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Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto written Kishimoto Masashi. I DO NOT own 'Pleasure of a Dark Prince' by Kresley Cole. I DO own a couple of OCs (they are all minor characters) that will show up in this story.

Warnings (for this chapter only): Yaoi (male x male), Seme!Naruto, Uke!Sasuke, OOCness, and more to come…

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Burning Desire for a Touch

Chapter Two

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'I can hear its breaths, muffled now.' Sasuke knew the Skim had gone underground, scrambling for its life. Sasuke had been following the tracks that the Skim had been leaving behind without knowing it. And from the position on the waterlogged place he was standing, he could shoot the arrow and it would burrow deep into the earth hitting the target even under the ground. Sasuke had grabbed his special arrow to do the job. One that looked normal but once the flame touched the target, it would devour the target's skin and burn until Sasuke put it out. Add the three spikes that pop out when the arrow head it imbedded in the skin, making it a bitch to pull out.

Sasuke grunted knowing that he would soon being reporting two confirmed kills to Hana. Then he would just lay down in his comfortable bed and sleep the night away. And then he would get up again, and redo everything over again and again, until the Calling happens. When the nightmares start to arise and torment him. 'For now just kill this bloody shit and call it a day.' Sasuke thought to himself.

Yet when Sasuke tries to focus on his target, he just imagined board shoulders and washboard abs clouded his mind, recalling the look in the Lykaes eyes when he looked at him just before he was tackled into the mud and then was kicking and punched, he was even sure that he heard something pop or break. Sasuke just had to recall the fact that the Lykae's body had his heating up and making him desire his touch rather than shun it like he had every other male and female that had looked at him. The Lykae's interest of him, made Sasuke rather weary of him. In fact, all the eyes had been on him. Something like that didn't happen every day. Especially since he had always had Sakura the Strong Willed - with her pink hair - to distract everyone from him so he could make the kill, but then again, Sakura had said something about wanting to stay dry for the evening and not walking around in a bug infested swamp. Sasuke rolled his eyes; Sakura can be difficult at times.

But if anyone, including the male – that definitely had not been reaching for him with his filthy paw – tried to come after him being curious like the dogs they really were, he made sure to hide his scent and trick them with his arrows with pieces of his shirt tied to them.

Sasuke shook his head hard, refocusing on the target; he pulled the bow string taunt and froze. Sasuke swung around and pointed the arrow into the willow trees and bushes that obscured his gaze of anything behind it, but after a second Sasuke turned back to ground and released the arrow. With a low thunk, the arrow pierced the ground, boring deep, all the way to the Skim that had been hiding deep in the ground. A muffled shriek sounded. Target hit. Even underground, Sasuke hit his target, though it was not surprising anymore. Anko's essence inside him worked…literally…he hadn't missed a target in centuries.

Sasuke swung his bow over his back and crouched down to dig up his targets body. Sasuke leaned down and sniffed the ground. Sasuke darted back up and sneezed violently. Sasuke nodded his head; that Skim was definitely bleeding. A Skim's blood had a bad smell to it, but it would make you go into a sneezing fit. The Skim underground was trying to get away, the arrow tail was darting back and forth, making Sasuke's lip twitch in an almost smile. This was Sasuke's greatest pleasure…the hunt! When he was out like this, getting down to business killing off creatures that deserve it, Sasuke was able to forget what had happen in the past.

Sasuke's nails dug into the wet ground and chucks of mud and roots, went flying. Grabbing hold of the Skim's foot, Sasuke throw in into the air and when it came down, Sasuke flung his arms out and hit the Skim making it fly into one of the trees. The creature squirmed around on the ground with the arrow sticking out of his chest only one inch from his heart. More and more the Skim was turning back into its true form. One that was snake-ish at best. A tongue that was split and a body with no arms, and a head shaped like an arrow.

It was a vile site to look at. It hissed at Sasuke, but he just leaned down and ripped the arrow out of his chest, taking the flesh around the area with it. The Skim shrieked in pain, but Sasuke just reached into its chest and gripped the heart. Pulling the muscle until Sasuke's hand came out of the chest with the heart in his hand. But Sasuke's ear heard a small groan. Grabbing his bow off his back, Sasuke notched an arrow and whispered something low under his breath.

"Why are you following me?" Sasuke's voice came out emotionless. And then Sasuke's nose twitched scenting the air around them. Sasuke's eyes widened only a fraction, when he realized that it was the dominant male he had been staring at on the playing field. Sasuke had no idea of how the male had been able to sneak up on him like that. "Now, why wouldn't I follow a delicious male like you?" Naruto answered Sasuke's question. Sasuke frowned has his body started to tingle with awareness of the male.

"Who are you?" Sasuke asked with authority in his voice. The male just raised an eyebrow at his tone of voice, but answered with, "I'm Uzumaki Naruto of the Lykae clan." This male named Naruto drew closer and Sasuke sidled back. "Never seen anyone shoot like you." Sasuke sighed, that never got old. "Because no one can." Sasuke stated matter-of-factly. Was that a grin that twitched on the male's lips, Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "What kind of devil did you make a deal with too shot like that?" Sasuke almost sighed. Devil? 'I did more than just make a deal with him.' Sasuke just stifled the memories that had begun to surface more and more.

"Maybe perhaps that your bow is enchanted?" the statement made Sasuke want to laugh. "My bow's not enchanted – merely unequaled." Sasuke stated. For over centuries, Sasuke had practiced to make his archery perfect. Honed his skills, just like the day when Sasuke had gained the power of archery. The bow was slick and well taken care of. In a dead language, it said that Sasuke was to serve the goddess, Anko. Forever. "You don't think that I could have this natural," – goddess-given – "gift?"

"Sure, but to marry talent and beauty such has yourself, that don't give the other females a chance now does it?" Naruto supplied. Sasuke told himself that day after day, but it didn't matter, it had sunken into his brain way before Naruto had said the same thing. And luckily for Sasuke, he was not looking for what the Valkins called a mate. "And you can't be any better looking than you are now." Naruto added. Actually, Sasuke noted, he could. Drenched shirt that clung to his body like a second skin, and shorts that were so heavy with water that they threaten to fall off his hips. He had none of the jewelry that the other Valkins wore, because he didn't need like since he was not to be attracting possible mates.

"Are you Fae or Valkin?" The question had Sasuke's head snapping to look Naruto in the eyes. 'I'm an Archer, a Valkin one at that, whose life is indebted to a sadist goddess.' Well, it's not as bad is he was to think that he was one of the nymphs. Unfortunately, the two species, Valkins and Nymphs, looked a lot alike, with this elven feature, but thankfully the similarities ended there. "Guess." Sasuke put it simply. Hopefully he would think he was a Fae, who never took mates from a different species. "Well with those pointed ears and bow, I would think you were Fae. But with the tiny claws and wee fangs, I wouldn't put my bet on it, and it wouldn't be easy if you are what I think you are." Naruto said. Sasuke tilted his head a small bit.

"Easy? What the hell do you mean?" Sasuke asked, his eyebrows crunching together in the middle of his forehead. The big male opened his mouth, but then shut it quickly. Deciding not to tell him what he first thought, but opened his mouth again, "Seduction. Valkins are very difficult to seduce." Sasuke felt his mouth fall slack, but it didn't show on his facial features. He wanted to seduce Sasuke? What no talk of dating, no courting, just straight to sex? Males! "Difficult you say? Well if you laid a move on any species, with the way you are – unshaven, dirty, sweaty, covered in blood – I'm sure that you would not get any girl or male like that." Sasuke stated matter-of-factly.

Naruto scrubbed his hand over his face and answered with, "Today is just not a good day for me."

Sasuke wanted to snort in agreement. "Then you should just lope back to where your pack awaits. I'm sure that those nymphs would love to have an orgy with you!" Sasuke snapped, not knowing why is sounded so…bitter. Was it jealous? A spark of disbelief arose in Sasuke's chest. "Don't want them," the answer sent a shiver of delight down Sasuke's spine, "even before I saw you." Naruto gazed at Sasuke with a look in his eye, which Sasuke couldn't place. One that told Sasuke that Naruto could look deep within Sasuke and see that he was not a tamed little Valkin that he protruded on the outside, rather he was wild on the inside. Sasuke took a step back. Remembering Anko's words to him once he back to after he was healed, 'You have darkness within you, Sasuke. You have to be very careful.' Sasuke felt those words vibrate in his head.

Sasuke needed to get home, and away from this tall hunky dominant male that was making him shake with desire that can't be fulfilled. A handsome face is just to hide what is truly under that surface, and with a Lykae…under the surface was a beast just raging to come out. "The attraction is not mutual." Sasuke said crisply. "So be on your way." Sasuke made a movement with his chin to indicate from Naruto to hit the road.

"Why? Because I'm Lykae?" the deep voice of the dominant male made Sasuke's insides curl into themselves and radiate heat from the inside out. 'Because you're a man!' "You were right earlier, I'm a Valkin. Meaning my kind thinks of you no better than an animal." Sasuke spat that Naruto. And the Valkins did, though they were not enemies like the Vampires, the older and more powerful Valkins had battled them, and they say it's rare to see a Lykae fully turn unless you threaten its mate, or offspring. So where was the disgust in Sasuke's tone, easy…there was none.

"Yes, perhaps they do, but what I want to know is if you share their beliefs." Naruto rumbled. "Surely you don't agree with them or you wouldn't want to mate with me at this moment." Sasuke's lips parted in shock. "Mate me? I've meet some arrogant males in my life but you just topped the best of them." Naruto's eyebrows shot past his forehead and into his hair. A grin threatened to overcome his face. "Well then grant me a deal. Tell me your name." Sasuke weighed the pros and cons. And the cons won out…big time. But, Sasuke answered without thinking.

"I'm called Sasuke the Hunted." Sasuke said standing straighter. "Sasuke." It sounded devilishly delightful has his name rolled off the Lykae's tongue. "Well Sasuke the Hunted," His grin make it feel like Sasuke was being sized up for prey, "I have caught you." Shivers danced up Sasuke's body at the thought. Sasuke let his eyes travel down the blond Lykae's body. He had no hair on his chest, but a blond happy trail lead the way into the jeans that the Lykae was wearing. There was a bulge in the jeans too, and it grew. Glancing up at the blond's face, Sasuke saw that the male was transfixed on his nipples that were showing through the white shirt that was see through, and when their eyes met, the whites of the blond's eyes flickers bright blue, signaling that the beast was clawing just at the surface.

"Run along wolf. Or I'll make you regret that you didn't." Sasuke warned. "That's not going to happen, little Valkin." Sasuke stopped dead in his tracks. There was a look on the Lykae's face that told him that something was up…Sasuke had an idea of what it was but it was too ridiculous. "I'm not your…mate, am I?" Sasuke swallowed the lump in his throat. Hoping and praying that he wasn't.

"Nope, but I wish it was otherwise." That one sentence had Sasuke so relieved. "Then – leave." Sasuke said pointedly. But instead of turning around, the blond step closer. Sasuke yakked free his bow, and notched an arrow in it. The blond stopped. "Come any closer and I will let this arrow fly straight into your heart." But he went back to moving closer, "No you won't, not when I mean no harm." He sounded so sure. "This is not a threat, it's a promise." Sasuke pulled the string of the bow back. He steps closer and Sasuke lets the arrow fly. It hits only four inches of the heart.

"God damnit, teme! That hurts like fuck!" Naruto bellowed, looking down at his chest, scowling at the arrow tail that showed. "I told you not to come closer." Sasuke said rather icily. Naruto grabs the arrow's tail and tries to pull it free from his chest, but the spikes made it impossible to get out. "Help me get this thing out!" He gritted out. Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "I shot them in, I don't take them out." His chin jutted. "You do with me."

Sasuke stared blankly at the Lykae that was making things turn upside down. Schooling his facial features, Sasuke questioned, "Why would I ever?" Naruto looked up from his attempts of getting the arrow free. "Because Valkin, by the end of the night, you are going to be my bed partner. And I'll not go easy with you for not helping get this arrow out." With a sigh, Sasuke let another arrow sail, and land in the Lykae's chest. "Oh, dear! How foolish of me, I don't want to hurt my bed partner!" Sasuke snorted. Naruto continued to come closer to Sasuke. "When I set to kissing those pouting lips of yours, I'm going to make you moan." Two more arrows was let fly into the Lykae's chest, adding up to a total of four arrows in the blond Lykae's chest. Naruto grunted from the pain, but grinned at Sasuke.

"This is every nice of you, Sasuke." Naruto said, touching his chest just a little bit. Sasuke wanted to smack the grin off the Lykae's face. Those arrows were nothing to grin about. Just one word and they could be lit with fire that would eat the blond male alive from the inside out. But Sasuke didn't want that strangely. He didn't want to hurt the fine dominant male. "And why would you say that?" Sasuke questioned. Glaring that Naruto with all his might, thinking if he glared hard enough the Lykae would burst into flames.

"Well, with only three arrows you were able to take a Skim out, and from a distance longer than the playing field I was on. I have earned more than three arrows and I'm still alive! It would seem that you slapped the Skim in the face, while just tapping me on the back. You don't want to kill me." Naruto smirked at the Valkin. Sasuke paled. "Is this your way of telling me that you like me, Sasuke?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow. Sasuke paled farther. "N-no, it's not. You would know if I was flirting." Sasuke said cursing himself for stuttering at the time. "If you were truly a hunter, you won't let a wolf suffer in pain. And I bet that you mostly shoot to kill, never to hurt." Naruto's voice downs an octave.

The blond knucklehead did have a point. It was not in his nature to torment another creature. He wouldn't fall so low has to make another creature suffer for his enjoyment. Well…that was if they didn't have it coming. "Oh very well, if I were to help you…would you leave me alone?" Sasuke asked with hope bubbling inside him. Naruto snorted. "I rather keep them lodged inside me then leave you." Naruto looked straight at Sasuke, and then glancing down at his chest. Naruto stepped back a little from Sasuke.

The Lykae lifted his hand and fisted it, then slammed it into the end of the arrow. He grunted, while Sasuke stared in shocked. The Lykae would rather be in pain then leave him; part of Sasuke was flattered deeply. But the other part of him was yelling for the Lykae to drop dead of blood lose. The Lykae grunted when the arrow head was pushed out of his back, and he reached back and pulled it free. He then repeated the process until all the arrows were out of his skin.

Sasuke was just standing there. He could have just broken off the tails of the arrows and then the Lykae could have just pulled them out, but he was going through all of that pain. At the Lykae's resilience, Sasuke just stared again, has the Lykae throw the arrows one by one away from him. The muscles in his back and stomach would tense and then relax, has if he was getting sexually pleasure out of it, but never really sated. Sasuke shivered. The clammy night's cold air was making the skin on Sasuke's neck rise up and goose bumps to form.

His strength was impressive, his fortitude was imposing, and all of it amazed Sasuke. When he was finishing the last arrow, he stalked closer, never giving a winch to the pain in his chest, so determined not to falter in his capture of Sasuke. Sasuke took a step back, debating whether or not to shoot another arrow in between the Lykae's eyes, he didn't want to kill the Lykae but it would definitely slow him down. "Now that we are though with that, I think I have earned the right to stay," Naruto baited Sasuke, "and the right for a kiss from you." Sasuke growled in the back of his throat in anger. "If you were to take a kiss, you would want to have sex with me and that is just not happening." Sasuke stated.

A feral smile lit Naruto's grin, "But you want it, don't you." For the Lykae to take him here, hot and sweating in the swamp, Sasuke gulped down a lump. He was a Lykae, he would want Sasuke on his hands and knees, like the beast that he harbors within himself. "I would never! Understand me, Uzumaki, I'm a Valkin. And being so, I'm not bound to the same beastly needs has you are."

Naruto shook his head, "By the end of the night, Sasuke, you will be bound…to me."

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Triumph and need was racing through Naruto's veins, making all of the pain from the arrows fade away, and making his focus on the pressure growing in his member, and the overwhelming lust for the creature in front of him. A Valkin. Naruto was just stunned to think that the Fates would gift him a mate and most of all a Valkin for that desired mate. He did, in fact, say that he wanted a mate that would fight him, rather than fall into his bed. His mate was so aroused. Naruto just wanted to fall to his knees in thanks to the Heavenly fates, and to taste his mate. God, Naruto had moaned when Sasuke the Hunted, his mate, was splattered with blood, and thus making his nipples stand out even more in the white shirt.

But, Naruto wondered, why Sasuke didn't just fall into bed with him. He was throbbing in arousal, but he wouldn't give into Naruto. A dark thought flew through Naruto's mind, would Sasuke fall into his bed if he told him that he was a king. Then another dark thought crossed Naruto's mind, "Did another…male have a claim on you?" Naruto felt the need to kill, and vowed that if another did have a claim on his mate, he would need a place to bury the body, because he was going to kill the male.

"A male's claim? On me? No one!" Sasuke's heart had not been given to anyone, meaning Naruto had the chance to win it. Naruto felt his grin slide into place on his face. "Nor will a male ever claim me." Sasuke stated. "Uh-huh, is that so?" Naruto's tone was making his mate flustered. "O-of course! I'm not interested in you, Lykae. Now go away!" Sasuke shooed Naruto.

"You forget, Valkin," Naruto grinned, "I'm a Lykae; I can smell that you are aroused, and are in need of a male's help. I can scent your interest." Sasuke stiffened. "Maybe, I was interested in one of the other males on the playing field." Jealousy began to eat at Naruto's insides, screaming that him to kill the threat of his mate's interest in another male. "Take it back." Naruto gritted out. Sasuke's eyebrows shot up.

"Or what?" Naruto loped forward a little bit more. "Or I will kiss you until you can think of only me, and not of another male. Kiss you so deeply that you are panting for more." Lightning flashed in the sky, though it didn't look like Sasuke even noticed it. Naruto could tell that Sasuke wanted him to kiss him, was unconsciously rocking his hips toward him. It was driving him insane with lust. He stared at Naruto's lips, even has he licked his own. And when his lips moved, Naruto heard, "You get the best timing award, Lykae."

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"Don't understand you, Valkin." The blond wolf rasped to Sasuke. "When is it ever a bad time for kissing?" Sasuke almost fell over at that. What would his kiss taste like? As if Sasuke, had anything to compare that delightful, mouth-watering kiss too. When Sasuke looked back up, Naruto was so close. He leaned down and nuzzled his sensitive ear. Sasuke's knees turned to jelly, but he held himself up…barely. "So my male likes that does he." The blond Lykae said, nuzzling into Sasuke's ear again.

The Lykae backed Sasuke up into a tree, and trapped him in between his arms, the tree, and his stone wall chest, that was still bleeding. He could have broken Sasuke at that moment, but he was being gentle and caring, rather than like before at the field, even after Sasuke shot him…four times.

"Uzumaki, I'm giving you one last chance, let me go!" Sasuke grunted has Naruto pressed his body into Sasuke's. But the Lykae silenced Sasuke by tilting his head and placing his lips against, Sasuke's soft petal lips. Sasuke gasped and dig his fingers into Naruto's wounds from his arrows. "Fucking hell! That hurt, baka!" Naruto pulled back and roared. Sasuke shrugged. "Then stop kissing me." Sasuke said plainly. "It don't hurt that much." Naruto said ducking down back to silence Sasuke with his lips.

Sasuke pushed Naruto's body back, if only an inch or so, "I can make it hurt." He growled to the dominant blond male. "Oh I feel only one ache on my body, Sasuke," Naruto muttered into the slightly pointed ear, "and you are going to help ease that ache." Sasuke can't remember the last time that a male was so nice to him. Sasuke shook himself, he could remember and it didn't end well, not at all.

"Not likely, Uzumaki." Sasuke barked out, he may not be has violent has his sisters or brothers but he could draw on that power when he needed it. Sasuke waited until Naruto leaned in again, and kicked his leg out. It hit, its target, in between Naruto's legs. As Naruto went down, Sasuke ducked away from the dominant male. And when Naruto hit the fall, Sasuke heard him grunt, "Still don't regret it."

To Be Continued...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! *runs around in panic* I'm worried that no one will like this chapter! It's a cliffy just like the last one. But then again…if I leave a cliffy more people with review wanting to know what the hell is going to happen in the next chapter…*starts to ponder on leaving cliffy each chapter* Well I will get back to you on that. So review and tell me what you think about this chapter.

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