Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Boy In The Closet ❯ It Hits You Hard ( Chapter 17 )

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

A.N: I know this chapter is short but the last two will be long. Enjoy. I wanna say thank you very much for the reviews!! I hope you'll stick with me if I type something else but plots are tough right?


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Watching his boyfriend fold a pair of shorts he pulled from his dresser, Gaara cocks his head in wonder. Lee walks into his closet then fishes for a shirt, he can't seem to find anything since his roommate took it upon himself to rearrange everything. Pausing in his search he rolls his eyes in a huff.

"Gaara," he says in a tight tone. "How am I gonna explain this to my parents?"

Assuming he's talking about the hole he put in the wall, Gaara frowns thoughtfully never taking his eyes from Lee's movement. "Naruto was making me mad."

"You didn't have to take it out on the wall, you have to learn to control your temper." Coming from the closet he throws his hands up in defeat. "Have you seen my forest green t-shirt with the leaf symbol on it?"

Thinking the question over, Gaara gets up and retrieves the shirt for his fussy lover. Taking it with a smile, Lee says

"Thank you." Then folds it and packs it away in a backpack.

"Where are you going?" Gaara finally asks.

"On a fishing trip over the three day weekend- we're leaving as soon as Naruto comes back with his stuff."

"Why?"

"Because we're a family and Gai-san thinks we should do something together."

Blinking, he asks. "Then why is Naruto going?"

"Because he's a poor dear."

"Hn. Freeloader." He comments to no one. Watching his lover zip up his bag, he sets a hand on it to keep him from picking it up. "You know I can't leave the house."

"I know." He tugs the bag with some effort he's sure he can pry it away from the boys ghostly grip. "But, it isn't a bad thing and I plan to bring you back something nice."

"Like what," he asks skeptically. "A host body willing to let me take over it so that you and I can love each other like your father and brothers do."

Laughing, Lee finally pulls his bag free. "You're very funny, you should work on that while I'm gone."

"You hate me?"

"Never."

That earned him a smirk but he remained stubborn to Lee leaving him. "Then why go?"

"I need this bonding time to make everything like I imagined..... back when I first heard about my brothers I had all these thoughts about what it would be like: manly wrestles, stories about our day, sharing things with each other but, its nothing like that and it makes me wanna-..." He bit back his tears, finding a way to shake them off completely he stands up giving Gaara a kiss. "I'll miss you very much, but please don't make going be a sad thing for me."

"Okay."

His gaze turned to the door calling Lee's attention to it; there in the entry way is Sasuke with a questioning look on his face.

"You're really good at changing your voice," he says coming in, taking a seat on his brothers bed. "But I'd lose the other stuff people might think you're weird."

"Right." He glances at Gaara who is still sitting on the bed in plain site gritting out his brother. How can he not see him!? "Did you want something?"

"Just to thank you for talking to Naruto." He swallowed a second, it felt like someone were listening to them. Must be Lee's creepy behavior rubbing him the wrong way. "And if he told you anything personal about me you can just forget about it okay? It was a long time ago and-..."

Lee holds up a hand. "None of my business, I know. I won't question it."

Smiling, he opens his arms. "Thanks."

Taking the hug, Lee really did think he was gonna cry now. Maybe things are gonna turn around from this trip, he and Naruto can become friends and his brothers will go back to when he first met them and his fathers will back the school off and regain their love for him.

Hearing his sniffles, Sasuke leans from the hug. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he sniffles wiping a set of tears from both eyes. "I'm just happy that everyone is happy. Are you excited about the trip?"

"Yeah, I've never fished before." Getting up from the bed, Sasuke walks to the door Lee not far behind him. "My Dad didn't really have a lot of time to do things with me but he did teach me how to fight."

"I'll bet you're really good! We should spar sometime."

"Yeah." He set an arm around his brothers back until Naruto rushed up the stairs and leapt on his back.

"Whose ready!! I'm ready!!" He cheered like a good little hypeman. "Ne, Gejimayu, are you ready?"

"Uh huh." Its nice to see the blond being kind, he really is nice to be around when he's like this.

The three of them travel downstairs, Sasuke nearly choked by Naruto's grip in the process. In a strained tone he says. "Hurry up Kakashi, you'll be late."

"Yeah, I just need a quick shower." He says. "Won't take longer than a minute."

The three of them walk out the house, Naruto finally getting down from the free ride. "Shot gun!" He cried out leaping into the passenger seat.

Lee slid in the back behind the fired up blond, Sasuke taking the middle assuming Neji would want the window. Gai walked out of the house a load of things in his arms to bring with them: ice box, fishing equipment, etc. Lee climbed from the car to give his dad a hand with carrying.

"Naruto, my father is sitting there." Sasuke says actually noticing that the blond wasn't joking and had intended to drive in the passenger seat.

"Aaaww, but I always ride shotgun with my Grandpa." He climbs over the divide and into the back seat getting on Sasuke's lap. "I'll take this one instead." He plants a kiss on the boys lips, getting one in return.

"Whoa!" Says Gai covering his eyes though leaving a peak between his fingers. "Nice to see you've made up but let's not get carried away. Love is amazing but must be given in small doses of affection." He climbs in.

"Yes sir, daigejimayu." Sliding from Sasuke's lap, he buckles up.

Inside the house, Neji is on the phone. "We're going on a weekend trip."

"Sucks." Replies his mellow friend. "Where too, maybe I could happen by."

"Doubt it, we're taking food with us for the ride over."

"Ouch, that far." He sighs like he's ready to go to sleep. "Well, it's troublesome but I'll make the time to miss you."

"My heart skipped a beat." He teased.

"I should hope so, my thoughts aren't just tossed around you know."

Checking the clock, he says in a hurried tone. "We're leaving now, I'll call you if there's a phone there."

"Alright, but you owe me because now I actually have to go skating with Ino and Chouji."

Neji just laughed hanging up the phone. Walking outside, his spirit is dampened a bit seeing that he has to sit next to Naruto on the trip over. But we all make sacrifices. Climbing in he expected to go right then until he noticed that they were missing someone.

"He said he was taking a quick shower, he should be drying off by now." Explains Sasuke.

10 minutes later......

"Did I ever tell you kids about a time when I broke my nose doing hand-stands on the table of Kakashi's mothers house."

28 minutes later.......

"I had a funny dream last night!" Says the blond.

42 minutes later.....

"Maybe I should go get him?" Lee wonders aloud.

Leaning over to the front seat, Naruto says. "I'll get him." He slams his palm into the horn.

Beep!! Beeeep!!!!

1 hour and 3 minutes later.....

"Hey Kurenai sensei!!!"

The four kids wave to the woman who just began to water her lawn. Seeing them sitting in the car she cocked a brow but waved with a sweet smile.

"Creepy to live by a teacher right?" Says Gai.

1 hour and 10 minutes later.....

"Let's get out and stretch our feet, I'll go in and get him."

When all of them climbed from the car, almost like the man had planned it, Kakashi walks out of the house.

"Back so soon, I didn't even get a chance to go." He says with a hand up like he's waving them in. "How was fishing?"

"Where were you?" Asks Neji with a new twitch in his right eye as he climbs back into the car.

"Well, I was out of the shower when I saw a bug, as I went to kill it it told me that I could have three wishes if I let it live so I wished I could have slept a little longer." He gets into the car, buckling up. "I couldn't think of two more so I just got some breakfast then brushed and came out."

Sasuke smiled seeing that he chose to go maskless today. Naruto was dumb-struck staring at the man.

"We ready."

"Don't get married kids." Says Gai adjusting the rearview then they were out of there.

Gaara is done crying they've been gone for two hours now and he spent one of those hours staring out the window at the unmoving van attempting to make out every move Lee and anyone else made, because if someone touched him he would kill them no questions asked. There is a slight problem with that, though, Lee's sadness but then again they aren't really his family so maybe he'd bounce back after the first two days. Maybe not. The second hour Gaara decided to cry, he didn't feel the tears pricking his eyes as he would if he were alive but he cried all the same. It was annoying to shed hollow tears when he actually felt them for a change; to him it seemed like his love is as hollow as the water coming from his eyes but its just not true! Now, Gaara is staring, he hasn't been completely alone like this since he was alive and tried for the life of him to avoid his family.

What am I supposed to do without Lee? He gave me love and company but he's gone forever so what do I have now? Shaking his head he uncurls himself from the tight ball he put himself in to release his sadness. Hn. And I wonder why he calls me cute and treats me like a child. Sliding from the bed he walks into the closet to inspect the hole he made; with a frown he reaches out to it. Lee would like it if I fixed this, but how? Walking out he heads to the door and down the hall.

Surely the Hatake's keep some kind of plaster laying around or at least the items to make it, whatever they are. Now at the end of the stairs, he walks through the living room into the kitchen to check the pantry for some flour. They made masks in school once and he's pretty sure its the same ingredients with wall plaster. A satisfied smirk appears on his face when he locates the flour. Taking it down from the shelf, he sets it on the counter then fishes around under the sink for a bucket but to no avail.

Maybe in the basement. He ponders as he walks out of the kitchen. Down into the basement he goes, pulling the chain for the light once reaching the bottom of the stairs, he scans the room with his eyes before locating an old ice cream bucket sitting atop a long freezer. His gaze lingers on the long white frozen foods container. Taking a step forward he pulls it back. Blinking in confusion he tries again to just walk forward and nab the bucket but again there's something causing him to hesitate- almost like he's afraid of it.

Why am I so worried, its just a freezer- my family owns one just like it. Walking one step closer his needless breathing becomes hard. Enough of this, I'm not afraid, just cautious. With a small flick from his index and middle finger the bucket pops from the freezer to down by his feet, rolling a slight circle around him in the landing. Calmed, he picks up the item eyeing the freezer one last time before he exited. Now with bucket he enters the kitchen and empties the small sack into the bucket, taking it over to the sink he turns the water on. Mixing it with his hands is tough since his abilities didn't work so great with liquid as they do with solids. When the contents looked a bit gummy he knew that was enough water and turned it off. Lugging the bucket up the stairs he frowned as clumps of it spilled out onto the stairs knowing the he would be the one to clean it up. It will have to wait.

Setting the bucket inside the closet, he looks the hole over knowing the plaster won't do him any good without the missing piece of the wall. Looking around for it, he kneels down then shoves his hand through the wall raising it up until he can pull it from the hole...... Success!! Giving it a good dunking into the molding he's made, Gaara sets the broken piece of wall into the hole a bit shocked when it drooped and nearly fell again.

Looks like I'll have to hold onto it until it dry's. Holding it in place he scoops clumps from the bucket then paste it to the cracks around the broken wall; to him it looks good as new, all it needs is to dry..... He's bored already. Staring around the room, he watches a fly that must have gotten in when they had the door open. Boring. Its sunny out today but he saw lots of clouds in the sky as well. There was a kid in school that liked to watch clouds, what was his name?

Gaara could hear the wind blowing from behind the window, getting an idea he channeled all the cool air he had around him into a solid blow against the plaster. It seemed to be working as he watched the greyish color turn somewhat white. Slowly, he removed his hand from the wall glad to see that the wall held this time. Leaving the closet he snaps his fingers as he realizes that he'd forgotten to bring the bucket with him; going back in he bent over and froze his surrounding became dark as the sun was blocked out by the clouds that floated by

I'm sorry.....

Gaara winced like he was hit with a severe headache. That voice.... he said it to me that day when I.....

And like a punch in the face that day played through his mind. He carved up his sisters doll, walked it into her room to set in the closet, he thought he heard something fall downstairs but he was alone after his uncle had dropped him off after his doctors appointment. He had planned to vandalize his brothers room but seeing Kuma-sama sitting alone on his bed, he decided to go in and get him.

I wanted to dress him because he was naked and Temari wasn't home so he could wear the outfit I stole from her doll without her seeing it. I went into my closet and started dressing him, that's when I heard it.... He said that he was sorry. He said that he was sorry and he.....

Gaara upon seeing the light dim around him turned around, eyes widening as he saw his uncle standing behind him arms extended as he reached out for him. He whispered that he was sorry when he noticed that Gaara was looking at him, watching him as he-..... The young boys head suddenly turned as though it had just been twisted- snapped Gaara fell to the floor screaming, hands up at his neck. His astrol voice echoed through the home and out of it into the streets, into the wind.

"How could heeee!!!!" Screamed the child. "AAaaaaaaHHHHhhhh!!!!!" His eyes ran water, his throat strained as he screamed and writhed in a mental battle with the realization that struck him like a thousand needles. Appliances turned on and off, the walls and window glass shook with the boys fury, the electric razor slid from its place on the sink counter, the toilets flushed repeatedly, lights blinked, the shades rose and fell as the young boy screamed and raged when he realized that his uncle..... Yashamaru, the man who tucked him in at night, read him stories, stayed up late even though he was tired, laughed with him when he told lame jokes and calmed him when his brother and sister carved him like a pumpkin.... His uncle, his friend.... snapped his neck......