Six: Past Connections
“No.”
“Why not?!”
“Because I said so.”
“And you have an almighty authority?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because I own this house.”
“I live here too!!” Sasuke looked up from his pillow and glared.
“Soon you won’t be.” Naruto glared back.
“But for now I am and we’re having a housewarming!”
“You’re such a girl!” Sasuke said, throwing an arm over his eyes. “You aren’t going to be living here long so it’s no use inviting your friends, and you don’t know any of my friends and family. Why have a housewarming?”
“Because that’s what you do when you move!”
“Not in this household.” Naruto crossed his arms and sat on top of Sasuke. “HEY!!”
“I could easily beak up with you three weeks into our fake relationshop.” Sasuke bolted upright.
“You wouldn’t dare!”
“I don’t have to do you any favors. You’ll be happily married to Sakura-chan and have little Uchiha brats running around to love and worship you.” Sasuke glared, but then smirked and leaned back.
“You’re not that cruel. You wouldn’t strand me out like that.”
“. . .”
“I knew it.” the brunette said, lying back down, smirking.
“I hate you.”
“I know.” he said, trying to turn over. “Now will you get off me? I’d like to sleep!”
“Only if you let me have the housewarming!”
“Goddamnit, NO!!”
“Then I’m still gonna sit on you.”
“You. Are. So. Dead.”
“Not now.”
“In two months, I’m gonna kill you.”
“You hold grudes that long?”
“Perhaps.” Sasuke said, glaring hard.
“Well, I have a 50% chance of not being killed, so I’ll just sit on you for now.”
“If I ask nicely?”
“You have that in you to do that?” Naruto asked. “Wow, that’s rather sad.”
“What?”
“A great Uchiha like you bring polite to a lowly usurakontachi like me.” Sasuke sat up, looing Naruto dead in the eyes. Naruto blinked in confusion. “What?”
“You know, it’s rather sad.”
“About what?”
“That you just called yourself an usurakontachi.” and Sasuke laid back down and covered himself with the sheets. Naruto’s face turned beet red with anger and he jumped off Sasuke, taking the blanket with him, and ran out into the next room. “NARUTO!!!!!!”
“You need to be careful with yourself, Naruto.” Neji said, handing the blonde a bandage. “Sasuke isn’t against inflicting pain.”
“So I noticed.” he said, taking off the ice pack and drying off his forehead. “Thanks for intervening!”
“It was kind of necessary, seeing as there were other people who seemed to be calling the police over the incident.”
“Nani?”
“Well, with Sasuke in his boxers running after you in the yard with a rather large newspaper, then him beating you with said paper. . . it was hillarious, but somewhat abusive.”
“. . . Oh.”
“What did you do to get him so angry?”
“I pulled the sheets off of him.”
“Prank?”
“No, he insulted me.”
“I see.” Neji said. Sasuke then came down the stairs, clothed, and bopped Naruto over the head again.
“HEY!!”
“So, what brings you to my humble abode again?” Sasuke asked Neji. “You certainly seem to not like calling beforehand.”
“I wanted to see how things were going with you two, but it appears not all is well.”
“You can say that again!” Naruto said, sticking his forehead with the bandage. “I’m beginning to really wonder why I agreed to this.”
“Because you took pitty on me.” Sasuke answered. “And Neji, that’s a load of bull shit. You wouldn’t come unless you have a specific purpose.” Neji smiled.
“You and Naruto are invited to the Hyuuga estate for dinner tomorrow night.” Sasuke raised a questioning eyebrow.
“Are you the host or the messenger?”
“Messenger.”
“. . .”
“The host is my uncle, Hiashi.”
“Why?” Naruto shot a glare at Sasuke.
“Geez! You’re invited to dinner by your best friend and you’re all suspicious!”
“Because it’s not my best friend who is inviting me, dumbass. It’s his uncle.”
“So?”
“Naruto, the Hyuugas and the Uchihas have not been on friendly terms for generations.” Neji explained. “We honestly don’t know why, but the Head of each family does, and that’s all that matters. Since neither of us were supposed to take over our families, we decided it was safe to be friends. Since then, we’ve been the only two people who have come to understand each other, thus best friends.”
“But if the Hyuugas and the Uchihas hate each other. . .”
“We didn’t really care at the time what our families thought. Plus, we were school mates and it was unavoidable contact, since we had honor and AP classes.”(1) Sasuke said. “But the real question is why is your uncle inviting Naruto and me over for dinner?”
“I honestly don’t know.” Neji said, still smiling. “It will be a very interesting evening.”
“. . .”
“Hinata will be there as well. Please keep your homosexual tendencies to a minimum.” Neji teased.
“Huh?” Naruto asked. Sasuke just gave him a disgusted look.
“Ha. Ha. Neji. Very funny.”
“Until then, would you like some help planning for your housewarming? I’m sure there’s a lot to get ready.”
“We’re not having a housewarming.” Sasuke said. “I’ve already beaten Naruto for it.”
“And the sheet?” Neji asked.
“That too.”
“Why not have a housewarming? I’m sure the Uchiha business employees would like to see the house once it’s been lived in for a while.”
“They aren’t invited.”
“Why is that?”
“The president will likely attend.”
“Ah, sou ka.” Neji said, contemplative. “You could always have your friends over for a while.”
“What?!”
“Ino, Tenten, Shino, Lee, Shikamaru if we give him a ride since he’s too lazy to drive himself, Chouji’s coming back from college for a while, and I’m sure Kiba would love to meet Naruto.”
“Dog-breath is going to be put on a leash outside.”
“Don’t entice him.”
“No.” Sasuke said. “It’s not worth it.”
“Then think of it as a house party. Everyone is just going to hang out at your house for a few hours.”
“And all the clean-up?”
“Isn’t that what Lolita does?”
“Fuck.” Sasuke muttered.
“Why are you so against a house party anyway?”
“I just don’t want the hastle.”
“Naruto and I will handle it. And if you’re worried about food, have it catered. Heaven knows Chouji will take the leftovers if there are any.”
“. . .”
“You’re just a party-pooper, huh?” Naruto said, snickering. Sasuke shot a glare at the blonde.
“Am not!”
“Are too!”
“Children, please.” Neji said, trying to restrain his laughter. “Well, Sasuke?”
“. . .”
“We’re all waiting on you.”
“Or your lame excuses.” Naruto added. Sasuke sharply looked away and crossed his arms.
“Fine, we’ll have a housewarming.”
“YAY!!!!!” Naruto shouted. “Mind if I invite a couple of my friends?”
“Why?!?”
“I won’t know any of your friends, so I wanna hang out with mine!”
“Just. . . not Gaara.”
“What?! He’s my best friend!” That’s when Neji bust up laughing.
“Gaara’s your best friend?! That’s just too much!”
“Huh? Nande?” Naruto asked.
“Gaara nearly killed Sasuke and this other girl who tried to pair them up! How in the world can you stand him? He’s so unstable.”
“Wait, some girl tried to pair you up with Gaara?” Naruto asked Sasuke. “When was that?”
“High school.”
“Oh my fucking god.” Naruto said, paling. “You’re not!”
“What?” Sasuke asked, not liking how Naruto’s face changed so drastically.
“Your older brother is. . . Itachi?”
“Yes. . .”
“. . . Oh.”
“What?”
“Um. . .” Naruto looked nervously over to Neji a couple of times, then back to Sasuke. “Well. . . nevermind!” Naruto said, smiling. “Gaara said some things he didn’t mean!”
“What did he–”
“All right, Naruto.” Neji said, cutting in. It was apparent that from the way Naruto kept looking between Neji and Sasuke that the blonde didn’t want anyone but Sasuke to hear.
“. . .” Sasuke trusted Neji had felt/seen something that he obviously didn’t, but was slightly confused. “Well, I hate to have to kick you out, but. . .”
“You need to sleep before work, yes I know.” Neji said, standing up. “Pleasant dreams, you two. I’ll just see myself out.” Neji gave Sasuke one quick glance almost provoking the Uchiha to ask the question he was going to ask once Neji was gone. Sasuke then understood a little better what had happened and waited. Once the Hyuuga had left the room, Naruto let out a deep sigh.
“Neji’s weird.” the blonde said.
“But wise.” Sasuke admitted. “So,” he began to ask. “What did Gaara say?” Naruto looked downward, then back up at Sasuke with ernest.
“Don’t hold it against him, okay? From what he told me he kinda couldn’t help it.” Sasuke was taken back. Was it that bad?
“I promise.”
“Okay,” Naruto said, sighing. “Well, you know that Kankuro and your brother ahd a bit of a fling, right? Well, do you know why they did it?”
“Itachi said it was pretty much fanservice.”
“No, it was for Gaara.”
“What?”
“Gaara didn’t want to be openly gay, but his brother said that no one would really mind it so he and Itachi started their ‘relationship’ to prove it to Gaara.”
“So, he’s gay?”
“Yeah, and has really,really good gay-dar, too.” Naruto said. “Which is kinda where you come in.”
“Okay. . .”
“Gaara said something. . . well, something he really shouldn’t have.”
“What did he say?”
“That. . . well, obviously he was attracted to gay men and. . . he had a crush on this guy in his English class, but it was highly unlikely that the guy would ever notice him.”
“Why?”
“Because the guy was the valedictorian-to-be and Gaara was an unstable, C-average student.”
“What happened?”
“Well, the girl he told started to blab and soon hald the school wanted to see the two guys together, so. . . yeah.” Naruto said, trying to put it delicately. “The girl went a little too far one day and Gaara snapped. He just wanted to hurt the girl, but ended up hurting the guy he liked too because he tried to save the girl like a hero. They haven’t spoken since.”
Sasuke didn’t say anything, only stared at Naruto in shock and disbelief.
“So. . . Gaara basically. . . he said. . . that. . . I’m gay?”
“. . . Pretty much.”
“But I like girls!!”
“Bi, then?”
“No, I’m straight. I didn’t like Sakura, but that was her personality. Ino’s been great in bed, and I imagine Tenten would be a good date. . .”
“Wait, Ino’s great in bed??” Naruto asked. “I thought you had been with Sakura for two years!”
“And cheating on her for the last 10 months with various girls, but mostly Ino.”
“You’re so cruel!!”
“If you had to be her boyfriend you’d want to be cruel to her.”
“Still. . .”
“Trust me, everyone she’s dated has cheated on her because she’s so bitchy. . . Well, all but Lee, but he just did it because he didn’t want to cheat.”
“How long were they together.”
“Two weeks.”
“Ouch! Harsh!”
“Yeah, but I’ve like other girls. I can’t be gay!”
“I, personally, think that you might be.” the blonde said. “You have the butt.” (2)
“The butt??”
“They have this certain look about them that most gay guys have. You have that butt.’
“A butt???”
“Look,” Naruto said pointing to his own ass. “It’s not flat, but it kind of looks like a runner’s butt but not quite. It’s not high enough.” Sasuke looked at the blonde’s butt, then at his own. It was true. He worked out, so he didn’t have a flat but, yet it wasn’t quite the shape of a runner’s butt.
He had a gay butt.
“NO!” Sasuke shouted. “I’m not gay!!”
“That’s why I’m saying that maybe you’re Bi!” The blonde said. “Or asexual.”
“Are you kidding? Sex is too much fun to be asexual.” Sasuke said. Naruto laughed.
“You should try a guy!”
“Why??”
“They’ve had practice with their own dick to know what to do with yours!” Sasuke froze for a moment and looked at Naruto strangely.
“Weird visual, but it makes sense.”
“Yeah, I know.” Naruto said, smiling.
“So,” Sasuke said, thinking back on what his friend had said. “You’ve had sex?”
“Yeah, once.” Naruto confessed. “But it was really weird. Gaara talked me into it, but we’re like brothers! It had an icky incest-feel afterwards.”
“Oh.”
“Hey,” Naruto said. “I wouldn’t worry about Gaara if I were you. He’s moved on, so you don’t have to worry about any advances.”
“No, it’s just. . . he kind of scares me. How do you deal with him?”
“Scares you? He’s a teddy bear! Granted, he was a bit out of control, but he’s found an outlet for his emotions!”
“What’s that?”
“Pottery.”
“Are you serious?!”
“Yep, that an food.”
“I never through him as the artistic, comfort food type.”
“What did you think he was?”
“The drug-alcohol type.”
“Wow, he must’ve looked so bad during school!”
“Well, yeah.” Sasuke said. “Why didn’t you go to the same high school?”
“I lived outside of the borders. I went to the neighboring high school, and I was homeschooled before that.”
“I see.”
“I wished I could have been there! Man, we would have done the craziest pranks ever!” Naruto said, laughing. “I gotta call him up and talk! I know we have a couple classes together, but I hardly see him. He just lives in the ceramics lab.”
“. . . Are you going to tell him about the fake relationship?”
“Probably. . . unless you don’t want me to?”
“. . . No, that’s fine.” he said, thinking. “Actually, go ahead and invite him to the housewarming. I. . . I think you should talk to him face to face since you haven’t really seen him in a while. Besides, you had a point earlier. You probably won’t really have anything to talk about with my friends, and you’ll get a chance to catch up with your friends.”
“Cool! I’ll give him a call right now.” Naruto said, then jumping off the couch and running to the phone to dial the number he had memorized well. Sasuke sat down where Naruto had been sitting and looked at the blonde as he made the phone call. It seemed that a simple solution to one problem might just end up as a huge problem in itself.
TBC...
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Notes:
(1): AP stands for Advanced Placement. For those of you who don’t have this or know what it is, it’s above honors classes. It’s like a college course you can take in high school. In May, you then take a $80-$100 test which can earn you college credit. If you take enough of these tests, you pretty much end up going into college as a sophomore rather than a freshman. T__T They. Are. Friggin’. Hard!! I took a class once and got a 2 out of 5 on the exam (3 is passing). -___-;;;
(2): . . . Okay, I was told once by a gay guy that some gay men have a certain butt. Even if the guy denies it, my friend said that he can tell just by looking at his butt that someone’s gay. I don’t know if it’s actually true but looking at all the guys I’ve ever known to be gay. . . the ones who have a little bit of feminine qualities have the same-looking butt. It’s. . . rather awkward inspecting a guy’s ass. . . T___T
Nani?: What? or it can be translated as “Huh?”
Sou ka: I see
Nande: What? It’s another form of “nani”
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