Get a Life 31

“I have this sudden urge to sing lion king songs.”
Shino looked at Kiba questionably.
“Why that?”
“I can see what’s happening.”
“What?”
“And they don’t have a clue.”
“Who?”
“They’re falling in love and here’s the bottom line, our trio’s down to two.”
“…I can live with that.”
“That’s not how it goes!”
Kiba pouted in his seat and Shino chuckled.
“So Sasuke and Naruto are back to their friendly self’s hm?”
“They’re not the only ones being friendly.” Kiba smirked as he pointed at Gaara and Neji. Shino leaned back and raised a brow.
“I thought they hated each other.”
“Love hate, in the end it might as well be the same thing for teenage boys.”
Shino smiled.
“Good for them, that poor kid needed it.”
“Huh?”
Shino rolled his eyes. Shino wasn’t dumb; he knew what Neji was up to. He kinda admired that about Neji. There was no way Shino could ever go through the hells Neji went through. NEVER. Neji had guts.

“Regardless…what should our paper be on now?”
Kiba began to pounder.
“Well…I did choose the last topic…why don’t I leave it up to you?”
Shino smirked devilishly. Kiba gulped. He didn’t like that look…
“Since you seem SO knowledgeable on the subject…why not write a paper on yaoi?”
There was silence then Kiba burst out laughing.
“Oh man! For a second there I thought you were serious!”
But Shino’s smirk didn’t change and Kiba became nervous as his chuckle died down.
“You ARE joking right?”
“Can’t you feel the love tonight?”
“Gaaaahhh!!” Kiba screamed as he covered his ears. He was NEVER gonna see lion king the same way ever again…


Naruto chuckled.
“Sounds like Kiba and Shino are having fun.”
Sasuke rolled his eyes. Sounded like Shino was giving Kiba hell. He then felt Naruto’s glance at him. Sasuke smirked.
“You miss me that much?”
Naruto pouted.
“Teme…” he then looked away facial expression dulling. Sasuke raised a brow.
“What’s up?”
“…Are you and Karin…”
Sasuke twitched.
“Whatever your about to say the answer is no.”
Naruto smiled in relief. Then chuckled.
“Ah darn, so you don’t hate Karin.”
Sasuke’s eyes widened.
“Wait-! I-I do! I do!”
Naruto started laughing.
“Then why do you hang out with her you moron?”
Sasuke looked away. He didn’t want to bring up this topic again.

“What are we gonna write about?”
Naruto frowned. Damn it Sasuke… Naruto sighed.
“Bets me, took forever to come up with the last topic.” Naruto then glanced over towards Sasuke “Though…there is ONE topic that’s been popping into my mind lately.”
“Oh? And what’s that?”
“Phycology.”
Sasuke raised a brow.
“Why on Earth would a moron like you be interesting in a subject like that?”
“Because I want to know how that brain of yours works.”
Sasuke blushed and looked away. Damn him…

Neji looked dully at the boys in front of him, chin resting on his interlocked hands. Well, that was quick. …A little too quick. Neji sighed. Gaara noticed and twitched. Stop paying attention to him!!
“Hey!” Gaara snapped his fingers in front of Neji’s face startling the shit out of him. “Pay attention to me.”
Neji blinked a few times then chuckled.
“You sound like a needy child.”
“Maybe I am.” Gaara leaned closer and looked Neji dead in the eyes. “So stop ignoring me.”
Neji was a bit taken aback. What happened to shy awkwardly social Gaara?
“Well, you’ve got my attention now. What do you want?”
Gaara pondered.
“Nothing. I just wanted your attention.”
Neji twitched. What the hell!?!
“You are such a brat!”
“And you’re a drama queen, your point?”
Neji gritted his teeth, oooh this guy got on his nerves.

“Speaking of drama,” Gaara then looked at the paper. “You sure put a lot of effort into this. You really like acting don’t you?”
Neji blinked a few times. Was Gaara…trying to start a conversation?
“Yeah, ever since I was a kid.”
“A kid?”
“Well, it was more like a split personality at the time to escape from my problems, but people thought it was just really good acting so they signed me up for classes. Loved it ever since.”
Gaara just sat there flabbergasted. Did Neji just confess that he had a problem?
“Split personality?”
“I don’t have it anymore.”
“Split personality?”
“…you sound like a broken record.”
“Just what kind of past do you have?”
Neji looked at Gaara dully.
“Do you really wanna know?”
If he had his way, he’d want to know EVERYTHING about him.
“Yeah.”
Neji sighed.

“My family serves under my cousin’s family who as it turned out got involved in something…well, bad. As a result people wanted the main head of the family dead and since he and my father were twins…they killed him instead…yeah…” Neji rubbed the back of his neck “Not so pleasant times…I blamed them for it but I guess I’ve kinda gotten used to them since it wasn’t entirely there fault.”
Gaara just sat there. How the fuck could he say all that with a straight face?
“Seriously?”
“Why would I make this up?”
“You’re SERIOUSLY okay with them now?”
“Turns out they stopped some sort of drug deal and the gang wanted back at them. It was for a good deed. But at the time I was just too little to understand what was all going on. All I knew was, my dad shouldn’t of been the one who died. But…he did anyways in order to protect them.” Neji then glanced up at the ceiling. “"It was of his own free will to protect them. I can't very well hate them if my father was willing to die for them right?"
Gaara wasn’t really sure how to respond to that so he kept quite.

After a while Neji chuckled nervously.
“Sooo, how about you? You have any emo stories?”
Gaara had to smirk at that.
“Emo stories? What is this story time?”
“Why yes Gaara, it’s story time. And then it’ll be nap time. Just like in kindergarden.”
Gaara chuckled.
“Fine. My mother died giving birth to me. Father hated me. Went around calling me a monster and made others stay away from me and was very lonely for a very long time. That’s why I’m not very social.”
“…Well…that was quick.”
“Well what else were you expecting? It’s not a drama you know?”
“Sounded pretty dramatic to me. I mean, what your father did WAS a bit harsh…”
“A bit?”
“VERY harsh.”
Gaara scoffed as he blew air through his noise.
“Yeah, it really was. Luckily I had nice siblings who didn’t treat me like total crap.”
“I wish I had siblings. I mean, sure I live with my cousin, but it just doesn’t feel the same you know?”
“I can understand that.”
“What are they like?”
Gaara rolled his eyes.
“Nightmares, fucking nightmares.”
Neji snorted.
“Oh come now, they can’t be that bad…”


Not too far back behind them a blond was having a hard time containing a squeal.
“Temari? What you be tripping?”
“I be tripping on yaoi!”
Her brother gulped. Ah geez, not again.
“Who’s the poor sap now?”
“Our very own sweet little brother.” His eyes grew wide. G-Gaara? “And from the looks of it-“ She then smirked looking further ahead of them “looks like we got our selves a little geek and Mr. popular.”
Temari then burst out into an evil laugh.
“…Temari, we need to get you on a hobby.”
“Way ahead of yeah.” She then began scribbling down schemes. “WAY ahead of yeah…”