically put him hand back to my cheek. "You were actually helping." I added quickly. I heard him chuckle and I leant against his palm.

"You shouldn't take it from him, ya know. You're an asshole bastard dick head and all," I felt one of my temples inflame at the annoyance of his statement. "But you can be an actual person sometimes. I don't know what he did, what you did, what's happened, but if my brother slapped me like that I would've slapped him back."

"Hn. You have a brother?"

"Ha, no. But still!"

I sighed. "Then don't come talk to me with advice because you obviously don't know or share the same struggles as I do." I turned to face the front again, switching gears and driving back to the house.

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