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Damn...I'm being too nice to all of you guys. I'm updating this thingie too quickly!
Chapter 03
"Where are we…?" Naruto wondered when they landed inside some deserted alley, the familiar structure and architecture from the mansion were no longer in front of his vision.
Sasuke freed the blond man from his grasp (Naruto instantly missed the warmth that slipped out) and took a few steps backwards to contemplate on his friend. The azure eyes blinked back, looking at the tensed expression imprinted on Sasuke's face.
The moonlight illuminated the ivory skin giving an ethereal beauty (freakish transparent skin), while his ebony and dark eyes contrasted with it, blending with the shadowy atmosphere surrounding him.(Emo bastard, that's what he is!) He was wearing a simple navy high collared shirt, which fit snuggly around his broad shoulders, showing his taut muscles, (Exhibitionist!) and he used classic black pants, composed by a rich fabric that showed his long smooth legs (Anorexic!).
So yeah, the asshole really didn't change so much in the past two years, his brain had cheerfully informed to the blond. And yeah, even now he was a freaking pretty boy for the last record Naruto saw him, so his wet dreams are still accurate.
Stupid asshole bastard moronic teme…
"Naruto…" The grave voice called the in-depth of his souls, drawing his sapphire eyes to seek his most precious companion.
Sasuke, the one who own Naruto's heart in his hands. The one whom the blond always had madly searched throughout those years, the only one whom the cerulean orbs would seek comprehension and companionship.
Sasuke was the only one who Naruto truly wanted to be recognized from the onyx eyes.
After long years, long excruciating years, days, months, seconds stretching and stretching indefinitely while his hollow heart continued to hunt for the only one who could fill his whole being, he finally met him. Sasuke was in front of him.
There were so many words Naruto wanted to breathe out. So many hugs that he craved to accomplish. His entire soul went haywire, extremely unsure in which kind of action he would choose, in front of many other options that chaotically kept swirling inside.
Nevertheless, by being the typical Naruto that he always was, the blond shinobi acted on the loudest instinct that screamed at him:
"YOU GODDAMN FUCKING ASSHOLE!! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!! I'M GONNA KILL YOU BASTARD, URRYIIAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
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(Please insert five hours uninterrupted of punching, kicking, cursing, yelling, destruction of motionless objects, usage of censored words and more fighting)
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('Are we done yet…?' Peeks over the place)
"RASENGAN!!"
('Okay, not yet.' Turns down the volume the sounds of ultimate annihilation and puts Mozart)
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(We're sorry for the inconvenience. Currently we are experiencing technical difficulties that may cause to our dear audience wait for our program to return in their original state, though we are using all possible kinds of our resources to come back at the primary course)
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After exactly six hours, thirty three minutes and fifty seven seconds, couple of trees cut down in the most jumbled way, tears all over on their clothes (large, small, caused by knives, caused by fire…take your pick), additional obliteration of public property, two young men bruised and sporting almost black holes around their bodies, chakras spent, ragged breaths between them and both of them haphazardly sprawled on the ground, the battle had ended.
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(Without any further ado, we are returning to the original program now. Thank you for your patience)
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"Goddammit teme, why did you have to fight me back you asshole?!" His tongue ran over his set of teeth, in a slight suspicion that his molar was already a long bye-bye. Well, at least the Kyuubi would change into a new one. Ah…the perks of housing a demon.
"…" The usual 'oh-so-talkative' Uchiha merely quirked a dark eyebrow (the other one was whining about his slight swollen black eye) and snorted sarcastically. The blond threw at him some sands exasperated, forming small arid puffs around them.
"Shut up, I know that you would fight back if someone started it, but you and I have good reasons for you to simply sit like an obedient teme and let me punish you. That'd be the least you could do." And later he'll punish the idiot in a more… unusual type of way.
Oh no, it won't involve whips and handcuffs. Surely won't. Neither will it involve vibrators, dildos nor other interesting gadgets he saw at a sex shop. Such as that fascinating orange colored, shape of p—…Errrrrr!!
Okay brain, now stop having those kinds of unholy images right now. Stooop…We have a Bastard to collect!
"Now let's get down to business!" Naruto pointed angrily to the jerk idiot. "You." Then he pointed to himself. "are coming with me."
"The usual 'I'm gonna get you back to Konoha' blabbering words that you like so much to say, usuratonkachi…?" Sasuke spat a small amount of blood while his palm massaged his jaw, assessing all the kinds of damage around. Damn that dobe still have a strong uppercut.
"Great! So you know the speech, you know my intention and you know our destination, then let's go!" The tanned blond wobbly stood on his feet, ready to convince his idiot to return to their homeland, throw his unconscious body inside a sack of potatoes if necessary.
"I can't. I still have things to do." This time it was the kitsune's side to snort.
"Sure you do."
"I really do." An Uchiha Glare ®.
"Sasuke, what else do you want to do in this, godforsaken small town located in the middle of nowhere if you already defeated your enemies, restored your clan's pride and other peripheral details…?"
A rise of jet black colored eyebrow. "Wow dobe, you really have improved your feeble vocabulary over those years. I guess you had indeed finally grown up a little bit."
"AN-S-WER-ME!" Idiot!
"I can't. I need to help a girl who lives in this town." Naruto suddenly felt that his entire body being consumed by acid. So his heart will be forever rejected from Sasuke…?
"Oh. Congrats. Is she the one who'll (insert sarcastic tone) 'restore' your clan?"
"Wha…?" Does the usuratonkachi only lives up to mess his organized brain?
"Well, is she…" The dobe showed his pinky and waggled it. "Your special one? You sly dog…you've been missing for two years because of a missus? Tell me that earlier!" Though Naruto said in a playful tone, his smile was slightly strained. The Uchiha mentally placed that observation to be contemplated later.
"Dumbass. If she really was, I would be a pedophile. It's nothing of what you're imagining, dobe." Naruto heaved a relieved (inward) sigh.
"Oh myyyyy, Sasu-kun!" The cerulean eyes fluttered in a mocking surprise and he blocked his o-shaped mouth with his hand, imitating really well an old gossipy woman. "I can't believe that you acquired your former sensei's strange quirks! I'm soooo disappointed with you…"
The other one merely reached his graphite eyes heavenward. Patience is a vital key to talk sanely with this idiot.
"Come with me. I'll show it to you." He also stood with difficulty on his feet while he stuffed his hands on his pocket and turned around.
"Don't order me around teme." A snarl.
"Fine. Then don't come with me and stay in this 'recognizable' alley until your feeble mind decides to get lost in this town and you sleep in the floor by the end of this night."
Muffled grumbles and piercing glares followed Sasuke around.
As Naruto followed from jumping roof to roof, he couldn't help but to realize that they returned to their usual relationship pretty fast. I mean…hey, he didn't see Sasuke for over five years and abruptly enough, after this weird twist of fate meeting him in the oddest way possible, they fought back almost seeming that the time when Sasuke were away became hollow. He scratched the back of his blond hair hesitantly, unsure if he should contemplate this news as a refreshing thing or beg for the old hag to look for a good analyst after this mission.
The Uchiha, like always, didn't lift any kind of conversation, opting to only go whatever he intended to go, though he turned his head every once in a while to see if the blond was following up. They kept their moves until Naruto noticed that they were entering in the slumps. He immediately quirked a golden eyebrow. What kind of business would Sasuke have in there, to go to such place that definitely didn't fit with his personality...? Since the Uchiha heir had a good upbringing, he would never mix himself with poor people who live in shambles villages like those. Actually, the blond shinobi was half-expecting that the dark-haired nin was a mercenary ninja, probably went the mansion to eliminate the lord by orders from an adversary of them in the drug market, or something like that.
They finally arrived in a small house, located far away from the rest of the other ones, in the middle of a lake where they could only enter through a narrow corridor made by wobbly material. The building, though it looked more worn than the last one, it was fairly humble with cream colored walls covered slightly with mold and few pot plants decorating around the door.
"Ah. Naruto. Before you enter." He met questioning blue color in return. "Could you use any different kind of cloth besides the one you're using now? Or you'll scare the girl off."
"Huh...? And do you think that an ANBU uniform would be better than those civilian ones...?"
"Plenty. For personal reasons. And...you're part of the ANBU force now?" So quick. Sasuke would've never thought that the deadlast from years ago would become an elite ninja so fast.
"Yeah. After...you know, the battle against Konoha, a lot of ninja were injured or KIA, so Tsunade-baachan, I mean, the Hokage, had to promote a lot ninja to higher ranks so we could accept dangerous missions without depleting the capital funds or we would bankrupt. Not to mention that the fire lord was fairly annoyed that we began to refuse some vital tasks so we had to hurry on finding talents to cultivate or promoting old ninjas that couldn't become chunnin or jounin in the last years. Ah, step aside a little, I'm going to use summoning." He bit the tip of his tanned thumb then started to make hand signs with one hand.
"Hey! It's dangerous, dob—" Making wrong signs may cause the chakra to uselessly be expent, how the dumbass could be successful if he's only using one hand...?
Though instead of seeing some weird counter-effect, there laid an innocent jumpy toad, looking healthy enough for any kind of normal view. The dark-grey eyes enlarged from the situation presented, fairly impressed.
"Hey squirt! I was afraid that you'd lazy around before you'd call me again. I'm almost digesting your uniform, y'know." Naruto crouched to the animal's level and answered.
"Yeah yeah, you have all my gratitude and sort, so can you hurry up and give me my clothes?"
"So rude! That's not how you'd answer to the son of –"
"Son of the great Gamabunta, boss of all toads of our generation, don't you dare threaten me, the great Gamakichi. I know that." The younger shinobi recited with a toneless voice yawning all the while.
"Hmph! And just because you're the toad sage I'll obey you for now!" The small toad immediately vomited some kind of black and white thing from his throat before disappearing again with a poof.
Sasuke just stared the interaction while the young man took the lump of slimy thing and unrolled it, revealing the ANBU uniform. Luckily, he put it inside a plastic bag, so the clothes still remained unaffected.
"Hey, do you know any place where I can change my clothes Teme?" Naruto asked.
"At the back of this house. I'll guard it for you." They moved towards the appointed place when Sasuke continued. "Well, and that meant that you entered in the ANBU force because of these circumstances?"
"Don't say it like I've used this opportunity to rise without working so much! I've managed to quickly jump from genin to jounin by defeating five jounins at the same time and at the ANBU force I had to complete more than twenty A-Class missions in one month to enter training! God, it was hell." He mentally shuddered from the remembrance while his hands fumbled across the obi, which was persistently refusing to untangle.
"Then, Ibiki-sensei, you know, the guy who had a lot of scars and gave us the written test in the chunnin exams, were the one who taught me investigation, torturing, strategy and all sorts, not to mention he forced me to diminish my weaker points, like genjutsu and acting skills. And, well. That's the end of the story." Damn, that thingie is stubborn! Naruto yanked hard the piece of cloth but with no avail.
"Hn." The acknowledgement that the brunet heard his explanations. If he could shove his pride a little bit aside, Sasuke would admit that he was amazed with his ex-teammate growth. It seems that he really had matured over those years.
"(Ugh) Come to (aargh) think about it (loose it damn it!). How did ya guess (eeaaarrrr) that I was a foe in the mansion?" The blond asked through labor pants and grunts. He thought that he concealed his chakra pretty well.
"You used genjutsu to hide your whisker marks, right?" The other man folded elegantly his arms to his chest, slightly reclining to the wall next to him. He resumed. "I've noticed that someone was using chakra to hide minimal things, but what it really disturbed me was, even though it was a simple genjutsu, the way it was conjured, was polished too well to be considered that it was done from someone ordinary. That's why I attacked before you could strike and halt my escape."
Both of the young men paused to weight the Uchiha's words after the confession. It was stunningly abnormal that Sasuke would, even though by accident, compliment any person. Naruto felt his face heating up at the unusual silence between them, so he returned to concentrate on undressing himself. It's not that he never had dressed this type of cloth, though he was used to use the style for prostitutes on missions. Well, the obi for whores were made to easily looses it up, so maybe it had a "small" differences compared to the actual one. He made another forceful tug, hoping that it'll answer for his calls, since he knew that the asshole wasn't known from his unlimited patience.
The dark-haired man, on the other side, was trying to puke all the tentative excuses for his slip when he praised the dumbass, though it all ended before he could even try a syllable. As seeing that, sadly, his brain was too busy to stop the flow of his blood around his face. After some unsuccessful tries, he directed his frustration with a growl to the blond boy (Ah ha! The knot had finally loosed up!):
"Dobe, you're taking centuries to change yourself, idio—" He turned his onyx eyes to scowl the Kyuubi-holder when the words died on his throat.
The tantalizing sun-kissed body currently was positioned with his back to his friend, though he opened the fabric like a luxurious courtesan, showing his silky shoulders while his head was slightly bended down, the golden bangs fell gracefully around the smooth cheekbones while long eyelashes were shadowing slightly his sapphire eyes. (author notes: are you guys nosebleeding? 'cuz I am...:P Sasuke, you lucky bastard)
The same brilliant cerulean hue stared back at the brunet with defiance and mumbled: "The stupid obi was really difficult to untie, so cut me some slack you bastard, I'll change it quickly." He said while he continued to remove one of the sleeves of the yukata, sliding one of his arms out.
At freeing half of the clothing, it glided downwards, revealing more skin to be devoured by the onyx eyes, starting from the firm long legs, narrow waist, lean back and...Sasuke swallowed dry. There laid the most delectable piece of round juicy meat he had ever met, screaming to be romped at this very moment. His friend started to undress the other sleeve, showing the other side of that perfect a—
The brunet frantically turned back, looking at the, oh yes, what an interesting crack on the wall, he had never notice it that before. All the self-control and common sense screeched the dirty thoughts in halt that kept taunting the Uchiha should take some very inappropriate actions towards the dobe, who, now that he already confirmed with his guilty eyes, had grown very well on those years. Maturity really had treated him well lately.
Naruto stared at the back guarding him (not without wasting the opportunity to take a 'small' glance over the well sculpted physique of his friend) and questioned himself on what the hell had happened to Sasuke to play a more morgue quietness than people going to a funeral. Ten seconds before, he was bitching again about the blond's slowness and glaring at him when after more five seconds he clacked his teeth loudly with an audible gulp and not without using the last one second to swiftly turning his back goofily, completely out of the Uchiha character.
…He almost tripped while he was trying to observe an ordinary fissure on the wall.
"Hmm…" Naruto looked at his gear while he contemplated over the situation. He was getting undressed when Sasuke yelled at him so it wasn't difficult to connect the dots that his partial nude was the cause of the usual stoic man to sputter flustered.
One more glance at Sasuke's red colored ears (despite his eyes wanted to idly continue to enjoy the small pleasures of being connoisseur of teme's beautiful buttocks) was enough to the kitsune grin mischievously. He'll plan an appropriate payback (after all, the brunet was the one who watched unashamedly his unclothing version) afterwards.
The ivory skinned man heard another shuffling and sliding of clothes, the soft sounds giving him goosebumps all over his body. Where's the crack, where's the crack? Ah, there. Let's continue to perceive each detail of that fascinating nature event laid on the cream colored wall.
Then, suddenly, it ended. A finger poked his shoulder while the tanned face made a very suspiciously haughty smile. The ANBU gear, differently from the usual orange eyesore that was called a jumpsuit, enveloped around tightly Naruto's body and showed well the disciplined muscles acquired through nin training. There was another gulp from the alabaster skin and the fox grin turned even more playful.
"Let's go, Sasuke." The other one directed a well deserved Uchiha Glare ® before nodding and entering the house.
Author notes: aaaaaaargh, don't you hate when you intend to write a short story but this monster gets bigger and bigger?! I sense conspiracy, yeah, that's for sure! People are forcing me to write gigantic SasuNaru fanfictions!
I couldn't help but to laugh a little when I saw that the moment that Sasuke and Naruto had their "romantic" reunion (aka beat the crap of each other) "fits" so well with the fanfic title...lol XD
After observing for some time, I realized that this fic would probably be the relationship between Sasuke and Naruto in 'Turn me off Tune me out' with the sexual innuendos. So this fic is roughly a bastard child between TMO² and SoulmateS. Lol. :P
Did you guys noticed that the vocabulary has raised its quality significantly on those latest chapters? That's 'cuz I got tired of Microsoft Word feeble vocabulary and went to use REAL dictionaries with papers and all. Hooray for the traditional way of learning new words!
