Hey readers, I'm back after a long (very long) break with broken/ moving problems. After re-reading the three short chapters of my only story (and with the help of some people that started watching my story) I was re inspired to rewrite and try and finish it. So thanks to the people that have read and liked my story, you guys are my motivation. The SasuNaru/NaruSasu must continue!
PLEASE READ THE WARNINGS BELOW!
GENERAL WARNINGS: This is YAOI! So if you don't like TURN BACK NOW! Also there will be slight violence; it's not all sparkles and fluff. Sorry for any spelling/ punctuation errors. Also shippuden events might not be correct because I've only seen the first part of the series, up to the third episode of shippuden, so sorry.
Chapter Warnings: shoenen-ai, angst, Mentions of Shika/naru
SASUKE'S HOMECOMING
It was a cold, winter day in the Hidden Village of Konoha. The wind whipped through the trees in the forest outside of the great wall protecting the city. A hooded figure walked slowly along the trail leading to the large entrance gate, observing his familiar surroundings. It has been years. Finally reaching the gate, he smiled, not on the outside, but to himself. Two Leaf shinobi greeted him, unknown faces to him.
"State your reason for entering," the first one said. The second one was younger and just stood there shivering; probably hoping his shift would be over soon.
"I have come home," the hooded man said, emotionless, seeming not to care about the two nuisances standing in his way.
"Let me see your ID for enter…" the first ninja was about to say before his partner cut him off.
"Wait, take off your hood … please," the second one said, his youth shown in his voice. The stranger stood there for a moment, wondering if he should reveal his face. Surely everyone knew who he was. The one who ran, the one everyone once searched for. Coming to a conclusion, the stranger slowly pulled away the hood that concealed his face. In reaction the younger of the two gasped in delight, while the other blinked like he had seen a ghost.
"I knew it was you." The young boy's face lit up like one of his former fan girls. "You're Uchiha, Sasuke"
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It was another wonderfully chilly day in the streets of Konoha, and Kakashi walked down the streets reading his favorite perverted book. Suddenly the wind picked up and blew a large amount of snow on to his highly treasured novel.
"Ugh, not again," he grumbled, pretty soon his precious book would be drenched from melted snow and he didn't feel like going and buying a new one. So, with much displeasure he shoved the slightly wet book in his jacket and trudged through the snow toward the main gates. He had no idea why Lady Hokage had woken him up so early to retrieve a new visitor to the village. 'She must be drunk and not know what she's talking about' he grumpily thought. Soon the gates came into view and he saw two leaf shinobi with a hooded figure.
"Hey Zaku," Kakashi said coming up to the jounin shinobi. Zaku had currently taken on the chunin, Misaki, to tutor and train. And by the looks of it they got the graveyard shift. 'Sucks for them'
"Hey there Kakashi," Zaku greeted back, the hooded figure next to Misaki twitched slightly, while Misaki himself looked like he just won the lottery.
"Hey you okay?" Kakashi heard Misaki whisper to the visitor while Zaku and he talked.
"Perfectly fine," the dark figure ground out. Misaki looked at him, concern shown in his eyes. 'I wonder who it is that Misaki's so interested in' Kakashi pondered as he concluded his small talk with Zaku.
"Misaki, my boy, how have you been?" Kakashi said loudly catching the chunnin off guard. Misaki stammered at first pushing some of his light blue hair out of his eyes and behind his ear.
"W-Well, Kakashi-sensei," The grey haired shinobi gave the flustered young chunin a goofy smile. He probably didn't talk to other jounin much, well besides Zaku.
"So who's your new friend?" Kakashi continued questioning him. Misaki gave a quick glance towards the darkly covered face. The hood figure nodded once before Misaki continued.
"This is Uchiha-san" the chunin stuttered, glancing at Sasuke before said figure pulled off his hood. Kakashi blinked a few times, much like Zaku a couple hours ago.
"Well shit, my day just got worse and its only 6" Kakashi whined.
~0w0~
Kakashi and Sasuke were heading toward the Hokage's tower when Sasuke decide to ask the question that's been on his mind since his arrival to the leaf village.
"So, how's Naruto been," Sasuke obtained a slight blush, but it was hardly noticeable, "and you know . . . Sakura also." He added to not cause suspicion. Kakashi gave Sasuke a one-eyed glance and then continued looking forward.
"Honestly?" he gave a sigh. "Sakura has grown to be a powerful young women, she's been training under that old drunkard you know" Kakashi gave the shorter shinobi a clothed grin.
"She's getting married soon too." Sasuke gave him a confused look.
"It's Lee, she has finally gotten over that childish crush she had over you, but Sakura is not the one you're really interested in learning about is she?" the grey haired ninja gave him a knowing glance. Sasuke didn't say anything so he continued.
"Naruto has had his ups and downs, he would have periods were he would train 'til it almost killed him and then he would become so lazy that he would just sit around and mope all the time. Kinda hard to go on missions with him like that ya know." Kakashi said trying to make light of the conversation, but Sasuke had a hidden concerned look in his eyes.
"But you know it's not all bad he has started a healthy relationship with Shikamaru recently and he seems to be opening up to people again more. He even went to our weekly gathering last Friday." Kakashi smiled and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke tried to keep all his distress inside but his dreaded question came out anyways.
"L-Like a dating relationship" Sasuke hated that he stuttered but he needed to know. Sometime ago, when he was trapped in Orochimaru's underground hideout, he realized he missed his certain blond haired friend/rival. He managed to push the unneeded feeling off, he was on his way to being invincible and sudden longings for his friends were only going to get in the way. A couple months after that when Naruto's new team came to drag him back to the village, Sasuke saw how ragged and unkempt Naruto looked. Once again the old feelings of longing came back, but this time they were stronger. This time he couldn't ignore it, mostly because of the restless sleep he got, but he convinced himself that he should go check up on things in his old village.
"Yes," Kakashi said, "They have been dating for about four months now." Sasuke was shocked but locked his emotions on the inside and continued to the Hokage's tower.
'Naruto is mine,' Sasuke thought desperately.
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8:00am
Naruto shivered in his old raggedy bed with a holey, thin blanket covering his sleeping form. Freezing wind brought flakes of snow through his open window which settled on the thin blanket, slow drenching it. Naruto violently shivered once more before awaking up to bright sunlight and his frigid small apartment. His bloodshot eyes raked over the small space before coming to the window that was allowing the winter air inside. He quickly walked over to it and slammed the open window close. 'I wouldn't be this cold in the morning if I could just pay for a heater,' he thought as he walked to his dresser and grabbed a black shirt and pants from one of the drawers.
'Your pathetic human body is what is making you cold' Kyuubi roared inside his mind.
Naruto sneezed, 'I know' he sighed.
'You know Naruto all you all you have to do is just relea-'
"No…" Naruto whispered aloud.
'But…"
' No, Kyuubi, I promised Shikamaru.' Naruto felt the demon fox slip back into the background of his stressed mind, when he decided to head over to Shika's to actually have a hot shower.
The trek over to Shikamaru's wasn't that long, he had moved closer since he and the lazy ninja had started dating, and also because some punk-ass group of Chunin had decided to blow up his last apartment. Shikamaru had offered to let Naruto to move into his two bedroom apartment, by Naruto felt it wasn't the right time. He didn't want his new boyfriend to have deal with all the emotional stress that no one saw while he was locked away in his apartment. The four months they had been dating were truly the best months he has had since the 'incident', but he felt he still needed to work through some problems before he fully committed to Shikamaru in the form of sharing a living space.
Before he knew it, Naruto was standing in front of Shika's apartment. He knocked twice on the door before gently leaning against the railing that enclosed the steps that lead up to the front door. Shaking from the wintery breeze, Naruto listened for any sign of life before knocking twice again, a little bit louder. After hearing nothing, he then pulling out his key and opened the door.
"Shikamaru, I'm coming in!" he called throughout the small apartment as he stepped through the threshold. He quickly closed the door, so not to let the weather inside before heading for the living room.
'You know, since you are dating the guy, you don't have to announce yourself or even knock at the door when you enter…' Kyuubi grumbled.
'It's respect for his personal space.' Naruto argued back. Noticing Shikamaru wasn't in the living room he headed for the bedroom and was surprised to see the space also empty.
"Huh? He must be out." Naruto commented out loud.
'No shit captain obvious' Kyuubi snickered at his host's dumbness.
'You're clearly in a wonderful mood today.' Naruto replied stepping into the connected bathroom and turning on the water to start heating.
'Why thank you for noticing'
'Whatever just let me take my shower in peace.'
~0w0~
EARLIER THAT DAY
Shikamaru was lazing about in the living room like he usually does when he heard a loud knock at his door. The lazy ninja's eyes quickly darted to the clock on his wall before standing up and trudging to the door, grumbling the whole way about how 7:00 was way too early. Opening the door, Shikamaru was greeted by the freezing wind and a small scroll attached to the railing outside of his doorway. The brunet quickly snatched the note from the cold metal and retreated inside to read the scroll in the safety of his warm house. Upon opening the letter he noticed the bright red letters that read "EMERGENCY" at the top. He read…
Jounin Nara, Shikmaru,
You are being ORDERED from Lady Hokage herself to come in for interrogation duty for a captured S-ranked shinobi.
Please meet with Lady Hokage in her office at 0710 hrs for a debriefing.
"What a drag…." Shikamaru complained, throwing the read scroll over his shoulder. "They give me ten minutes, good thing I'm already dressed. " Shikamaru pulled his shoes on before using his transportation jutsu to go to Lady Hokage's office.
~~~~~0w0~~~~~
HEY EVERYONE! HOPE YOU LIKE MY NEW REVISED STORY. I'LL TRY TO UPDATE THIS ONE MORE OFTEN THEN MY LAST ONE. THANKS AGAIN TO THE PEOPLE THAT REVIEWED BECAUSE THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT MADE ME FINISH REVISING AND POST THIS. (^w^)
ALSO THIS IS TECHNICALLY STILL MY FIRST STORY (SUCH A NEWB) SO PLEASE NO FLAMING (T_T) AND HELPING REVIEWS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME 3
