Dark Diary

Sasuke sighed. It wasn’t that he was inconvenienced at all, doing Neji a favor and keeping an eye on his pet. After all, if it hadn’t been for the Hyuuga accepted both him and his older brother, who knows what would have become of them. They had all known each other since Sasuke was a seventh grader, Neji was an eighth grader and Itachi was a ninth grader. They were close friends, and while the Uchihas were surprised to find out about his...Tendencies, they were not appalled, mostly because he had saved them from melting into the crowd of people
around them.

Still...He had been purposefully transferred into this class by Neji’s connections in the office. That meant he was transferred out of a class that he had with someone else. He sighed again.

Glancing at the redhead he couldn’t help but scowl. He didn’t see what was so great about HIM anyway. Sure, he was cute, but he had a real bad attitude. Sasuke had never seen Neji so worked up about a pet before, going through all the trouble, just to watch the kid... It seemed like more of a bother. Neji sure had been insistent.
Sasuke had been watching him since the first day of school, now, almost two months later; his friend’s obsession with the redhead hadn’t shown any signs of slowing down very much at all.

“Uchiha Sasuke?”

He spared a look at the substitute teacher who was filling in because the usual teacher was sick. “What?”

“I noticed you have straight A’s, but no community service hours” She said, holding a clipboard close to her face, “I run a tutor program, how would you like to-“

“No”

She frowned, “You can’t graduate without community service hours”

Sasuke sighed, always with some stupid person who thought that he had to do everything required.

“Listen,” he said, “I know Hyuuga Neji, and he’s already taken care of everything, Ok?”

She frowned at him, “Young man, first of all, you do not talk to a teacher with such disrespect. And secondly, Hyuuga Neji is a student, and as such-“

“He is more equipped to help me than you ever were” Interrupted the Uchiha, “Now leave me alone”

Sometimes a new teacher wouldn’t know such things, but Neji took care of his friends. And since Sasuke already did well in his classes, the Hyuuga was able to alter the rules for him. It came from having a rich uncle and a charismatic personality.

“Please, Uzumaki Naruto really needs help in his math class, and since you are in trigonometry already-“

“Uzumaki Naruto?”

She looked at him hopefully, “Yes”

“...Fine”

~*~*~*~

“The silent treatment is getting old”

Gaara stared ahead, not even bothering to flinch away as Neji whispered in his ear. Second period had begun, and the teacher instructed everyone to get into groups of two or three and work on an assignment. Gaara had not even bothered to look at the paper Neji brought over. He knew the Hyuuga would come over and bother him. And of course he was right. Neji sat down next to him immediately, followed by TenTen three seconds later.

Gaara sighed inwardly, he was getting dirty looks from the girl and he was getting a new mark on his neck from the boy. Could he maybe work alone? No, of course not, the teacher had preached to him last time about how drama and theater was only perfected with perfect teamwork. How could he deploy his plan of evil and beautiful vengeance? Hmmm...

“Pet, you have kept this up for a week and it’s starting to piss me off”

It was true. He went to school the next day, claiming he had fallen down the stairs to explain his very obvious limp. Naruto and the others hadn’t believed him, but they didn’t dare press for any information. He had ignored Neji the whole day, even gone so far as to push him away in art. Then the next day, then the next day. It started to get easier, even though he found he actually missed the Hyuuga’s warm arms and soft lips, he always remembered Susan, and even through all Neji had done to her, she still spoke of him with a hint of fondness in her voice. He didn’t want to be like that, he didn’t want to get used and then cast aside.

“Would you leave me alone?” He snapped, scooting away from Neji and somehow enraging TenTen more so then before.

“Hey you little twerp!” She growled, “Don’t talk to Neji-kun like that! If you were my pet, I give you poisoned soda!”

Gaara glared at her and was annoyed that Neji didn’t seem to care about her complete lack of manners. “If I were your pet,” he retorted, “I’d drink it”

The girl gaped at him like a fish for a moment, taking her time to process that she’d just been insulted. After a second she scowled, her brown eyes narrowed into slits, “You little-“

“That’s enough TenTen” said Neji winding his arms around Gaara, “You’re annoying me”

She stared at him with a heart broken look on her face, “But Neji-“

“I said, that’s enough!” He snapped, his voice dropping lower into a more dangerous purr than anything else. Gaara shivered at the voice, especially when TenTen lowered her head obediently.

He tried to push Neji away, though unsuccessfully, all he achieved was getting a tighter hug.

“Ok class!” Boomed the teacher, “I hope you all have picked something! This is due for your final exam. So it is due in January! I know that seems like a long time, but remember, it is a lot of work and a lot of things you will have to keep together!”

The class murmured understanding and went back to their seats to clean up, including Neji and TenTen. Gaara berated himself for the millionth time. While he hadn’t done anything to encourage Neji at all, he still didn’t resist much. It was just so hard, but he still had a shred if dignity left, and by every god he ever heard of he was going to protect it...But how?

~*~*~*~


“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED A TUTOR?” Wailed Naruto at the top of his lungs, “I DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ TUTOR!”

The vice principal sighed, of all the people they sent to his office for him to give the information to... “Obviously Mr. Uzumaki, you do need a tutor. Because if you didn’t, you would have realized that you used a double negative, thus stating in your own words, that you do need a tutor”

The blonde student sitting in the chair on the other side of his desk scratched his head, “Huh?”

The man smiled lightly, “Anyway, you won’t have to pay or anything, the student is doing it for community service hours”

Naruto glared at him suspiciously, “who agreed to this exactly?”

“Uchiha Sasuke”

“...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKK!”

The vice principal’s eyes bulged and he grew a vein on the side of his temple as he stared at the boy, “MR. UZUMAKI!”

“What!” Yelled Naruto, “It’s in you PRECIOUS DICTIONARY!”

~*~*~*~

Naruto sat down at lunch, slumping over like his redheaded friend who was already there. Not only did the stupid jerk give him an evil, sexy tutor, but also a detention! That was just uncalled for as far as the blond was concerned.

“What’s wrong with you?” He asked turning to the redhead on his right.

Gaara didn’t answer, but only continued to sit there twitching occasionally and glaring ahead at the wall which he was facing. He had been like this since he had gotten there, not that Naruto knew that because he had arrived after Gaara. Naruto shrugged, it probably had something do with his rapist/boyfriend/master/stalker, “Wow,” said Naruto after he had pondered this, “You must hate life”

Gaara twitched again, “You have no idea”

“So they made you do community service hours after all?”

Sasuke looked at his older brother, “Yeah, this substitute teacher wouldn’t leave me alone, so I decided I didn’t really care. No big deal, it’s only tutoring”

Itachi eyed him, “You’re awfully optimistic my dear brother”

“About what?”

They looked up as Neji and Orochimaru approached with some food from a random vending machine. “What’s going on?” Asked Orochimaru

Sasuke scowled, “What’s wrong with not minding doing something for my future?”

Neji smirked, “So...who are you tutoring exactly?”

Sasuke bit into a rice crispy treat that had been placed in front of him and fixed the Hyuuga with a glare, “It doesn’t matter” Neji rolled his eyes, “It’s someone, or else you would be throwing a hissy fit until I promised to fix things”

Deidara, Sasori and Kisame sat down at the table, Royal corner was now complete. Neji nodded a brief acknowledgment before continuing, “So come on! Tell us what’s going through that little cockatiel head of yours”
Sasuke glared at him as everyone else chuckled at the jab. They all continued to prod at the little Uchiha, hardly noticing that a crowd of fans was forming around them. It didn’t matter, it happened every day, and if someone was lucky enough to be a member of their corner, than they had to get used to it.
“I said-“

“Uzumaki Naruto” Said Orochimaru interrupting him, “It is isn’t it?”

All eyes turned to the little Uchiha again, who was trying to shoot a death glare at the snake man with his eyes. A silence passed through the table and Sasuke could only be thankful that none of the fans could have heard them. Kisame started to chuckle, “The blond?”

Sasuke stared down at his hands that were tightly gripping his pants. Stupid Orochimaru! Sure he was cool when Sasuke wanted a ride somewhere and Itachi was busy, but come on! There was only a certain point that someone could get to before going on Sasuke’s bad side for good!

“Would you guys just shut up!”

They all started laughing, “Ah, First one of my best friends Neji! And now my dear little brother!” cried Itachi, “It would seem that Toy corner is trying to move up a notch!”

Not fully understanding this, but disliking the name of Toy corner anyway, the large group of people around them groaned and some even went so far as to claim to protect them. Royal corner ignored this and went back to their conversation; although this time they spoke a little quieter, knowing that all the pointless gossip around them would drown their own voices out to the airheaded ears.

“So Neji,” said Deidara changing the subject, “What are you going to do about your little pet?”

Neji looked at him and raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean?”

Itachi leaned forward, “I hear he’s been ignoring you all week” he whispered

“Yeah,” Neji sighed, “I’ll take care of that eventually”

Everyone one else shrugged. Neji had his reasons for the doing what he did, and by now they all knew not to even bother questioning him. If he wanted you to know, than you would immediately understand, if he didn’t, then you wouldn’t.

“So what makes him so special?” Asked Sasuke, recalling the various times that Naruto had been ready to pound Neji’s face in over the redhead, “He doesn’t seem so great”

Neji just smiled, “I honestly don’t know,” he said, “He’s actually a little too...You know, Toy corner-esque for my taste”

“Really?” said Orochimaru, “yet you insist on keeping him. And I saw that brand new collar you stuck on him. I know that shit wasn’t cheap”

“No,” replied Neji, “It wasn’t, but I don’t mind, I just think...I think he’s my favorite so far”

“But, you’ve only fucked once,” said Kisame, “Was he that good?”

Neji smirked and started nibbling on a French fry, “Yeah...He was”

~*~*~*~


“Bless you” Said Shikamaru after Gaara sneezed for the eighth time since lunch started, “jeez, you should get that looked at”

He and Gaara were sitting at the table slumped over as Naruto sat semi in front of them on top of it. Chouji was on the other side eating some cafeteria cheese sticks and Kiba and Shino were leaning against it.
Gaara glared at him, “Get a ‘sneeze’ looked at?”

The other shrugged, “Get something looked at”

“You guys!” Whined Naruto, “Listen to my problems!”

Kiba started laughing, “Oh come on!” He said, “We all know you’re ecstatic!”

Naruto blushed as Chouji and Kiba started laughing at him. Well, he wasn’t going to deny it, but they didn’t have to say it so loud! “Oh shut up” he muttered, “You don’t know anything!”

“Well,” said Chouji, “We know that they’re coming over right now”

“WHAT!”

Sure enough. It seemed to the rest of school that Royal corner was dealing with Toy corner a lot, leaving many people vexed and confused. There hadn’t been this much activity between the two groups since the fabled relationship between Hatake Kakashi and Umino Iruka, when Toy corner had first started.

“Hey there” said Itachi as he and the rest of Royal corner sat on the nearly empty lunch table, “So; my little bother is tutoring you?” He pointed to the blond who was at that moment demanding an explanation as to why they were there.

“Yeah, so what?” Snapped Naruto

Neji leaned against the table on the free side of Gaara, “You’re so rude,” he said smirking at Naruto, “And we came all the way over here to say hi”

Gaara flinched away from him, scooting very slightly towards Shikamaru. “If that’s all then please leave” He muttered, shooting a glare at Sasori who had moved to the other side of the table facing him. Neji started running his fingers through the red hair and said, “No, I think we like it here, right guys?”

There was a murmur of agreement and Neji smirked, “I guess I we’ll be staying”

“So troublesome,” muttered Shikamaru, “Why don’t you leave them both alone? We have to put up with creepy Gaara and whiney Naruto as it is”

Deidara stood over him threateningly, “You wanna repeat that?” He asked softly. Shikamaru had actually opened his mouth to respond, but was cut off by Naruto

“WHAT DO YOU WANT?!” He shouted, causing most of them to jump. He turned and glared at Sasuke, “Are you here to make fun of me, or did you want something?”

Sasuke shrugged, “I can go wherever I want,” He smirked, “Dobe”

All anyone saw was a blond flash and then the younger Uchiha was pinned on the ground by a pissed off Uzumaki.

Itachi and Orochimaru glanced at each other before pulling the two apart before any damage was done and a fight was started. Even though they both knew that Sasuke would win hands down.

“You still need your brother’s protection teme!” Yelled Naruto, kicking and squirming in Orochimaru’s grasp

“Hah!” said Sasuke, “Like I need anyone’s protection from you!”

“Naruto!”

They both stopped yelling and looked at the redhead who apparently had a much louder voice than anyone would have guessed, “Just stop! We all know you can’t say Sasuke’s name without cumming in your pants!” Gaara stood up with a very annoyed look on his face and stormed out of the cafeteria. Leaving a confused crowd behind.

~*~*~*~


The date isn't important right now!

Shukaku,

Yeah, I’m gonna get it for that one. I can’t say I care; it was worth it seeing their faces. I just walked out of there and straight to my fourth period class, I think I’ll go ahead and stay in here. I still regret nothing, I wonder if they’ll stop fighting now?

(Quick flash to the Cafeteria)

“Dammit Gaara you are going to get it!” Shouted Naruto, his face turning red like tomato soup.

Just about everyone currently at Toy corner, except for Sasuke, was trying to stop laughing, unsuccessfully.

(Back to Shukaku)

I still have ten minutes until lunch is over. I guess I’ll draw or something. Or I could just write, maybe I could stop writing down everything that comes into my head. Like that, just now, or that...DAMMIT I NEED A THEME! Not Neji though, I still haven’t decided my revenge on him. Maybe I could make a list of things I could do for revenge? Nah, that would require too much thought on him. Man that was good sex...O.O... I did not just write...FUCK!

I DIDN’T MEAN THAT, IT JUST, SLIPPED OUT! I SWEAR!

Ok, back to how funny Naruto’s face was. Yes, that was hilarious. It sure felt good to embarrass him, especially after what he pulled with...Sasa...Sasi...OH! Right! His name was Sariso! Anyway, after that, Naruto deserved it. Well, maybe that was a little harsh, but I said what I said and I stand by it. I wonder what Neji thought...SHIT! That guy really is good at what he does! I wonder if he knows I think about him so much...That is, I wonder if he planned it. I have him in this class don’t I?

Woodshop, how pointless.

~*~*~*~


He put Shukaku away and walked over to the white board where the assignment was written: Choose and sketch project. Must be at least six inches tall but no more than twelve. Don’t start on it until tomorrow, low on supplies.

Gaara walked back over to his lone table in the far corner. He was the only one in there, the teacher had stepped out to get food no doubt, and everyone else was swarming around random places getting gossip of Royal corner or around Royal corner itself. Gaara didn’t know how those seven could put up with all those people all the time. They probably just liked the attention though.

Gaara sighed, he didn’t know what to make. He’d probably end up doing a bird house, or a bread box. Or a napkin holder, “Wow,” he said out loud, “I’m just a well spring of ideas”

“You know,” said a voice behind him, “Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity”

Gaara scowled, “Can’t you leave me alone for five minutes?”

Neji sat down at the table, “That was something you pulled back there. Your little blond friend took off after promising to kill you” He chuckled, “I don’t think I’ve even seen Sasuke that red”

‘Hm,’ though Gaara, ‘two birds with one stone’

He remained standing, “Hmph, I don’t care. And by the way, you’ll have to sit with your groupies today” Neji raised an eyebrow at this, so Gaara continued, “Because if you some near me I’m cutting it off”

A smirked appeared on the Hyuuga’s face, as his smirk grew, “the relationship, or my penis?”

Gaara returned the smirk, “Now that you mention it, both”

The bell rang.

Gaara glared hard at the brunette as the students filed in. He was refusing to sit down until the other moved.
Neji rested his arms on the table, as a clear sign that Gaara could sit with him, or he could at with another group. Gaara twitched with horror at the thought.

“Sabaku no Gaara, please take your seat” said the teacher, before turning back to the class and explaining the assignment on the board.

Gaara glanced back and forth between Neji and the rest of room. Both choices were Hell as far as he was concerned. He began to growl quietly, he knew that the teacher was going to yell at him any second. Neji was smirking again, just staring at him, and then finally, a thought came to mind, vengeance.

“Hyuuga Neji!” He yelled, “CONSIDER YOURSELF DUMPED!”

Gaara turned and ran out of the room that was fine for now; he was ditching the rest of the day.

An awed silence filled the classroom, followed by one of dread as Neji stood up slowly. A scowl worked its way over his darkening features, as his rarely seen temper was about to unleash its wrath. “We’ll see about that...”