Rain

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.


Rain
By 11


Chapter 04

It was the weekend this meant no school. Also, by a stroke of the best luck Sasuke had had in a long time he was also free from work and running around the studio for Naru. Unfortunately by an equal stroke of very bad luck, Sakura and Ino teamed up to drag ‘Sasu’ to the malt shop.

They were dog headed and very insistent about it; they complained that they never did girl stuff together, which Sasu never wanted to do, and that as friends they should hang out together more often. Sasuke could have barfed at the idea of going with the two young females to a malt shop and then to god-knows where, probably for shopping for frivolous objects they would simply set on a pedestal and never be used.

What were they supposedly going to do anyway? Conversation between the three was mainly Sasu’s silence of boredom with the other two girls chattering endlessly on about something or another that Sasu held no interest in whatsoever. Yes, Sasuke could have ejected bile from his innards, but managed to refrain as he was a master of his body and will.

Perhaps this was an exaggeration but for the moment Sasuke was quite sure of this fact. He would have gladly been anywhere but right there in that shop, perhaps he could excuse himself, something he had to do that he forgot to do yesterday and would not be able to be done tomorrow? Laundry! Yes he had to ditch these girls so Sasu could go do her laundry! Brilliant!

“Sasu, did you hear us?”

“Yes?” the dark-haired girl asked instantly, looking up at her pink and blonde-haired friends. “You were talking about shoes?”

“No silly, we have a surprise for you!” Sakura grinned at her. Oh no that couldn’t be good? What kind of surprise gifts did girls give to one another? Nail polish? Something equally useless but small and insignificant and therefore perfectly able to take graciously and then leave?

“Yeah, but we have to go get it really quick;” Ino said standing up from the table. “You wait right here, don’t go anywhere it’ll only take a minute.”

The girls smiled and Sakura rose to go with the blonde, leaving Sasu temporarily alone with her untouched malt. Perfect; now was the time to escape was it not? But they said to wait? Well maybe it’d take more than a minute and he could leave once the minute was up, because obviously they weren’t coming back? Lame, but perhaps it would work… perhaps.

Why did he want to keep these girls as friends again? Ah yes, because his mother warned him that with female enemies you wake up with your clothes shredded, your secret found out and you dangling naked over a pit of tar. Women could be vengeful and scary thus he preferred to be on… okay terms with these girls.

By no means were they ‘close’, at least Sasuke wouldn’t think they were. It was impossible anyway; they barely talked. So they wouldn’t be too hurt if he ran away after a minute of waiting when they assured him they’d be back by then, right?

Dark eyes glared at the wall as if it were somehow responsible for this ridiculous affair. This was just so stupid… Sasuke really couldn’t understand it either. Girls were stupid. It was a Saturday for goodness sake!! He didn’t even have to go cater to obnoxious Naru or bother with track and that horrible god-awful idiot Naruto, who would probably bug him about not changing his bandage regularly or some other annoying condescending comment or another!

Actually Sasuke was probably just imagining that much, but he refused to think about that possibility. In reality Naruto had never actually been condescending per say, but Sasuke’s superiority/inferiority complex had only been compounded by the situations he found himself in and thus led him to insinuate about people. His mother might have warned him about that the first few times he’d insinuated about people in the sixth and seventh grade but he’d forgotten that by now.

Geez those girls were taking too long; it was already thirty seconds wasn’t it? What was taking them so bloody long?

Suddenly from behind a pair of hands covered his eyes, and he stiffened. A pair of arms sitting neatly on his shoulders. “Guess who.” It was a husky voice, whispering against his ear. An involuntary shiver traveled down his spine. His muscles were too tense; why couldn’t he move?!!

He was being attacked! His body should be able to move!! Stupid body, whatever happened to the adrenaline and fight-or-flight response?!

A pair of soft lips pressed lightly against his neck. Heated skin moving over his jugular. He felt his heart beat faster, the pulse throbbing gently against his assailants lips. His face suddenly felt too hot. Warm hands still covered his eyes, blinding him.

“Don’t tell me you forgot me already.” The voice seemed to laugh, nuzzling him. Nuzzling, yes nuzzling. With only the voice Sasuke could not tell if it was a boy or girl. With the possibility of it being a boy, oh please not one of the annoying ones from school!

He immediately wrenched himself away, tearing the other’s hands from his eyes, one of his hands gruffly gripping his assailants wrist. He jerked his body to turn to look backwards from his chair and looked up to the face of his attacker. It was not a true opponent he wrestled from, as the person had easily allowed him to break free.

Sky blue eyes looked back into onyx, blonde hair framing a soft featured face, slightly pinked links turning upward in a coy smile. Sasu frowned a bit at the girl standing behind her; she should have guessed that it was Naru.

“I’m hurt,” the girl scoffed lightly, gently freeing her wrist from Sasu’s grip, “Poor Sasu can’t take a little joke can you?”

“You!” Sasu exclaimed, both in some anger and embarrassment as well as surprise. What was the model doing here anyway?

“Wow, it’s like you’re unhappy to see me.” The blonde said her smile diminishing slightly with the air of sadness in it. Sasuke might have felt a little sorry for her if it didn’t seem like she was just pretending again.

Sakura and Ino were coming back to the table now, oh good. “Oh darn,” Sakura bemoaned as they approached the other two girls, “Naru! We were going to surprise Sasu!”

Sasuke felt a short burst of anger. So those two had been in on this little gag?! How dare they!! Now he ‘knew’ they weren’t friends! At all!!

“But I did.” Naru grinned at them, “Sasu was whimpering and everything, just a second ago.”

HUH!! Okay Sasuke may, MAY, have gasped - very shortly mind you - when this horrible person first snuck up on him and covered his eyes; but he certainly didn’t whimper!

“I did not you jerk!” Sasu almost snarled, refraining from using a worse title for the annoying blonde. The model only looked back at her as if mildly amused.

“Oh yes you did.” She insisted, suddenly leaning over very close to Sasu’s face, causing the other girl to lean back further to try and avoid being too close to the other. “All the sounds you make are very interesting.”

Sakura and Ino giggled at that, and Sasu couldn’t help a deep flush of anger.

“Naru… you are so weird.” The dark-haired girl grit out angrily, refusing to retort any other more offensive remark. The model was also a tease; acting like she was interested then playing it off as a joke. Couldn’t girls be serious at all?!

“I’m weird to you? Aw, that’s too bad.” The blonde frowned, sighing, “I even had tickets to go to the concert and rave party at a club tonight featuring LNin. Normally it’s restricted to only a few select people such as myself. I was going to go and share the experience with my three dearest slaves; but if Sasu doesn’t want to…”

Naru trailed off sadly. Sasu arched a brow at that, ‘three dearest slaves’? That’s what she thought of them? Or was she being sarcastic again? If so then was the rave also sarcasm? Freaking girl.

“Oh no Naru!” Sakura instantly chirped, “Of course Sasu wants to go!”

“Yes she does!” Ino corroborated instantly, “Sorry, she was probably just surprised by you; she’s so serious most of the time you know!”

Sasuke really wished that they wouldn’t speak for him. But then it was probably a good thing, if Naru was going to decide to be mad at him. But no, her attitude changed entirely the next moment from near tears – acting of course, as Sasuke suspected! – to all smiles and daisies. “Oh really, that’s wonderful! We need to go shopping and pick out some awesome clothes to wear, then I’ll get Shino to pick us up and drive us to the party! It’ll be wonderful!”

“Awesome!” Sakura agreed instantly.

“This is going to be so cool!” Ino giggled. Glad the girls were psyched about it. So rave = party = sasuke (Sasu) + boredom. Then sasuke(Sasu) + boredom < Sasuke + home + privacy; the math said he shouldn’t go. But then he never had a choice in the matter. He didn’t even understand for the first few minutes what they were doing inside the store (‘goth tropic’ was it?) until the girls were pulling him into the changing room and trying to pull off his shirt to stuff him into something black and lace and leather.

“AH!! GET OUT!!! I can dress myself!” He explained hurriedly, holding onto his top and shoving the girls outside the dressing cubicle as quickly as he could – screw rousing suspicion!

“You better put it on Sasu!” Sakura seemed to half plead, half order.

“If you don’t we will make you!” Ino called her tone joking, but the actual words as a promise and in this case a severe threat to Sasuke’s well being, heart rate, and sanity.

“I got it, I’ll be right out as soon as I figure out these buckles!” ‘she’ called back somewhat angrily, as she tried to get the bodice, or whatever kind of top it was, shut.

“I can come in there and help you lace up if you want to!” Naru chirped from the other side of the door.

“No!” Sasu retorted firmly. “I’m doing just fine!”

“Let’s have a look; come on!”

Oh the humiliation would never end. A pair of loose pants that hid the fact he had no curves; and a dark top with nearly no cover for the collarbone and neck; top of chest area.

Oddly enough the tight clothes; made for a girl; still left the slight bust area propped up by nothing more than the tightness of the clothes. At least it didn’t give away he was a guy; but still.

Sasuke cursed to himself; everyday he kept looking more and more like some creepy transvestite. Even this scantily clad he still looked enough like a girl.

At least when he was a boy he could wear comfortable clothes and just look ‘girlie’ now he was an ‘actual girl’ (masquerading as one anyway); and no matter what he wore it seemed to make him look feminine. His legs were always slim and so milky pale.

His chest was of some question; so was Naru’s. Sasu would simply be seen as another slightly underdeveloped girl. The world was to blame for this injustice.

LNin wasn’t so bad. As a band Sasuke had never thought their music was bad; a combination music and dance party, i.e. the rave, was actually pretty cool. There were too many people to pay attention to any single one person.

Sasuke easily meshed in with the rest of the crowd; unnoticed. The vibrations of the rock and guitar thrummed through the blood. A high carried purely by sound and ceaseless rhythm.

It wouldn’t have been bad at all. If certain events did not take place. Just when Sasuke was thinking going might not have been such complete torture – despite the horror of clothes shopping and spending a day with three squealing girls – the horrible-ness occurred.

“Hey cutie, you alone?”

Cutie? Oh god, not again… he just escaped that kind of thing in school yesterday. It was the weekend; he was supposed to not have to put up with this garbage.

“Yeah, you’re really pretty – not much chest though. Wanna dance?”

Leering faces; maybe under normal circumstances they could have been friendly nice normal people; but Sasuke didn’t care; and they were the epitome of disgusting and intolerable.

“Get lost. Cretins!” Would have been Sasu’s eloquent reply to such despicable advances; except that a certain gold-haired arrogant wench poked her head into the conversation.

“I’m so sorry boys!” she cooed; as her arm wound itself tightly around Sasu’s and pulled the girl close to her; forcibly tilting her stiff body into her; so the tanner girl’s lips could brush Sasu’s ear. “She’s already got a partner for tonight…”

The girl’s tongue darted out to flick over Sasu’s ear. The boys noticeably leered more heavily, even as they retreated. God-awful fantasies no doubt plaguing their otherwise empty skulls.

That was so very wrong. Sasuke felt anger and irritation rise to the surface more fully directed at a certain flat-chested blond girl who was grinning madly as she tugged Sasu with her towards the dance floor.

“You didn’t have to do that.” Sasu hissed once Naru turned to face her on the dance floor. The blonde pulled their bodies close once more.

“Oh? But those guys looked kind of turned on by it.” The golden fox smirked mischievously. Sasuke decided to say nothing further on the subject his rage smoldering behind a closed lid.

If he took the lid off; he’d have to leave and possibly has insulted his boss beyond repair. This had to be the reason that employer and employee relations were typically taboo in every media setting.

It wasn’t that Naru was unattractive. Naru Kitsune was in all actuality a very beautiful girl. Her body warm, and firm against his own; her arms twined in Sasu’s. Her skin a healthy tan next to Sasu’s own near sickly pallor. Bright blue eyes dark and shining all at once.

Like her smell, thick and musky yet soft and melty. She was all contrasts, even the combination of a horrible personality with a gorgeous body. This close she even reminded him of someone else. Who else did he know with bright blonde hair and eyes with shades of blue from every dark and light?

Oh, but then that was probably because they were just both blonde with blue eyes. Most likely, probably… after all Naru didn’t have marks across her cheeks. With her chest against him Sasuke could also verify that the girl definitely hand a chest, small as it was; her clothes were less thick than the leather casing his own torso. Naru was most certainly female, even with the lack of obvious curves.

Somewhere in the blur of sound and light, and the mind numbing crowd and mix of people and smells it fooled the eyes perhaps. But Sasuke was very sure that Ino and Sakura had somehow wandered off on their own somewhere. They used to be by the bar getting drinks; and even for a time he had seen them on the dance floor. Now Sasu found ‘herself’ stuck with Naru. And after three hours of trips between the bar and dance floor, a very drunk and rambunctious Naru at that.

Around eleven thirty, Sasu had to practically drag the blonde from the dance floor and downstairs. Back to the outside world. “Wat wus that fo’e?”

Albeit a very drunk Naru; her chauffeur would be happy to pick her up. If Sasu knew the chauffeurs phone number, or could navigate Naru’s cell phone of endless numbers and name abbreviations. Who was ‘HDress’ anyway? What could that possibly be an anagram for?!

Naru’s arms wound themselves around Sasu again; holding him close. “Let go Naru.”

“No, yur warm. ‘im taird…” the girl slurred her voice gruffer than usual, from the alcohol, as she snuggled her face against ‘Sasu’s shoulder.

Sasuke sighed in annoyance; a small ache in the side of his head beginning to form. For lack of anywhere else to take the girl… they both wound up taking a taxi to Sasuke’s apartment. Sasu would make Naru and her studio pay for the fare of course. Naru insisted on clinging to Sasu even when the dark-haired ‘girl’ attempted to open up the door.

The blonde seemed somewhat awake still from the cool night air, but other than that her perception skills had lowered considerably. Sasuke was so glad he abhorred alcohol; thankfully the stuff tasted awful; how anyone else could manage to swallow the gunk was beyond him.

This was, just a bit, wrong, wasn’t it?

Getting inside was easy; and from there Naru released Sasuke’s body and roamed the house immediately. The only drawback here was instead of Sasu leading Naru, Naru grabbed Sasu, after she locked the door, and dragged her to the bedroom my the arm.

The girl’s grip was surprisingly strong and Sasuke even winced; “Hey, Naru; let go of my arm.” Using words rather than wrenching his wrist away from the blonde girl. She did release him; after she had led them both into the bedroom.

It was, of course, Sasuke’s bedroom, the only room with a bed in the apartment.

“I love you Sasu…” the girl slurred as she turned and flopped herself back on the bed; blue eyes half-lidded as she stared up at the dark-haired girl intently. Her voice was soft, but it was still much deeper than before; ah the wonders of alcohol; lust and changes in voice and possibly strength? Lovely.

Sasuke didn’t want to play.

Sasu turned to go back out to sleep on the couch; Naru having effectively claimed the bed chamber. As she turned to go however; the blonde’s hand shot out to grab Sasu’s wrist again.

“Don’t!” the girl whined persistently, tugging on the appendage, forcing Sasu to take a step back towards the bed. “I want you to sleep with me.”

Sasuke felt the blood boil beneath his cheeks. Blue eyes focused entirely on him, a haze of obvious lust glazed over the glittering orbs. Rasberry lip gloss all but gone from the pinked and parted lips as the girl’s face brushed nearer to his own. Yeah, Naru was drunk out of her mind; she wanted to have sex with a ‘girl’. Yup; this was great.

“I don’t have time for this garbage.” Sasuke warned, pulling away. But Naru’s grip held him firm; a flare of irritation entering those expressive eyes. Sasuke sighed, this was all so wrong; he wanted to change out of this stupid leather outfit already.

“Just this once.” Naru breathed, leaning up to ghost the skin of her cheek against his own; her head tilting towards his neck; her lips hovering there with heated breath. She seemed sleepy too though; her movements were slow and hazy.

“Just sleep?” Sasu asked, more of an order. That that’s what they were going to do if Sasu stayed, and nothing else!

“Mm.” Naru said leaning back on the bed; accepting these terms; perhaps the bodily need of sleep finally winning out over the brief period of alcohol induced lust.

Blue eyes stayed sleepily open to make sure Sasu stayed. Reluctantly Sasuke got onto the bed, pulling back the covers for them; and laying down. Naru snuggled in closer, the warmth of her body flooding out into Sasuke and the sheets; warming the bed to a comfortable sleeping temperature.

Sasuke wasn’t particularly keen on spending the night alone with the model, but sleeping should be fine; and they had all their clothes on. Sasuke felt the heat in his face move away slowly; other regions cooled as well; from the burning heat the fierceness of Naru’s advances had provoked.

Right now though, Sasuke only hoped he lasted into the morning as a girl; without giving himself away or doing something else.

Something… stupid.

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