Just Dance
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. ^^ I'm glad this is being received so well. This is my first modern Suki x Naruto, so I was a little nervous about it. Anyway in this chapter.
Chapter Notation: Suki and Naruto's mind is in the gutter. The Press is having a field day. And Naruto finds out who the stalker is.
Chapter Three
The next day, Suki heads to the recording studio. She smirks this time noticing that she was first. The brunette checks the settings, decides they were acceptable, and enjoys her soda.
Suki Uchiha was not a morning person. You really did not want to be around her in the morning, until she had some caffeine in her system. She was a night owl by nature. Which generally worked out well considering being a musician involved a lot of late nights.
"Hey." Naruto says as he walks into the studio.
"Hey." Suki calls out softly, not really sure what to say to the blonde at this point.
Naruto looks her up and down. She seemed okay. He figured that it was probably better now to ask about the stalker situation directly. But still had to know. So he decides some subtly was called for.
"Sleep well?" He asks.
"Like a baby." The brunette lies.
Naruto shakes his head. He walks over to her and Suki instinctively backs up. She knew what was coming. Well at least she thought she did.
"You are a really bad liar. If you want to talk about it, I'm here. Like I said yesterday, us musicians have to stick together." He says and caresses her cheek.
Suki blinks. She hadn't expected this. The Uchiha had expected him to be frankly, more pushy than that. The brunette tries to look anywhere but at his eyes. Those beautiful, very sincere eyes and tries not to blush at the surprisingly intimate feeling of his hand against her cheek.
"I don't want to talk about it. At least not right now. But I appreciate the offer." She whispers.
"Well it's still on the table, if you ever change your mind." He tells her and still hadn't moved his hand.
"I know. You really do enjoy playing Superman. I half expect you to come in wearing a cape tomorrow." She says with a soft smile.
"Well if you wear the leather, I'll definitely wear the cape." He says and Suki makes a quiet sound of amusement, that wasn't quite a snort but resembled one.
Unbeknownst to Naruto and Suki, Jirayia and Kakashi had arrived early. They stood in the doorway and watched their two lead signers. Both men had agreed silently to not announce their presence just yet.
"That has to be some sort of record." Kakashi whispers to Jirayia.
"What do you mean?" The older man asks the silver haired one curiously upon hearing that.
"Normally, Suki is very territorial of her personal space. I've never really seen her let anyone touch her that long." He observes.
Jirayia felt like pointing out it was purely a platonic touch. He was only caressing her cheek. But then he saw the look in the kid's eyes.
Damn. The kid had it bad. That wasn't a puppy love look. This had the potential to get serious and quickly. Which made Jirayia concerned, given Suki's situation.
"There is a definite chemistry. But I can't help but worry for both their safety, if they get involved and the stalker finds out." The Sannin murmurs.
"That's true. Still I wouldn't recommend anyone stop living their life and allow such a sick individual to have such control over their life." The masked man replies.
Jirayia nods. Kakashi did have a point there. He heads inside the studio and calls out to the singers. He chuckles at how quickly they jumped apart.
"Good morning." The Sannin smiles.
"Hey, Pervy Sage. Wow and Kakashi's here to. What got into you guys? You are never early." The blonde greets him cheerfully.
Suki blinks. Kakashi was EARLY? Damn it. She could sense that her agent was going to give her quite the lecture when they got alone. That could be the only reason why he would show up early. Like Naurto said, they were never early.
"Oh we just decided we should try to be more professional. This Award Show is very important to all of us." He answers.
Soon enough the other band members begin to file in. Suki hated how all eyes were on her. She hated the worry and the pity she saw in them. She felt her eyes turn red in irritation. The "Sharingan" as she called it, tended to come out when she was feeling strong emotions. She figured it had something to do with chemicals and hormones.
"Jugo, I'd like to hear you play a few chords. It's important to get a feeling for your natural style." Gaara says.
The orange haired man nods. He begins playing a bit. The red head watches with a quiet intensity. Suki didn't really know Gaara well, but she recognized that look of complete concentration. Maybe she should focus on practice as well. It was easy to lose yourself when you were making music.
Sakura and Karin were looking at the song lyrics. Karin blinks. Well it wasn't a love song, exactly. But it was suggestive. More suggestive than Suki normally did.
"Do you think she'll sing this?" Sakura asks.
"I don't know. Maybe. I'll try to talk her into it." The backup singer says and looks at some of the lyrics, actually blushing slightly.
"I heard that. How bad is it?" Suki asks as she walks over to join the women.
"Good thing the awards are being shown after most children are in bed." Hinata mumbles, when she glances at the song.
Suki raises an eyebrow. She looks at the lyrics and blinks. Jirayia wasn't pulling any punches with this one. Just looking at the written words was more than enough to evoke erotic images to dance across her mind. It didn't help that she was already attracted to Naruto, she admitted to herself.
"I'll do it." She murmurs.
"Let me see." Naruto says and strides over the women and looks at the song curiously.
He blinks. Damn that was…hot. Naruto tries to imagine Suki singing any of that to him and shivers. Her naturally seductive voice combined with those words, was going to be nothing short of explosive.
"You think you can handle this?" Suki asks him.
"Oh I can handle it." Naruto tells her and gives her a cocky smile.
Suki wasn't so sure. The blonde typically did dance songs. Sometimes they were rather flirtatious. His band did a lot of love songs. But none of them conjured the raw sexuality of this number.
"Alright. Let's see what you got because honestly, I think you are way too innocent to do a song like this." Suki says.
"That sounds like a challenge!" The blonde says.
Suki merely shrugs. It was fun to rile the blue eyed musician up. Naruto was just so expressive. It was so different from the reserved family she grew up in. Truthfully, it was…funny.
"Oh that's it." Naruto says and takes Suki by the hand, pulling her into his arms.
Uchihas did not eep. Uchihas did not eep. Suki repeated this in her head about five times. It was still a close call though. She hadn't seen that one coming.
"Naruto?" She asks.
"I can definitely do the song and I'll prove it to you right now." He tells her.
She cocks her head to the side curiously. The brunette wasn't sure what Naruto was planning to do. But she knew that it was not going to be subtle.
"Jirayia can you play the music for the song?" Naruto asks.
"Sure kid. But try not to give her a heart attack." His Godfather replies and turns on the music.
Naruto smiles when the music came on. He was so going to teach her not to treat him like he was some kid. She had thrown down the gauntlet so to speak and he was not going to back down from her challenge.
Oh and the fact that it gave him an excuse to hold her again, that was definitely a bonus. He smirks when he spins her around, so that her back was against his back and sways to the music. There was not an inch of space between them. He could feel the soft curve of her ass dangerously close to his crotch.
"Loser what are you trying to prove?" Suki says and tilts back her head enough to look him in the eyes.
"That I'm not that innocent." He whispers hotly in her ear in a voice that conjured images of lovers locked in the heat of passion between satin sheets.
Suki wasn't sure why just that one sentence had driven her imagination into overdrive though. She normally wasn't so specific in her fantasies. Satin sheets? Where had that come from?
"Prove it." She whispers back voice that reminded Naruto of a Siren from Greek Mythology.
If the Sirens had sounded anything like Suki did at the moment, he could totally understand the sailors. He would have followed that voice anywhere. Even if it meant crashing his ship against the rocks of the shore.
Suki smiles and decides two could play this game. She throws her arms behind herself and around his neck, slowly gliding them across his neck, shoulders, and biceps suggestively. She sways to the music, her hips swishing from side to side hypnotically. Her backside lightly brushing against him in a sensual taunt, as if DARING him to try something.
"Tease." He actually growls at her and his hands lightly caress down her breasts as he rocks against her.
Suki shivers at the growl. The implication of it was unmistakable. Sexual frustration. Her imagination decided to mock her again. This time that growl was just the beginning before he would push her against the wall and take her hard and fast.
"That is kinda the point of the song." She says mockingly and wiggles out of his hold, darting back to join her band mates.
Naruto blinks. She did NOT just do that. That fucking evil tease. She got him all worked up and LEFT him. Oh he was so going to get her back for that one.
"Well I suppose that means our lead singers are willing to do the song." Kakashi muses.
Suki somehow managed not to blush. The musician was able to give a nod. To hide her embarrassment, she glances at Hinata who was working on some of the dance moves. The brunette was impressed by how flexible the other woman was. Damn, how did she pull off splits like that? That looked like it should be extremely painful.
Practice goes on for hours. The singers were working on memorizing the lines. The dancers practiced moves. Those who played instruments were worked on memorizing the chords. Finally, the Sun started to go down and that signaled the end of their session.
"Suki, you want me to go with you?" Naruto asks.
"No, it's fine. Itachi is waiting outside for me. But thank you." She says and saunters off.
Gaara shakes his head. He places his hand on his friend's shoulder. The red head leads Naruto off with him.
"I think she's intelligent enough to realize you probably want some payback for her…teasing during your dancing." He offers.
"Yeah. Probably. I can't believe she'd just wind me up like that and then dart off." Naruto says.
"Naruto, you've only actually known her a day. There's a lot you don't know about her." Gaara reasons as he gets into his car with Naruto and they drive back to the drummer's place.
Naruto knew that his friend was right. He had barely known the lead singer of Chidori for just over a day. But he couldn't help, but feel like it had been longer.
"You're right. So did you find out anything?" The blonde asks.
Gaara used to be a police officer before joining them. He still had connections with the force. He wasn't particularly shy about using them when the situation called for it.
"As far as I can tell, no report was filed by her. That's to be expected. My best guess is she's scared of what her stalker will do if he finds out she went to the police." He offers.
"Yeah. I know. It still sucks. I want to…you know, but she doesn't really know me. So she wouldn't let me…" He trails off.
"Protect her? Naruto, from what little I know of that woman, I doubt she would let you protect her, even if you had known each other since you were babies. She seems rather…self-sufficient." The red head observes.
Naruto couldn't argue with that. Suki did seem to go out of her way to do everything herself. Even if it was something as simple as adjusting the audio settings at the Studio.
"Yeah. I get it. I wish she had filed a report though. It sounds like this isn't the first time this guy has pulled something like this." He mutters.
"I do as well. But you can't force these types of things. I remember when I had my own…issues." The red head recalls.
"With Deidara? Oh yeah. That guy was psychotic. What was with his obsession with art and exploding things?" The blonde muses.
"I don't know. I'm just glad the idiot went and got himself killed in some gang war. Now I don't have to deal with it." The drummer replies.
Naruto nods. Deidara had been obsessed with Gaara. He didn't know if it was because the other blonde had been in love with him or if he had just fixated on Gaara because the red head added some fireworks into their show one time. There had been a lot of beautiful big bangs that night. Since Deidara had a bang fetish, well yeah.
"You want anything to drink?" Gaara asks when they enter his house.
"Nah, I'm good." Naruto says.
Gaara nods as he grabs himself a bottle of water, before returning to Naruto. The red head turns on the tv. He shakes his head at what he saw on the news.
"And finally rumors are flying about a possible merger or collaboration between Chidori and Rasengan. The band members have been spotted entering and leaving the same recording studio on the same day at least twice." The pretty reporter says.
"That's right. This will definitely make some big waves in the music industry if anything comes of it." The host of the show continues.
"And I'm sure this footage is going to have the rumors flying." The reporter agrees.
The screen shows Suki and Naruto in he convertible. You couldn't hear what they were saying, but it alternated between amusement and what seemed to be a deep conversation. Naruto knew that they had been discussing music. But without the audio, it looked pretty…suggestive.
"You my friend, are so screwed. The press is going to be on this like a dog on a bone." Gaara says.
"Yeah." Naruto sighs in misery.
Honestly, he wouldn't have minded the rumors. It just came with the business. But Suki was dealing with some creep who was after her. If the stalker saw that and jumped to the same conclusions that the reporter and the host did, it might not end well.
"I better warn her about this. I'll call Kakashi. I don't have Suki's number. But she has mine." He says.
"You gave her your number? That was pretty bold of you." His best friend states in amusement.
Naruto nods. He quickly dials the silver haired man's number. There wasn't much time to waste. Who knew if the freak was currently watching the news or not.
"Oh hello, Naruto." Kakashi says.
"I need Suki's number. It's important." The blonde says, not in the mood to chit chat.
Kakashi tilts his head, though Naruto couldn't see it due to them talking on the phone. The blonde sounded almost frantic. Naturally this made the music agent grow concerned.
"Naruto, what is going on?" He asks.
"You might want to turn on the news. That will explain it. But I have to talk to her now." The other man insists.
"Alright 555-5555." Kakashi tells him and turns on the news.
Uh oh. Once he saw what was on the tv, he mentally winced. Damn it. Now was definitely not the time for rumors of a romantic relationship to be swirling about Suki and Naruto. They had to deal with her stalker first.
"Yeah. Exactly. Thanks." Naruto says, hanging up on Kakashi and dialing Suki's number.
Suki was relaxing in a nice hot bubble bath, when she heard her phone ring. She frowns and answers it. She wondered maybe if it was Kakashi checking in on her. He could be a mother hen at times.
"Kakashi, I swear to God that I'm fine." She says.
"I'm not Kakashi. It's me." Naruto says.
"How did you get my number?" The brunette asks and was shocked when she heard Naruto's voice.
"I asked Kakashi. Listen, have you turned on the news today, like at all?" The blonde inquires.
"Not really. No. Why?" Suki asks suspiciously.
"It looks like someone spotted us leaving the music studio together. The press is having a field day." He explains.
"Damn it! Not now." She growls in frustration and imagines all sorts of horrible scenarios.
"I know. But I figured I should give you a heads up. Are you safe where you are?" He asks.
"Me? I'm fine. It's you I'm worried about. He's very jealous. Every time I try to date, it doesn't end well." She says.
"So this is a regular thing. He doesn't leave you alone." Naruto says.
"Naruto, I appreciate the heads up. I'm sure we can deal with the press. It's hardly the first rumor going around about our love lives. But don't ask any questions about him, okay? I'm not really ready to talk about it. I don't want to drag you into this." She warns him.
"It looks like the press already drug me into it anyway. So you might as well tell me what is going on. Because now I'm involved in it. There's no way your stalker isn't going to find out about this. It's all over the news." The blonde counters.
"Alright. Alright. I guess, we should probably met and talk about this. You know where Itachi lives. You can come see me. Just give me a few minutes to get dressed." She says.
"Get dressed?! You're naked?" He asks.
"That is usually what getting dressed means. Yes." Suki replies sarcastically.
"Well I don't want to make you uncomfortable. If you like to prance around your place naked…" He trails off.
"You are such a loser. I'm taking a bath." She tells him.
"Oh. Well yeah. I'll be there soon." He tells her and hangs up.
"I'm taking a bath." Damn he didn't now that four words could trigger a hard on. But images of a naked Suki, a wet naked Suki were definitely more than enough to do it.
He tries to shake those images off. This was more important than having a sexy daydream. Naruto quickly heads off to meet with Suki.
By the time he arrived, Suki had managed to throw on a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. Naruto saw that Itachi was with her. Oh…this might not go over so well.
"Don't worry. I'm not angry with you. I know how the press is. Still, this isn't an easy story for Suki to tell. So I am here to offer moral support." Itachi says, seeing Naruto's wary expression.
"Oh um okay." Naruto says.
Suki sits on the couch by the fireplace. She gestures for Naruto to join her. She bites her lower lip. Oh yeah, she was definitely nervous.
"This man has been at it for awhile, ever since I joined Chidori and a little bit before that." She murmurs.
"Yeah. So he's a dedicated stalker. Got it. Go on." Naruto encourages her.
She sighs and looks at Itachi. Her older brother hadn't been kidding when he said he was here to offer moral support. It seemed that this was incredibly difficult for her to talk about.
"I was young when I got into the industry. So maybe I was just naïve or too stupid to pick up the signs. There was another musician, he was very…supportive of my career. He was always encouraging me and showering me with praise. I came from a traditional Japanese family. My father isn't the warmest man on the planet. So I enjoyed the attention. It all started off innocent." She mumbles.
"I should have realized what was going on soon. I am sorry, little sister." Itachi murmurs.
"It's not your fault." Suki says with a sigh.
Naruto blinks. He didn't like the sound where this was going. But he nods his head for Suki to continue.
"Anyway, I knew him for years. I think that he was smart. He waited until I was legal to let me know that he was interested in me for more than just my voice. It was subtle at first. He'd ask me to stay longer for practice. He'd brush up against me more than was normal. But then he started making comments that were…suggestive and the brushes became well…more like gropes." She admits.
"Did he try to…do more than that?! Because if he did, I swear I'll find this guy." Naruto says.
"No he didn't force me or really try to force the issue too much. The man was older than me, a lot older. I wasn't interested. I didn't feel comfortable anymore. So I left and formed my own banned. I thought that would be the end of it." The Uchiha woman explains.
Naruto was relieved that his worst fears hadn't been confirmed. But he still got a very uneasy feeling about this. Still he asks her to finish her story.
"I know he has me followed sometimes. He'll send letters and sometimes include pictures of me. This was the first time they were…so intimate. I think he's upset because of the collaboration between us and Rasengan. He wants Chidori to go back to the our original group." She finishes.
"So you think he's ramping up the stalking because of that?" The blonde asks.
"I think so." Suki admits.
"So when he thinks that we are together, he's probably going to go even more crazy." Naruto says.
Suki just nods. She couldn't deny it. The singer was just grateful Naruto hadn't asked for a name.
"So who is he? You said you worked with him for a long time. You know this guy." The blonde asks.
Damn it. He just had to go and ask. Fuck! She had to think of something quick. She didn't know what Naruto would do exactly if she told him, but she knew it wouldn't end well. She looks at Itachi helplessly.
"I think that's enough for today." Itachi says.
"The Hell it is! This guy is creepy as fuck. He might actually go on a shooting rampage if he thinks we are together. I have a right to know. Because now he's probably going to be stalking me to!" The blonde protests.
"Yes, you do have a right to know. But I don't want my sister to be upset further. If I tell you, I want your word that you won't do anything without asking Suki about it first." He says.
"Alright. I promise. Who is he?" Naruto asks.