Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Loveless... or Not ❯ Chapter 24 ( Chapter 24 )

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Rolling his eyes from underneath his hair, Sasuke listened to the samurai who were his current patrons brag on and on to their friends. Looking over at Neji, Sasuke felt slightly sympathetic. Samurai loved them, they were equally mean geisha. Neji laughed softly with one of them, over what Sasuke didn't know nor care. Looking back up he tuned into the conversation. "--we caught one of those demon nine assassins." one of them said bandage covering one of his arms."Really, which one?" another replied in awe."He had an odd racoon tail on his back." the bandaged one said, making a short gasp escape Neji's throat his head shooting up slightly."G-Gaara." Neji whispered, making Sasuke look over him a bit shocked."What did you say?" one of the men asked the long haired boy.Smiling politely Neji replied, "I have other appointments I must be going." Without further words Neji stood leaving the tea house."Ah I must take my leave too." Sasuke said softly standing and leaving, quickly catching up with Neji. "What the hell was all that about?" Sasuke asked looking at the worried look on his friends face. Stopping and turning toward Sasuke, Neji gave him a sharp look. "They caught Gaara." Neji said in a hushed tone."What? Gaara's not part of the de--" Sasuke started before being cut off."He is! The one with one raccoon tail on his back. Shukaku." Neji replied pulling Sasuke somewhere more private. "I seen it the other night, when I was with him. He had taken off his shirt sometime in the middle of the night, and when I awoke the next morning he was lying on his stomach and I could see it. I confronted him about it and he confirmed. So maybe Naruto's one too." Neji explained uneasily. "No, we'll just go visit Naruto. You'll see it's not true." Sasuke said shakily heading in the direction of Kankuro's home, dragging Neji behind him.Knocking on the door nervously, Sasuke nearly jumped out of his skin when a blonde woman answered the door. "Hello Temari-san, we needed to speak with Gaara." Neji said softly, the woman opened her mouth to say something, but was pushed out of the way by Naruto. "He's not here." Naruto said not paying attention to who it was and promptly shut the door. Growling at the moron Sasuke knocked on the door again, Naruto answering this time. "I said he's--" Naruto cut himself off as he realized who was standing there. "--oh it's you Sasuke, Neji." opening the door fully for the both of them Sasuke took in a shirtless Naruto covered in bandages. Once both the geisha were inside, the blonde shut the door, and Sasuke released his tight grip on Neji's wrist. "What happened to Gaara?" Neji interrogated, smiling sheepishly the blonde rubbed the back of his head. "Ah well you see, we probably should've planned things better, and--""He really got caught?!" Neji demanded cutting the blonde off, making Naruto give him an odd look."How'd you find out?" Naruto asked looking a bit confused."One of our patrons mentioned catching a demon's nine. The one with a raccoon tail on his back." Sasuke replied trying discretely to see if the bandages gave way to any of Naruto's skin. They didn't so he couldn't tell if the blonde was one of the group or not. "Oh." Naruto said for lack of better words."Well then, it's decided we will help you set Gaara free." Neji said surely, Naruto giving him a fish out of water look."You can't!" Naruto replied a bit upset."I can." Neji said insistently, and with a calm demeanour. "Now weather you want me to or not I'm doing it." Neji continued."How?" Naruto said looking at the geisha wearily, before sitting down oozing pure defeat."We're geisha, we're naturally lying, sneaky creatures." Neji said putting on an innocent, yet seductive look. Naruto swallowed hard at this, it was such a good act it was scary. "Come on Sasuke we have to find something to wear." Neji said turning toward the door. "Ah, wait! You don't know where it's at!" Naruto said a bit confidently, grinning at the fact that now they couldn't go and neither would be in danger. Sasuke rolled his eyes and shot Naruto a look. "We live in the hamanachi, there's always some kind of gossip. Something as major as one of the demon nine being captured is something that will travel fast." Sasuke explained matter of factly, Naruto's grin instantly dropped as the door shut behind the geisha. "Damn it all!" Naruto yelled picking up a puppet off the side table throwing it across the room.