Sasuke's POV
The past few days have been very relaxed and happy. One reason being that Kiba decided to maintain his distance after I told him off. Kiba's been leeching on to me since middle school and right now I couldn't be happier without him.
Another reason being the fact that Naruto forgave me. Like, he actually forgave me after all the shit I put him through.
I thought back to the time when he was getting bullied. He was getting bullied for being gay and at the time, I thought the best option was to not be seen in public with him. No matter how much pain I felt when I saw him getting beat up.
But even so, I still acted like a little pervert around him and other boys, trying not to get caught. It was fun until I was caught by him.
And to add on to that, someone also caught me hanging out with Naruto and told Kiba. That was when his bitch ass confronted me. He kept saying shit like 'you must be gay too if you hang out with that faggot.'
Because of my obsession over my reputation and that incident with him, I felt the need to prove myself to Kiba that I'm not gay, and beating up Naruto seemed like the perfect idea.
To this day I regret what I did. I hate that I was so hung up over how I looked, and what people thought of me to the point where I betrayed my best friend.
But not anymore, losing Naruto made me realize what's truly important. Even though I regret what I did, I still can't help but think it all turned out for the better.
I pushed my thoughts aside as I saw Naruto and Deidara approaching me while I was at my locker. I smiled at them as they stopped in front of me.
"Good morn--" Naruto was about to say but was caught off by my hug.
"Geez. Clingy as ever," Naruto says but still hugs back.
I must've stayed in that position for too long because suddenly I hear Deidara's voice. "Um, excuse you. I'm here too. Where's my hug?" Deidara says, "You can't just treat your future brother-in-law like this!"
I laughed then gave Deidara a short and friendly hug. Deidara sighed. "If only your brother would hug me that easily," he says in a fake distressed voice.
"What was that about his brother?" another voice chimes in.
I realize that the voice belonged to Itachi. Deidara didn't hesitate on speaking up when he noticed him coming to stand next to me.
"I said wished you hugged me as easily as Sasuke hugged his future brother-in-law." Deidara said, grinning.
"Oh, you hugged your future brother-in-law, Sasuke? That's great! Where'd he go?" My brother said, fake looking around.
I laughed at him and so did Naruto while Deidara pouted and punched Naruto in the arm, which Naruto whimpered at.
"Why must you be so in denial?" Deidara said, still pouting.
I looked at Itachi to see him staring at Deidara's bottom lip that's poking out. I smirked, thinking about how I'm going to tease him later about this.
Itachi must've realized what he was doing, because he quickly changed his line of sight to Deidara's eyes.
He rolled his eyes and said, "No one's in denial about anything. Anyways," he says, quickly ending his conversation with Deidara.
"Sasuke, I have a small meeting for the debate club after school, so you'll have to stay and wait. Plus I have to talk to you about something important. That's all I came to say." Itachi says.
"And why couldn't you tell me this on the way school?" I ask him.
Itachi shrugs and says "forgot," nonchalantly. I roll my eyes as he begins to walk away.
"Deidara, he was completely staring at your lips earlier." I say to him.
"I know! It was so obvious! He does that whenever I pout, so I pout every chance I get. He's completely attracted to me!" Deidara boasts.
Naruto rolls his eyes at his cousin. "Yeah yeah yeah. Go and torture him more with that pout of yours." He says, while pushing Deidara in the direction where Itachi walked away.
"I will!" Deidara says confidently and runs off in that very direction. Naruto shakes his head.
"Excuse him. He's a hot mess." Naruto says.
"You guys are kind of similar," I replied while closing my locker.
"Please, I may be a mess but not a hot one." He says.
I sling an arm around his shoulder as we begin to walk. "I beg to differ."
Naruto crosses his arms and pouts as we walk to class.
•••
The school day ended and I was looking for Naruto as soon as I exited the classroom. Luckily, it didn't take long. His back was facing my direction as he was talking to Gaara.
I decided to sneak up on him. As I was slowly walking up to him, Gaara seemed to notice me already. I quickly put my index finger on my mouth, telling him to stay quiet. Gladly, he complied and looked back at Naruto.
I continued my plan and snuck behind him, once I was behind him, I trapped his body with my arms, giving him a back hug. I felt him jump as I was doing it.
"Sasuke! Don't do that! You scared the shit out of me." Naruto says.
"Sorry~" I say, poking his cheek with my index finger before resting my head on his shoulder.
Naruto seemed to realize that I wasn't planning on letting him go and continued talking to Gaara.
"So, tell me more about this guy." Naruto says.
"Um, I just don't know. There's something that makes me just wanna.." Gaara trails off, sighing dreamily.
"Who's this guy?" I chime in, letting the curiosity take over.
Naruto looked at Gaara, as if he was asking if it's okay to tell, through his eyes. Gaara gave him a nod.
"Rock Lee." Naruto says.
"You mean the weird kid who's extremely good at every sport?" I look at Gaara.
Gaara nods shyly. Naruto chuckles. "Gaara's liked him for a while, but he's just too shy to approach him." Naruto says.
"You want me to do it for you?" I ask him.
Gaara's eyes widened as he looked at me. "You'd do that?"
"Yeah." I said while shrugging. "He's in my gym class. I don't really tolerate a lot of people but I guess he's nice so why not."
A big smile grew on Gaara's face as he thanked me. "I didn't know you were this nice."
"He's not. He's actually an asshole." Naruto said while shrugging.
I squinted my eyes at him then tickled his waist to shut him up.
Naruto squealed then yelled, "Okay okay! Sorry!" I smile in victory as I say, "you better be, dobe." I keep my hands on his waist.
After a moment of silence, I heard him mumble "bastard", and started tickling him again. Naruto bursts out into uncontrollable laughter. Gaara watches us in amusement.
I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, so I stop, giving Naruto a chance to breathe. I removed both of my hand from his waist as I took out my phone.
There was a text from Itachi saying he was waiting in the car. I replied with an 'ok' and put my phone back in my pocket.
"Welp, I finally get to leave. I'll see you tomorrow?" I said, looking at Naruto as I said the last part.
"Yeah yeah. Now leave." Naruto says.
"I love you too." I say to him, making him fake gag. I nudged him, then waved at Gaara and walked off.
I walked to the school's exit and head towards Itachi's car. The car was already running as I got in and sat down. That's when I remembered something.
"Oh, what did you want to talk to me about?" I ask him.
Itachi looked at me for a moment then looked forward again. "Mom and dad aren't home again so we'll talk about it when we get home." I nodded and leaned back as he started to pull out.
The whole drive consisted of, me teasing him about staring at Deidara's lips this morning, and him denying it.
•••
When we got home and entered the house, it was silent. Well, that's to be expected.
I was still curious to what Itachi wanted to talk about so I sat on the couch and waited for him. After setting his bag down, he sat next to me.
"So?" I asked immediately.
There was a moment of silence before Itachi started talking. However, he didn't look me in the eye.
"Did dad do something to you?"
I looked at him, cautiously. "Why do you ask?"
My brother, still not looking me in the eye said, "Well, I'm always thinking about what he said at dinner that one time. I had absolutely no clue that he was that homophobic. Then, I start to think about how you used to act when you were in middle school and..." Itachi trails off.
I stayed silent, thinking about what I should say. But Itachi continued to speak.
"I know it's been maybe two weeks since his outburst happened. I probably should have talked to you about this sooner. But I just didn't know how. But I finally did. So please, Sasuke. Tell the truth." Itachi meets my eye for the first time in this whole conversation.
Now it was my turn to look away. "I can't tell you." I mumble.
"Sasuke, you can trust me." Itachi says in a soothing voice.
"H-He'll get mad if I do." I mumble even lower.
Itachi placed a hand on my shoulder, "He won't know." he says.
After thinking about it, I give in and tell Itachi what he did to me.
The conversation ended with me trying to hold back my sobs and my brother, holding and comforting me as I did.
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1696 words.. that's more than I usually write. But hey! More sasunaru in this chapter. (-: vote and comment!!