Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ An Emo's Alternative To Cutting ❯ The Sharpest Lives ( Chapter 2 )
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By: The Silver Wolf 
i put summaries so far in my stories.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy / Romance | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.19.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 463 | Status: Completed
i put summaries so far in my stories.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy / Romance | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.19.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 463 | Status: Completed
The Silver Wolf: This is the second chapter to An Emo’s Alternative To Cutting. The Chapters are pretty short compared to what I usually write, and I apologize for that. But I get writers block an awful lot and it bothers my friends, and me. But here’s Chapter Two. And in case you’re wondering...by the time I get a little ways through the story, I’ll have done the whole Sharpest Lives song from start to finish.
Better Summary: Gaara’s older sister, Temari, doesn’t know that he’s gay. She’s homophobic, so he’s kept it from her for a reason. But when Gaara’s boyfriend calls the house to break up with him, and he doesn’t understand why, Temari goes crazy on his and Kankuro’s butts. Kankuro stands up for Gaara and lets out that he’s gay too. The day before he’d met a new girl in his art class named Ashe, she’s Gaara’s shoulder to cry on. She allows Gaara and Kankuro to stay with her for a while until Kankuro finds a place for them to stay. But once Kankuro finds a place, it’s with an unexpected blast from Gaara’s most recent past.
Disclaimers: I Do Not Own My Chemical Romance’s “The Sharpest Lives”. I do not own Naruto, or any of the Naruto Cast. But I do own the two original characters Jet and Ashe.
Chapter 2: The Sharpest Lives
‘ This alone
You’re in time for the show
You’re the one that I need
I’m the one that you loath
You can watch me corrode
Like a beast in repose
Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band’
The phone rang, and Temari picked it up.
“Hello?”
‘Is Gaara there?’ came a voice from the other side of the phone.
“No, he’s out right now, can I take a message?” said Temari as nice as she possibly could.
‘Yeah, tell him Jet said, ‘we’re through’ and there was a click from the other end of the line, and the dial tone for the phone line came back on, showing that he’d hung up on her.
Temari looked frozen in time, she never knew Gaara had any friends, let alone a boyfriend. ‘Wait...boyfriend?’ her face was that of someone with mad cow disease. She was about to explode.
~
Gaara walked into the house only to find that it had been torn apart by a very, very angry Temari. She was in the kitchen arguing with Kankuro.
“But he’s GAY Kankuro! Don’t you feel threatened by him at all? You’re a man after all!!!” Temari was fuming mad.
Gaara flinched at what the argument was about when he heard it. He didn’t like where this was going at all.
Ashe had invited him over after school to do a drawing with her. He’d had a good time, he considered her a good friend.
“YOU!” Temari finally noticed he’d been standing there, “GET OUT!! GET OUT NOW!!” she screamed at him. She tried to run past Kankuro to push Gaara out the door, but Kankuro was too strong for her.
“Temari, you loved Gaara until Jet called here!! STOP BEING A CRAZY NUT! YOU HAD NO PROBLEM LIVING WITH US UNTIL JET CALLED!!” Kankuro screamed at her, and silenced her for a moment...even Gaara had to think about that series of sentences for a moment.
‘Did Kankuro just say...us?’ then reality hit Gaara, “Wait, Jet called? What’d he say?”
“If you must know he called to break up with you!!” she yelled at him over and over again...but only a few words really sunk in. Those words just so happened to be ‘break up with you’.
Gaara’s eyes filled with tears extremely fast. Jet let his secret out, and broke up with him all at once...it was a day he’d never live down with not only his sister, but Kankuro too. But Gaara was still puzzled as to why Kankuro had said ‘us’.
“Kankuro, did you say...us?” Temari’s eyes were almost as red as Gaara’s hair...which was really really red.
“Yes, I said ‘us’, Temari, you’ve been living with your two, gay, brothers! Okay, we’re family, deal with it!” Kankuro shook her as she tried to get away from his grasp on her like it was a deadly disease.
As if Gaara being gay wasn’t bad enough...now she had to kick out Kankuro too. She was about ready to crack....and it wasn’t going to be pretty. Temari grabbed Kankuro’s arms and twisted them so that he let go of her.
He winced in pain at the burn his arms now felt, and noticed that Temari had ducked under him and was now making her way towards Gaara.
‘I’ve really been
On a bender and it shows’
She grabbed Gaara’s right arm, and the open door behind him, and flung him out with the strength of which she swings her fan.
‘ So why don’t you blow me
A kiss before she goes?’
Gaara was flung against a telephone pole just outside the door. It stopped him from flying into the street, that much he was grateful for.
‘ Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The Sharpest Lives are the deadliest to me’
Kankuro wasn’t far following him. He had to scurry out of the way because Kankuro threatened to hit him if he didn’t move...Temari had good aim. Just not the kind of good one would want to be at the receiving end of.
‘A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me’
Kankuro looked at Gaara with sudden hate in his eyes. But it didn’t last long, he realized it wasn’t Gaara he was mad at, it was Temari.
“Hey Gaara...we need to find a place to stay until I can...” He was cut off by Gaara standing up and walking away towards South Street and the coffee shop.
“I think I know a place...I made a friend today at school...she might help us out. Follow me...” Gaara continued walking down and made a left down South Second.
Kankuro couldn’t believe what he was hearing....wait...did Gaara say he made a friend in school? And SHE can help? ‘Whoa...Gaara must have done something that someone noticed or else he wouldn’t have a friend.’ Kankuro followed Gaara around the corner of South Second and to a fairly large, green house at the far end of the road near a playground.
“Gaara? What’s up buddy?” Ashe was sitting outside on her porch when she noticed that Gaara came back around the corner...looking a little beat up and heartbroken. “Gaara? What happened, honey?” She ran up to him and put her arm around his shoulders.
“My older sister kicked my brother and I out of the house.” He looked Ashe in the eyes, and he was one the verge of tears once again. He never let them fall, however, knowing that it would damage his pride...what little pride he had.
“You must be Kankuro, Gaara talked about you, you can both come inside...I live with my step-brother. I’m sure he won’t mind if you stay with us for a little bit.” She ran inside ahead of them.
“Gaara, she’s really nice. Where’d you meet her?” Kankuro walked a little ahead of Gaara looking after Ashe.
“She...was a transfer student in my Art class....”Gaara was breathing heavy...like something was up.
“Gaara, what’s wrong, you’re breathing heavy.”
“Something’s not right here...I feel a familiar presence...I don’t like it.”
Jet walked out of the front door of Ashe’s house, with her not far behind.
“Ashe...you never said Jet was your step-brother.” Gaara looked heart broken at the taller, well tanned junior class-man before him. Jet had just broken up with him, and here he was standing before Gaara.
“I never thought I’d see the day when I’d actually have to explain myself for breaking up with someone.” Jet looked from Gaara to Kankuro, “You must be his brother...Kankuro was it? When Gaara does talk, you’re all he ever talks about...I never knew he had a sister. Ashe told me the whole story. You guys are welcome to stay, but only until you find a place for yourselves.”
‘There’s a place in the dark
Where the animals go
You can take off your skin
In the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat
And the lust it commands’
Gaara and Kankuro followed Jet inside trailed by Ashe, who momentarily felt sorry for the two of them. She made her way into the house, and sat down at the kitchen table. She felt like she had to do something. ‘I could always try and introduce the two of them...they’d look cute together, and I know my brother likes Kankuro, so there won’t be a problem there.’ Ashe smiled to herself as her thought process developed into a plan to get Jet to let Gaara and Kankuro live here with them.
‘Drop the dagger and
Lather the blood on your hands, Romeo’
Gaara walked into the kitchen in the middle of Ashe going through her plan and noticed a real big grin on her face.
“Thinking of something evil are we?” he sarcastically said, interrupting her thoughts.
Ashe jolted out of her planning, and looked at Gaara’s sad expressionless face and really did feel sorry for him. His sister kicked him out, her brother broke up with him, and now he was all by himself, and he really had no where to go but back here. It all came down to her introducing Sabuko no Gaara to Uchiha, Sasuke.
‘I’ve really been
On a bender and it shows
So why don’t you blow me
A kiss before she goes?’
Her plans, however, would have to wait until Monday, it was the weekend and Ashe was determined to cheer up the two depressed, neglected boys that literally walked up on her lawn heartbroken. ‘Hmmmm....I was supposed to meet Sasuke at the coffee shop in an hour anyway...maybe I can convince Gaara to come with me. This’ll be fun’ she thought to herself.
She jumped up out of her seat and scared the crap out of Gaara who was sitting at the table right next to her in content silence.
“YOU!” she pointed a finger at him, “are coming with me tonight to the coffee shop to meet up with Sasuke.” she said and let her abusive pointing finger down.
She made Gaara, once again, almost fall over in his seat. Sasuke was the most popular guy in school...how did she manage to befriend both himself and Sasuke at the same time? This girl just became more amazing as the day progressed. First she’d helped him out by giving him a place to stay, and now she was gonna try and get him to be friends with a prep.
“You know, you never cease to amaze me Ashe. You really want the social balance of the school to be thrown off don’t you? Do you want the world to end that badly?” Gaara looked at her funny. Ashe started laughing, and Gaara slightly cracked a smile.
Kankuro stood behind the wall listening to everything, ‘ Sasuke Uchiha, huh? Lucky you Gaara...I’ll be staying here tonight, however’ Kankuro smiled to himself mischievously. Jet was standing behind him on the stairs with his shirt off, staring at Kankuro with a smirk plastered across his face. Kankuro turned around and looked back at Jet, he gave him a cheesy smile and ran up the stairs past him and into a room just off to the right of the staircase.
45 Minutes Later:
Gaara and a nice and pretty Ashe were on their way to meet the famous Sasuke at the Coffee shop just across the way. Ashe walked in first to see if she spotted Sasuke anywhere...she did, and Gaara really wished that she hadn’t.
“Hi Sasuke! You didn’t wait too long for me did you?” She took a seat opposite Sasuke and Gaara...just kinda stood there. “You Goof! Sit down! Oh...Sasuke, this is Gaara. He’s in my Honors Art class with me.” She smiled at him and pulled out a chair and Gaara sat down.
Sasuke looked at Gaara as if seeing him for the first time, or at least that’s what he hoped it looked like. Sasuke had noticed the out-cast walking around the school before...he just refused to pay much attention to him. He tried not associate with people that want to be dead and look like the living dead as it was. Sasuke gave Gaara a highly disapproving look, and went back to looking at a much more attractive sight, Ashe. He’d asked her to come out with him because he found her quite pleasing to look at. Not only that...he thought she was hot. She might have just moved here, but Sasuke had priority with every woman in the school, old or new. And he just so happened to be going after the new one.
“Sasuke, that was a mean look. Gaara’s my friend, him and his brother are living with me now! His sister is mean and kicked them both out...poor guy...” she gave Gaara a sad mournful look and he kinda turned away with an angry look on his face. He didn’t need Ashe’s pity no matter how much of a friend she was to him.
‘ Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me’
Sasuke look at Gaara... ‘ Kicked out of his own house? Wonder how he managed that one...?’
“Ashe...” said Gaara turning to look at her...
A shiver ran down Sasuke’s spine, his voice was a deep baritone and sounded of music. He’d never heard the boy talk before...his voice was amazing...he couldn’t be a freshman...he sounded like he could be a junior...like himself.
“I’m...gonna go back...I feel as if I’m intruding...I don’t feel right here...” Gaara got up, and tried to walk away.
“Uh huh! Nope! You’re staying right here with me!” She grabbed his belt and pulled him back down into the seat.
“Gaara stared at her with his eye’s a little bit more narrow than usual. To Gaara’s misfortune, the death glare didn’t phase Ashe...she’s probably had one too many of them in her day.
Ashe smiled at Gaara, and he kinda got the hint...he wasn’t going anywhere any time soon.
Gaara’s POV:
Mindless chatter was all I could hear from not only next to me...but at the surrounding tables as well. It was always so noisy in this place and I could never really stay here for more than a few minutes, just long enough ot get something to eat and get out. Never long enough to stay and actually talk with people. I didn’t talk around people I wasn’t comfortable with. Sasuke was one of the worst people that could be sitting in front of me at the moment. For as much as I hated his status and stature he was always so pleasing on the eyes; eye-candy, if you will.
I didn’t order anything to eat, I was still full up from breakfast earlier that day. I’ve never been more than 110 pounds. It bothers Kankuro that I couldn’t keep any weight on no matter how much I tried, even when I was small...I’d never be hungry...I could go for weeks without eating when I was little...now I need to eat at least three times every two weeks. Compared to what I usually ate...that was a lot.
I figured if I just humor her now, I can leave later and go get drunk at the bar down the road...they always let me in. After I killed the owner and two bouncers they kinda just let me in on a fake ID. It didn’t seem to bother the cops much since I killed a good number of them in my day too. But that was back when I was real little. If I didn’t get my way, mom would always help make me happy, and other people miserable.
‘A kiss and I will surrender
The Sharpest Lives are the deadliest to me
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be’
My history isn’t a very nice one, but at least I have a future unlike most people I’ve seen running around the school.
I looked at Sasuke...and for the first time I noticed something odd about the preppy boy sitting in front of me...he wasn’t really a prep. Preps can’t tolerate pain, and Sasuke had his ears gaged. There was no way a prep could have done that without crying in the process.
Narrator’s POV:
Gaara raised an eyebrow at the peculiar thought and dismissed it before Sasuke noticed he was looking at him.
“What?” Sasuke said before Gaara could take his eyes away.
“Nothing...I was only looking at the gages in your ears. You’re the last person I would have thought to tolerate pain.” Gaara turned in his seat to face him and stared at him as if waiting for a reply.
‘FINALLY, the conversation started they needed! WAY TA GO GAARA!!’ Ashe was cheering Gaara on in her head and hoping that talking to Gaara would take Sasuke’s mind off of her long enough so that she could go to the bathroom and come back without him noticing. She slipped away while the two boys were in a staring competition like eye lock.
“You’d be surprised at how much pain I can tolerate, Gaara.” Sasuke hated going back to his past, but to prove to Gaara that he wasn’t just your average popular skater, he had to.
‘In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me’
Sasuke took his wristbands off and his one chain bracelet and turned his wrists over so Gaara could get a good and clear look of the scars and fresh flesh wounds open all over his skin. Gaara’s eye’s went wide at what he was actually seeing. The Great Sasuke Uchiha, an emo cutter, like himself.
End Chapter:
The Silver Wolf: Well well well....Sasuke Uchiha...an emo? Huh...didn’t see that one coming did you? And he doesn’t really like Gaara at all...now does he? We’ll have to fix that. And that’s the end of “The Sharpest Lives” song by the way...so in the next chapter there’ll be a new song.
Better Summary: Gaara’s older sister, Temari, doesn’t know that he’s gay. She’s homophobic, so he’s kept it from her for a reason. But when Gaara’s boyfriend calls the house to break up with him, and he doesn’t understand why, Temari goes crazy on his and Kankuro’s butts. Kankuro stands up for Gaara and lets out that he’s gay too. The day before he’d met a new girl in his art class named Ashe, she’s Gaara’s shoulder to cry on. She allows Gaara and Kankuro to stay with her for a while until Kankuro finds a place for them to stay. But once Kankuro finds a place, it’s with an unexpected blast from Gaara’s most recent past.
Disclaimers: I Do Not Own My Chemical Romance’s “The Sharpest Lives”. I do not own Naruto, or any of the Naruto Cast. But I do own the two original characters Jet and Ashe.
Chapter 2: The Sharpest Lives
‘ This alone
You’re in time for the show
You’re the one that I need
I’m the one that you loath
You can watch me corrode
Like a beast in repose
Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band’
The phone rang, and Temari picked it up.
“Hello?”
‘Is Gaara there?’ came a voice from the other side of the phone.
“No, he’s out right now, can I take a message?” said Temari as nice as she possibly could.
‘Yeah, tell him Jet said, ‘we’re through’ and there was a click from the other end of the line, and the dial tone for the phone line came back on, showing that he’d hung up on her.
Temari looked frozen in time, she never knew Gaara had any friends, let alone a boyfriend. ‘Wait...boyfriend?’ her face was that of someone with mad cow disease. She was about to explode.
~
Gaara walked into the house only to find that it had been torn apart by a very, very angry Temari. She was in the kitchen arguing with Kankuro.
“But he’s GAY Kankuro! Don’t you feel threatened by him at all? You’re a man after all!!!” Temari was fuming mad.
Gaara flinched at what the argument was about when he heard it. He didn’t like where this was going at all.
Ashe had invited him over after school to do a drawing with her. He’d had a good time, he considered her a good friend.
“YOU!” Temari finally noticed he’d been standing there, “GET OUT!! GET OUT NOW!!” she screamed at him. She tried to run past Kankuro to push Gaara out the door, but Kankuro was too strong for her.
“Temari, you loved Gaara until Jet called here!! STOP BEING A CRAZY NUT! YOU HAD NO PROBLEM LIVING WITH US UNTIL JET CALLED!!” Kankuro screamed at her, and silenced her for a moment...even Gaara had to think about that series of sentences for a moment.
‘Did Kankuro just say...us?’ then reality hit Gaara, “Wait, Jet called? What’d he say?”
“If you must know he called to break up with you!!” she yelled at him over and over again...but only a few words really sunk in. Those words just so happened to be ‘break up with you’.
Gaara’s eyes filled with tears extremely fast. Jet let his secret out, and broke up with him all at once...it was a day he’d never live down with not only his sister, but Kankuro too. But Gaara was still puzzled as to why Kankuro had said ‘us’.
“Kankuro, did you say...us?” Temari’s eyes were almost as red as Gaara’s hair...which was really really red.
“Yes, I said ‘us’, Temari, you’ve been living with your two, gay, brothers! Okay, we’re family, deal with it!” Kankuro shook her as she tried to get away from his grasp on her like it was a deadly disease.
As if Gaara being gay wasn’t bad enough...now she had to kick out Kankuro too. She was about ready to crack....and it wasn’t going to be pretty. Temari grabbed Kankuro’s arms and twisted them so that he let go of her.
He winced in pain at the burn his arms now felt, and noticed that Temari had ducked under him and was now making her way towards Gaara.
‘I’ve really been
On a bender and it shows’
She grabbed Gaara’s right arm, and the open door behind him, and flung him out with the strength of which she swings her fan.
‘ So why don’t you blow me
A kiss before she goes?’
Gaara was flung against a telephone pole just outside the door. It stopped him from flying into the street, that much he was grateful for.
‘ Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The Sharpest Lives are the deadliest to me’
Kankuro wasn’t far following him. He had to scurry out of the way because Kankuro threatened to hit him if he didn’t move...Temari had good aim. Just not the kind of good one would want to be at the receiving end of.
‘A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me’
Kankuro looked at Gaara with sudden hate in his eyes. But it didn’t last long, he realized it wasn’t Gaara he was mad at, it was Temari.
“Hey Gaara...we need to find a place to stay until I can...” He was cut off by Gaara standing up and walking away towards South Street and the coffee shop.
“I think I know a place...I made a friend today at school...she might help us out. Follow me...” Gaara continued walking down and made a left down South Second.
Kankuro couldn’t believe what he was hearing....wait...did Gaara say he made a friend in school? And SHE can help? ‘Whoa...Gaara must have done something that someone noticed or else he wouldn’t have a friend.’ Kankuro followed Gaara around the corner of South Second and to a fairly large, green house at the far end of the road near a playground.
“Gaara? What’s up buddy?” Ashe was sitting outside on her porch when she noticed that Gaara came back around the corner...looking a little beat up and heartbroken. “Gaara? What happened, honey?” She ran up to him and put her arm around his shoulders.
“My older sister kicked my brother and I out of the house.” He looked Ashe in the eyes, and he was one the verge of tears once again. He never let them fall, however, knowing that it would damage his pride...what little pride he had.
“You must be Kankuro, Gaara talked about you, you can both come inside...I live with my step-brother. I’m sure he won’t mind if you stay with us for a little bit.” She ran inside ahead of them.
“Gaara, she’s really nice. Where’d you meet her?” Kankuro walked a little ahead of Gaara looking after Ashe.
“She...was a transfer student in my Art class....”Gaara was breathing heavy...like something was up.
“Gaara, what’s wrong, you’re breathing heavy.”
“Something’s not right here...I feel a familiar presence...I don’t like it.”
Jet walked out of the front door of Ashe’s house, with her not far behind.
“Ashe...you never said Jet was your step-brother.” Gaara looked heart broken at the taller, well tanned junior class-man before him. Jet had just broken up with him, and here he was standing before Gaara.
“I never thought I’d see the day when I’d actually have to explain myself for breaking up with someone.” Jet looked from Gaara to Kankuro, “You must be his brother...Kankuro was it? When Gaara does talk, you’re all he ever talks about...I never knew he had a sister. Ashe told me the whole story. You guys are welcome to stay, but only until you find a place for yourselves.”
‘There’s a place in the dark
Where the animals go
You can take off your skin
In the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat
And the lust it commands’
Gaara and Kankuro followed Jet inside trailed by Ashe, who momentarily felt sorry for the two of them. She made her way into the house, and sat down at the kitchen table. She felt like she had to do something. ‘I could always try and introduce the two of them...they’d look cute together, and I know my brother likes Kankuro, so there won’t be a problem there.’ Ashe smiled to herself as her thought process developed into a plan to get Jet to let Gaara and Kankuro live here with them.
‘Drop the dagger and
Lather the blood on your hands, Romeo’
Gaara walked into the kitchen in the middle of Ashe going through her plan and noticed a real big grin on her face.
“Thinking of something evil are we?” he sarcastically said, interrupting her thoughts.
Ashe jolted out of her planning, and looked at Gaara’s sad expressionless face and really did feel sorry for him. His sister kicked him out, her brother broke up with him, and now he was all by himself, and he really had no where to go but back here. It all came down to her introducing Sabuko no Gaara to Uchiha, Sasuke.
‘I’ve really been
On a bender and it shows
So why don’t you blow me
A kiss before she goes?’
Her plans, however, would have to wait until Monday, it was the weekend and Ashe was determined to cheer up the two depressed, neglected boys that literally walked up on her lawn heartbroken. ‘Hmmmm....I was supposed to meet Sasuke at the coffee shop in an hour anyway...maybe I can convince Gaara to come with me. This’ll be fun’ she thought to herself.
She jumped up out of her seat and scared the crap out of Gaara who was sitting at the table right next to her in content silence.
“YOU!” she pointed a finger at him, “are coming with me tonight to the coffee shop to meet up with Sasuke.” she said and let her abusive pointing finger down.
She made Gaara, once again, almost fall over in his seat. Sasuke was the most popular guy in school...how did she manage to befriend both himself and Sasuke at the same time? This girl just became more amazing as the day progressed. First she’d helped him out by giving him a place to stay, and now she was gonna try and get him to be friends with a prep.
“You know, you never cease to amaze me Ashe. You really want the social balance of the school to be thrown off don’t you? Do you want the world to end that badly?” Gaara looked at her funny. Ashe started laughing, and Gaara slightly cracked a smile.
Kankuro stood behind the wall listening to everything, ‘ Sasuke Uchiha, huh? Lucky you Gaara...I’ll be staying here tonight, however’ Kankuro smiled to himself mischievously. Jet was standing behind him on the stairs with his shirt off, staring at Kankuro with a smirk plastered across his face. Kankuro turned around and looked back at Jet, he gave him a cheesy smile and ran up the stairs past him and into a room just off to the right of the staircase.
45 Minutes Later:
Gaara and a nice and pretty Ashe were on their way to meet the famous Sasuke at the Coffee shop just across the way. Ashe walked in first to see if she spotted Sasuke anywhere...she did, and Gaara really wished that she hadn’t.
“Hi Sasuke! You didn’t wait too long for me did you?” She took a seat opposite Sasuke and Gaara...just kinda stood there. “You Goof! Sit down! Oh...Sasuke, this is Gaara. He’s in my Honors Art class with me.” She smiled at him and pulled out a chair and Gaara sat down.
Sasuke looked at Gaara as if seeing him for the first time, or at least that’s what he hoped it looked like. Sasuke had noticed the out-cast walking around the school before...he just refused to pay much attention to him. He tried not associate with people that want to be dead and look like the living dead as it was. Sasuke gave Gaara a highly disapproving look, and went back to looking at a much more attractive sight, Ashe. He’d asked her to come out with him because he found her quite pleasing to look at. Not only that...he thought she was hot. She might have just moved here, but Sasuke had priority with every woman in the school, old or new. And he just so happened to be going after the new one.
“Sasuke, that was a mean look. Gaara’s my friend, him and his brother are living with me now! His sister is mean and kicked them both out...poor guy...” she gave Gaara a sad mournful look and he kinda turned away with an angry look on his face. He didn’t need Ashe’s pity no matter how much of a friend she was to him.
‘ Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me’
Sasuke look at Gaara... ‘ Kicked out of his own house? Wonder how he managed that one...?’
“Ashe...” said Gaara turning to look at her...
A shiver ran down Sasuke’s spine, his voice was a deep baritone and sounded of music. He’d never heard the boy talk before...his voice was amazing...he couldn’t be a freshman...he sounded like he could be a junior...like himself.
“I’m...gonna go back...I feel as if I’m intruding...I don’t feel right here...” Gaara got up, and tried to walk away.
“Uh huh! Nope! You’re staying right here with me!” She grabbed his belt and pulled him back down into the seat.
“Gaara stared at her with his eye’s a little bit more narrow than usual. To Gaara’s misfortune, the death glare didn’t phase Ashe...she’s probably had one too many of them in her day.
Ashe smiled at Gaara, and he kinda got the hint...he wasn’t going anywhere any time soon.
Gaara’s POV:
Mindless chatter was all I could hear from not only next to me...but at the surrounding tables as well. It was always so noisy in this place and I could never really stay here for more than a few minutes, just long enough ot get something to eat and get out. Never long enough to stay and actually talk with people. I didn’t talk around people I wasn’t comfortable with. Sasuke was one of the worst people that could be sitting in front of me at the moment. For as much as I hated his status and stature he was always so pleasing on the eyes; eye-candy, if you will.
I didn’t order anything to eat, I was still full up from breakfast earlier that day. I’ve never been more than 110 pounds. It bothers Kankuro that I couldn’t keep any weight on no matter how much I tried, even when I was small...I’d never be hungry...I could go for weeks without eating when I was little...now I need to eat at least three times every two weeks. Compared to what I usually ate...that was a lot.
I figured if I just humor her now, I can leave later and go get drunk at the bar down the road...they always let me in. After I killed the owner and two bouncers they kinda just let me in on a fake ID. It didn’t seem to bother the cops much since I killed a good number of them in my day too. But that was back when I was real little. If I didn’t get my way, mom would always help make me happy, and other people miserable.
‘A kiss and I will surrender
The Sharpest Lives are the deadliest to me
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be’
My history isn’t a very nice one, but at least I have a future unlike most people I’ve seen running around the school.
I looked at Sasuke...and for the first time I noticed something odd about the preppy boy sitting in front of me...he wasn’t really a prep. Preps can’t tolerate pain, and Sasuke had his ears gaged. There was no way a prep could have done that without crying in the process.
Narrator’s POV:
Gaara raised an eyebrow at the peculiar thought and dismissed it before Sasuke noticed he was looking at him.
“What?” Sasuke said before Gaara could take his eyes away.
“Nothing...I was only looking at the gages in your ears. You’re the last person I would have thought to tolerate pain.” Gaara turned in his seat to face him and stared at him as if waiting for a reply.
‘FINALLY, the conversation started they needed! WAY TA GO GAARA!!’ Ashe was cheering Gaara on in her head and hoping that talking to Gaara would take Sasuke’s mind off of her long enough so that she could go to the bathroom and come back without him noticing. She slipped away while the two boys were in a staring competition like eye lock.
“You’d be surprised at how much pain I can tolerate, Gaara.” Sasuke hated going back to his past, but to prove to Gaara that he wasn’t just your average popular skater, he had to.
‘In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me’
Sasuke took his wristbands off and his one chain bracelet and turned his wrists over so Gaara could get a good and clear look of the scars and fresh flesh wounds open all over his skin. Gaara’s eye’s went wide at what he was actually seeing. The Great Sasuke Uchiha, an emo cutter, like himself.
End Chapter:
The Silver Wolf: Well well well....Sasuke Uchiha...an emo? Huh...didn’t see that one coming did you? And he doesn’t really like Gaara at all...now does he? We’ll have to fix that. And that’s the end of “The Sharpest Lives” song by the way...so in the next chapter there’ll be a new song.