Author's Notes: Welcome back one and all to yet another instalment of the WNL series *big grin* And yes, due to somewhat popular demand, Kyo will be back.
Required Reading: So by this point you really need to be up to date to know what the hell is going on and here is your reading homework for those that are behind. By now you will had to have read:
I Want You To Want To
I Need You To Need To
I'd Love You To Love To
WNL Yule Special (At the end of I'd Love)
WNL White Day Special (Also at the end of I'd Love)
WNL Series: Chasing Away the Past
You're lucky I didn't have time to post the Halloween Special last year or there would be more. But I plan to get it out this year though :)
Warnings: I'm not really going to go on here for a change about the warnings. If you are here without reading the others, well *shrugs* your bitching about the content will be meaningless to me and if you have read the others you know all about my swearing, my content and who gets to play batman. I won't go on about it.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters and I sure as hell don't make any money off them or the series. Kyo is mine though *grins*
Living in the Now
Chapter 1
Good to be Home.
Naruto waved goodbye to his teammates and started off toward home. He liked being able to get out and go on missions, but he had to admit he was a little happier at the prospect of coming home and knowing what was waiting for him here these days. It was still a little unreal to think about having a happy home life to return to for the first time in his life and he was glad in a way that the feeling never got old or boring even after almost a year of living with a person and being in a relationship with that person. It always made him excited to return home each and every time. Just the knowledge that Sasuke was here, home and waiting for him made him smile hugely and quicken his pace towards his apartment.
Even though he knew he would be paying the price for being away for days to come. It always happened and Naruto would have it no other way. No surprises to ruin that.
Or so he thought.
He was just turning into his street passing a small alleyway in between two buildings when he was swiftly grabbed and dragged into the shadows. One strong arm twisted his arm up behind him and pushed him roughly into the side of the building. The other held a hand over his mouth so he couldn't shout. Having his arm held like this meant he couldn't use jutsu. But that didn't mean he couldn't fight back.
Before he attacked, he felt a body press in behind him and a cool voice whispered into his ear, "You should watch where you're going, dobe."
"Sasuke, damnit!" Or that's what he would have said if he didn't have Sasuke's hand clamped over his mouth. Instead it came out more like 'sske, ami!"
Sasuke took his hand away from Naruto's mouth and glided it down over his chin and throat. "You never know who might try to attack you in your own village," Sasuke continued.
"Obviously," Naruto muttered. "Sasuke, what if the Anbu saw you?"
"They won't," Sasuke replied smugly moving his hand again to slide down over Naruto's jacket till his fingers could tease the bare skin between his shirt and pants. "I lost them about ten minutes ago."
He licked the edge of Naruto's ear and his hand moved down underneath the waistband of Naruto's orange pants. What Sasuke was doing was pretty distracting, but what he said snapped Naruto right out of his happy touching world.
"What?! Sasuke, you can't ditch your security detail all the time! It looks really bad!"
"Worse than them seeing me pin the hero of Konoha up against a wall and molesting him in broad daylight?" Sasuke asked mockingly.
That was a good point.
"You could have waited till I got home."
"Boring."
Sasuke often got bored in Konoha these days. It wasn't the first time he'd ditched his security detail and no doubt it probably wouldn't be the last. At least he usually waited till someone else other than Naruto was supposed to be watching him to do it so he avoided getting Naruto into trouble while at the same time reinforcing the notion that the only one that could watch him properly was Naruto as well. Sasuke didn't even generally have a good reason for ditching and Naruto had begun to suspect he only did it to see if he could. Especially at first when all his chakra driven abilities had been taken away from him, Sasuke seemed intent to prove to himself and everyone else that he was still a force to be reckoned with. Which was entirely true of course. He was super fast, agile and a very skilled fighter. Most chunin with all their chakra abilities would be hard pressed to keep him at bay. Even most jonin wouldn't be able to beat him in an all out taijutsu fight and this was a fact that Sasuke seemed eager to prove to everyone no matter the ramifications. Not that he started fights, he wasn't completely stupid. But he ditched his security, he sparred quite viciously on the training grounds with Naruto and even though his Sharingan was still not working as it should, he liked to activate it occasionally just to scare people that were annoying him. Which was practically everyone.
Of course Naruto knew that Sasuke also occasionally ditched to go train in private too. A few months ago Naruto had bore witness to Sasuke using a chakra ability to fight off an attacker. It had shocked him to see it but due to the circumstances surrounding the incident, he could hardly be upset by the results. When confronted about his returned ability Naruto had been informed that it was the first time he'd been able to use it to such a degree since his neutralization but admitted that beforehand he had been slowly regaining some ability in the months previous. Naruto had thought he'd be pissed about the deception, and he was a little unimpressed by the lack of sharing something so important, but he'd been a little relieved about it too. Sasuke had some ability it would seem and yet showed no indication of wanting to return to old ways or his old life. Knowing what he might be able to do hadn't tempted Sasuke to take his temper out on villagers that even now still sneered at him openly in the street. Sasuke just ignored them, pretended they didn't exist and continued to live the life he was slowing beginning to build for himself here. Naruto was proud of him for that so it was difficult to be pissed at him over hiding the secret.
Besides, as Sasuke had pointed out to him, Naruto knowing was not strictly doing him any favours. It forced Naruto to keep the deception from those he had close ties to. If the Hokage knew about Sasuke's ever re-growing abilities he didn't think she would see things quite like Naruto did. She wouldn't be proud that so far Sasuke had restrained himself from unwanted violence, she would just see him as a threat once more. So Naruto was forced to keep quiet on the matter and he felt guilty because of it.
It didn't help matters either that Sasuke seemed intent on proving himself to be an annoyance to those who were supposed to be guarding him either. He was exceptionally bad, in other words, of playing the part of the ruthless rogue ninja turned meek defenseless prisoner. Having his chakra abilities taken away from him was supposed to mean that Sasuke was no longer a threat to the general populous. But against Naruto's most of the time quite heated protests, Sasuke just couldn't get it into his head to play his part properly. He worried that if Sasuke continued to be a problem they might start thinking about doing something drastic to him like they had originally planned.
Naruto struggled a little bit and Sasuke reluctantly released him. Naruto turned on him red faced and breathing a little hard. It was only partly due to anger though.
"I don't care if it's boring or not! How many times do I have to tell you that if you go along with the idea that you're a neutralized threat they might leave you alone?"
"You could tell me a hundred more and I wouldn't care."
"Well I care, doesn't that matter!?"
Sasuke shrugged. "No."
"You want them to think you'd be better off dead?"
"Actually I do. At least then I'd know they don't think I'm worthless anymore."
And that was the thing that always made Naruto lose these fights. It was a reminder to him that the only reason Sasuke was actually doing any of this was to prove to himself more than anyone else that he wasn't completely powerless now. It reminded Naruto about what Sasuke had given up in order to stay alive and with him in the village.
"I'm pretty sure they don't think that Sasuke," Naruto replied truthfully and a lot more calmly that he had been a minute ago. "There are probably at least two Anbu combing the city for you, cursing your name, who don't think you're worthless."
Sasuke smirked again. "Mission accomplished then. So now I wonder if I can I finish molesting you here before they show up or whether your ranting at me lost us too much precious time."
"Let's go home." Naruto sighed. "After I find those Anbu and let them know you're with me."
Sasuke joined him walking back toward the street proper. "And here I thought you wanted to keep that a secret still."
"You know what I mean Sasuke! Why do you have to tease me so much!?"
"Everyone needs a hobby, I suppose."
Sasuke's newfound appreciation of being dominated was causing a few problems. Well not problems necessarily but, well… since Sasuke had very little to do himself throughout the day he seemed to think he could fill up the time compelling Naruto to fill up something else instead. Not that Naruto could really complain. Sasuke's teasing usually lead to a lot of amazing fun. But Naruto wasn't exactly in a position to spend his days doing whatever he wanted and Naruto's obligations to the village and his team weren't something Sasuke gave much of thought about. In fact Sasuke seemed to delight in making Naruto late for meetings, training and whatever else he could tempt him away from. For Sasuke it was a new form of undiscovered power that he probably hadn't been aware he could take advantage of before.
Randomly grabbing your partner and fucking them senseless was power enough, but being able to entice someone else to do it to you was something else entirely. It had all probably stemmed from Sasuke's stint of teasing him. When he'd been trying to get Naruto to fuck him to forcefully show just how over his past life he was, it had become a game for him. He'd done so much just to make Naruto want to touch him and he'd seemed to really enjoy eroding someone else's will like that. The game was a little creepy admittedly, but undeniably hot to be the focus of such attention at the same time. And what's worse was that Sasuke seemed to know the effect he had.
So now he did it more often. He still treated Naruto to his usual welcome home, ass-bruising, days long sessions when he came back from a mission. But after that died down a little, Sasuke seemed to like nothing more than tempting the hell out of him till Naruto couldn't think of doing anything else but fucking the teasing bastard till he couldn't walk anymore.
Right now Sasuke was watching Naruto run around the apartment trying to get ready for training after sleeping in with a lazy smile on his face. Eventually he left Naruto to scramble in the bedroom and walked out into the main room naked and leant up against the door just as Naruto hurried toward it, stopping dead when he saw Sasuke blocking his path.
"Teme, no! I'm already like twenty minutes late and Sakura's gonna cream me if I'm held up again."
"Fine, move me. Up and down for preference."
"You're only doing this because you're bored and you want annoy me."
Sasuke rested a finger on his own chest and started moving it downwards till his palm was flat against his belly, still moving agonisingly slowly downwards. Naruto's eyes were latched onto that hand, even as he frowned.
"Tell me something I don't know. Actually tell me something I will care about hearing."
"Sasuke please stop, you know I can't…"
Sasuke never used to do stuff like this. He'd walk around naked, lay in very strategic ways, but he'd never tried to entice him by touching himself until lately. It was new and exciting and oh so sexy that whenever Naruto saw him doing it he couldn't help himself. He'd get hard, and breathless and Sasuke knew this. It was probably the only thing that could compensate Sasuke's loss of his usual pride was the fact that he had such control over his lover when he did things like this.
Sasuke could well see the look on Naruto's face and already knew he'd won.
Naruto dropped his stuff onto the floor just as Sasuke's hand slid down to his groin.
"The hell with it," Naruto said decisively, stepping closer and covering Sasuke's mouth with his own.
He put one hand over Sasuke's as Sasuke continued to work on himself, the other hand went around Sasuke's waist, pulling his lower half away from the door so Naruto could then run that hand down over the perfect curve of his ass. He was just sliding his fingers in between the cheeks to tease at the opening there, lamenting the fact that there was no handy lube around when his fingers were met with slick thick gel and an opening that took two of his fingers in first go.
Naruto groaned. "Fuck, Sasuke. Just what were you up to while I was in the shower?"
"What do you think, moron?"
Sasuke had released himself to tug open Naruto's pants, freeing him while Naruto lifted Sasuke up and pushed him back against the door. Sasuke wrapped his legs high up around his waist.
Sasuke's lips sought his out just as Naruto pushed into him, holding him up as best he could to cause the least amount of pain. They moaned into each other's mouths, tongues flicking against one another until Sasuke drew away slightly.
"What did I tell you?" he asked against Naruto's lips.
Naruto eased Sasuke down onto him fully and began to move none too gently causing Sasuke's shoulders to slide against the door. Sasuke threw his head back almost painfully colliding with the door behind him and Naruto took that opportunity to latch his lips onto the pale exposed throat and suck desperately. Sasuke moaned and…someone knocked on the door.
It was like the pair of them became paralysed in an instant. Both silenced and unmoving, trying to control heavy breathing while the person on the other side knocked more loudly.
"Naruto, I know you're still here! You're late for training again!" Sakura yelled through the door.
Naruto's face went as red as a tomato at the thought that only a couple on inches of flimsy wood separated Sakura on the other side of the door to Sasuke's sweat slicked back.
Naruto was perfectly horrified but it was tempered a little in annoyance when he saw just how hard Sasuke was trying not to grin and laugh.
"Naruto, if you don't open this door this instant I will knock it down and drag you to training by your hair!"
"Fuck," Naruto breathed pulling out of Sasuke and setting him down on the floor. Naruto was trying desperately to put himself back together and willing his resistant erection to go away while Sasuke took a nonchalant stroll into the bedroom, closing the door behind him.
When Sasuke was out of sight and Naruto tugged his jacket off to hold as casually could in front of him, figuring he was as together as he was going to get for the next few minutes. He opened the door with what he hoped was a big sunny smile and prayed Sakura didn't notice the persistent hard on underneath his hastily done up pants that she hadn't managed to completely scare away yet.
"Hi Sakura, sorry I got held up."
Sakura looked pissed. "Naruto I…" But then her look softened a little as she took in his general appearance. "Are you okay? You looked really flushed."
Of course he was flushed. He'd been fucking Sasuke up against this door not a minute earlier.
"I told him he didn't look well," Sasuke's voice floated out of the room behind him. Naruto looked around to see Sasuke standing, arms folded over his bare chest in nothing but a pair of sleep pants. "He should probably stay home," Sasuke continued in a relatively bored tone.
Naruto scowled at him but then Sakura grabbed his chin and forced his head back around so she could lay the back of her hand against his cheek.
"You do seem hot."
"That's what I keep telling him," Sasuke added.
"Has he been like this all day?"
"Twice last night, once this morning," Sasuke told her promptly.
"Sasuke, shut the hell up!" Naruto told him breaking away from Sakura and glaring at Sasuke. "C'mon Sakura we better get going."
"No way, not when you have a temperature like that. Stay home today and I'll tell Kakashi that you can't make it. I'll even come over later and bring you some medicine okay?"
"Uh thanks Sakura, but I feel okay, really."
"It's probably just a cold but Sasuke, can you make sure he stays home and gets plenty of fluids?"
"Promise," he said without the slightest hint of lechery in his voice, thank all the gods.
"Thanks Sasuke, and you," she said focussing back on Naruto with a stern eye, "Stay in bed today."
It was a command so what could he do? He nodded instead of explaining to Sakura just why he was flushed and possibly ending up in hospital.
Sensing that her work was done, Sakura left and Naruto shut the door behind her, turning and leaning back against it to eye the smug look on Sasuke's face.
"You heard her dobe, off to bed. I promise I'll keep you well hydrated. Plenty of fluids and all that."
"Sasuke, I just lost a full day of training with the whole team for a couple of minutes of sex up against a door."
"It's a good thing I'm worth it," Sasuke told him.
Naruto agreed. "Bed huh?" he asked, a small smile finally starting to creep over his face.
"All day," Sasuke replied with a smirk.
Naruto shrugged. "Who needs training anyway," Naruto told him dropping his jacket and walking towards Sasuke.
After this morning's events Naruto napped for a while through the day. There was nothing like those days when you could doze on and off throughout the whole day without worrying about training, missions or anything other than doing whatever the hell you wanted in between peaceful napping. Which was generally Sasuke.
Sasuke had napped with him after they'd finished what they'd started up against the door but had gotten up soon after and had only returned to bed once to entice Naruto into another round but hadn't stayed for too long afterwards. Sasuke never seemed to need a lot of sleep anyway and considered six hours of straight sleep to be luxurious but Naruto liked sleeping. It was so good to fall asleep in a dead heap of weariness after a great workout and since Sasuke was still paying him back for being gone for over a week on his last mission the bone weary tiredness wasn't a state hard to come by.
But by mid afternoon he woke up with a yawn and got to his feet intending to eat something at some point today. And as luck would have it, it smelt as though Sasuke was one step ahead of him. He could smell something chicken like wafting under the door to his room. So, stomach grumbling in earnest he opened the door and stepped out intending to find the source of this smell but was stopped in his tracks abruptly when his eyes locked onto wide pale green ones.
Sakura had been in the process of ladling food into a bowl at the table when Naruto had blundered out of the room completely naked and gaping at her like a suffocating fish.
Quickly his hands descended to cover as much of himself as he could while the rest of his body seemed content to merely just go a bright shade of red.
He dimly noticed Sasuke on the couch with and open book on his lap, his lips drawn into a thin line. Most people might assume that Sasuke looked annoyed. But Naruto had learnt that all this meant was that Sasuke was actually trying not to react at all. In fact he was probably trying not to smile.
Bastard.
"Uh, um, s-sorry Sakura-chan. I d-din't…" he stuttered at her while backing his way back toward the room. "I'll just ah… pants and…"
Sasuke watched the bright red Naruto back away and disappear into the bedroom and smirked. He really probably should have warned the dobe that Sakura was here but he hadn't really thought that Naruto would just walk out completely naked either.
He turned his head to look at Sakura, expecting to see the girl fuming. She was a little pink herself but not angry like Sasuke had imagined she would be. She certainly looked flustered though and he wondered for a moment why.
"Does he, ah, usually do that?" Sakura asked eventually.
"Turn red and stutter a lot?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow. "Yes."
"Walk around naked!" she exclaimed hotly. This was more like it. Now she seemed annoyed. "Doesn't he think there might be other people here?"
"We don't get a lot of visitors."
"Yeah but you're still here. It's not like he's alone."
Sasuke wondered how to respond to that. "I don't think he cares if I see him naked."
It probably wasn't the nicest thing in the world but since very few people knew the depths of his and Naruto's relationship, Sasuke quite enjoyed making the odd not so innocent comment to the unwitting people not in the know. It wasn't like he was trying to give people hints though, he liked his private life being just that. But it amused him to make comments, innocent seeming as it was, that if people knew, probably wouldn't seem quite so innocent. He couldn't deny how much it amused him even though Naruto told him repeatedly that he was just being a dick.
But anyway the comment seemed to mollify her somewhat. "Well I suppose you are both guys after all. But still, that's so rude! Doesn't he own pyjamas?"
"He was running a temperature you said. Perhaps he got too hot."
"Oh," Sakura responded derailed. "I suppose that's true."
Sasuke frowned at her. "Aren't you the medic ninja on your team? I would have thought Naruto being the reckless moron that he is means you've healed him a lot. There can't be much of him left that you haven't seen."
Interestingly Sakura went a little pinker. "He's not that reckless."
"Since when?" Sasuke asked genuinely surprised. The last time he'd seen Naruto actually fight someone there was a distinct lack of thought that had gone into the attack. Naruto had since admitted to being a little protective at the time, but ever since they were children Naruto hadn't seemed like the hold back type. At least not where fighting was concerned anyway.
"Well you're remembering him from when we were children," Sakura said in a dismissive tone. "He's actually done a lot of growing up since then."
The tone, coupled with the impression she gave that perhaps Sasuke didn't know him as well as she did annoyed him a lot more than he was expecting. Probably because it made him realise that they hadn't actually been on a mission together in a good long time. There was a side to him that Sasuke couldn't see because of his confinement and that Sakura did. Well two could play at that game because he knew for damn sure there was a side of Naruto Sakura never saw as well.
"The amount he walks around naked it's not like I haven't noticed the growth spurt."
Could Sakura get any pinker at this point?
"I uh, wasn't talking about physically. I mean he tends to think more now before he acts on missions. He's matured a lot, you'd be proud of him."
Sasuke watched her for a few moments longer as she busied herself once again ladling out chicken soup into a bowl. He didn't really understand why he was so pissed about this. Was he actually jealous? Of Sakura? The thought seemed so alien. Besides, why would he be jealous anyway? Sure once upon a time Naruto had obviously had a crush on her but that didn't mean that the crush went both ways. And sure their interactions with each other these days were a lot more friendly and caring than they had been but that's just because they were friends. It wasn't because they were really that close now. Well not closer than he was to Naruto surely.
Right?
Sasuke took a moment to roll his eyes at his own stupidity. Of course they weren't interested in one another. For one thing Sakura had been chasing after him for years. It wasn't till Yule that she had finally gotten the message and backed off. But even so, no doubt if he asked her out on a date right this moment she'd probably swoon like all her dreams had just come true. And Naruto couldn't still be crushing on her. He was in love with Sasuke. He'd heard it straight from the horse's mouth. Well, more or less. It wasn't like he'd settled when he couldn't be with Sakura. No one settled for Uchiha Sasuke.
Naruto chose this moment to walk back out, this time in pants and a sleeveless tee shirt. The one that annoyingly showed off his toned arms.
Sasuke scowled at him but Naruto was apparently still too embarrassed to take notice. He went over to Sakura tentatively like he was afraid of violence, scratching the back of his head in a way Sasuke recognised as a nervous tick.
"Sorry again Sakura-chan. If I'd known…"
Sakura frowned at him and thrust a bowl across the table at him slopping some of the contents.
"I made you soup with some medicine to help bring down your temperature," she told him tightly. "I didn't realise I'd end up getting some pervert flashing me for my good deed!"
Naruto winced at the tone but tried to give her a charming though small smile. "I really appreciate it. The soup I mean. That was really nice."
What Naruto didn't realise and what probably saved him from a punch in the jaw was how disarming he could be when being genuinely grateful and apologetic, both of which he was in this moment. Sasuke had found recently that it was difficult to be angry when Naruto was really trying to apologise. Not that it happened often to him. Generally when he got angry with Naruto, Naruto got angry right back unless it was a really meaningful issue they were having. Who knew that the genuine/honest route would be such a powerful diffuser?
"Want me to say sorry again?"
All at once Sakura seemed to sigh and cool her temper. "No. You didn't do it on purpose. Just sit down and eat."
Naruto complied while Sakura stowed the rest of the soup in the fridge and cleaned up the mess she'd made. When she was done she seemed almost happy to find that Naruto had eaten all the soup in his bowl very quickly.
"Did you like it?" Sakura asked pleased.
"It was delicious. Thanks! I feel better already."
What bullshit, Sasuke thought. He happened to know that whenever Sakura tried to mix food and medicine the results were generally horrifying. Naruto no doubt was pretending just to stay on Sakura's good side.
But she beamed like she believed him and moved around the table to lay her hand against Naruto's cheek like she did that morning.
Sasuke noticed that her hand lingered there for a long time. Too long for his tastes.
"Well you feel better," Sakura continued after a moment. "We don't have a training day tomorrow so just take it easy anyway, okay? There's more soup in the fridge if you want it."
"I'll be okay. I don't want to miss the dinner tomorrow."
Sasuke didn't like the sound of that. 'The dinner' could well turn out to be the vaguely monthly group dinner that Sasuke hated with all their old friends. Social get togethers were not his thing to say the least.
"Oh you should be fine. Well I'm going to go now but I'll see you both tomorrow night okay?"
"Sure!" Naruto affirmed whilst Sasuke make a vague non-committal gesture from the couch.
Once Sakura was gone, Naruto left the table and vaulted the back of the couch, settling on the cushion beside Sasuke who was pretending to be engrossed in his book and flipped on the television.
"The soup was awful, wasn't it?" Sasuke asked without looking up.
"It tasted like dirty bathwater that a chicken might have run through at some point," Naruto admitted with a sour face. "Why the hell didn't you warn me she'd be here?"
"She told you this morning she was coming over. I didn't think you'd walk out naked."
"Hah, you probably thought it was funny."
"I did until the ranting started. Who knew she'd get so bent out of shape over seeing a guy's cock. I can't imagine what she'll be like if she ever gets laid."
Naruto didn't respond at first making Sasuke look up at him finally to see Naruto a little wide-eyed.
"What?" Sasuke asked impatiently.
"She really saw… everything?"
"It would be difficult not to. I don't get why you look so worried. Are you seriously going to have a self conscious moment over this?"
"C'mon you would be too if someone accidentally saw you…" Naruto rethought his statement. "Okay so maybe you wouldn't care. But not all of us look like you do. Most everyone gets a little self conscious about themselves."
"You're going to make me reassure you aren't you?"
"No!"
"You know I don't say things just to make you feel better for that sake alone right?"
"Yeah I know that," Naruto replied with a frown.
"So you know when I tell you that you're really hot I'm not lying, right?"
"I know, wait, what?"
"So we have a history and some weird emotional bond as well but mostly what makes me want to bend you over the kitchen table is because you're incredibly attractive."
"Um, really?"
"Want me to go into detail? I can if it will stop your whining."
Naruto swallowed. "Details?"
"You're blond, blue-eyed, tanned, well toned with an open honest, kind sort of face that people like instantly."
"You didn't."
"Yeah well I never said you weren't a goofy looking kid. Goofy isn't the first word I'd use for you now."
"No, you'd call me a loser."
"Doesn't mean you don't have a nice ass."
Naruto smiled. "For you that was pretty complimentary. So I shouldn't be embarrassed?"
"No reason to be."
"So I'm better looking than you?" Naruto asked his smile turning a little teasing.
"Don't go crazy."
"Ever heard of modesty being a good trait?"
"Not so far."
TBC
Notes: So welcome back. It has been some time since I got to play with WNL but it feels like an old friend to me now lol. So like the last instalment, this will probably be around 5-6 chapters long. And in this one as you've already read will mainly be about Sasuke settling in and finding his place. It will be more light-hearted than the last one and will mainly deal with jealousy and setting up a future for Sasuke in the village. Yep, sorry guys, it's another sort of Sasuke orientated one but like I might have mentioned before, this is all new for Sasuke and the only new thing for Naruto at the moment is well, Sasuke. So more relationship stuff will go into this as well.
So it's nice to see our boys in a better place emotionally and physically than where we left them last time. I chose not to make a huge deal over the reveal of Sasuke's abilities beginning to come back because I don't think at this point Naruto would be pissed enough to either tell on him or blame Sasuke too much for keeping it a secret. All I really did was mention that he hated being lied to, but that was about it. I like more than he would be relieved that his trust in Sasuke was well founded enough that getting his abilities back somewhat didn't make Sasuke fall back into revenge mode and life pretty much went on as normal.
Oh and for those of you who don't already know because you aren't reading TLWH, I have a new Tumblr account I'm going to use to post fanart people have drawn for me, previews and perhaps even full stories eventually. For those interested my username there is: dashellz.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter.
Till next time,
Dash.
