1Chapter 2
"No!" Naruto yelled, walking away from the group as he headed to his room in Yuri's house.
The Konoha five had been trying to convince him to go back to Konoha, but he just didn't see himself ever going back.
"I won't go back," he said again, "I can't go back."
"Why not?" Sasuke asked, "It is your home and whether you want us to or not, we want you back."
Naruto frowned.
"No," he said.
Sasuke sighed.
"Give me a good reason why?" he said.
Naruto laughed hollowly.
"One good reason?" he said, "How about the same reason why I left in the first place? How about that fact that the whole village thought I was a monster to begin with? What would they think now? Now when I have to feed from people and drink their blood? I see more fear in the future!"
Naruto turned away and walked down the hall, entering a room and slamming the door shut with a loud bang.
Sasuke frowned deeply, while Yuri only sighed.
"He'll be okay," he said, "Just give him some time."
Sasuke's frown deepened.
"We don't have time," he said, going to the door and banging on it as hard as he could.
"Go away, Uchiha!" Naruto yelled from inside the room.
"Not until you come back to Konoha with us?!" Sasuke yelled back, not giving up.
"If you don't go away, I'll bite you!" Naruto yelled, "And you'll end up like me for all eternity!"
Yuri rolled his eyes, knowing the threat was a weak one. Naruto would never even consider biting anyone in the intent of 'turning' them.
Sasuke growled.
"Fine!" he yelled, "Bite me. I'll enjoy the pleasure of annoying you for all eternity!"
Yuri smirked. The kid had guts; that was for sure.
Naruto growled in frustration from inside the room and then in one swift movement opened the door and jerked Sasuke into his room, slamming it shut when the boy was fully in.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Naruto shrieked, loud enough so that everyone in the house could hear, "I told you I wasn't going back!"
Sasuke's voice was next, his voice loud and cold.
"And I say you are!" he yelled, "Just because you think your life is a living hell doesn't mean that you have to punish yourself for it!"
Naruto screeched in frustration.
"Get out of my room!" he yelled and a crash was heard shortly after.
"NO!" Sasuke yelled back, and there was another crash.
"If you don't get out, I will kill you with this lamp!" Naruto yelled.
"NO! I will not leave!" Sasuke yelled again, and everyone heard a loud crash shortly after and guessed it had been the lamp.
Yuri frowned and walked over to the door, banging on it as he heard more crashes.
"Stop breaking my stuff!" he yelled, then he heard another crash, "You're going to pay for that!"
"SHUT UP!" two duel voices shouted from inside the room, and Yuri withered and pouted, walking away from the door with a sigh.
More crashes were heard and then strangely silence came. Everyone listened closely and then the biggest crash of them all was heard as Naruto and Sasuke came crashing onto the floor with Naruto landing on top of Sasuke and the door lying under them, both of them panting as they frowned at each other.
"You're going to pay for that," Yuri commented, crossing his arms and the four of the Konoha five sighed, shaking their heads at the scene before them.
Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other for the longest time before the both of them sighed.
Naruto laid his forehead on Sasuke's chest and breathed in deeply, while Sasuke sat up, looking down at the boy on him.
Naruto pouted as he looked up.
"I won't go back," he said softly, "I can't."
"Yes you can," Sasuke responded, just as softly, and Naruto sighed deeply, wondering why Sasuke had had to come on this mission.
"Sasuke…" he sighed.
Sasuke leaned forward and moved his head to beside the boy's, making their cheeks touch and Naruto smiled softly.
"No on would hurt you," Sasuke whispered, so that no one but Naruto could here, "come back with us."
Naruto leaned against the cheek, snuggling his head against it slightly.
"You can't promise that," he whispered, just as softly, "You wouldn't be able to stop it."
Sasuke sighed and Naruto welcomed that sound, brushing his cheek against the other boy's like a cat.
"Please understand…" the blonde whispered softly, pulling back to look into the boy's eyes, his hands moving to grip the front of the boy's shirt in a almost romantic position.
Everyone watched from just a few feet away, but no one knew what was being said, though they wanted to. They'd just have to wonder if either Naruto or Sasuke was winning this fight.
Sasuke sighed and shook his head, grabbing the hands from his shirt and holding them in his own warm hands.
"I don't," he whispered into the blonde's ear before pulling back, and Naruto sighed in defeat, tired of trying to explain and pulled away from the boy as he stood up and walked back into his door-less room.
Sasuke watched him for a moment before finally making a decision and picking up the door, putting it back in place at the room's frame with him inside. He was not going to let Naruto go so easily.
Everyone sighed, knowing the battle had just begun and prepared for a war, but only silence came from the room and the since of wondering what exactly was being said inside the room as the two individuals tried to get the other to understand.
Naruto sighed and sat on his bed, and Sasuke sat beside him on his left side.
"Talk to me," Sasuke said, his voice calm and quiet.
Naruto shook his head and looked at the floor.
"Sasuke I don't know what else to say," he said, feeling a little discouraged by the fact Sasuke hadn't given up so easy.
"Tell me your reason," Sasuke said, "Why can't you come back?"
Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but Sasuke stopped him as he continued.
"I see that you are probably afraid of what the villagers would say and how that would react to this," he said, "but…everyone else…I wouldn't care. We're your friends. Only a false friend would care about this."
Naruto shook his head.
"You should care," he said, almost sadly, "Sasuke this is something I'll never be able to get rid of. I didn't choose this, but I'll have to live with it and this isn't just something that anyone would be able to just say that they're okay with."
Sasuke sighed.
"You and the others have seen what I must do," Naruto said, sounding distraught, "I have to drink the blood of others to survive. How would the villagers feel when they hear of that, when the day I was born, they were saying I was a monster to start with for something I had no control over even now?"
"That doesn't matter," Sasuke said.
"How does it not matter?!" Naruto yelled.
"Because you are Naruto," Sasuke said, placing his hands on the boy's cheeks and Naruto's eyes widened slightly, "You will always be Naruto no matter what you are."
Naruto bit his lip and then pulled away and Sasuke's hands fell to his sides, almost in defeat.
"Sasuke I'm dead," Naruto said, clearly frustrated as he looked at the boy in front of him, "I can't go back like this."
Sasuke sighed and said nothing, and Naruto thought that maybe the boy had stopped his attempts at getting him back, but then a hand reached out, being placed above his heart that beat its vampiric rhythm.
"But your heart is still beating," Sasuke said softly, "So you're not completely dead."
Naruto sighed and then put his hands over that hand, and Sasuke shivered slightly at the feeling of cold skin.
"But I'm cold," Naruto said softly.
Sasuke sighed, a comeback not coming to him at the moment, but then a smirk crossed his face.
"But I am too," he said, "I'm the cold, heartless, bastard prince, aren't I?"
Naruto laughed softly and grabbed the hand, holding it in his cold ones.
"But you're body is warm," he said, "and you are not cold-hearted at all."
"Well you're warm too," Sasuke said, pushing his hand back so that both of Naruto's hands moved back to the spot right over the blonde's heart, "Right here."
Naruto sighed out in disbelief and gripped Sasuke's hand tightly in his own as if trying to get at the warmth from the body and bring it into his cold one.
Sasuke reached forward with his other hand and lightly traced the blonde's cheek and Naruto bit his lip, sighing softly.
"Sasuke…" Naruto started softly, "I-I don't...I don't know if I can."
Sasuke placed his hand fully on the blonde's cheek and started to caress it gently, making Naruto relax into the touch.
"You're the strongest person I know," Sasuke said, "You've dealt with their stares and words longer than anyone."
Naruto pouted and looked at his hands.
"But…"
Naruto looked up and was surprised to the smallest of smiles on Sasuke's face.
"This time I'll be right there with you," the raven haired boy said softly.
Naruto let his breath out in a rush and a small sob-like laugh of relief escaped his throat.
"Sasuke…" he started, his voice slightly breathy, "I..."
Naruto shook his head and then wrapped his arms around the boy's neck.
"Do you promise?" he asked softly, hopeful for that one answer that he wanted.
Sasuke wrapped his arms around the blonde's waist and nodded, holding the boy as close as possible.
"I promise," he said softly, "I'll be with you always and I won't let them hurt you."
Naruto hugged the boy tighter and another sob-like laugh escaped him.
"Okay," he said softly, "I'll go back."
Sasuke was more than ecstatic over this statement, but kept it inside.
"I'm glad," he said instead, holding the boy closer, "And don't worry about the others—"
Naruto put a finger to his lips and shook his head.
"I know," he said, "You'll always be with me."
Sasuke stayed in Naruto's room for the remainder of the day, not letting the boy out of his sight until he finally fell asleep with the blonde beside him.
Naruto forced himself awake and looked at the boy as he slept. He sighed and quietly, crept over to the window, opening it without a sound and stepped on the ledge. Yuri's house was only one story, so he merely jumped out, landing safely on his feet. He would have liked if it had been a bigger house with two stories, more fun to jump off of.
Naruto looked into the window and sighed. He couldn't go back there. He had hated lying to Sasuke, but what else could he have done?
"I'm sorry…" he whispered, running off into the forest ahead and into the darkness.