Sasuke said as he took my face in his hands and kissed me deeply.
"Sas…" I said, breaking away from the kiss. I took both of Sasuke's hands into mine and let my head fall to his chest. I've never felt like this before while kissing him, but this feeling was in the pit of my stomach that wouldn't let me continue. I felt too uneasy.
"What's the matter?" Sasuke asked earnestly.
"It's just… this mission. What if something goes wrong?" I looked up to him and saw his charcoal eyes staring back at me. It's like I was captured in his trance, there was something about him. When he was looking at me, it's like the whole word, besides him, went away. This time his eyes seemed sad almost, like he didn't enjoy the thought either.
"Nothing's going to happen to anyone. We'll catch Orochimaru, and this'll all be over. Besides, I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I'd die before I'd let anything bad happen to you."
"That's what I'm afraid of. I'd do the same for you. But what if that circumstance arises and one of us ends up getting hurt? Sas… I couldn't bear to be without you." I said as I wrapped my arms around him and held us tightly together, "Sasuke, I'm scared."
"Don't be dobe. Nothing will happen because we have each other. As long as we're looking out for the other we're unstoppable." Sasuke said as I felt him embrace me back.
We sat like that, embracing each other for a few minutes. "I went through so much to get you. And you went through so much more, for me. If we're not together then…"
"Naruto! Stop it already!" Sasuke unlocked his arms around me and looked at me, with tears swelling in his eyes, "Just shut up already! Yes there's the possibility that something could go wrong. But that's not going to happen, okay? I don't want to hear about this anymore, I just want you to hold me right now. Ensure me that you're real and I haven't been living in some fantasy these past weeks." Tears were strolling down his face now, "We've just got back together, and now the possibility exists that we could get torn apart again. Now that I have you, in this way, I can't live without you. If you were gone then I-" He trailed off, refusing to say the rest of the sentence we both knew how it would end. I grabbed Sasuke in my arms, stood up, and walked us to our bed. I laid him in the bed and crawled in next to him, holding him tightly to me.
"Sasuke, know that these weeks have been real. They've been so real." The next thing I knew Sasuke turned around and clutched to me. He put his arm across my chest and laid his head in the crook of my neck.
"Promise me nothing will go wrong." Sasuke said, as I felt tears roll onto my neck.
"Sasuke, I know you know that I can't do that. You risked your life for me not knowing what Orochimaru could do to you, and I risked my life to come save you. We both did it knowing that something could go wrong. But now that we're together, I can be more assured than I've been ever before that something won't go wrong. Yet still, there is a possibility. But this has to be done, Konoha will never be safe until this man is rid of. It's not just for us, that he needs to be gone. It's for the safety of the village and everyone in it." I told Sasuke, while rubbing his arm soothingly.
"I hate when you're right. I'm being such a baby right now…"
"No you aren't, I'm worried about it too. Granted I didn't have a heart attack over it buttttt…" I sarcastically said
"Shut it dobe!" Sasuke said pushing me on the chest.
"Oh so now you wanna fight, is that it? Or was all this just a ploy to get me in bed with you?" I said sneering at him, "Cause if it's the latter, then I think you won." I said, holding Sasuke's arms down and pulling myself on top of him until I had him totally pinned, "Right now I seem to be in a good position to fight or fuck you, so really it's your choice teme." I told him, trying my best to imitate his classic smirk.
"Hn." Was all Sasuke said, huffing and puffing up at me.
"That's not going to change the situation right now, you know. You have to pick one Sasuke, you instigated it. Fight or fuck, your choice. I'm perfectly fine with either." I said, really annunciating the word perfectly, as if I were really okay with either. When in fact, we both knew I wanted to fuck.
"Sasuke looked up at me with needy eyes, he started getting restless underneath me. He tried to move his hands and arms, but not enough so that he actually wanted to get away from my grasp. He stared at me with those eyes, bit his lip, and lightly moaned while his body squirmed.
"Come on Sas, just tell me which one you want… I really can't tell, could be either really." I said teasingly.
"Naruto, come here." He said sexily, implying for me to lower my head to him. I put my ear to close to him, "Please, I don't want you to fuck me… Uzumaki Naruto, make love to me, please." Sasuke moaned with need into my ear. How could I refuse an offer like that?
I lifted my head back up away from him, and looked down at Sasuke. I really looked at Sasuke, taking notice of the the bends and curvatures in his face, not knowing when the last time I could see him might be. I let go of Sasuke hand and moved my own to his face. I put his cheek in my hands and caressed his face. Moving my thumb lightly on his supple skin. Sasuke careened into my touch, closing his eyes.
"Oh Sasuke," I said leaning down to him again, "I love you… so much, it honestly hurts me." I kissed his neck, and he opened up to me further, "You don't need to pick anymore teme, I know what you want." I lowered my body on top of him and continued to kiss his neck.
"Mmhh Naruto." Sasuke moaned, running his free hand through my hair. His hand began to travel down my back, holding us close together. He started to pull my shirt off and I disconnected us, sat up on him, and took my shirt off for his nice and slowly. His hands touched roamed my stomach as the shirt covered my face. And after I threw it to the floor, I held onto his wrists, holding his hands to my body.
"You're beautiful Naruto. Your body is perfect, I-I want you Naru." Sasuke said, his voice trembling.
"I want you too teme, I'll go nice and slow though. I want to savor this moment with you." I said, looking him in his eyes. As I unlatched my hands from his wrists and trailed them down to his own shirt, pulling it up and over his head for him, also throwing it to the floor. I did the same to Sasuke and roamed his body. Holding onto his obliques, I bent down and sucked on his nipple.
"Ah, mmhh Naruto." He moaned.
"Don't hold your voice in Sasuke, I want to hear all of you, please." I said as I moved my mouth to his other nipple and sucking on it.
Chapter 14 (Back to the Beginning Again)
2 months later…
At this point, life was perfect. I 19 years old now, I'm in Konoha, living the dream with my friends and loved ones. I was revered as one of the greatest Shinobi in the village for various reasons, I defeated Pain, and saved the village, I hold a tailed beast inside of me that I've tamed(Mostly, but we'll get to that later), and oh, also, I've defeated legendary Sannin, Orochimaru. Truth be told, I'll more than likely become Hokage someday, my life's main goal. But the thing that really pulls this perfect life together is my best friend, boyfriend(soon to be fiance but he has no idea I'm going to pop the question), and lover, Sasuke Uchiha.
Six years ago now during the chunin exams, my beloved Sasuke sacrificed himself over to Orochimaru, in place of myself. During that time, in Sasuke's absence, a lot happened. I yearned for him more and more with each passing month, I trained with Jiraiya Sensei, I mastered the Jutsu said teacher taught me, defeated the leader of the Akatsuki Pain after he defeated Jiraiya and overcame many other feats. Five years passed while Sasuke was gone, and I had moved up to the top of the ranks in my village. I had become an elite Shinobi, what I always dreamed of. But in those five years, there was a hole in my heart where Sasuke used to be. I got close to him and the other members of team 7 and started to feel like I finally had a place where I belonged. And when he supposedly left the village in rage and vengeance seeking a higher power to train under Orochimaru, he took that piece of me with him. And for five years, there was a void in me that was unfillable to anyone but him. After five years of torment and torture though, I set out on my own to look for Sasuke, never believing the story of why he left.
During the time that Sasuke was gone, much had happened to him aw well, most of it he hasn't revealed to me because he's a hard nut to crack when it comes to his feelings. But he has opened up about his family life, mainly Itachi. After Itachi left for the Akatsuki, Sasuke hated him, he could never forgive Itachi for what he did to him and the rest of his clan. For years, Sasuke secretly seeked revenge. And in the darker times of when Sasuke was with Orochimaru, Orochimaru convinced Sasuke to act on his revenge. Orochimaru trained Sasuke to become stronger than his brother, filling him with hate and anger. Eventually Sasuke found his older brother, and killed him. But right before Itachi was about to die, Itachi pokes his forehead, leaving Sasuke astonished and says 'Sorry, Sasuke… this is it'. Sasuke's anger doesn't go away with the death of his brother though, and a few weeks after Itachi's death Sasuke awakens the Mangekyou Sharingan, Sasuke's pain for the loss of his brother awakened it. Sasuke's anger only grew and he started to resent Orochimaru for tricking him into killing his brother. But Sasuke's never attempted to leave, knowing what he was capable to doing to Naruto, and maybe himself.
Sasuke started to see apparitions of Itachi though, and Itachi explained why he did everything that he did, to protect the village and Sasuke. Sasuke plummeted after he found out the truth behind his older brothers actions. Once Sasuke came to this realization, he realized he needed to leave, he needed to get back to the leaf, out of Orochimaru's control…
(Instead in canon once Sasuke realizes the truth behind Itachi's actions… from Obito, instead of a ghost version of Itachi obviously… he seeks revenge on the hidden leaf. But in my version, Sasuke takes the different route, the route that Itachi would've actually wanted. And Sasuke wants to get back to the leaf and Naruto, instead of destroying it and Naruto. Obviously this isn't exactly how it went down in canon, I added my own twist to it, with the whole Orochimaru thing, but I still wanted to get canon details in there so it still stayed true to most of the facts in Anime. I wanted to get to the same conclusion, in a different manner than canon. And still have Naruto and Sasuke end up together, because we all know they've always belonged together. If you have any questions about how I came to this conclusion, or are confused at all, please ask me and I'll clear it up for you! Now back to my version!)
… Sasuke decided to lay low with Orochimaru, secretly planning an escape attempt and Orochimaru's death. Sasuke just needed to become stronger than him first.
Eventually I got to Sasuke first, before he had executed his escape plan, which may have never happened because Orochimaru was getting stronger and stronger everyday. And also Orochimaru used Sasuke's power for experiments and it drained Sasuke for so long, it seemed he would have never been able to escape. and later learned of his sacrifice. And since then, I've been utterly in love with him. About a year has passed since that day I was reunited with Sasuke and it seems life couldn't be better.
A mere week after Sasuke and I had returned to the village, the current Hokage, Tsunade gave us a very difficult mission. To search and destroy Orochimaru. At first Sasuke and I were hesitant of our new mission, and requested that Tsunade, a former team member of Orochimaru, and Kakashi, another great Shinobi and former sensei, that they both conduct the mission with us. Soon enough though Sasuke and I realized how selfish our request really was, and decided to go on the mission ourselves. It wasn't long before we found Orochimaru, in fact, he was the one that came to us.
About a week passed after Sasuke and I left in the middle of the night beginning our mission. It was night out and we were sitting high up in a tree, both about to fall asleep as I held Sasuke in my arms, when a kunai came out of nowhere buzzing centimeters by my head as it lodged itself into the tree behind me. I was dazed and confused, but Sasuke was up on his feet in no time assessing the situation.
"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled for the third time, "Get the fuck up idiot!" I was mesmerized at the dagger so close to me. It was all a blur, and I'm sure I couldn't even put the chronological order of events that happened in the time span of ten seconds ago, together correctly.
"Naruto!" Sasuke pleaded with me to get up and get focused. This time, his worried and needy voice unchained me from my daze and I was up on my feet, back to back with Sasuke in seconds.
"Naruto, are you okay? It didn't hit you did it?" Sasuke asked, knees bent, kunai in his hand and mouth, Mangekyou Sharingan activated.
"I'm fine, Sasuke with your eyes… can you see anything? It's him, isn't it?" I asked, understanding that he was using his eyes, and that Orochimaru came to us first.
"No I can't see him, I remember when he was holding me he was working on a way to become evasive towards this power, he used me for that… it seems he must have mastered it."
"Sasuke, don't waiste your eyes on this! We can take him without your ability… please Sasuke don't blind yourself for this." (Note that Sasuke hasn't taken Itachi's eyes, so he doesn't have Eternal Mangekyou, and thus, his vision is at stake)
"Naruto…" Sasuke said
"No please Sasuke! Not until the last minute when you have to use it!" I begged him.
"Okay Naruto, I trust you." Sasuke said, deactivating the Mangekyou, "Naruto?" Sasuke whispered
"What is it teme?" I said, our backs still against each other, the both of us analyzing our surroundings.
"I love you, no matter what happens here, I'll always love only you." Sasuke admitted, his voice creeping down to barely audible.
"Damnit Sasuke! Don't say shit like that, we're going to be fine idiot! … But I love you too Sasuke, only you, forever." I hated myself for saying it in this situation, it's almost like it was a goodbye, just in case one or both of us didn't make it.
Minutes went by now, and nothing else out of the ordinary had happened. It was night out and things were getting eerie, "Sasuke can you see anything? I got nothing, it's quiet, almost too quiet. What's going on here? What's he playing at?"
"That's exactly right Naruto. He's playing with knows exactly where we are, and we're sitting ducks for him. This is what he always does with his prey, that snake. He always plays with his food." Sasuke said.
Just then, a figure flashed by to Sasuke's left side, so my right. We both threw a kunai at it at the exact same time, and our kunai (I don't know the plural word for kunai! Kunais? Or just Kunai? I like the sound of just Kunai so that's what I'll use) hit a tree landing directly next to each other. Sasuke smirked at me and did his class 'hn'.
"You're not the only one with incredible speed here, you've got the best ninja in the leaf beside you Sas." I said, defending myself.
"Hn, please. This is a topic for another time alright? I acknowledge that you're just as good, strong, quick, and talented as me. Maybe even more so, okay? So let's focus on the task at hand alright?" Sasuke admitted. I was cheering on the inside. Sasuke recognized my talent! Yes! I would brag about this later, but now was not the time. I had to keep my teme safe.
Another figure appeared before us. It was standing on the same branch we threw our kunai at.
"Orochimaru!" I yelled, Sasuke and I turned so we were facing him.
"Ah yes, hello Sasuke… long time no see, old friend." He said, with his snaky voice. Sasuke and I tried throwing our kunai at him, we hit him with all our fire power. Sasuke used his chidori stream the same time I threw my rasen shuriken, they intertwined together to create and ultimate attack but, everything was going right through him(Similar to Obito).
"Die you bastarddddddd!" I yelled out of frustration. And I had a plan.
"Naruto! No!" Sasuke yelled simultaneously as he came sprinting after me. I jumped towards the invincible man, rasengan filling up the space between my hands, and as I was about to hit him, he disappeared and my rasengan and I went bursting into the tree behind. I hit the tree with such force, my rasengan completely cut it in half. And the top part came falling towards the ground. The both of us almost fell along with the tree, but each of us steadied a foothold on a neighboring tree and managed to collect ourselves together again. In all of the ruckus, as I was jumping back up to the next branch, I made two shadow clones. Both of which we meditating on the ground, far below all of us. I had a feeling I'd need my sage, and from the ruckus just now, I don't think anyone noticed. We went back to the same position we were in before and about 20 meters aways, he showed up again, standing in a tree. Sasuke grabbed my arm, as I was about to go for him again, and stopped me. He gave me a weird look as well, almost questioning what I did. He must've noticed the shadow clones. I gave him a reassuring nod and he seemed to understand.
"Naruto, our attacks aren't working. Don't make any rash decisions. He's a very calculated man and being rash isn't going to get him. We need to outsmart him. Your rashness will only get you killed. I'm the one who was with him for five years, trust me on this and don't do anything stupid." Sasuke said, still never letting my arm go. He relaxed himself and stood up straight, not being in a defensive stance anymore. I did the same.
"I trust you." I whispered to him. Orochimaru was just standing there, with a weirdly evil, yet satisfying grin on his face. His long tongue came out of his mouth and he licked his lips, and threw his head back, getting the hair out of his face. We all stood there, staring each other down, as Orochimaru started speaking again.
"Now, now, Naruto. Why don't you just listen instead of being your usual hot tempered self?" Orochimaru said, it almost seemed like he wasn't real. It looked as if he was twitching a lot. Like a hologram would, it seemed like this wasn't really him, but just a show of him and the connection seemed to be bad.
"Sasuke…" I whispered to him.
"I know, I see it to. That's not the real one, be on your feet." Sasuke said, assuring my theory.
"Anyways, as I was trying to do before you so rudely attacked me Naruto, I was trying to greet Sasuke again. Whom I haven't seen in much, much too long." He said with that smirk on his face, "Ah I remember the day, about a year ago like it was yesterday. Naruto, you came into my hideout in search for Sasuke. You found what you were looking for and made your escape with my apprentice. And since then, you've lived your lives happily together. But are you really both that stupid? You don't think I wouldn't have come for you, you think you just made a clean getaway? I knew what was happening the moment Sasuke and I came back to our hideout that day. Sasuke wasn't the only one to sense you, I felt your strong chakra presence in the trees and knew immediately what was going on." I tensed and struggled to break free from Sasuke's hold so I could bash the fake into the ground. But I knew I couldn't actually.
"Oh don't get hasty Naruto. Just listen, it's a good story if you listen." Orochimaru continued, "I let all of this happen from minute one. Your getaway, your little escapade back to the village and your time back at the leaf. Oh don't get me wrong, I loved watching you two as you both kindled your relationship, it really was heart-warming. I don't think I've witnessed two people more in love than you two. I let this go on for so long, well, because I just didn't have the heart to break it up. Ah but it must be done, Naruto, you'll be my own personal experiment after we're done here."
"Hn, you have no heart to break." Sasuke snarled under his breath.
"Ah what was that Sasuke? You said I have no heart to break? Ah you got me there! Good one! See, I missed us being together, you were always such a funny, funny man!" Orochimaru snapped back.
"God, just shut the fuck up! None of this is true! It fucking can't be! You're not really here, I'm not really here, this is all bullshit!" Sasuke broke down and fell to his knees. Waves of memories and repressed feelings were coming back to him, and it must be so hard for him to handle all of a sudden.
"Ah, but this is all too real, Sasuke. And like I said, if you ever tried to escape me, I'll not hunt you down, but Naruto, steal him away and use him instead. That always seemed to put you in your place back then. And when you two stayed together, it just made it all that much easier! Really, I've honestly been watching from the shadows this whole time, what fun it has been!" Sasuke was on his hands and knees on the tree branches, and I fell down to help him up, but it seemed like he was too far gone, like he was broken.
"Where the fuck are you really? Hiding in the shadows again? Is that what you call noble? You portray a clone of yourself, but you're too weak and afraid to show the real you?!" I screamed into the night, ignoring the clone, knowing he wasn't the real one.
"Ah Naruto, you've grown more acute to sense, since the last time we met. I'm glad. So you know this isn't really me, eh? You want me to come out and show you my face, huh? Well… Naruto, you asked for a fight, I'll gladly give one to you."
All of a sudden, the entire tree that we were resting on started to shake uncontrollably, and, just like he said earlier, he came out from the shadows in front of us. He no longer looked like the original Orochimaru, but his neck and body was a large white, scaled, snake. And only his head still seemed remotely human. He slithered his way up the trunk of a tree and transformed into his regular form once he reached the same branch as the one with the clone on it. Our tree stopped shaking and soon we were all finally looking at each other. Everyone's real self.
"Come on Naruto, aren't you going to fight for your lover who crumbled to his knees earlier? I haven't felt anything in so long, I need a fight, especially with you, Naruto Uzumaki."
"I'm sorry Sasuke but that was the last straw." I whispered to him, he nodded and feebly stood up with me. I made the hand signs to use my first clone's meditation and immediately my eyes became those of a frog and power surged through me.
"Wow, Jiraiya really did teach you? This might be more difficult than I thought…" He said grinning widely as he started laughing hysterically.
"Don't underestimate me snake." I said as I leaped over to him, with lightning quick speed, rivaling the Yellow Flash's. A rasengan boiled in my hands as I soared through the air, yet he wa ready for this attack and tens of snakes came flying from his mouth, as if the were all his tongues and I blew my rasengan into them all. But nothin happened to him at all, only more snake tongues erupted from his mouth and were flailing around like crazy. Each and every one of them were hissing and growing in length and size. I could sense an attack coming with the sage mode and raced back to Sasuke, terrified that he would aim his snakes at Sasuke. As soon as I made my way for Sasuke though Orochimaru's snakes darted for him as well, I beat them there though, swept Sasuke up in my arms and rain with him through the trees, the snakes right on our tails. I started climbing up the trees and eventually made it to the top of the canopy. We were in the middle of nowhere, nothing but trees in sight and soon after Orochimaru joined us at the canopy's.
Sasuke surged back to life suddenly, after the emotional damage Orochimaru enjoyed inflicting unto him and he jumped out of my hold, and stood tall next to me ready to fight.
"Ah so Uchiha's finally ready to play some more." Orochimaru hissed, "I'm so glad, we missed you. You should've seen it, your lover valiantly defended you. Incredible, really."
"Shut up, idiot. I can finish your sorry ass off myself." Sasuke said.
We all stood at a standstill, none of us daring to move. Now that Sasuke was ready to go, it was clear that Orochimaru was more hesitant to attack. In the meanwhile, my senjutsu rain out, and I reverted back to my normal state. Sasuke looked at me and I looked back. He gave me that cheeky devilish grin he always does and started sprinting towards Orochimaru. I followed in his footsteps, we then split off, Sasuke took to the left and I took to the right side or Orochimaru. We ran him down, I created another rasenshuriken and Sasuke created a chidori stream, as we closed in on Orochimaru, he stood there, still, waiting for us. We were feet away from him when Sasuke and I both jumped into the air simultaneously threw our jutsus at the other and crashed them down unto Orochimaru. Not surprisingly, at the last second he darted away from us, we both followed behind him, I created the hand signs to use my last senjutsu. We were both on his trail, he was the one running away from us now. Sasuke jumped ahead and stopped in front of Orochimaru, he stopped in his tracks, now we had him covered. He transformed back into his snake form again and slithered beneath the canopy again, sliding away from us. We followed once again, I used my senjutsu to feel where he was touching a part of the earth and followed his most direct path. Sasuke caught on and followed me as well. But when he made it to the ground it was too late, he took us by surprise and sprung his multitude of snakes at us again, cutting and biting our skin. We both landed on the ground, cut all over and panting heavily. Yet we were relentless and started running for him once again. Our eagerness to fight caught him off guard and we both caught up to him engaging in taijutsu. A plethora of kicks and punches were thrown mixed with flips and undercuts.
Our fighting seemed to go on for ages when, I finally found a break in the seem, long enough to be able to create another rasengan. Sasuke noticed me and once he had his chance, he grabbed Orochimaru and held him in place so I could nail him right in stomach with my technique. He fell to the ground, Sasuke and I leaned over him, watching him writher on the floor. Just as soon as Sasuke was about to finish the job and hit him with his chidori stream, Orochimaru dispersed and form into hundred of snakes that slithered away in every direction. Then they all seemed to come together meters away from us to form another giant white scaled snake. His head wasn't even human now and he was larger than life. He darted his head towards us, we jumped away barely avoiding his venomous grasp. He continued to snap at us, we barely avoided his attacks, my sage mode was completely gone now, and there seemed to be no opening to counter attack. We ended up about 20 meters away, Sasuke and I right next to each other staring Orochimaru down, everyone's breathing was extremely rigid, Sasuke and I had cuts and marks all over our bodies, but we could tell we were exhausting Orochimaru too. Blue ooze poured from his snake form where cuts had been.
"There's no way I can be killed, I always come back. Just give up now and make it easier on yourselves and your bodies. Hell, I'll even pardon Sasuke and let him come back with us Naruto, you two can even share the same room together." Orochimaru slithered, he abnormally long tongue licking his scaly lips, "You can't deny it, Sasuke, you miss the power I gave you."
"Shut up!" I bellowed, "There's no way Sasuke would miss a monster like you! You tell me to give up? Hn, yeah right. You see Orochimaru," I looked at Sasuke, gave him a small smirk and ever so slowly we started walking towards him together, cautiously, "That's my nindo, my ninja way. I never give up, because I have loved ones to live, fight and, care for. I'll never give up, and as long ass I live," My voice started to rise at this point, and Sasuke and I broke into another sprint towards the snake, creating one last rasengan and Sasuke one last chidori stream. And he lunged at us, "And I'll never let Sasuke give up either!" I screamed as Sasuke's chidori and my rasengan molded together to create a black lighting air ball of pure power. We collided our new form with Orochimaru head on. At first, nothing happened, it felt like seconds went by with the three of us in the air together like that, then all of a sudden Orochimaru was blasted back at an ungodly speed, a jet stream of black lightning blasting him backward, crushing every tree in his path with his body. As the jet stream died out, so did the rest of the power Sasuke and I had. Orochimaru laid, about 100 meters away, with a perfect path to him as his body blasted through all the trees he collided with. Rubble spewed everything, damaged trees laid on the outskirts of his path. Sasuke and I walked over to where his almost lifeless body laid, finally knowing that it was all over for him. As we got to him, he looked up into our eyes, bleeding, beaten and bruised everywhere. His limbs contorted at strange angles and his face barely resembled his normal form anymore. He had reverted back to it after the blast.
"I'll live forever, never forget that I'll always be alive… somewhere." He coughed out his last words as his eyes closed for the last time, taking the light with them as well. After he faded off into darkness, his body turned into a multitude of snakes as it did before, but instead these snakes soon incinerated and turned into sand and ashes where his body used to be.
I looked at Sasuke, and he looked back at me. It seemed our job was finally done. But we both still had a worried look on our faces. Why? I don't know, I just think we both were uneasy after what just happened. We stumbled off a ways away and eventually fell to the ground, beaten up badly from our fight. I laid back on a tree and just let the blood run from me, it seemed I had a severe cut on my stomach that I hadn't noticed when I got. Must have been from all those damned snakes. Sasuke sat down as well, practically falling into my arms he laid in my lap. He too, had severe cuts, looked like his worst one was on his forehead. Blood practically poured from it, I put my hand over it, to try and stop the flow.
"Naruto…" Sasuke said faintly.
"No Sasuke, don't start with me. We made it and you're not going anywhere! Don't you dare say goodbye to me now!" I yelled, tears rushing down my face.
"I'm not going anywhere, dobe." Sasuke said lifting a hand up, he grabbed hold of my free hand and squeezed tightly.
"Good teme, just don't let me go, okay?" I said to him, but no response came, "Okay Sasuke? Answer me! Promise!" Sasuke's eyes closed but I faintly heard him whisper out a promise.
"Sasuke please don't leave me, don't fall asleep." I crooned, rubbing the dried blood on his forehead.
"You're," Sasuke said, coughing, "Such a… a dobe… Naruto. I said… that I wasn't going anywhere. Now let me get some damn rest. I'm not dying damnit!" Sasuke started speaking faintly but energy came into his voice as he continued to speak.
"You're really okay? I can trust that you'll wake up again?" I said, terrified I was going to lose the only person I could care for so much in this world.
"I promise, you can count on me, dobe." Sasuke said, still weak, but he managed to wink at me when he said that.
"Okay teme, let's rest then," I said as I let my head fall back and rest onto the tree trunk, "Hn…!" I said with a strained voice.
"Naruto? Are you alright?" Sasuke said, worrisome.
"It's fine, just a cut on my stomach, I'll be fine." I said to him.
"Promise me! I don't want to become widowed just because you're too stubborn to say how severe it really it!" Sasuke snapped at me.
"I promise, don't worry Sas, I'm not dying either." I said, as I let my eyes close and felt a peaceful rest wash over me. Before I completely dozed off, I think I remembered hearing Sasuke say something else… but I couldn't quite make out the words.
Chapter 15 (Death and its tendencies)
Suddenly I felt like I was surrounded by people. I couldn't see a thing, and couldn't understand what the panicked voices were saying. Unrest enveloped me and I tried to move, but restraints held me in place. I felt the rush or a cool breeze over my body, it smelled like it did when it rained, and that settled me down some. It seemed as though my body were moving through the wind, I was definitely moving that's for sure, but my eyes wouldn't cooperate and open.
A heavy fabric was placed over me and I no longer felt the cool breeze on my body. As my senses finally came to, I realized I was hearing familiar voices.
"Kakashi? Sakura?" I barely squeaked out the words. I felt a hand move to my head, and ruffled my air, only Kakashi sensei would do that, I thought. I heard more blurred voices that I didn't understand and suddenly my eyelids weren't thick enough to block out the bring lights that surrounded me now. And no longer was the a cold wind hitting me, I shut my eyes more, but it was all still too bright for me. The next thing I knew, it felt like I was being placed on a table...or was it a bed? I couldn't tell. All I knew was that this light was far too bright for me, that Kakashi sensei was close, and that my head hurt like hell.
Suddenly, I felt a harsh poke in my arm and grunted and tried to thrash my body in disapproval of the needle being injected into me. A wave of pleasure washed over me, and no longer did I feel pain in my head. But with the absence of the pain, also took the voices and the light with it. I couldn't hear the voices as much anymore, and they seemed to fade away with every second, and my the bright light dimmed and I fell back into unconsciousness.
I dreamed of Sasuke, all I saw was Sasuke. He held me in his embrace and we walked through fields of wildflowers together, soaking in the sun of a beautiful day. Then we ran through the forest, as it downpoured and let the water run over our perfect skin. Then Sasuke held be in his arms as we were surrounded by fluffy pillows and laid on the most comfortable bed. Then I held Sasuke as we did the same. Different stories of Sasuke and I raced through my head, switching back and forth between the different scenarios at random.
Sasuke and I fell asleep together in our big comfy bed, with our big comfy pillows, and the morning light the came through and open window gently woke me up. I sat up in the bed and watched as a crow flew into our room and perched itself on the windowsill. It crowd my name over and over again. But its voice was that of one I recognized, but couldn't remember from where. The voice was sweet and light, it reminded me of pink bubblegum.
"Naruto? Naruto… come on wake up…. Naruto." I opened my eyes and saw Sakura with her pink hair starring at me. Her head blocked our the bright light that was shining down on me and I subconsciously thanked her for her large cranium, "Ah Naruto, you're awake, long time no see idiot." She said while smiling. I couldn't tell if she was joking or not.
"Sakura… Sas… uke? Where's Sasuke?" I barely managed to mumble out. My voice was weak and my throat was extremely sore, it hurt to speak.
"He's just fine Naruto, in the same boat you are. I'm glad you're awake, why don't you settle down and get all your senses back. I'll wake up Sasuke and in a little while you can see him." She said as she smiled at me and walked away. But her head no longer blocked the light and I grunt came from me from the sudden bright light shining in my face.
"Oh sorry about that, I'll turn it off," The next thing I knew the light was off, "I'll be back soon. Get comfortable." She said, and I heard the closing of the door behind her as she left.
My eyes adjusted to the midday light and I stared up at the white ceiling. I felt adventurous and craned my neck and saw that I was in the hospital back in Konoha? Was that really right or was I imagining things? No, Sakura was here, it must be true. Well if it is, then what the hell happened to me?
After I got my bearings and my heart rate went down to normal, I sat up in the hospital bed and took a sip from the water that sat on the little table next to the bed, that had a note on it to 'drink me'.
I twiddled with my thumbs and sat there for what seemed like so long. My legs were in a lot of pain and I didn't want to get up and walk around, but I wanted to go and search for Sasuke...hmmm I had a dilemma. Since Sakura said I'd get to see him though, I decided not to go through the pain of trying to find him right now. I thought back to all that happened to me. The fight with Orochimaru, the way his body disintegrated at my feet. The cuts and bruises Sasuke and I had from it and then I don't remember anything after that. The next thing I knew was that it smelled like rain and it was cold, I was being transported and Kakashi sensei was near. Then I rit not being cold anymore and it felt like I was set down. Ah I see! I must have been carried here, and they laid me on the bed or something! The bright light I remembered from before must have been the one that Sakura thankfully turned off for me earlier. It was all coming together… sort of. But why did I get the feeling that she put on a fake smile for me? I remember it felt like everyone around me was panicked and that they were all in a rush. Oh well, at least I know Sasuke's okay and that I'll get to see him soon enough.
I laid back down in the bed and suddenly felt a stab of pain come from my stomach and I remembered the huge cut I had before. I noticed I was bandaged up all around my stomach and on several more places on my body. I closed my eyes and tried to fall back asleep, I felt exhausted.
Right before I was about to drift off though, the door flew open and I saw that Kakashi and Tsunade were the two to come through the door.
"Ah Naruto! Sakura woke you up already I see!" Kakashi said, smiling at me as he patted my head again.
"Good to see that you're up Uzumaki." Tsunade said. I sat up in the bed again and winced at the pain in the stomach, "Yeah that'll hurt for a few days, but you're practically good as new!" Tsunade said.
"Kakashi, Tsunade… What's going on?" I asked, confused out of my mind.
"Ah yes exactly what we came here to tell you," Kakashi began, "When we realized that Sasuke and you had gone off somewhere, we obviously expected that you two just went off to find Orochimaru yourselves. So Sakura, Kiba, Neji, and few others and myself went to go look for you two buffoons. We found you both unconscious, about a mile away from what seemed like a pretty tough battle ground. From the injuries you two had, we only assumed Orochimaru and you two met each other. Anyways, so we carried you guys back, you two looked so pale and sickly we didn't know if either of you would make it, you both had lost so much blood. We rushed you guys back here ASAP and got you both into surgery. Sasuke's head injury was far worse than your stomach so Tsunade worked on Sasuke while Sakura worked on you. You guys are lucky we got there in time." Kakashi finished.
"So, where's Sasuke? Is he alright? I'm alright, right?" I said frantically feeling around, making sure all of my limbs were still attached.
"Oh Naruto," Tsunade laughed, "Yes the both of you are fine, Sakura woke Sasuke up a while ago, he's been wanting to see you too. We just came from his room, it's three rooms down on the right, if you want to see him. We do need to have a discussion about what happened with Orochimaru later, but for now, we're just happy you're both back safely." They both headed towards the door, "We'll talk later." Tsunade said as they left the room.
Finally caught up on what happened to me, I was ready to see Sasuke! I dangled my legs off the bed and when my feet reached the floor I felt a sear of pain shoot up my body, but I didn't care anymore. Tsunade said I'd be fine, and I needed to see Sasuke. I got out of bed, put on the slippers right by the foot of the bed and walked down to Sasuke's room in just the sleeper pants they had me in and slippers. As I opened the door to his room, I saw him with his forehead all wrapped up in gauze and tape and couldn't help but laugh at the sight.
"You're the one to laugh, you look like a mummy you're in so many bandages. In fact, you actually look like you're dead, what did you crawl to my room or something?" Sasuke snarled at me, but smiled afterwards.
"Oh shut up teme." I said as I took a slipper off and threw it at him. He threw it back at me and I caught and slipped it back on my foot. I walked over to his bed and sat at his side.
"How are you doing?" I asked stroking my hand through his hair.
"Fine now that you're here," He smiled and craned to my touch. I took his face in my hands and brought my face down to him and kissed him lightly. Mh, it had been too long since our lips touched like this. I broke away from the kiss and held our faces close to each other.
"You told me you were fine, dobe! You lied?" Sasuke asked slightly pushing me away and hitting me in the stomach.
"Ouch!" I moaned from the pain.
"I thought I was fine! I didn't know I was actually about to die!" I said honestly, "Really it must have been Kyuubi or something Sas, I swear I didn't lie I thought I was okay. And what about you, you lied to me then?" I snarled back at him
"I was fine! They told me after I fell asleep, that's when my head injury got bad, so I guess we're both off the hook then?" Sasuke asked, with a little bit of a puppy dog face that I just couldn't resist.
"Yeah we're fine." I said, bending down and kissing Sasuke on the lips again. The door opened and Sasuke and I broke away quickly, both of our faces were beet red as we saw Tsunade and Kakashi walk in. Looks like they both knew what was going on too, because they both seemed as awkward as us.
"Uhmm, sorry if we interrupted anyth-" Tsunade began
"No, no you're fine. Nothing to interrupt!" Sasuke and I insisted.
"Okayyy then, well before this gets any more awkward how about we get down to business?" Kakashi said, "Tell us what the fuck happened with you two out there."
"So… uh you wanna go Sasuke?" I offered. He glared at me but eventually gave in and started talking.
"Well Naruto and I realized that demanding the two of you come with us on our mission was selfish and unfair to the village. We thought we could do it on our own. So we left to do it ourselves. And about a week into the mission is when Orochimaru came into contact with us. We engaged in fighting and he said that he was always on our tails and pretty much could have surprised attacked us at any time. But didn't because he was looking for the perfect time. Eventually though, he obviously made his move and we fought for quite a long time. He fucked us up pretty bad as you can tell, but we got him when Naruto and I combined my chidori stream with his rasengan and that did it for him. After we hit him with that, he was on the ground and right as he was about to die, his body transformed into a multitude of these tiny snakes, but they disintegrated almost immediately and all that was left was ashes and dust. Then Naruto and I started walking and you guys ended up finding us where we were after that. That's really it though, nothing else." Sasuke explained it very well I thought, and got my seal of approval.
"Hmm, I see, well I think it'd be interesting to study the combination of both of your jutsu, it's very intriguing. What I was trying to get at though, was there any remains of his body at all. He's a medical paradox? Now that'd be interesting to study." Tsunade said.
"Sorry but there's just ashes," I said, "Oh wait though! Right before he died he said something, hmm what did he say again?" I looked over at Sasuke for the answer.
"He said, 'I'll live forever, never forget that I'll always be alive… somewhere.'. I didn't understand exactly what he meant, I mean, is he really immortal?" Sasuke asked.
"It was his goal to be, but I doubt he achieved. I don't understand what he meant either, but I'll look into it. Also Sasuke, I'm going to need every location of the hideouts that you were in. I couldn't believe I had forgotten about that until recently." Said Tsunade, "Just stop by sometime soon and we'll talk there."
"Sounds good." Sasuke said.
"Now we'll let you two rest some more. There's nothing else for us to do with you guys so you can leave the hospital when you're comfortable. See you guys around." Kakashi said as him and Tsunade walked out the door.
"So you wanna get the hell outta here?" I asked Sasuke, with a cheeky grin on my face.
Chapter 16 (The Ending)
Sasuke and I walked through the streets, towards our home. All banged up and bruised. Stares were aimed our way, but then again, when were people not staring at us? We made it home finally and the first thing I did was head for the kitchen. I grabbed some instant ramen, heated it up, scarfed it down, then I dragged Sasuke to the bed.
"Dobe, I can't do anything in this condition!" Sasuke whined.
"I know teme, me either. I just want to lay down and sleep with you. We're going to bed." Even though it was probably only about 7 p.m. we both had a rough week and would turn in early. Sasuke crawled into bed and I followed him, and wrapped him up tightly in my arms and held him close to me.
"Ah it's all done now teme, we can just be happy now." I said as I stuffed my face in his hair. Inhaling his delicious smell.
"Yeah it sure is nice." Sasuke said, wrapping his own arms around me.
"Hey Sas?" I asked.
"Hn?"
"Do you remember what you said to me right before I fell asleep? I remember hearing you say something but I couldn't make out what it was."
"I said, that I loved you." Was his reply.
"Oh, well I love you too teme." I said, squeezing him tightly to me as we both fell asleep.
Epilogue
Two days after we got back from the hospital was when we decided to go outside for the first time. We we like bunnies in the bedroom once we felt better. We were devouring each other for two straight days before we actually had to be a part of civilization again. Sasuke went down and talked with Tsunade about the hideouts he knew about. Then Sasuke came back and we spent the rest of the day together. I never left his side, and I would never leave his side ever again. Eventually the tension between the Nation's rose and the Third Great Ninja War started. Apparently some guy who called himself Madara thought he could take over the world by putting everyone into a dream like state. Too bad that didn't fly with Sasuke and I. The war started and it was super ugly. The Akatsuki were there, Kabuto was there, and he even managed to raise Orochimaru from the dead again to fight for them pretty much! It was freaky I guess that guy never will really die. Eventually we took Madara and his mother who had three eyes out and saved the world. Sasuke, Kakashi and I were regarded as the best shinobi of the time for saving the world. Kakashi became the sixth Hokage, and in a few years time, when I'm old enough and when the time is right, I'll become the next Hokage. And Sasuke will be right by my side the entire time.
Fin.
Author Comments!
So I wanted to morph my way back into canon at the end. Instead of Sasuke being bad and turning good again (like he did in canon) he just never was bad! It took me a really long time to complete this story. I would write bits and pieces here and there, so if I have any unfinished things that I never wrapped up or talked about please tell me and I will do so! Also if I have any contradictions in it, or pieces that just didn't make sense, again please notify me and I will fix it.
Thanks for reading… If anyone actually did, I appreciate it! Hope you enjoyed. This was my very first story, so I'd like feedback, what you thought of it, what you liked, what you didn't like, what you'd change… yada yada yada.
But yeah, really thanks for reading. If you think I should keep the story going I could if people wanted me to. I could write another sex scene, I know there wasn't one at the end so I you want on just tell me and I'll write another, but I just don't feel very motivated. In fact, it's crazy to think that the story is over, almost makes me kind of sad… actually it makes me really sad. Oh well all good things must come to an end! Hope you liked it! I love all the readers I had and thanks for sticking with it till the end. I'll write more stories so watch out for me!
