The Sixth Floor

The Sixth Floor

By Mija

Disclaimer-I do not own Naruto or its characters. I make no profit from writing this fic or any other story. This fic is rated 18+ for a reason, please read all warnings in the prologue before going any further, all previous disclaimers and warnings from Prologue apply to all chapters to this fic. Thank you Mija.


Chapter Three


~Sasuke watched Naruto from the corner of his eye as they ate breakfast at one of the tables in the large University cafeteria. Naruto’s eyes were blood shot and his unruly blond hair even more out of control than usual. Dark circles lay under his blue eyes, and they didn’t seem to be the bright shiny blue that always reminded Sasuke of the perfect spring sky. They seemed dull and a bit lifeless. Sasuke wouldn’t admit it but he was getting worried. His friend usually bounced back from EVERY situation, quickly. Guess the little freak feast in the bathroom last night bothered the boy more than Sasuke had first thought.

~”You look like shit sunshine…what is the matter with you?” came a deep, cool tone that sounded a lot like Sasuke’s. Although it sounded aloof and unemotional, both Sasuke and Naruto heard the worry and concern in the words and tone.

~”Didn’t sleep well last night, no biggie…and hello to you too Lu.” Naruto replied after looking up to see the face of Sasuke’s older brother Itachi.

~You couldn’t tell by their words or their behavior but Naruto and Itachi got alone great. Itachi had nicknamed Naruto sunshine long ago when Naruto and Sasuke had been five. Itachi always teased Naruto about his blond hair and loud behavior. Itachi had told Naruto once that he reminded him of a ray of sunshine trying to break through the slit in his bedroom curtain, always shining in his face and being totally annoying when he was trying to sleep. The name stuck. As for Lu, it was short for Lucifer.

~As kids Itachi had loved to tease him and Sasuke A LOT, he loved sneaking up on them and scaring the shit out of them, and he could have a mean streak in him that could scare the piss out of even Sasuke, if you could believe it. After one particularly nasty trick Itachi had played on him and Sasuke when they were eight, Naruto had called him the devil, Lucifer himself. That name too stuck, and over the years shortened to just Lu. Itachi thought it endearing. The psycho.

~”And you little brother? How did you sleep last night?” Itachi asked his younger brother, it was hard to tell if he actually cared or was just going through the motions, but Sasuke knew his brother was truly concerned, its just that Uchiha’s rarely showed emotion in public unless called for.

~”Its that your way of saying I look like shit too?” Sasuke asked with one raised eyebrow. A small quirk at the corner of his mouth being the only emotion that let Itachi know Sasuke was saying hello in his own way.

~”Not as bad as Sunshine of course but you do not look as if you got much sleep either, did something happen in your dorm rooms last night? Or did you two stay up late gossiping like a couple of insipid teenage girls?” Itachi replied with his own quirk of the lips and raised brow.

~”HA! Your talking about Sasuke here….he speaks five hundred words max and most of them are various forms of hn” Naruto snorted, smiling for the first time the whole morning. Sasuke was glad to see it, although he glared at his friend and gave him his famous Uchiha glare of death.

~”Hmm…so then what? Missing your own beds at home? Getting a bit homesick?” Itachi asked again, teasing them, yet trying to get it out of them, why they had not slept well. It was a routine with them it seemed, Naruto cursed the Uchiha brothers and their odd sense of concern. They were just not right in the head, why couldn’t they act like normal people and just SAY they were worried and wanted answers?

~”Put the pitch fork away and calm down Lu, I just had a bit of a scare last night and fell in the bathroom, I hit my head pretty hard and had a nasty headache all night that’s all, no worries.” Naruto replied, hoping to get Itachi off the subject, he didn’t want to go over last night yet again and he was soo not in the mood to have Itachi tease him about it. He knew Itachi cared for him like a brother, which meant he could be an evil prick, hence the name Lu.

~”And what? Sasuke stood over your bed and watched over you all night like some angel of mercy?” Itachi asked. Again his sick sense of humor causing Sasuke to shift his death glare to his brother.

~”Che…hardly…but you know someone has to keep on eye on the dobe…..he only has a few brain cells left in that huge empty head of his, needed to make sure he didn’t damage to many of the remaining few he possesses.” Sasuke answered and Naruto glared at HIM. He saw the smirk on both Uchiha brothers’ faces and growled.

~”Bastards! You both can kiss my ass and beg me for seconds.” Naruto hissed irritably, but he was grateful for the break in the tension surrounding them.

~”Who’s kissing who’s ass and if it’s Naru’s then can I join in?” chimed in a new voice and Naruto groaned unhappily as Sasuke and Itachi rolled their eyes and sighed at the intrusion.

~”Oh God I forgot you go here too….someone just kill me now.” Naruto grumbled miserably as he let his head fall onto the table in a woeful manner.

~”Dobe you only have three brain cells left don’t kill them by slamming your head on the table.” Sasuke said in a dead pan tone and Naruto just growled louder, the sound muffled by the table and unruly hair that draped down over his head.

~”What’s wrong dickless? Not happy to see me?” asked the new comer with an evil little smirk on his lips, he loved teasing his blond friend, and of course it helped that said blond was totally hot and he ached to get into Naruto’s pants. Sadly Naruto has always denied him that pleasure, so far, he would wear down the blond soon enough and have the pleasure of screwing his tight little ass one day.

~”Go to hell Sai…..really just ask Lu to send you I’m sure he will if you ask nicely.” Naruto groused. Sai Yakahasi was related to Sasuke and Itachi on their mothers side. Cousins. And one huge pain in Naruto’s ass. The boy resembled Sasuke but was a poor imatation really, he was more open and talkative but he was a freaking perv. He was bi and had been trying to jump Naruto’s bones ever since Naruto had hit puberty at twelve and found out he was gay.

~”Sai…….leave Sunshine alone or I will smother you in your sleep.” stated the ever stoic Itachi, Naruto looked up at his defender and gave him a grateful little smile. Itachi was the only one that Sai remotely feared, and even then it was touch and go, Sai was crazy, you could never predict how he would act most times, and it wouldn’t be the first time Itachi would have had to kick his ass. Sai was one year older than Naruto and Sasuke, and one year younger than Itachi.

~”I swear you want him for yourself cousin……but I promise you I shall have him first…till then dream of me Naru……I’ll be dreaming of you.” Sai grinned as he waved at them and left them to go harass who ever he harassed on a regular basis other than Naruto.

~”And I thought you two were freaks, but that guy??? That guy takes the cake I swear.” Naruto replied with a tired sigh. Itachi and Sasuke just gave Naruto a twin look of arched eyebrows at his comment.

~”Shall I call him back sunshine?” Itachi threatened and Naruto waved his hands in a placating gesture and smiled in apology.

~”No need Lu, sorry, I’ll be good I promise.” Naruto chuckled.

~”Come on dobe we have to get our stuff from our rooms, our first class should be starting soon.” Sasuke cut in getting up from the table to head back to his dorm room.

~”Yes mother.“ Naruto grumped as he began to get up.

~“Later Aniki.” Sasuke added, flashing a two finger salute towards his older brother.

~”Come see me later little brother.” Itachi replied, more of a command then asking, and Sasuke would of bristled had he not known by Itachi’s look, which informed him he wanted to discuss Naruto without the blond present.

~”Later Lu.” Naruto waved bye, ignoring the look passed between the brothers. For fucks sake you would think that they hadn’t ALL grown up with each other, as IF they could silently communicate with each other and Naruto NOT know that that’s what they were doing. Idiots. Itachi watched them go and just nodded at Naruto as his way of saying later as well.

~When they got back to their building and their floor Naruto and Sasuke split up to go to their prospective rooms and get their gear for their very first day at Uni. Naruto knocked on Kiba’s door on his way to his room, the door opened and in the doorway stood the tubby guy from last night.

~”Hi, I’m Naruto Uzumaki, your roommate, Kiba’s friend.” Naruto introduced himself.

~”Names Chouji Akamishi, YOUR roommate, Shikamaru’s friend.” replied the tubby guy with a wide smile and Naruto liked him automatically. They shook hands and Naruto remembered about Shikamaru’s warning how his best friends temper when it came to his weight. The guy was a bit tubby, more husky than anything and he didn’t look fat at all, but he could imagine how some kids might of teased him growing up. He’d ran into many assholes like that in his life time as well.

~”Nice to meet ya Chouji…..just stopping by to see if Kiba got up yet, dog breath has a habit of sleeping threw his alarm clock.” Naruto explained. Chouji smiled.

~”Nice to meet ya too Naruto and ya, I gathered that, especially when I came back from breakfast and found the alarm clock blaring and Kiba hadn’t gotten up at all, looked like he was in some deep sleep or something, but when I shook his shoulder lightly to tell him his clock was going off, he jumped up like his ass was on fire and babbled something I couldn’t understand while he dressed then ran out the door…figured he was going to breakfast, or straight to class.” Chouji explained. Naruto chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head, a habit, he had no idea where he had gotten it from.

~”Ya sounds like Kiba, he gets like that, he can sleep threw a riot, but touch him and he’s bouncing up like a spring and talking to himself before rushing off to where ever it is he needs to be…well it was nice meeting ya Chouji, hope to get to know you better and become friends…I’ll let ya get back to what ever it was you were doing, just stopped by to make sure dog boy hadn’t overslept again.” Naruto replied with a friendly smile. Chouji returned it.

~”Glad to meet ya too and I’m sure we will become great friends as well, Shika’s already told me a bit about ya and I was hoping to meet ya soon.”

~”Ahhh…so he told ya about me did he?” Naruto smiled, wondering WHAT parts his roommate thought to share with his best friend, not that it mattered, it wouldn’t be a secret for long that he was gay, so it didn’t bother him if Shikamaru had told him.

~”Well all I got was that your bright and bubbly, you talk a lot more than him, and that’s saying much since he prefers not to talk much and you aren’t afraid to tell Shika where he can shove it if he doesn’t like it…pretty much his words were that your ’troublesome’ but he thinks everything and everyone is troublesome, but he wouldn’t say it about someone if he didn’t like em, ya know?” Chouji smiled and Naruto returned it.

~”Ya, though I didn’t know I had spoken all that much or made any impression on the guy at all, figured I bored him.”

“Nope, Shika always looks like that, he’s a genius mind you, but he’s a lazy cuss…but he’s a good guy.”

~”Ya I could tell, he didn’t freak out when I told him I was gay and that always earns people brownie points with me.” Naruto stated, slyly looking at Chouji to gage his response to his confession. Again he didn’t care who knew it and if they didn’t like it, but it was always wise to keep an eye on the ones who took it REALLY bad, they could get down right vicious sometimes.

~”Hehe, Nothing surprises Shika much and being gay would definitely not bother him, he isn’t homophobic, and his soon to be brother in law is gay so, its not like he clueless about it, by the way have you met Gaara and Lee? They are in room 606.” Chouji asked, pointing towards said room across the hall two doors down from them.

~”No I don’t think so…wait is Lee that guy with the umm…interesting hair style and likes bright green pajamas?” Naruto asked, recalling Shikamaru’s description of his girl friends little brothers lover having a thing for green, and recalling that he had seem a green clad pajama wearing guy with huge eye brows and a bowl hair cute in the bathroom last night, clinging to a pasty red head with the word love tattooed on his forehead in Kanji.

~”yup that would be Lee, and interesting is a nice way of saying he has a haircut that looks like he got it cut by butting a bowl over his head and cutting along the edges…his boyfriend is the short, red hair, no brows and a red tattoo on his head that spells love on it, cant miss him.”

~”Think I saw them last night.”

~”Probably, you kinda gave us all a bit of a fright last night, hope your feeling better now?” Chouji asked, trying to be tactful about the whole thing. Naruto grinned.

~”Ya, sorry bout the commotion, guess it was a harder day moving and junk than I thought, mind playing tricks on me and all that jazz.” Naruto stated, playing it off and hoping the subject would be dropped.

~”No problem, just glad your ok, well I’ll see you around I gotta get my butt over to my first class soon.”

~”Oh shit so do I and if I don’t hurry I’m gonna have one pissed off bastard glaring me to death…by Chouji!” Naruto waved as he was already headed down the hall to his room.

~He was in a slight state of panic, he couldn’t find his damn back pack and all his supplies. He knew he should of unpacked at least a few things before hitting the showers last night. Dang it was getting later and soon Sasuke would be here hounding him to hurry. Boxes were ripped open and clothes and other personal item tossed out and onto his bed in search of his elusive back pack. He cried out in triumph when he found it and pulled it to him and hugged it to his chest like something precious.

~He grabbed his lap top as well and headed out the door, the moment his hand came into contact with the doorknob though, Naruto froze and slowly brought his hand up to see what ever that sticky wet stuff his hand had encountered when he gripped the door knob was. His eyes bugged out when he saw what was on his hand. Blood? What the fuck?

~”Dammit dobe! do you WANT to start off your first day being late to your first class?!” Sasuke growled in annoyance he had been waiting for Naruto outside his dorm room for what felt like hours.

~”AHH!…..damn it TEME! I’m gonna tie a bell around your neck to let me know when your pop up, your about as bad as Itachi, scaring the crap out of me and shit…fucker.” Naruto responded, angry at his friend for just scaring him like that. But then again he had already been scared hadn’t he? He looked down at his palm once more and shook his head in confusion, there was nothing there. No blood, no nothing, it was totally dry. He grabbed the door knob again and felt nothing sticky or wet at all. What the hell was going on here?

~”Naruto? Everything okay?” Sasuke asked, watching the odd way his friend was looking at his palm then back at the door knob to his room, his eyes looking like he had seen a ghost or something……had he? Again?

~”I’m fine, you just scared the spit out of me, lets go teme, we’re going to be late, although I don’t know WHY you just didn’t go on ahead, its not like we have the same classes, this isn’t high school bastard.” Naruto replied wiping his hand along his denim covered thigh, without really thinking of what he was doing. As he grabbed the door with his foot and closed it behind him as he began to walk down the hall, slinging his back pack over one shoulder and the strap to his lap top bag over the other.

~”What EVER moron.” Sasuke groused as he followed behind his friend and caught up to him quickly enough. He wondered about his friends behavior. Had last night been that bad that he was still spooked? It wasn’t like Naruto to jump at shadows and scare easily. Hell he had practically had it scared out of him by all the shit Itachi had done to them growing up.

~Maybe he would stop over at the senior dorms and talk to Itachi after all about what had happened. That morning when his brother had pretty much ordered him to stop by, Sasuke had decided he would go, but promised himself he wouldn’t tell Itachi about every thing that had happened, about what Naruto had revealed to him about the man in the mirror. But now? Now he thought that he could use his older brothers insight, as much of a bastard as Itachi could be, he cared about Naruto and he could give good advice when needed.

~As both boys walked away and headed to the elevator, neither saw bloody foot prints appear on the carpet and head towards Naruto’s room.

A/N-okie dokie, here is the next chap, ya nothing major, just some intro of characters and what not. And YES this will be a SasuNaru fic, it just takes time to get there, especially since they have practically grown up together. Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed, huggles and smiles Mija.