The Great Escape
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goodbye
But we got one more night
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Chapter Two
The Unwanted One
So yea, it kinda sucked to be him.
The loser. The dead last. The orphan.
Yea, life was such a feild of daisies.
He put his chin in his hand as he watched the city lights of New York flash on and off through the night. Sure, Sakura was really nice and her aunt was even better. But to tell the truth, he much prefered Sasuke's company.
But his parents were such tightwads, there was no way he'd ever get close enough to Sasuke. Not with those creatures as parents.
Anyway. His eyes fell on the school behind him and sighed. He's kill to be in a school like that. Any school really, even Gaara, an outcast, went to school. And the guy didn't even want to learn anything, he was smart with brains.
Naruto just had common sense. And almost none of that, what he learned was leftover from Gaara and Sakura's homework and tests. And a new program on a tv that he peeked in on.
All in all, he was alone in the world. Simple as that, well, at least that's how he felt till about 10 that morning. When he'd seen his dark-haired freind standing in the middle of a trash alley.
Just to see him.
Naruto.
And to tell the truth, Sasuke was the only one that Naruto could tolorate calling him a dead last. It was almost like a pet name.
That made him smile.
Sasuke Uchiha? Giving pet names?
Pigs would fly before that would happen.
He leaned back aginst the billboard that had an add for a new car. On warm nights, he'd come up here to think, to dream about a life with a family, a home.
School.
Man, most of you kids reading this think, hey I HATE school. Well fuck you. Naruto wanted to go to school, to have a large group of freinds who would joke around with him. It's not like he didn't have that with Gaara, but the red-head wasn't always in the best of shape to be messed with.
A car honked below him and he looked over the edge of the metal rungs. It was a long drop down and there was a dark figure standing beneath the sign.
The bright yellow of a flashlight blinded him momentarily. " Hey kid! Get down from there!"
" Shit!" Naruto gasped, standing up and rushing to the other end of the metal walkway. His eyes searched the trees, looking for a stable branch to hop onto. Oh yea, he had a death wish.
" KID! Get down here now!"
" Sure thing officer!" He called, taking in a deep breath, ready to hop down into a waiting darkness. Yea, death seemed much better than what he had to go through tomorow and the next day and the next day.
But, just as he was steping his foot off the edge, he froze. An image, just a flash, passed infront of his eyes. Of a dark-haired boy, with equally dark eyes.
What about Sasuke?
What would the boy do when he was gone? Did he even care if Naruto was gone? If he took this jump, would Sasuke cry for him?
" Oh fuck! Kid! I need backup! He's about to fucking jump!" The officer yelled into a walkie talkie. " Get me backup NOW!"
Blue eyes lowered to the ground, it finally coming into focus. Could he really do this...?
His foot moved to where it was suspended in midair, he leaned forward...and two arms seized him from behind and brought him back.
To say he didn't struggle would have been a lie. He kicked and bite and punched. Sasuke's name coming out in broken syllables. If only he'd steped a minute sooner, it would have been over.
But no, Sasuke had to pop into his head.
The officer fought back, and the sound of sirens in the background made him cry out the Uchiha's name in pain.
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The lights were bright and hurt his already sensitive eyes. There were low voices around him and he hoped they wern't the assholes who had gotten ahold of him the other day.
Yea, those wounds had taken a while to heal, hiding them from Sakura and Tsunade had been hard to do. Man, please don't be the Grater Gang...please oh please.
He cracked open his eyes and blinked, letting the white room come into focus. He was in a hospital room, someone was holding his hand and there was a woman in a white coat over him.
" Hey Kiddo, welcome back."
He shot up in the bed and gasped, looking around. Sakura was sitting in a recliner on the other side of the room, Gaara standing next to her.
Tsunade was talking to the doctor, who looked alittle like Sakura. His eyes fell to the hand that squeazed his own. It was pale, graceful looking hand and his eyes began to water as he looked up, taking in the watery version of Sasuke's face.
" What am I doing here?"
" The officer took you here, said you were screaming Sasuke's name." Sakura muttered.
" You almost jumped off the Wray street billboard Naruto!" Gaara hissed.
Blue eyes looked down, " I was tired. I wasn't thinking."
" Damn right you wern't thinking!" Sasuke snapped, " We could have lost you tonight!"
" Sorry." He muttered, soothed by Sasuke's long caresses from his thumb. " I just...can't take living the way I do. There's nothing..."
Sasuke moved to sit on the bed with him and slide an arm around his shoulder. " What about us?"
The blonde boy sniffled, and burried his face in Sasuke's chest, sobbing and clutching onto the dark-haired teen. Sakura walked over and joined in on the hug and Gaara, who normaly didn't do these types of things, laid a hand on the boy's shoulder.
" It's alright Naruto, we don't plan on leaving you anytime soon." Sakura muttered, rubbing a smooth hand up and down his back.
" We never said we didn't want you." Gaara stated firmly, " We've all offered you homes."
" I didn't." Sasuke whispered, " My parents wouldn't allow it."
" I understand that!" Naruto griped the Uchiha's shirt tighter, " It's not your fault, Any of you."
Sakura smiled and kissed his cheek, " Why don't I get my mom to fix you some food? You look starved."
A big grin spilt the blonde's face, " I am hungry. Have ya'll eaten?"
" Sasuke."
The stern voice made them all look up into the face of the young Uchiha's father. Sakura winced and Gaara's glare turned ice cold.
" Yes father?" Sasuke asked, keeping his arm around his freind.
" We gave you two hours already. Let's go." The voice was demanding and firm and Naruto wanted to rip the guys tounge out for ordering Sasuke around like that. He couldn't see how Sasuke could live with the man every day.
But when he thought about it, he'd bet Sasuke would give anything to be in Naruto's shoes. Isn't that what he'd said one time?
That he'd gladly take Naruto's place if only to get out of his hell hole of a home. If you could even call it a home. Heck, Sasuke had almost moved in with Naruto, but that had been 7 years ago.
" Can he stay Uchiha-sama?" Sakura's mom, who turned out to be the doctor Naruto had seen above him, asked, " It would be a shame if Naruto started calling out to him again."
" How do you know this filthy thing?" The man hissed, eyes narrowing at the boy in Sasuke's arms.
" We've been freinds for years." Naruto defended hottly, crossing his arms over his chest. Sasuke gave his shouler a squeeze.
" He's not filthy father, he's just homeless."
" That's his problem."
" Fugaku!" Sakura's mom hissed.
" Shut it Haruno." Fugaku snapped, making the woman silent. " Say your goodbyes and come with me. You have 2 minutes." The man walked out of the room, door slaming behind him.
" I'd call security, but i'm sure he'd just pay them off." Sakura sighed, " We'll call you if something happens."
Sasuke nodded and stood up, giving the blonde a hug before heading to the door. Naruto started to shake when the door shut again. He pulled the covers up to his mouth and hoped the feeling that Sasuke wasn't coming back faded away soon.
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It still wouldn't go away. The shaking would get worse, then lessen, then get worse again. Sakura had eventually went to get him some water, but didn't ask what was wrong.
She probally already knew.
He put an arm under his head and turned to face the door. His head kept telling him to worry about what he'd do about the doctor bill and where he'd go after he was discharged. But instead, he kept wondering what was happening to Sasuke.
He couldn't sleep either, the shaking had begun to stop but the sleep wouldn't come. Deep down, he was scared that he'd call for Sasuke again and wake the whole floor.
Yea, that would get him sent to a mental institution.
A sigh escaped him as he closed his eyes and tried to imagine what it would be like with a family. It wouldn't come to him, it was like he couldn't even attempt at it.
The image wasn't clean enough to grasp.
Something made a crashing sound, then a grunt. His body went tense at the sound, was someone outside?
A curse followed another rustle and crash. Whoever it was was going to wake the whole damn hospital at this rate.
Naruto sat up slowly and faced the window, which was unlocked. Well that couldn't be good, he thought. A hand reached for the door and pushed it open.
Fear was the only thing that kept him from screaming his lungs raw. And that head of spiked black hair and dark eyes that lifted over the windowsill. His heartrate receded as he put a hand over his chest.
" Damnit Sasuke, you scared me." He muttered, climbing out of the bed and hoisting the boy throught the window.
" I wasn't sure if you'd scream or not, and i'm sure my father wouldn't want to be here at 4 in the morning." Sasuke sighed, pulling the leaves and twigs from his hair and clouths. " I feel like a teenage boy sneaking into his girlfreind window."
Naruto laughed and sat down on the bed again. " You look like one. What are you doing here?" His eyes caught the dark bruise on the older boys cheek as he sat down.
" Needed some fresh air." Sasuke muttered, flinching when Naruto's fingers skimmed his cheek.
" What happened?"
" It's you i'm worried about. " Sasuke sighed, pushing the hand away. " I want to know what was going on in that head of yours when you tried to jump."
" You were." Naruto whispered, eyes lowering to the floor.
Obsidian eyes widened, " I'm the reason you wanted to jump?"
Naruto gasped, " No! No! No! You're the reason I didn't want to jump. I would have, if I hadn't seen you at that school, I probally would have."
Sasuke nodded, then pushed the boy to lay down and slide in beside him. The blonde boy looked startled, but relaxed when the older boy wraped his arms around him.
His body fell into a dreamless sleep and a lazy smile graced his lips. So this was why he couldn't see that image. Sasuke was his family, and Sakura and Gaara.
He fell asleep soon after that notion, the only thing heard was the synchronization of thier heartbeats.
TBC
Angel: The first four chapters are kind of introductions. I have the names for all the chapters all planed out! It's gonna be great! XD Was this chapter good? o.O I wasn't sure if It was good enought to post, but I felt I needed to post it soon.
And yea, I said I wasn't going to do it till after Summer in the South, but the damn story kipt kicking at me till I couldn't ignore it anylonger. -sighs- so, here it is.
Hope you enjoyed,
Blessed be,
Angel