A/N: heh..heh -nervously-… sorry for the delay. You see, I have some big problems in my family and in school too –sigh-. I hate my life. The only thing I enjoy in my life is anime, (yaaay, the spirit is back) I don't know if I'll be able to live on without anime.
L: okay, all the gangs are gonna show up in this chapter. Yattaaa…-smack-
Sasuke: -holding a baseball bat- will you shut up and get on with story?
L: aahhhh –crying-… Sasuke's so mean.
Naruto: Sasuke! Why did you hit L-chan? -Feel sorry for L-
L: Naru-chan, Sasuke's being mean to me. –Sobbing quietly-
Naruto: Sasuke! Say you're sorry.
Sasuke: -ignoring-
Naruto: Sasuke –growling- -smack-
Sasuke: ooow… what'd you do that for... fine, I'm sorry –whisper-.
L: I can't hear it.
Sasuke: -growling- I'm sorry.
L: apology accepted. Now let's get to the story.
Sasuke: finally!
Chapter 3
Sasuke stepped out of the shower, grabbed a clean towel that was hanged on the towel hanger and started to dry himself up, after he finished drying his pale body, he put on his pajama that has an Uchiha clan's mark on the back of the shirt and a small fan on his pants.
'I wonder if Naruto's done cleaning himself yet.' Sasuke stepped out of the bathroom's door and drifted his head to the king sized bed to see the blond was still in his boxer curled up in a ball and was already snoring lightly.
'He's asleep…' Sasuke chuckled to himself on the thought of how cute the blond was when he's asleep. He advanced closer to the bed and observed the blonde's face thoughtfully, noticed that the blond seem to be cold since he was curled up, the raven covered him with their soft, dark blue blanket. He leaned over to kiss Naruto's cheek slightly.
"Good night and sleep tight, my naruto." The raven spoke to the blond softly as though he was whispering. He leaned back and strokes the blonde's shimmering hair gently, carefully not wanting to wake and the blond up.
'I won't let anyone hurt you again, ever. I promise.' He bit his lower lip on the thought that he wasn't able to protect his boyfriend, when he needed him. Sasuke snapped out of his thought when he noticed that the water bucket was still there, so he picked it up and went to the bathroom and dumped the dirty water in the toilet. After he flashed the toilet, he came back out, grabbed his pillow that was near the sleeping blond and went to his closet to get an extra blanket. He glanced at Naruto one more time before closing the bedroom door slightly.
Next morning
The sun ray hits the raven's eyes as to tell him that it's morning now. His eyes twitched a couple of time before slowly opened up. The raven sat up slowly and glanced at the clock that was hung in their living room, it was already 10:15 AM. He swung his feet to the side of the sofa and stretch lazily. He rubbed his eyes and walked slowly toward the bedroom door. He opened the door quietly to see the blond was curled up and still asleep in their bed, the blanket was discarded on the floor near the bed.
'He's such a messy sleeper.' Sasuke shook his head slightly and went to pick the blanket up. He covered the blond with it and walked into the bathroom. After finished washing his face and brush his teeth, he went back outside bathroom and went to open the curtain to let the sunshine in. Naruto stirred a little and opened his eyes gradually, to see the other boy's face was about an inch away from him.
"Good morning." Sasuke greeted Naruto with a big smile on his face.
Naruto's eyes went wide, "s-Sasuke?"
"Why do you look so surprised? Did I scare you?" Sasuke asked teasingly and chuckled a bit. Naruto's face went flush.
"w-what the… teme-." Naruto was cut off when they heard a knock on their front door.
Knock- knock
They both turned to look at each other with puzzled faces.
"I'll be back." Sasuke walked out of their bedroom and closed the door back.
Knock-knock
"I'm coming." Sasuke walked with fast pace toward the door and opened it.
"hi! Sasuke-kun!" Sasuke was surprised by the voice, outside the door there stood all of his friends, there's Sakura, Ino, Sai, shikamaru, Kiba, Hinata, lee, Shino, Neji, Gaara, Temari, TenTen, and Chouji. They all have flowers with them.
"Hey, we heard from Kakashi that Naruto got beaten up, so we're here to see how he's doing." Kiba stated.
"Well, he's fine right now. uum… here, come in." Sasuke moved to side, he motioned them to come in and closed the door back behind them. They all sat down in the living, though some of them had to sit on the dinning chairs. Kiba sat near his girlfriend, Hinata. Sakura sat near her boyfriend, Sai. Ino sat near shikamaru followed by Shino, Neji, Gaara, Temari, lee, TenTen and Chouji. Sasuke went to the refrigerator in the kitchen and poured orange juice in to the glasses, and put them on a tray.
Sasuke walked out of the kitchen with the glasses of orange juice. "Here, have some drinks." Sasuke set the drinks down on the coffee table in front of his friends and sat down on one of the chairs. Everyone sipped their orange juice quietly until Sakura broke the silence.
"I hope we didn't disturb your sleep, becausesomebody was dying to see how Naruto is after receiving the new this morning." Sakura gave Kiba a death glare from the corner of her eyes.
"Hey, shut up, I was worried about my best friend ok?" Kiba yelled back and with his short temper, he was going to start a fight with Sakura but Hinata managed to calm him down. But even if he wanted to fight with Sakura, he can't because Sai would always defends/protects her.
"So Sasuke, how's Naruto doing? Is he okay now?" shikamaru asked with lazy eyes from across the room.
"He's better now, he just woke up. I'll go see if he's alright with you guys going in to see him now." After finished his sentence, Sasuke walked to the bedroom door, turned the doorknob, let him self in and shut the door back quietly. Sasuke turned his head to the blond, who was once again dozing off.
"geez, Naruto, I can't believe you went back to sleep." Sasuke grabbed the blanket that was covering Naruto and pulled it away from the blond, and the blond curled up.
"uhhh? Sasuke, just 2 more minutes ne?"
"Don't you want to meet Kiba and the others? They came to visit you." Naruto's eyes swiftly opened when he heard Sasuke.
"Really? They came to visit me?"
"Yeah… oh… and here, let me help you get dressed, you don't want them to see you sleeping with only a pair of boxers, do you?" Sasuke smirked at the blond; Naruto flustered at that thought and tried to find his clothes.
After Naruto got dressed up properly, Sasuke went out to the living room and called their friends to come in.
"Naruto, how are you doing man?" Kiba was the first one to rush in to see Naruto.
"I'm feeling better now, thanks kiba." All of them were standing near the bedside including Sasuke.
"Here, Naruto-kun, this is for you." Hinata handed a bouquet of flowers to the blond.
"Oh, we almost forgot… here you Naruto, hope you get better soon." The rest of them handed their flowers to Naruto after Hinata.
"Ah, you guys don't have to get me anything you know." Naruto said while blushing. He would never think that his friend would ever care about him this much.
"How are your wounds?" Gaara asked the blond with concern. Neji didn't say anything though.
"They're a lot better now, thanks to Sasuke; he took care of me the whole time." The raven blushed a bit at the complement. Neji shot his eyes to Sasuke.
"Sasuke!" Sasuke snapped of his thought as Neji whispered to him. Neji gave the raven haired boy a look and left the room quietly, Sasuke followed behind him but no one seem to noticed the two that was gone because they were too busy talking about random stuff with Naruto.
"So, what's up?" Sasuke asked the brunet with his cool tune. They are now outside the house and at the balcony (sorry, I'm not sure I put the words together in the right way or not)
"Don't you what's up me, Uchiha." Neji replied coldly back at the raven. "Don't forget, I haven't given up on Naruto yet if you try something funny, I won't show you mercy." Neji turned to face the Uchiha with a deathly glare. Sasuke didn't retreat and stared back at the brunet.
"You think I'm gonna give up my Naruto to you that easily? Dream on." They stayed like that, giving each other cold glares for about two minutes.
"listen, Uchiha, first of all, Naruto-chan is not yours, and second, if you let him got hurt like one more time, I'll-." Neji was cut off by a certain red head boy.
"You two should grow up and stop fighting like that." A figure came toward them and out of the house. Gaara stood there near the door frame and stared at the two competitors. They both turned to look at Gaara in surprise.
"G-Gaara, why are you here, and how long have you been here?" Neji asked nervously. Yes, Gaara has feeling for Neji, but only the brunet and the Uchiha knew, no one else seem to be notice it, not even Naruto or Gaara's big sister, Temari.
"I knew that you guys were up to something, so I followed." Neither the Hyuuga nor the Uchiha spoke a thing. Sasuke didn't want to get in their way; he knows how much Gaara like Neji, so he walked passed the red headed boy and went back inside the house, leaving Hyuuga just stood there speechless.
"Hey Naruto! Who are the bastards that did this to you? I'll go teach them a lesson or two." Kiba asked Naruto while punching his fists in the air.
"Even if you knew, you can't beat them up, you're too weak." Sai said coolly.
"What…? What did you just say?" an angry vein formed on Kiba's right fist.
"I think what he meant is that if Naruto can't beat them, there's no way you can." Shino spoke.
"Shino! Are you on his side or mine?" Kiba growled back at Shino.
"You guys! We came here to visit Naruto, not to fight in front of him." Ino shouted out.
"Tell him, not me. He's the one who started this." Kiba pointed to Sai. Sakura gave Kiba one of her most deathly glare and Kiba back down like a good little puppy. (WTF)
"Hey, does anyone see Sasuke?" Naruto snapped.
"Now that you mention it, Neji and Gaara are gone too." TenTen uttered.
That instant Sasuke entered the room, everyone turned there attention to the raven. Sasuke cocked and eyebrow.
"What?"
"Have you seen Gaara and Neji?" lee asked the Uchiha.
"Oh them? They were talking outside at the balcony, but I suggest you not to interrupt them." There was a long silence covered the room.
"Naruto! You think you can make it to school tomorrow?" Sai broke the silence.
"uuum… I think I can." Naruto gave his friends a big grin. Everyone felt relieve knowing that Naruto's back to normal.
"That's Naruto all right. He never gives up." Lee gave Naruto a thump up. Everyone -sweat dropped- including Sasuke.
"uuuhh… thanks lee." Naruto smiled back.
Gaara walked to stands next to Neji. "So… I see you still not over Naruto yet."
"I…" Neji didn't know what to tell the red head boy, he knew that Gaara like him alot and he's kind of has the same feeling toward him (Gaara) too, but he couldn't replace Naruto with someone else.
"You do know that Naruto is Sasuke's now." Gaara spoke calmly.
"No, he's not." Neji snapped back at Gaara.
"Stop denying it Neji." Neji was shock by the other boy's tune. Gaara turned away from Neji and stared at the wooden floor. "You don't even know weather Naruto love you or not, so…" Gaara paused for a second and continued. "So… you should give up on him." Neji was stunned by the words and turned to look and the redhead boy's back.
"I… I don't want you to think about him more than me, please… I… (Gaara hesitated for a few seconds) I… Iloveyou." He turned his head to face the brunet. Neji was now really shocked. He knew that Gaara like him, but he never thought the guy would tell him straight forward like that.
"Please… I'll do anything you want me to, just… just forget about Naruto… please." Tears started to form in the redhead's eyes. Neji opened his mouth to say something but not a single word came out.
"Please…" Gaara's voice became shallow almost like a whisper. Neji watched speechlessly as Gaara's tears rolled down his pale cheeks. The redhead started to whimper quietly. Neji's eyes soften a bit, he shifted slowly toward Gaara who was begun to cry and sob louder. Neji hugged Gaara gently; his head is on Neji's chest now.
"sshh -softly- please don't cry… I love you too." Gaara calmed a bit and shock at what he just heard, but he didn't move and remained motionless in Neji's arms.
"I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings…… will you please forgive me? I promise… I'll forget about Naruto and always think about you." the redhead boy looked up to the taller man with a surprising face; he eyes are puffy from crying. Neji looked down to Gaara too. Their eyes met; in Gaara's eyes, he saw kindness, love, and forgiveness. In Neji's there was love, kindness and remorsefulness. They stared in to each other's eyes for a good five minutes, before Gaara broke the eyes contact, he hugged Neji back and snuggled more into the brunet's chest for warmth.
"Yes… I'll forgive you." Neji smiled and tighten his embrace.
"Thank you…"this time Gaara's lips curled to a smile too. The
"Well Naruto-kun, I guess I'll see you later, I hope you'll make it back to school tomorrow."
"Well, I guess we'll all go now, don't want to interrupt you anymore, get some sleep and get well soon okay?"
"Ok, thanks you all for coming to visit me, and thank you for the flowers too, I love them."
"No problem at all, we're friends after all." Sakura smiled at the blond and the rest of them walked out the room one by one. (without Neji and Gaara? LOL)
Naruto put the flowers on their nightstand.
"Hey Sasuke, my stomach is growling, will you make me some breakfast?" Naruto uttered and turned to Sasuke, who was staring into space.
"Hey Sasuke… yoo-hoo sasuke" Naruto shouted to Sasuke. He snapped out of his thought and turned to the blond with confusion.
"What?"
Naruto sighed heavily. "Don't tell you didn't hear what I just said?"
"Sorry… I was just thinking."
"Thinking, about what?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Nothing… forget it, it's not important."
"okay." Naruto replied with a suspicious look on his face. 'He's up to something alright.' Naruto thought and nodded to himself in his thought.
"Now let's get you some breakfast ne?" Sasuke's complexion suddenly flipped, he gave Naruto a big smiled.
"Oh, right…" Naruto answered. "I want rame-."
"No, no way, you have to eat something healthier once in a while."
"But I really want to eat ramen… O.ni.gai, sa.su.ke" Naruto gave Sasuke his cutest puppy-dog face.
"You knew that look doesn't work on me Naruto."
"Fine!" Naruto pouted.
"Come on, don't be like that Naruto." Sasuke move to sat near Naruto. He moved his index finger to lift Naruto's chin so that their eyes met.
"You know what…? I'll make you special pork ramen tonight to make it up to you ok?"
"Really?" Sasuke nodded.
"You're the best Sasuke." Naruto leaned to hug Sasuke tightly.
"Now come on, go take a shower and I'll be waiting for you with your breakfast in the kitchen."
"Ok, wait, no, I want to eat first."
"Fine, here, can I you stand up yourself?" Naruto nodded, he sway his legs slowly to the side and stepped his feet slowly on the carpet. Sasuke took a stance to support the blond incase he fail.
"Don't force yourself Naruto." Sasuke warned nervously.
"I'm fine teme, stop worrying too much will ya?" Naruto managed to hold on to his ground.
"See? What I told ya." Naruto grinned to Sasuke who was a little shocked to see blond can stand up like that himself, but on the other hand he was glad that Naruto had gotten better. He smiled back to Naruto.
They both walked out to the dinning room together. Sasuke walked behind Naruto a couple steps, wanted to make sure that he can catch the blond when he falls. Naruto stopped and Sasuke walked to Naruto's side.
"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked with a confused face. Naruto raised his hand and pointed.
"Why- why are they still here?" Naruto's voice rose a bit. Sasuke turned to where Naruto had pointed and saw Neji and Gaara were kissing passionately. Sasuke almost dropped his jar at the sight.
A/N: hahaha… I wonder what explanation Neji and Gaara will give Naruto. Naruto looked quit shocked you know, so as Sasuke. But anyway, please preview!