Snow fell slowly on the rooftop of Konoha Academy from the looming grey clouds that hung overhead like a bad omen. Naruto's bright cerulean eyes looked out over the town which was slowing becoming more and more white as time passed. The street lights and roof tops slowly becoming heavy with thick, wet, snow.
"It's days like this when I miss you most..." Naruto sighed to himself quietly closing his eyes for a moment.
"You're thinking about him again aren't you Naru-chan?" A new voice suddenly emerged from behind the blonde boy. Naruto whipped around, using the railing to balance himself on the slippery roof top.
"Sakura, you scared the crap out of me. I thought you might be a teacher." Naruto sighed in relief and turned back around to watch the snow fall peacefully. "Yeah, I'm thinking about him again. We always used to come up here and skip class together. Watching the clouds float by, the snow fall, or even just hang out." Naruto looked down at the street longingly and picked at his thumb nails nervously.
"I miss him too," Sakura came up to the railing next to Naruto and looked on with him "but don't you think you should move on? It's been a year now and he's still not here. You can find someone new." Sakura laid her hand over Naruto's only to be rejected and ignored.
"He's coming back. I know it. He never wanted to leave us and he won't. He's going to find a way back here he just hasn't yet." Naruto muttered solemnly, hiding his pain engulfed eyes with his blonde hair swaying ever so slightly with the small gust accompanying the snow.
"Naruto--"
"No! Sasuke didn't just leave us here to wallow! He's going to be back! Maybe not this year or next year but when ever he is back I'm going to be here waiting for him. Every day like we used to do." Naruto hollered at the pink haired girl with tears streaming down his face. "He was taken us. He did not choose to leave; he would never choose to leave us and you know it. I hate people who lie to them selves..." Naruto sniffled like a little boy who had just scrapped his knee on the playground and rand through the door and down the steps--foolishly taking about three at a time to get away from the girl who was bound to be following after him. He grabbed his bag from the bottom of the stair well and took off out the front door and started heading home.
"Naru?" Sasuke's eyes opened to florescent lights and a boring tile celling along with the faint sound of beeping.
"Sasuke! I thought you were dead! I was so worried!" Naruto grasped Sasuke's hand holding it as tightly as he could "I don't know what I would do if I lost you...I love you." Naruto said kissing Sasuke's hand and looking at the other boys deep onyx eyes.
"Don't be an idiot dobe. You can't kill me." Sasuke smirked.
"Don't say that! I was really scared teme!" Naruto whined and pouted at his lover before the boy leaned forward to capture Naruto's lips in a sweet kiss.
"Shut up." And with those two words the blonde fell silent, a large blush filling up his face. Suddenly the doctor came in holding a bag of clothing and a chart. She had long blonde hair in two long pony tail and she was wearing green scrubs that were obviously too small for her inhumanly large chest because her breasts were about to fall out of it in an embarrassing show all moment.
"Granny! When can Sasuke come home?" Naruto asked enthusiastically.
"Well, Sasuke is free to go, however his godfather is here to pick him up and take him." Tsunade looked at Naruto and Sasuke apologetically mouthing the words there was nothing I could do about it. Following Tsunade's announcement and after a short moment of utter shock another person entered the room from the shadows. He was wearing a black jacket, a purple shirt, a white tie, and a pair of black blue jeans to top off the look. His face was so white the boys both wondered if he had ever possibly seen the sun and he had strange purple tattoos around his eyes which were glowing yellow with thin irises like that of a snake.
"Hello there Sasuke. I've been trying to find you for a long time. My name is Orochimaru and when your parents tragically pasted away nine years ago," Everyone in the room felt the spite said in those three words he spat out. "they left you in my care. So from this day forth you will come live with me in Otogakure." Sasuke stared into the mans freakish eyes calmly and without fear.
"I'm not going with you. I have to stay here. This one would die without me." Sasuke calmly tilted his head toward Naruto.
"I'm sure he'll survive. I've been searching for you far too long to give you up Sasuke. You can't run away from me anymore." The snake-like man hissed at the boys. "I'll be outside waiting. Don't try to run, I have people waiting under your window as well incase of an escape attempt. Be seeing you soon." Orochimaru exited the room giving Sasuke one last glare.
"Sasuke...I need you. You can't leave me...Sasuke." Naruto blubbered. Tears already falling down his cheeks.
"It doesn't look like there's anything we can do though. I'm sorry Naru. I'll find my way back I swear. I just have to do this for now." Sasuke kissed the blonde boy on the top of his head but still kept his cool demeanor.
"Promise you'll come back. Promise me! You can't break this promise!" Naruto started bawling with more and more tears.
"I promise. I'll come back some day." Sasuke pulled Naruto's face up and kisses him passionately and shed a single tear without Naruto seeing.
Naruto Slammed though his door into his apartment and threw his coat on the oldratty couch in the living room and went to the kitchen to start boiling some water.
"Freaking snow. I'm all cold and wet now." Naruto shivered and left the kitchen heading in the direction of his room. He stripped down and threw his dirty uniform and boxers into the hamper and slipped on a pair of black boxers with orange swirls on them along with a pair of orange sweat pants and a black tee-shirt with an orange hoodie over it.
"I had better wash these. It's only tuesday and I only have one more uniform." Naruto sighed and grabbed his laundry.
Naruto walked down the stairs sluggishly to the communal washing machines in the basement of the old building. Naruto lived on the fourth floor so it was a pretty long walk and his basket was very full and so he had dropped numerous pieces of clothing in the stairway.
After going up and down five flights of stairs and gathering numerous articles of clothing along with attracting numerous questioning looks from some of the old ladies that lived in the building Naruto finally threw his laundry into one washer and ran upstairs.
upon reaching the top he walked into the apartment and flopped down on the couch only to remember the water he left on the stove.
"Shiiiiiiit! Shit shit shit!" Naruto ran to the kitchen but felt no disaster calling his name. Confused he put his hand over the oven cautiously but didn't feel any heat.
"Damn it!Freaking thing as old as father time." Naruto sighed and put his face in his hand. "I do not need this I'll just call Kiba to come over and fix it later." Naruto trudged off to his room again to sleep this time. He entered the room and shut the door behind him. The room was simple. One desk covered in papers with a lap top, one dresser with a clock, lamp ,and book on it, one window with a vide of the street below with black curtains, and one bed with an orange blanket on it for warmth during these frigid months. But there was something new in the room this time. There was a small black and red present sitting in the center of the bed. Red wrapping paper wrapped in an ominous black bow. Naruto looked at it confused and stunned. Only 2 people had keys to this apartment and they were both in classes right now so why was there a present here? There was a tag sitting on the bok. It was bright orange and said in simple black letters
You don't have to wait until Christmas...
He picked up the box and shook it to make sure it wasn't a bomb or something dangerous though if it had been he would probably have died. Naruto removed the lid from the box and inside was covered in black tissue paper which was quickly removed to get to the gift waiting inside. It was a small snow globe of Konogakure with the academy set center stage. On the bottom there was gold embroidered letters.
"Come back some day," Naruto muttered looking at the trinket as if it was a gold brick. "Sasuke..."