Strange Hotels

Sasu/Narustyle='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>. Around 6 years after Sasuke left the village, Naruto is a
workaholic nin whose friends
decide he desperately needs a vacation. So anyway after they con him into going
on a vacation to the sand he lodges with Gaara and they go clubbing. With hotel
room switch ups, mistaken identities and at long last, the answer to why
Kakashi is always late you just have to read to find out how our favorite
brooding avenger and wannabe future Hokage hook up in
the end. Yaoi Sasu/Naru and
just for the hell of it Kakashi and Gaara might just get it on too (details
such as the identity of the seme in this relationship
and how I let this happen are in the fic. So… use
that mouse like it was made to be used and click the link!)

Disclaimer- I don’t
own Naruto but Gaara is mine! Though seriously if Naruto was mine Sasuke
would’ve been way too busy screwing him to have left Konoha.
Thus the apex of the manga never would have occurred
and the plot would’ve gone straight to hell.

*style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Italics – thoughts or (in the case of
the very 1^st paragraph) dreams

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Crashing in Strange
Hotels

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mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>Even if I have to break every bone in
your body… come, I shall cut those bonds… I will bring you back… You must kill
your closest friend…I thought of you as a brother… I am an avenger… You are the
one closest to me… even back then… How are we friends… you are at your limit… I
promised… you will not even scratch my forehead protector… that I would bring
you back… I will recognize you… I can’t go back… Goodbye… Naruto…

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mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>Villagestyle='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'> of the Leaf, 19 year old class=SpellE>Uzamaki Naruto abruptly swung out of bed. Sweat soaked and
panting, he blanched and threw up near the base of his dresser. Unsteadily
sinking to the floor, he covered his eyes and softly sobbed one name… class=GramE>“Sasuke”.

CHAPTER 1

Later that morning,
at the Ichikaruka Ramenstyle='color:lime'> Naruto sat and ate breakfast.

“Hey
Naruto!”

Turning around he
saw a tall, ponytail sporting boy and a girl with pink hair.

“Hi
Shikamaru! Hi
Sakura!” Finishing up his ramen he quickly went over to them. “What’s up
guys?”

“What’s up? What’s class=GramE>up!” Sakura began. Oh
shit… here it comes.

“Do you have any
idea how long you were gone!” she screeched.

“uh…”

“4 months!”

“well…”

“Left
without a word!”

“class=SpellE>ummm…”

“No phone call!”

“Well, you see,
what happened was… Hey I haven’t seen Kakashi-sensei in a while!” yelped
Naruto, quickly changing the subject. “What’s he up to?”

“Two years ago he
said that he had a special mission to complete, and we haven’t seen him since.”
grumbled Sakura. “And stop changing the subject!”

style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Shikamaru sighed. “Women are so troublesome.”

“What was that!”
shrieked Sakura

“Welcome back,
Naruto. I see you’ve gotten prettier since you left.”

“Take it back,
Shikamaru…”

“Can’t fight
against the gifts god gives us, Naruto.”

“So if those gifts
happen to be a pretty face...”

“And a slim, lean,
mean, fighting machine body, that stays in top shape no matter how much ramen
we try to poison it with.”

“Not
you too Sakura.”

“I’m afraid that
you have long since joined the realm of bishie, my
friend.”

“Shikamaru, I’m
going to kill you!”

“Who wants ramen,
my treat!” Shikamaru swiftly piped.

“Oh! class=GramE>Where!”

“This way, my slow
friend”

“…”

“HEY!”

Later after much
eating and tom-foolery, the little group found themselves in Naruto’s
apartment. “Umm, could I get you guys a drink or something?” Naruto asked.

“Yea, that’d be-”

“No, we’re fine.”
Sakura interrupted, glaring at Shikamaru.

Catching the hint
he groaned and then sighed “so troublesome”, before turning to Naruto and
saying, “We need to talk.”

“About?”

“You,
actually.”

“I don’t class=SpellE>underst-”

“We’re style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>worried about you!” Sakura finally
shouted.

“What? Why?”

“Naruto…” she
began. “Within the past few years you’ve thrown yourself into over 20
consecutive long term missions. You don’t take good care of yourself and you
can’t sleep without pills. You work so much that we hardly see you anymore and
the only thing that you still do, that’s normal for you, is eat ramen. I mean,
it’s like you’re a man possessed and you’ve been like this ever since-”

“Shut up, Sakura”

She clamped her
mouth shut and for a couple minutes no one spoke. Then, “I know it hurt when he
left, Naruto but you have to let him go and move on… We all had to.”

“You weren’t there.”
murmured Naruto. “You didn’t see him. Didn’t fight him.
And you weren’t the one WHO JUST FUCKING
LAID THERE AS HE WALKED AWAY!” he screamed. Shikamaru intervened, “Naruto
don’t take this out on Sakura and me, we’re just
trying to help.”

“style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>YOU WEREN’T THERE, SO DON’T
TALK LIKE YOU FUCKING KNOW! YOU WEREN’T THERE, YOU DIDN’T SEE HIM…didn’t… didn’t see…”

Shaking, Naruto
turned away.  

Sakura continued,
“Naruto, maybe you should take a vacation. You need to get away from this
village, its people and all the memories in a way that doesn’t involve work or being
a ninja.”

“Memories aren’t
stationary, Sakura. They tend to follow to people.” Naruto spit out.

“I know that but-”

“What Sakura is
trying to say,” Shikamaru calmly mediated. “is that
you need go somewhere where every blade of grass doesn’t remind you of Sasuke
and to catch up on some well deserved r & r.”

“And that somewhere
would be?”

“How
about the Hidden Village of the Sand? From what I hear they’re a bit scarce on the grass side.”

“That’s a great
idea!” Sakura exclaimed. “You haven’t seen Gaara since that last mission 8
months ago. I know he would be happy to see you. He’ll probably put you up in a
room at his place.”

“That way you’d
save the money that you would have spent on a hotel room.” Shikamaru quipped.

Naruto glanced back
and forth between Sakura and Shikamaru, then sighed.

“class=SpellE>Sooooo?”
Sakura asked

“Do I have a
choice?” groaned Naruto.

“Nope. And, Gaara
can afford to feed you ramen everyday.”

Naruto twitched.

“The highest
quality ramen.” she seduced.

Naruto had already
started packing.

Sakura grinned and
Shikamaru shook his head. That’s low
Sakura.

Naruto looked at
them and said, “What are you waiting for? Hurry up and book me a ride to the
Sand!”

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*You know your
friends have been watching too much Naruto, when one of them attempts to use
the sexy no jutsu to land a boyfriend.

Authors note:style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Yeh, I really wanted Gaara in this fic so… class=SpellE>yeh. Oh and a small warning—the next couple of chapters were
done during a period of 3 days of sleep deprivation so be prepared for the— oh
you’ll see.