Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Boy In The Closet ❯ Taboo Lives: Uchiha Sasuke ( Chapter 13 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A.N: I hate filler chapters. ^_^ this took me forever but mostly the one story I was working on took up the whole week so don't spear me. Blue is for dreams and flashbacks. Enjoy the chapter. Fantasy.


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Sasuke walked with the slowest pace to get home, he even decided to take the long way instead of his usual short cut through the woods. Things at home have been really bad lately since the incident with Mamoru. His fathers been moody, his mother on edge and Itachi just isn't his self at all. It was disturbing how quiet his brother has become, mostly to him. Sasuke could still remember all those times they had spent eating ice cream or doing something stupid together. Sasuke would be having the most fun, though, his brother is a bit more demour when he's relaxed and happy. It made Sasuke angry sometimes when he thought about these past two weeks. Itachi is mad at him for doing something he didn't even do! Sasuke never told their parents about his secret relationship with the neighbor boy, they must have over heard it somehow.

He hops up onto the railing of the bridge he meets up with. Arms spread out at his sides, he crosses it carefully, wobbling a bit when his sneaker doesn't quite make it past the other one but he gets to the end of the bridge without any other threats of falling. Hopping down to the dirt before him he slows his pace a bit more seeing his house not too far ahead. He wondered if his mother planned on talking today, or if his father was gonna speak to him in a voice that wasn't yelling. Will Itachi be at home at all?

The evening wind blew through the air, moving a wind chime and some weather vanes that tell you which way the wind is going. He liked the way the sky looked when the sun is setting in his part of the neighborhood. Sasuke wouldn't say his family is rich but they are well-to-do then most since his father is the police chief and owns the very station. Shivering, Sasuke tucks his hands into his pockets while heading up the path to his home. Someone is playing music; its loud and obnoxious. The young boy reached for the door knob of his home, pausing when he notices that the sound is coming from his house.

Mom and Dad must be celebrating. He thinks twisting the knob and opening the door. The air was freezing inside, that in itself was strange because it wasn't even hot today. "Mom! Dad! .....I'm home!" He drops his outdoor back pack to the floor beside his shoes then walks into the kitchen where he expected dinner to be waiting for him while it sits in the pot simmering. But there was nothing. Hn. They must think I ate over at Nakara's house. Going to the frige he hummed a few lines from the song playing. It really is too loud. What could they be doing up there?

Who can tell meee, if weeee have heeeaven

Who can say the way you should dream. Sasuke...

The young boy turned his head. Did someone say his name just now? It sounded like his brother.

"Itachi! Are you home?!" He called out while holding open the refrigerator. He planned to make a sandwich for himself since no one else would feed him.

There is nothing to desire... What they took from me....

Again? He closes the door, then walks into the living room and into the hall where the stairs are. "Brother! Where are you?!" Heading up the stairs, there's a small post-it at the top of the banister with his name on it. Sasuke. He reads in thought. Seeing an arrow pointing down the end of the hall he follows it. There's another post-it on his parents door, it read: In here.

Rose red color, the end of evil When you find love.

May be paradise to meeeee.

They better not be having sex in there, warns the boy to no one. Because it isn't funny brother. Pushing the door open, he walks over to the radio for starters; that song is really annoying. There is another post-it on the radio that tells him to turn it off. Gladly. With a twist of the knob for the volume the stereo shuts off but something is still playing, its coming in clear now.

Sasuke... It's his brother. What will you do now that your parents and guardian are gone? Will you hate me? Will you hide from me hoping that I meet an end? Or will you look to me for comfort and protection during this.

What is he talking about? Wonders the boy listening on.

They didn't just take away my lover, Sasuke... They took my best and only true friend- my happiness. I saw it only fitting I do the same for them. But we can't forget the one who is to blame little brother... Because when you find happiness I will kill you as well. A bit of silence before the words began again, but Sasuke wasn't listening this time.

That word 'kill' is what struck Sasuke and he didn't know what his brother was talking about until the wind blew light into the bedroom and there on the love seat in his parents room are his parents- dead. The young boys body trembled in fear, confusion, anger... but mostly confusion. Walking over to them they look fine, sleeping, smiling while they hold one another. But when he tapped them and their bodies fell over, blood behind their torn backs did all the pieces of the puzzle click into place.

Shuddering Sasuke backed up believing this to all be a dream; his mouth opened to scream but his voice was gone. He wanted to wake up, he had to wake up. His brother is not a killer, he wouldn't do this- he couldn't do this. How could no one have heard? The music!

The wind blew the curtains against his back causing the boy to jump clear to the moon until he realized what had touched him. He walked over to close it but there staring at him, a pair of dark black eyes glowing almost red in the sunset light. A smile appeared on his brothers lips right before he moved forward and-....

Sasuke shot up in bed screaming. His hands smacked at the air as he fought off his brothers grasping hands. "Stop it! Stop it!" He kicked and flailed hearing a grunt from a successful hit. The boy continued to yell when another set of hands grabbed a hold of him and another.

"What's wrong with him?" Asks Lee over the noise from his place at the doorway. His fathers and Neji are in Sasuke's room attemtping to calm the screaming younger boy. Lee heard a jingling sound, catching a peak of Gaara leaving his brothers bedroom from the moonlight coming in from the window before he disappeared. Did Gaara do this?

"Sasuke!" Yelled Kakashi. "Sasuke! Wake up!"

"Maybe we should smack him." Suggests Neji.

"Or water." Says Gai never one to miss a challenge even in a situation like this.

"Sasuke! Open your eyes!" His father yelled. "Neji hold his face."

The older boy dodged a punch swung his way before grabbing Sasuke by the face.

"Nooo! No!" He can hear his brother laughing, laughing! The young boy grunted in pain from something slamming into his forehead. His eyes slowly began to open the haze of the dream fading around him. Where the hell is he?

"You headbutted him?" Asks Gai scratching the back of his head.

"When has slapping ever worked." He grabbed a hold of the waking boy, hugging him close. He knew the nature behind Sasuke's nightmare, he was filled in about it from day one. "Are you with us now?"

"Let go of me." Asks the boy. "Kakashi, please." He said in his normal tone.

Neji let out a sigh. Odd, but it worked effectively. He wondered what the nightmare was about that would have the boy screaming the entire house awake. Was he dreaming about the break in?

"I can take it from here. You all go back to bed, you have school tomorrow."

"Okay. Good night Sasuke." Says Neji in his departure.

Gai caressed the boys hair, then kissed him on the top of his head. "Sweet dreams." He leaves as well.

Watching them go, Kakashi sits on the bed. "Wanna talk about it."

"It was a dream." He rolls over pulling the covers up, closing his eyes from a particular shadow watching him. "Just a dream."

Lee walked back into his bedroom, cocking a brow when he sees Gaara laying on his side on the bed. The boys gaze is out the window, which Lee noticed that he had that same far away look in his eyes as he often does. Climbing into bed, he lay on his side as well, facing the boy. "....Are you ok?" He asked seeing the far away look in his eyes.

"The way he was screaming, it sounded like he was awake. I wanted to go look." That explains what he was doing in his younger brothers room. Gaara closed his eyes moving closer to Lee. "How can he scream in his sleep?"

"He was having a nightmare."

"A nightmare?"

"Don't you know?" He grabs for the blanket pulling it over the two of them. Lee mentally slapped himself for asking that. Gaara had told him about his sleeping disorder, how much it hurt to never even get tired when the world shuts down. How alone he felt when his uncle said he couldn't take it anymore and dozed off on him from time to time. "It's like having a fantasy that you're not in control of. Eehhh... Daydreams?"

The shorter male nodded. He's had lots of nightmares then, when his past creeps up on him and he's forced to just sit and watch it until the painful memory is over; for instance, when his brother shaved his eyebrows off as a joke, they had yet to grow back or when his sister knocked out his front teeth by tripping him on the stairs one year. Is that what sleeping is like? Painful memories eating at you since you can't think them away. If that's the case he's been sleeping off and on without ever knowing it. Lee can see the gears turning in the boys head, though, what he's thinking about he doesn't know.

"Why do people sleep if its so bad?"

"Hmm? No, sleeping is good for you." He said feeling the very subject kissing his eyelids closed. He yawns. "It helps your matabalism for one, and it revitalizes you for the long morning." Just figuring out what the boy was talking about, he says. "Oh, you mean dreams? They're not all bad. Some of them are actually really great." Gaara's silence told him that he was waiting for more. "I had a dream once that I could fly, I went every where."

"That's stupid."

"Even so," he shrugged. "I enjoyed it. I even had dreams about you- back before we met. I dreamt that you were a monster hiding in the closet and you were gonna eat my head if you ever caught me off guard."

"That's stupid." He repeats.

Lee only laughed. "Yes, it is stupid. I see the error of my ways now... you're really nice."

"I am?" He begins to frown seeing the same look Yashamaru often had on his face before he abandoned him to the sleeping world.

"Mmhmm." And now Lee's voice is gone, he can only make sounds.

Deciding to leave him alone for the night, Gaara climbs out of bed and heads back into Sasuke's room. Surely the boy will dream again; maybe he can see some of it.

"Good morning, Sasuke." Greets Lee seeing his brother walk into the kitchen for breakfast. "Are you ok now?"

"No one's ever died from a bad dream." Said the boy with blatant boredom of the subject. Pulling his seat out, he picks up his chopsticks and starts in on breakfast.

"Ask him?" Says Gaara.

"He doesn't wanna be bothered." Replies Lee.

"How do you know that?"

"Because,"

Sasuke watched his brother argue with the kitchen chair. This was getting old fast. "Will you stop that, Lee. Please. No one thinks you're sincere about it."

"Sincere about what?"

"Losing it." Explains the younger male. "I've seen you act perfectly normal and then all of a sudden you start talking to yourself. You're only making our parents worry."

That was shocking if he had to choose a word. Sasuke might have had a bad night but that was no reason to attack him like that. "Sasuke, I'm not talking to myself. I'm talking to Ga-..." He wasn't sure if he should say that or not. After all, everyone at school adores Sasuke and knowing Sasuke he will tell Naruto about what he said. Lee's certain that everyone at school thinks Gaara moved with his family, last thing he wants is to be picked on about this.

"I'm just... lonely." He bit his tongue on that one. Crap.

"I'm sorry about that Lee, but you don't have to make up friends to have company." He smiled at him. "Just be yourself and surely somebody will like you."

He had to throw in that last part. Thinks the black haired boy. "Right." He replied. Cleaning up his plates, he walks them to the sink, cleans them off, then heads into the living room to check his back pack for all of his books.

Sorry Lee, but someone needs to stop you before you make things worse for yourself. Just like I have to. Sasuke stirs his eggs around the plate. I have to tell Naruto about my past, its the only way to get him to understand why we can only be friends. It's better for the both of us that we don't get too close. Taking a bite he chews it thoughtfully. Hn. He probably won't understand; he'll just say 'why not stay indoors then?' or something like that. A smack to the back of his head alerted him to Neji, who smiled at him before taking a seat.

"I won't ask you what it was about, but, know that I've had my share of nightmares. So if you ever wanna talk about it."

"Thanks."

Neji looked at the chair pulled out beside him, he shoved it back in. "Lee's friend again?"

"Mmm. I'm really starting to worry about him." He looks over his shoulder to make sure that his brother can't hear him. "He talks like there's actually someone there."

"I wouldn't worry about it. Kakashi-san said that he planned to have the school councelor speak with Lee about it."

Nodding, he looks down at his mostly eaten food. "Neji, can I ask you a question."

The boy is pouring his self a glass of orange juice by the counter. He looks at Sasuke with question. "Go ahead."

"If someone threatened you, would you challenge that threat even though you know perfectly well they're telling the truth when they say they're gonna harm you, or would you call them on their bullshit knowing its just that."

Neji concidered the question as he ate his breakfast, then he says. "I'd call them on it. I don't see why someone else should control your life." He said flatly then adds. "Is someone at school threatening you?"

"No."

"Then who?"

"Just someone, leave it at that."

Shrugging, Neji decided that he should do just that. After all he was never one to pry into other people's business. Its what his friend would concider 'Troublesome'. He smiled thinking about the last time he saw his laid back friend. The two of them were at the Nara home playing shougi when he asked him out on a date. Neji of course declined, but when the boy said he planned to pay he agreed. They're going out tomorrow. It should be interesting.

Gaara watched the two boys having breakfast until he heard the door close after Lee. Getting up from the chair, he smiled when the two boys jumped out of their skin.

Cocking an uncertain brow, the bluenette looked under the table before saying, "I must have kicked it without knowing." Offering an explanation to the phenomena.

"Sasuke." He hears Kiba through the front door. Guess Naruto really isn't talking to him anymore.

"I'm walking, go on ahead." Says Neji.

Gaara glared at the two of them; he thought about knocking the table over, or the toaster from the counter but instead left the kitchen to return to his place in his and Lee's bedroom. It's better this way. This way he can keep Lee all for himself.

At the bus stop, Naruto is making faces behind Lee's head. When the ugly boy sat down on the bench he got up from it like it were boiling lava- didn't he wish if this kid was gonna sit on it.

"Meeehhh!!!" He wags his fingers by the side of his head while sticking out his tongue.

Lee ignored him. He was too busy thinking about his plans for after school. He's for sure gonna pick and choose when he speaks with Gaara so that his parents don't continue to think he's crazy. That's the last thing he needs. Why is it so wrong even if he was talking to his self, no one else is going to. And he can't rely on his parents to be his best friends forever; he's a teenager now and he should be in that awkward period of trying to avoid them- not that he would. Sasuke, who's younger than he is, is already having sexual situations with a boy and no one knows about it. He wouldn't even know if Gaara wasn't such a peeping tom. He just thought Sasuke and Naruto liked to play their music really loud.

The blond boy was in the middle of a raspberry when he sees Sasuke coming up the sidewalk with Kiba. Quickly, he hops over the bench to a sitting position then drapes an arm around the strange looking boy.

"Sooo Leee!!" He made sure he was heard. "I don't feel like I really know you too well; how 'bout I hang out over your place with you after school?"

This was new. Naruto.... wants to hang out? With him!? Lee's face beamed with unbridaled joy. "Yes! Thank you!" He shook that off. You don't say thank you. "I mean, its gonna be fine- uh, fun."

Naruto had to roll his eyes at that but whatever made Sasuke jealous, right.

"Hey Naruto." Says the very boy he planned on ignoring today.

He and Sasuke were naked from the waist down hot and heavy Monday then all of a sudden he knocked him from the bed and told him to get lost. What the hell is wrong with this kid? Is he bipolar?! A retard that hides it well? What?!

"And you can sit by me at lunch, Gejimayo."

"Really?" Lee smiled at how much better that goofy nickname was when it was said nicely.

"Now let's not get crazy Naruto." Says Kiba butting in.

"What? Lee's my new friend."

Sasuke didn't care. Naruto can be an idiot all he wants but he will have to listen to him later though. Then maybe the little shit will understand why he has to keep him at arms length. It's for the both of their sake.