A Scary Love
2
Sasuke cringed at the small apartment space, "This is disgusting, Naruto. How are you even alive right now?" the raven criticized bluntly. There were ramen cups all over the place, clothing heaps that were in desperate need to be thoroughly washed, the walls were broken in numerous places and the floor was no better. 'What the hell happened here..?'
Naruto smiled sheepishly, the first time he'd smiled even if awkward in a long time. "Sorry about the mess.." Sasuke gave him a curious stare but soon left it alone.
"Before we do anything we are cleaning this up. I was serious when I said this was revolting." Sasuke ventured deeper into the mess of a room before tripping on a floor board, "Tch!" He couldn't back his question anymore, "Naruto! Why the fuck are there ripped up floorboards everywhere?! I'll die young at this rate!"
"I'd tell you all about it but you, Mr. "Quick-n-Clean", want to do what I'd guess you do best: clean!" Naruto didn't know when he'd decided to tell Sasuke about himself and his problems, but, "Hey, Sasuke. When I tell you about me.. you've got to tell me something about you. So I'm more.."
"Comfortable?" The raven should've guessed, who wants to vent to a stranger of all people? The raven nodded his head and they begun cleaning.
Naruto tackled his room alone, he said something about wanting to do it by himself thus making Sasuke banned from ever entering it until it was clean. While the usuratonkatchi took on his way-too-suspicious bedroom, Sasuke went against the kitchen and living room, since he was the faster, more experienced cleaner.
He dug around in the kitchen finding dull knives, magazines, and various pots and pans. He proceeded to pull up a kitchen towel when he found it was red, too red for a watery substance and too light to be paint. It was blood.
God knows whose blood it was but it did give Sasuke a worried expression. 'Is this Naruto's? Maybe he fell? Or maybe he's a sociopath?' Countless thoughts filled Sasuke's head before he calmly put the cloth back in it's proper, bloodied place and he stood up. He then found himself near yet another suspicious blood spot- hidden poorly with a cloth, near the garbage can. The house was now presentable with the garbage bags blocking the door; so now it was time for the blondie to talk.
"Naruto! Come here." he half demanded. Sasuke heard the scuffle of feet, a crash, and a sharp 'Fuck!'. The raven covered the second blood spot up with the towel and went into the now less disgusting living room.
Naruto came into the room rubbing his head, "What is it?"
"Spill it. I wanna know everything that makes you sad, I wanna..." Sasuke swallowed his pride and his face tinged pink, "see you, y'know.. smile." he scratched his nose. 'That was really corny.'
The shorter sat on his couch and sighed. "Fine. I'll tell you. All the shit thats.. happened in my life, but first you need to tell me one thing about you.. just one is fine.. please." Naruto had a sad smile on his face when Sasuke joined him on the small couch.
"One thing, huh? Well.. let's see.. there really haven't been that many problems in my life," he said coolly which kind of disappointed the blond, "however.. my father is a real pain in my neck, so much I've pondered running away from home. He's always comparing me to my elder brother, Itachi.. so that really gets on my nerves at times. Don't get me wrong; I love them, I do.. it's just.. hard, I guess." Sasuke had a flat expression on his face.
"I'm sorry... I asked." He gave an apologetic expression, he had stepped out of his territory with his new friend.
"No, it's okay - I want to hear a lot of your story so.. my little bit of info is nothing really." Sasuke gave him a small smile.
"It.. must be nice.. to have parents, Sasuke." Thus Naruto delved into his story, relaying every bit and piece of it; about his lack of family, the terrible harassing from people around the city - some he didn't even know, the debt his uncle-man had left him, the bullying at school.. but he was hiding something.
Sasuke drank it all in, every drop of information but none of it explained the blood; sure, he was saddened and wanted nothing more but to wrap his arms around Naruto and comfort the life out of him, but none of this explained the blood, or the floorboards - those worried him the most, since it was the present now.
"Naruto, tell me.."
"Eh?" Naruto looked confused.
"Why is there blood all over the kitchen? Why do the floorboards look like they've been wrenched out of the floor, what did you do here?"
Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but closed it before the words could come to life. "It's.." Sasuke put his hand on Naruto's hand, both on Naruto's lap now. The raven gave him a look of 'it's okay, tell me.' "It's.. well.. when the old man died.. I had no way to pay rent so I.."
Sasuke's eyes slowly opened out of pure shock, "sold my body. There was no other way, I couldn't hold a job, Sasuke! So I'd give my body to anyone who'd..-"
"When was the last time..?"
Naruto stayed silent for at least a minute, but it seemed like an hour, "Last weekend."
"So what was the blood?"
"Some people get angry when I dont accept going into a real relationship with them, so they barge in and trash the place.."
And then Sasuke remembered, the bruises on Naruto's face, arms, and legs at last week's gym class. He remembered the way Naruto cringed every time someone would purposely whip the ball to hit his back. The way he winced and limped when he took even the lightest of steps.
This made Sasuke tear up. "Sasuke? Eh! Don't cry.." Naruto put an uneasy hand on Sasuke's shoulder.
Sasuke shook his head, "How can I not? You've been.."
"I'm fine now!" Naruto tried a reassuring smile, so that the Uchiha would stop his tears from falling.
Sasuke then put his arms around Naruto and pulled him into an even tighter embrace than before. Naruto wanted to complain that it hurt.. but instead just wrapped his own arms around Sasuke and proceeded to comfort him like Sasuke had done before.
Many tears were shed that night, but Naruto was glad he had decided to trust his ex-enemy. It felt nice to let it all out once in awhile, the pain in his chest that had kept itself there for his entire life seemed less heavy; a huge weight had been lifted off of his shoulders.
They held eachother for atleast another 2 hours, before Sasuke left Naruto to ponder about the day's events.
xXx
"Hey, Naruto." Sasuke greeted in gym the next day.
Naruto seemed a little shocked. "Are you sure you should be talking to me in the middle of school?"
The raven gave a confused look when suddenly a dodgeball cracked at the side of the blond's head. The force pushed Naruto straight to the ground and he tried to hide the pain, but failed and let out a soft cry.
"Naruto!" Sasuke shouted before going to the blondie's aid. "Are you okay?" he asked softly before glaring at the suspects he'd assumed did this to Naruto as they sauntered drunkenly towards the two boys.
"Yo, Sas'ke! Whats good?" A random cliché delinquient-looking fellow said. Sasuke got up and glared daggers at the one who appeared to be the leader. "What'cha doin' with this faggot huh?"
Sasuke didn't say anything as he stood up infront of Naruto protectively. He glanced backwards towards the teacher who seemed to be putting all of his attention towards the girls' jumping breasts when they went to smash the volleyball.
The raven looked back at the group of gathering trouble-makers, gave a look of disdain, and finally he pounced; he kicked, punched, and fucked anyone in his way up, up, up until they could've gone to heaven, but Sasuke dragged them right back down to hell.
A crowd was gathering; no one dared to stop the rampaging Uchiha, fearing they might lose their lives in the process. It would be a childish sacrifice to make when they had an adult right across the gymnasium.
"Oi!" the gym teacher, Asuma, hollered. He quickly rushed over and pulled Sasuke from the mess of bodies he'd piled in a matter of only minutes. Naruto sat there, wide eyed. Had Sasuke done that for him? 'Holy shit.' Naruto thought. 'So.. damn.. cool. But did he... perhaps do that for me?'
Naruto immediately fell out of his daze and forced himself up, running over to Sasuke who seemed perfectly fine aside from a few scrapes and bruises, but still; "Are you okay- no, scratch that you look perfectly fine.." there was a small pause, "Are you fucking insane? Why would you do that?!"
Sasuke wanted to say what was on his mind, but held back: pride. "Those assholes hurt you, so I stood up for you. Thats kind of what friends do, yeah?" Naruto's cheeks turned an unknown shade of red; bright like his hair but it suited him, blushing and looking all adorable, just like his eyes.
"We.. well uhmthanksSas'ke." He tried to say it some bit of nicely, but it came out stuttered, quick, and messy; making the blond flush even brighter.
Sasuke smirked before the teacher yanked him towards the office to give him a 'Damn good talking to!'
Everyone could hear the yelling about respect and grades and things that really were irrelevant to what Sasuke had done.
But still no one dared to make a sound, hoping their 'Sasuke-kun' was okay.
Yet still the only thought on their Sasuke's mind was 'Please be okay.'
