Hi guys it's me again with another story. First off...
Len: Oh god no! It stars me!
Ttcf: As I was saying I was bored one day and thought I would right a random ff about my OC Cole Tao who is friends with Naruto character Sasuke. Sorry by the way if I get any info wrong about Sasuke – I have only actually watched episode 1 and read vol. 1 of the manga. I don't have much else to say so
Len: don't say it, don't say those dreaded 4 words.
Ttcf: *smirks* what 4 words?
Len: On with the fanfiction *realises what she just tricked him into doing*
Ttcf: *grins* Well said!

Alone

Another Saturday evening, another boring day. I was busy with my friend Sasuke doing random stuff. But in truth all I wanted was peace and quiet but since Sasuke wanted help with exams I heroically volunteered. I'm an idiot. Tao or not I'm still an idiot. There were lots of reasons I moved here, far away from the family but I know the one that is the biggest reason: Len Tao, my cousin. I often wondered if he ever forgave me about the feud but since I never get a phone call from him I guess not. Heck, I haven't even seen him since the argument so why would I get a phone call off of him? Sasuke looked at the clock and swallowed
"I've got to go, itachi is going to kill me for being this late. See you tomorrow Cole" I looked at the clock; it read 23:59I settled down to sleep myself. Looking out the window I sighed at the rain fall. I closed my eyes when.
"KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!" Who in their right mind would be out in this storm? I went to sleep. The knocking got louder. Slightly miffed now. Even louder. And louder until...
"OH FOR GOONESS SAKE I'm COMING!" I got up and put on a loose silk kimono which mother had gotten me before I moved. The knocking stops and if I strained my ears I could hear the sound of crying the other side. This is just what I need at... exactly 12:00? That. Is. SPOOKY! I looked out the window first and almost choked at what I saw: Len Tao, in tears, leaning against my door. Maybe he was going to apologise, the jerk! No, Len has his pride and definitely would not be like this to apologise. Something was up.

I slowly opened the door and looked into Len's wide, bloodshot yellow eyes.
"Please Cole, please help me! I have nowhere else to go! I need your help. Please I-" He didn't finish his sentence because he passed out, falling on top of maxi had half a mind to push him off and yell at him but the desperation in his voice earlier stopped me doing so.
"Hey Cole I forgot...uh whose he?"My eyes snapped open (when did they shut?) to find Sasuke giving me a very strange look. A blush crept its way onto my face as I realised what he was on about.
"He is my cousin and I think, by all the blood and bruises, he needs medical attention."I said to the very interested Sasuke. Typical! I lifted my unconscious cousin bridal style and heaved hi over to the sofa where I had previously been sleeping (More like trying). Sasuke cocked an eyebrow at me and grinned.
"Wait..."His grin disappeared. I winced as I remembered what I had said about my cousin" Isn't he the one who you called an absolute (can't repeat what he said it was that bad) and that he should be buried alive?" I grimaced and nodded slowly. "So why are you helping him?"
"I honestly don't know. He was at my door in tears, actual tears and so I figured it was bad, especially as he said that he hoped that he'd never see me again." I looked down at the sleeping form and took in the details. For one the feet. The idiot hadn't worn shoes! His feet had glass, rocks and god knows what embedded into the sensitive soles. I groaned. He always was a bit of a masochist but still.
"Len you moron."I accidently said out loud. Next were his clothes. They hung on his pale frame by scraps and from a guess he had probably been out for days like this. Another involuntary groan. I was glad that, because I'm a Tao, I was well rounded in all skills and that included medicine. It took a matter of seconds to patch up the wounds and clear him of any infections. Sasuke had left half way through so I was alone, trying to figure out his intentions. Why did he do this to himself? A sudden sob brought me back to harsh reality. I looked at me cousin with mild amusement as he slowly pushed himself on to his pale, thin arms. I subconsciously noted his wincing and smirked triumphantly.
"My, my, my look who has come crawling back after what...7 years? And here I thought you wanted nothing to do with me."I said to him, grinning at how I had the upper hand. I draped a thin, hole filled blanket. But when he looked at me, it threw me. His eyes, once sparkling with arrogance, confidence and...Something else I could never put my finger on, were now bloodshot, all confidence lost in a sea despair. Insecurity loomed over him like a bad smell. His golden eyes were glazed over as tears brimmed from them. The once cold, haughty, sneering voice was a soft, childish whimper. It was like he was a completely different person. It was like he was a stranger. His dishevelled appearance was almost enough to break my grin and make me drape an arm round him tell him it was ok. Like I used to, before the argument. Almost. I had him. I could make him feel terrible, break his already fragile spirit. Embarrass him. Repay him for what happened all those years ago. But something else clicked inside of me. He hadn't seen me in 7 years, trying to keep his word. Why now? Why come back now? But I had the high ground. I would make him pay
"C-Cole I need your help."He whispered, voice laced with despair. My smirk broadened. I know it's slightly sadistic but I was hurt. Hurt from what he said. And he needed to pay.
"Repeat that, dear cousin. I think I misheard." He looked at me pleadingly, as if it was an unspoken request that I would not degrade him further. TOO BAD!
"C-Cole I-I need your help."The last part came as a bit of a sob and my smirk softened. He screwed up his eyes and keeled over. I had stopped smirking by now, fully aware that he was very ill. I went over to him and he shrank into the wall, terrified. I knelt by him and pulled him into a hug. In a feeble attempt to push me away, he shrank (if possible) even further back into the burgundy-coloured wall. After grasping the fact that resistance was futile, he relaxed and started sobbing.

It was 10 whole minutes until he finally calmed down enough to explain, by which time I had released him from the embrace and had gotten him a nice hot drink. Not that I would admit it in public, I did miss my little cousin. Before the argument he was like the little brother I never had (I got stuck with a baby sister!) and so I did care for him. I suppose all the things I said to him like how I hoped he would suffer; I suppose they were heat of the moment things. I knew for a fact that once you get through his walls, his barriers, it wasn't very hard to break his spirit so something must have happened to him in order for him to be so...vulnerable.
"What happened? Why are you here? You said that you hopefully would never see me again. I said I never wanted to see you again. So why" I mentally kicked myself. What was I thinking?! Having ago at him, reminding him what was said. He nodded and a single tear rolled down his sodden, flushed cheeks.
"I was summoned to the Tao family house when uncle told me that my cavorting around my so-called friends had lead to my betrayal of the Tao's. I hadn't though! I was framed! Anyway I was told I was no longer welcome in the Tao family. So I went to my 'friends' for help. They shunned me! They asked me what kind of friend am I for saying such things! I didn't understand what they meant. What had I said? So I looked for you. It took me months but I found you. I had a strange hope that you...Would help me but...after what I said you won't. I know it. I have nowhere to go Cole, you're my last hope." He was desperate. I could tell. And it's all because of uncle. That snake! Uncle has been dying for a reason to kick him out of the family. Blood control*.That was his plan all along. He must have used it to turn his friends against him. A low move. Without me realising, he had reached the door and was about to leave when...
THUD! Len collapsed again. I sighed. I had nowhere to put him except my room (Curse my idea of choosing a one bedroom house with a toilet, kitchen and downstairs living room.)I carried him into my room and laid him carefully on the silk sheets. I studied him with interest. He was thinner and paler than the last time I had seen him. His breathing was ragged and his eyes were shut lightly. He was always a little devil as a child. I wondered how old he was now. He was 5 when we had the argument (I know its young but 5 year olds have nasty tempers) I remembered that he would act a lot older than he was and unfortunately because of his size a lot of people thought he was 3!But he once had an argument with a 30 year old and won! I smiled melancholically and brushed his purple bangs out his face.

I sat like that for hours, watching his chest heave up as he took haggard breath after haggard breath, eyelids fluttering from time to time, as if trying to wake up but trapped in his sleep. He would often do that as a child. The things uncle put him through, the things uncle expected of him were horrible. He never technically had a childhood, uncle stole that from him. Uncle stole a lot of things from Len. I smiled bitterly as I remembered the countless times he would come running to me, with fresh bruises. A knock at the door reminded me I was still in the present. I read the alarm clock. It was 3:56 in the morning.I left the bedside and opened the door.
It was Sasuke.

Ok I know I shouldn't end it there but dun dun dunnnnnn! Why is Sasuke here? You'll have to find out in the next chapter. Yes and about all of my other stories...Im after a set amont of reviews before I continue any of them! Sorry but I'm even planning to delete the stories that don't have a set amount of reviews. Also kayleigh The Charmander will have to be continued after this is finished. Sorry. It's not exactly popular so it will put on hiatus.
Len: Why me?!
Ttcf: Oh stop moaning I haven't done anything to you. Yet *Laughs manically*