It's later then expected, but here is the first chapter of Retribution, continuation of Black Bird. To understand, you will have to read Black Bird. Enjoy.

The two lay snuggled under a thin sheet with a small fan going in circles to promote cooler air, a suitcase and a large duffle bag at the end of the bed. Since the Black Birds had the house renovated, it was much more tolerable in the summer months which were now drawing to a fast close and beginning the college careers for the four youngest members. Being able to sleep easy Naruto abruptly turned over and hit his head against Sasuke's waking both up with prompt moaning. Sasuke opened his eyes and looked over at the clock reading 10:45. He starred at the numbers on the green digital until it hit him. "The alarm didn't go off at nine."

"I turned it o…" Naruto yawned and closed his arms around the now 18 year old Uchiha. Naruto never saw the point of waking up at the same time, especially during the summer when he actually could sleep in. Naruto lick his lips and began to fall back asleep but Sasuke shook him. "Alright, I'll stop turning off the damn alarm, but I need to sleep more."

"Naruto, do you remember why we had to wake up at nine today?" Sasuke waited a minute his red eyes glaring down at the sleeping man besides him. Naruto just shrugged and scratched at his normal morning beard. The question proposed by Sasuke was soon overridden with thoughts of shaving. Sasuke sighed. "It's September…we have to go to college and set up our dorm rooms, and get our final schedules… Naruto we have school today."

"All my classes are after three. Have fun with morning advanced…" He yawned again and stretched out the muscles in his back like a cat. "Whatever it is, Jiraiya teaches it. Ha, you have to put up with that old pervert."

There was a knock at the door, three rapid pounds, followed by a female voice growling and Tayuya opening the door. "Up already! I made breakfast twenty minutes ago and it's going to…!"

"Tay, calm down." Jugo said placing a hand on her head and pulling her forehead to his lips. He turned his attention back to the boys. "Suigetsu ready to leave in ten minutes, I suggest you hurry."

Sasuke smiled, his point now proven. "This is why…"

"Alarms are good, sleeping in is bad, blah, blah, blah." Naruto said getting up and stretching out more. Jugo quickly cover Tayuya's eyes and shoved her out the door, Naruto watched questioning the action until a breeze had hit him in a delicate place. "I'm not wearing anything, am I?"

"Just try to remember pants in college, Naruto." Jugo shook his head, the red locks bouncing around wildly. He shut the door and Naruto just turned to Sasuke and went bright red. He laughed and waited for his lover to give the reassuring 'dumbass' and shake his head with a little smile. Instead Sasuke got up grabbed his boxers, pants, shirt, belt, socks and shoes and headed into their private bathroom. Naruto stood there naked for a second, confused and worried, until out of the open door he head Sasuke mock him.

Naruto smiled and picked up his pants from off the floor and began struggling to get them on. As he finished Sasuke walked out, completely dressed and groomed with his organized bag of grooming items. Naruto grabbed his shirt quickly and opened the door. "So, what do you think Jiraiya's going to be like as a teacher?"

"I'll reserve my judgment for a while. He may be a pervert, but he does know about literature." Naruto slipped the shirt on, sporting his normal bright orange, and grabbed his bag strongly. Sasuke sat down on the edge of the bed and carefully stored away the bag in his suitcase and zipped it closed tight. Sasuke sighed. "At least he agrees that Twilight sucks. At least I'm not that gay."

"You're weird sometimes." Naruto muttered under his breath so Sasuke would take it as an off hand comment. Naruto smiled, the bag heavy with a tv and several systems for games, and began out the door. "Off to college we go!"

"You actually sound excited!" Karin said rushing down with a box of her final items. They included purple wallpaper and tools for putting the color up. She smiled. "I don't know why you're happy about harder classes."

"Parties, and … Okay, so there will be parties." Naruto said as he and Karin headed down the stairs leaving Sasuke in their room. Naruto really didn't go through the morning period as Sasuke had. That was technically their last night of sleeping in their king bed, in their room, in Black Bird. That was their last night sleeping side by side, their skin touching, waking to see the blond hair shift in the light of the morning sun. Sasuke sighed and hung his head. He ran his hand through his hair and felt something light on his back.

Sasuke raised his head to see Suigetsu with a thin strap bag standing in front of him with his longer hair. Suigetsu tilted his head. Sasuke shook. Suigetsu raised an eyebrow. "I'm fine, I promised."

"Why don't you and Naruto just move into your place? I thought Itachi…" Sasuke stood up and grabbed his bags. "Didn't Itachi say they wouldn't come around the mansion."

"He said Kisame would keep an eye on it, but it's still dangerous. If I had someone who could help me, then yes, we'd be there. I wish he could just move in there." Sasuke said and grabbed his suitcase. "Let's go. I've got an hour to get set up and get to my first class."

"Don't worry about setting up the room, I've brought enough band posters you won't have any room to decorate." Suigetsu tried to say in a comforting manner. He walked with Sasuke down to the large van and they began tossing their items in next to Karin's bright purple suitcase. Suigetsu stuck out his tongue at her and she bit it quickly before sticking hers back out as a retort. "Alright Daph, you need to go outside of purple."

"I'm not that bad, look, I'm wearing black, see." Karin said spinning around in a small dress. She moved to the front with Suigetsu to leave Naruto and Sasuke organizing their stuff. Naruto lifted his bag in the back and watched as Sasuke carefully slid in his suitcase then found a way to fasten it to a wall.

"Suigetsu, we're taking the 'Vet." Sasuke said shutting the doors. Naruto stood confused thinking they were going to be hitching with Suigetsu but followed Sasuke anyway to the garage he built. The garage was built in place of the old empty building in which they used to enter from. Sasuke reached in his pocket and clicked the button. The door opened revealing his Corvette and Jugo's beetle. The two dashed for the car, Naruto winning the race. "How do you beat me, every single time?"

"Because, I have a winning personality." Naruto said clapping his arms together behind his head. He relaxed until Sasuke started the car and put on his seat belt. He paused and waited for Naruto to realize he had to do the same. "What?"

"Seat-belt." Sasuke said and pointed it. Naruto quickly grabbed it and giggled. "Seriously, do I have to put instructions everywhere for you?"

"It's becoming a possibility." Naruto said and watched as Sasuke drove away in silence. He stayed that way to the end of the street. "Sas, you okay? You're all, super quiet and… I don't know, sad. What's up?"

"I'm just not that thrilled to be going to college, you can ask Itachi, I was the same way at the beginning of high school. I just don't like change." Sasuke said and gripped the steering wheel tighter. He snorted quickly and his phone rang. Naruto quickly reached over and dug it out of Sasuke's jeans.

"Hello… He's driving, yeah, a bit. Oh no, that's a bad idea. That's a worse idea. That'd work. Yeah, they don't have one, but I assume… Oh, you're buying it right now. Yeah okay. Yep, well be there in five minutes." Sasuke kept driving but kept giving Naruto strange glances. "That'd be funny. He can cook with it, I'm positive. He didn't mean to set that on fire, I swear. Yea, bye."

Naruto turned off the iPhone and shoved it away as nothing had happened. Sasuke rolled to a stop at a red light and turned to him. "Who was that?"

"Oh, Itachi, he's buying you and Suigetsu a microwave. He's also seeing about a fire extinguisher." Naruto said with a goof of a smile on his face. Sasuke sighed. "I know, you told him not to get you anything. He's a brother, he does that."

"He needs to save his money or take some of mine. He's too stubborn to do anything like that though." Sasuke sighed again and drove out of the green light and turned onto campus driving towards the dormitories. Sasuke reached their building and pulled into the space next to Suigetsu van. Sasuke unbuckled, slightly pissed off and shut the door as he walked over and opened up the van. Naruto shook his head got out. He silently walked up behind Sasuke and clamped his hands around his eyes. "Naruto… I will be fine. I promised, I'm just upset at Itachi…"

"And?" Naruto kept his hands up against Sasuke's face covering the red eyes and waiting for him to talk. "What's up?"

"I'm barely going to see you anymore. You got different class times, we're not even in the same room." Sasuke complained. He knew the last part was useless because it was campus policy, also both Sasori and Jiraiya told them they had to have separate rooms. It's how Sasuke ended up with Suigetsu as a roommate, and Naruto ended up with Gaara. "I don't like it."

"It'll be fine, I'm sure at some point, probably every weekend, we can skip off to the mansion." Naruto lowered his hands and squeezed around Sasuke tightly. "It'll be okay."

He squeezed again and let Sasuke go. Naruto grabbed his bag, kissed Sasuke on the cheek and headed in through the open double doors. He stopped with several other people at a large sign, saw 'Uzumaki – 116' and walked down the hall. Naruto raised a hand to knock on 116, but seeing as it's his room, he opened the door.

The room was silent besides some quick typing away at a labtop. Gaara sat on an unmade bed with an empty container of coffee and a fresh one besides him. He stopped and twitched a bit. He looked over as Naruto crashed down on the bed across from his and strtched out. "Hey Gaara."

"Hey Naruto. Did you get through the white version yet? I just finished this morning." Gaara said pulling out his DS and setting it on the bed.

"Yeah, I finished it yesterday. I need to play something besides Pokemon though. I've been thinking of going old school. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong." Naruto said and sat up to open his bag. He started unpacking by pulling out his small TV, followed by the PS3 and the Xbox 360, a present from Sasuke for his 19th birthday. He set them on the bed then pulled out a box filled with games.

Gaara starred for a minute then tilted his head and took a sip of coffee, trying to figure out his question was about to make his head hurt. "Naruto, where did you pack your clothes?"

"Oh, they're… Shit. I knew I forgot something. I suppose I should go catch Sasuke so I can go get them." Naruto jumped up and quickly abandoned his most prized possessions on the unmade bed. Naruto ran out the open door and left Gaara with his laptop. He stayed there for a minute in silence before returning to his work on the computer. He took a sip of his coffee and set it down safely on the floor in front of his bed.

While Gaara was only beginning college, he had the fortune of gaining a reputation from his old school paper and was offered a job as an assistant editor at The Edge. The Edge was an underground, and actually popular newspaper run against the college paper, The Bureau. He thought this would help when he goes through his newspaper classes, as all the teachers, though contracted to The Bureau, read The Edge.

A knock at the door disrupted the article on how student's this year are only likely to get jobs if they have on-the-job experience. Gaara looked up and saw Sasuke at the door. "I figured since Naruto had to run home and possibly crash my car, it would be a good time to talk."

"Please, have a seat then." Gaara said. He quickly saved and closed his laptop setting it aside for later. Sasuke walked in and closed the door halfway. He sat down on Naruto's bed and exchanged tense glances with the red head. "Please, be frank, as I will."

"Of course, I wouldn't imagine otherwise." Sasuke said. The young Uchiha crossed his arms. "I don't trust you, nephew of a friend or not. I don't trust you around Naruto, I don't trust you in general. I am not please that you are Naruto's room mate."

"You're just mad because I'm the only other person besides you on his speed dial. He's yours, I understand that. I'm only wondering if you do." Gaara reached down on the floor and quickly saw a ball point pen stuck in the wood. "You think to scare me somehow?" Gaara picked up the coffee and took a sip un-phased. "I'm your boyfriend's best friend, how do you think he'd feel if he could see you trying to scare me?"

"You're trying to guilt trip me into being okay with this, and it's not working. I've been guilt tripped by politicians, environmentalist and homeless, the homeless are the only ones to win so far." Sasuke stood up. "As long as we get that we don't trust each other, I think we can survive this year."

"What are you talking about, I trust you. I trust you to mess up everything like you have before. You're too damn stupid to do anything else. Now, I have work to do since we all don't have a villainous uncle with a taste for theatrics who leaves millions behind." Gaara picked his laptop back up and opened it without another word. Sasuke suddenly had an urge to punch him in the face. The Uchiha ignored the feeling and walked out closing the door behind him and wandering into the hall of freshmen.

It wasn't long before Sasuke returned to his room, avoiding the stares of people who recognized him or just wondered who the hot guy was. Sasuke sat down on his fully made bed, his clothes half put away. Suigetsu was gone; he had put up his posters as promised and had, in fact, covered the entire room with bands.

Sasuke laid back and closed his eyes. When he opened them he found that a large box was set on his chest with his mon frèrelooking down at him. "I brought you your microwave. You have five minutes to get to class."

"I have… it can wait." Sasuke said taking the box and setting it on the bed. He sat up and looked at Itachi. "You shouldn't have bought me anything; you don't have the money for it."

"My little brother's starting college, I figured I could buy you something. Get to class, call me when your done." Itachi said and set down all of Sasuke's text books on the bed. "I passed Suigetsu on the way in, he said you were asleep so I picked them up for you." Itachi than set down Sasuke credit card. "Get to class, make a positive impact, and don't be late. It's across the street. Au revoir, mon frère."

Itachi began walking out the room when his cell phone rang and he went straight back to work. 'Poor Itachi.' Sasuke thought and stood up grabbing the books he needed.