A/N: I have changed a few parts in all three chapters. Now that I know exactly how I can end this and be satisfied and all, please stay tuned and leave a review. If you think you have already read this chapter, you are wrong! There has been more added! Not yet beta'd; please do not flame. Enjoy!
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"Are you going to come inside?"
"Yeah, just don't rush me," Naruto whispered in a low tone voice. His cerulean eyes were still surprised at how large the Sasuke's house was. He took off his shoes and began to step inside. Sasuke had already disappeared.
"Naruto, hurry up and get over here," Sasuke called. The blonde huffed and followed the voice nonetheless. As he turned past the corner, he was bombarded by a blue shirt, black pants, and a white towel. "Here, these are some of my old clothes I found. You can change into them after you take a shower."
"Oh, thanks," Naruto muttered as he took a look at the clothes.
"Hurry up, I need to take a shower, too, you know," Sasuke growled as he pushed the other into the bathroom.
"Why don't we take one at the same time then?" Naruto asked as he blinked.
Sasuke slammed the door shut behind the boy. "Just hurry up, you loser!"
The blond raised his fist and shouted back at the door, "What did you just call me?" He shook his head and just started to unzip his jacket. "Teme, what's so bad about taking a shower together?" Naruto then looked before him at the Uchiha style bathroom. "What the hell is with this family," he gaped in awe covered by only a towel.
It was indeed very large in size and diameter. There were two levels of the floor as one was specifically for the use of a hot bath. Stone was found on the bottom floor, and the higher level was floored with shined wood and had multiple showers attached to the wall. Where Naruto stood, there was a large counter for his clothes and tiles under his foot. Just that section was large enough to be a full sized bathroom, but this was a bathhouse as far as he could tell.
"H-Hey, Sasuke, let's take a bath!" Naruto shouted as he turned the steaming water on. Soon, the lower level began to fill itself with water. He was trembling from excitement when suddenly the water began to turn a devilish black. As soon as the unknown substance touched the clear water, it spread in an instance.
Outside the door, Sasuke heard, well nothing. That got him a bit worried, so he opened the door. "What is it, Naruto?" He then got tackled by a shivering (naked) mess who was pointing at the black water. "Itai," Sasuke complained, "Get off me…"
"Black! Water! Curse! Ahhh!" Naruto shouted as he bounced up and down to prove his anxiety.
A shade of pink spread across Sasuke's face as he forcefully pushed the other off and rolled himself to the top position. "Naruto, calm down!" he ordered.
"Calm down? Calm down! Sasuke, the water turned black and—" they continued their game of rolling to the top. This continued until neither of them could control their rolling because now they were more of sliding down the slippery wood instead of merely fighting.
The two splashed into the hot springs and black, herbal water splashed everywhere. The two boys surfaced and coughed as they caught a breath of oxygen.
"Heeeeeh! I'm in the cursed water!" Naruto wailed as he tried to get out of it immediately. He stopped when he felt someone grab his arm. He suddenly was pulled back into the arms of a very wet, very angry, and very annoyed Uchiha.
"Naruto, relax," Sasuke ordered as his bangs began to fall to his eyes because of the water. "This is how the spring is suppose to be. It's a special type of herbal treatment that my father use to like."
Naruto blinked and stared back at his friend who still had his blue shirt on. "Ah, that so? Well, why didn't you just say that?" he asked as he flashed his toothy smile. He then frowned, "You really ought'ta say this stuff first, ya know."
The raven twitched and raised his fists, "Well I would if you would have just calmed down!"
"You think so?" Naruto asked as he scratched the back of his neck.
"You loser!" Sasuke growled as he pushed Naruto under the water. The other flailed and tried to do the same to his attacker. Then another battle occurred in the Uchiha family springs.
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The pelting rain beat against the window panes at the exquisite home of the Uchiha. Clear, blue eyes peered outside at the garden and felt unusually calm, which was a very rare occurrence for the boy. Naruto continued to dry his blond hair with the white towel that was hanging around his neck. He hadn't spoken a single word since Sasuke went to find some mats and blankets, but that wasn't weird...was it? Even though he may be a very hyper-active kid, Naruto wasn't a strange person who spoke to himself. Still, the silence was unusually heavy. "Dammit," he bit his lower lip as he looked at over at the large living room that only had a single table. "Why does this place have to be so big?" he complained. The setting was just so perfect for a ghost to appear out of nowhere. 'Don't even joke about that,' he told himself as he shook his head rapidly, thinking about the monk at the temple. He knew that the monk had warned him that the place was haunted, but he was here to prove that guy wrong.
Then he noticed the black shirt that was his attire. "Well, I am already wearing Sasuke's shirt," he began as he quickly walked into to the corridors, "I'm pretty sure he won't mind if I go into his room." He closed the door behind him and began on his quest to a 'safer' residence.
Naruto stopped in his steps. 'But then again, maybe he would.' He sighed and wondered if he should just stay back at the living room. That was when he heard a faint crackling noise behind him. His head jerked up as he instantly felt something glaring at him from behind. "S-Sasuke?" he mumbled forcing a smile as he turned his head slowly. As expected, there was no one there. 'Shit, now I'm just imagining stuff,' he cursed inwardly as he made up his mind to get to Sasuke's room as fast as he could.
He could be safe there...once he found out where it was, that is. "Hold on. I don't know where it is?" the blonde literally shouted as he asked himself. 'As if you just realized that it was your first time here. I guess I'll just go back after all,' he said, retraced his steps through the corridors. The first set of sliding doors he came across was his first assumption of as to where the living room was. He tried to open it, but he found it locked shut. "Huh?" he blinked. Last time he checked, tatami doors should not be having locks on them.
Then he heard it again; the same creaking floor boards behind him.
His eyes went from the handle he was trying to slide open, to the dark area from where he heard the noise. When the door finally budged, he quickly ran inside and closed the door behind him. The room he was before was as large as the rest, but it was not the living room he had been in before. He did not give it another thought though as to where he was and instead he quickly leapt behind the counter. "Oh, this is the kitchen," he said as he could make out the pots and pans inside the room.
The footsteps were again heard, and Naruto's face turned into different shades of blue. They could barely be heard, but there was mistake about it. Something was coming closer.
Naruto quickly reached for a skillet and held its handle tightly as his eyes did not leave the door. He stood up bravely although his knees were wobbling as he tried to keep a confident frown on his face. There was no way he was about to beaten by a ghost. "C-Come at me with all you got, damn ghost," he said as he backed up. Soon, he was right by the wooden cabinets that were unstable from old age. Naruto did not know this, and when the doors of the cabinets fell on the ground from their contact with the boy, he shrieked and quickly turned to face whatever it was there behind him.
Even though it was dark, Naruto knew what he saw. They were numerous, and as they all lunged at him, he could do nothing but struggle and scream. Scream loudly.
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Finally dressed, Sasuke opened the door of his old room and stepped outside. He was holding two folded quilts with a couple of pillows. Sasuke yawned. 'It's getting pretty late. Knowing Naruto, he's probably hungry,' he thought to himself as a small smirk appeared on his face. With thoughts set on unwrapping the bentos he had bought, he turned towards the direction of his living room. "Hey, Naruto," he called when he saw no one was there. He placed the quilts down and ran his fingers through his black bangs and looked around. That was when he heard his friend shriek in terror. A sudden urge to protect Naruto overfilled him as he threw the towel to the side and dashed towards the only other person in his large house. "Naruto!" he called anxiously.
His friend was continuing to scream, which aided to guide Sasuke to the boy in distress. He quickly slid open the door and switched the lights opened. His own face was filled with worry, "Naruto, what happened?"
As soon as those words left the raven's mouth, he regretted it completely. His face was dark in the shadows as he saw his friend screaming in a pile of his highly esteemed tomatoes.
Naruto popped his head out from the middle with a red vegetable in his mouth. 'What the fucking hell are all these, Sasuke?' his tearful expression seemed to say.
"Pfft."
Naruto's angry eyes slowly softened into confusion as his usually serious friend fell to his knees laughing. Sasuke Uchiha was laughing.
The raven smiled and laughed loudly as he held his stomach. "N-Naruto you should see yourself now, Ahaha," he said through his laughing fit. "Y-You have no idea how cute-" he began as he ended the statement with laughter.
"Cute?" Naruto repeated after he spit the tomato out of his mouth.
Sasuke shook his head and made his way to his hopeless loser of a friend. He bent down on one knee in front of Naruto and took a tomato leaf off of Naruto's head. "Oi, Dobe. You have something against my tomatoes or something? You screamed like as if you saw a ghost."
"S-Shut up, it's your fault for leaving me all alone in this friggin house," Naruto said, embarrassed.
"Hn? Did you miss me in just those few minutes?" Sasuke teased.
"You are so full of it!" the blonde growled as he tried to hit the other with a tomato, pretending it was his rasengan.
Sasuke swiftly caught Naruto's wrist and bit the tomato. His gaze did not falter from Naruto's eyes for a moment. Switching his eyes to his beloved Sharingan, he asked, "Do you want me to stay with you?"
"Yeah," Naruto nodded as he watched the tomato's juice run down Sasuke's chin. He never liked vegetables before, so why did it look so delicious? 'Why does Sasuke look so…' he snapped out of it in time. "What the hell, Sasuke! Don't use your sharingan on me!"
Sasuke grinned and stood up, smirking, "Well, I don't ever remember promising not to use it on you."
"Kami-Sama, you are enjoying this, aren't you?" Naruto asked helplessly as he tried to get up from inhumane number of red fruits/vegetables.
"You could say that," Sasuke honestly replied as he held out his hand. "You hungry?"
Naruto took the hand and was grateful for the assistance as he finally was freed from the prison. He made sure not to step on one. He pulled from Sasuke's grasp that made the other frown slightly. "Yeah," he lied. After that much shock, how could he be hungry? "But there is no way in hell you are going to feed me those and get away with it," Naruto said as he pointed to the ground that was filled with rolling tomatoes.
Sasuke rolled his eyes as walked towards the plastic bag from the shop before. "We already bought dinner, remember?"
"Oh right, what did you get anyways?" he asked cheerfully.
"Dunno, I just bought whatever was at the store," Sasuke said as he shrugged his shoulders. He then concentrated his gaze down his comrade who was following him back to the living room. He smiled. Somewhere in his heart, he was grateful that nothing happened to Naruto. 'If something had, I would have-' his eyes narrowed before he allowed himself to finish the thought. 'What would I have done?'
As they made their way to the living room, Naruto tackled the large stack of quilts. "Osu! This is where we'll be sleeping. This is turning out pretty fun. Hehe, by the end of the night, I will not lose to some ghosts!"
"What?" Sasuke asked as he began to set the small, wooden table with chopsticks and the bento package.
"Oh, nothing, just this bet I need to prove to a fake monk," Naruto said as he jumped off the bundle of softness and took a seat on the hard floor. "Time for some grub!"
"Hn," he grinned. 'I'm not sure what I would have done. But, I'm just glad I don't have to think about it right now.'
Naruto opened his bento box and stared at the contents with large eyes. "Woah," he murmured as he licked his lips staring at the riceballs and octopus sausages. It looked appetizing, but he still wasn't hungry. It may have about an ideal minute of staring at the cute side dish before he had one pop into his mouth. Naruto blinked because he certainly was not the one who had placed it in his mouth. He chewed and stared at Sasuke.
"What?" Sasuke asked as he fed Naruto another one.
"Why are you feeding me, Teme?" the blushing blonde asked angrily.
"Humph, you were the one stalling," Sasuke replied with an amused smirk. "Now, say 'Ahhh'," he chuckled holding up a riceball skillfully with his chopsticks.
"I can feed myself!" Naruto said as he began to stuff his mouth with his own bento meal.
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After they had their meal, Naruto asked his friend where he could sleep. Sasuke suggested the living room, but soon he reconsidered after seeing the uncomfortable look on his friend's face. He was the host, after all, so it would only be right for him to display the utmost quality of the Uchiha hospitality by at least allowing his friend to have a nice rest. So it was decided, they would sleep on the mats inside of his childhood room which was smaller in size. They sat up the mats right next to one another, but there was a respectful distance between them.
To his surprise, Naruto had fallen asleep once his head touched the pillow. After a day like that, Sasuke began to feel quite tired himself. Slowly fading into his own urge to rest, Sasuke drifted into his dreams. A dream that he wished he did not have.
He was there with his loving mother and serious father. They all smiled in the living room and ate their dinners as he tried desperately to please his father. His usual cold-hearted father then put down the papers in his hands and gently patted him on the head. Then, as if to hurt him even more, the dream suddenly shred itself into a nightmare and presented the night where everything went wrong. Two dead bodies were in front of him. His mother turned her head towards him, "Sasuke…"
The killer uttered a few words. The killer being his own beloved brother, Itachi.
"I will kill you!" Sasuke screamed as he held his head and fell on the floor.
"You? How can you?" he heard his brother tease as he coldly left the household.
"I will. I will get revenge, Itachi! I will. I will," he repeated to himself pitifully.
A sudden touch on his chest made him open his eyes in surprise. Sasuke looked down quickly in shock and found a mess of blond hair. The boy's forehead was touching his chest gently, and Sasuke hesitantly touched the golden locks. Naruto was breathing softly with his own hands at his mouth. It had been so long since he had anyone sleep with him before. The last time was when his brother – the flash back ended there.
Itachi. That name filled his blood with anger and resentment. But when the boy stir so close to him, Sasuke's hardened eyes softened and eventually became his usual calm onyx eyes. "Naruto, you might be the only one who can ever make me stop thinking about my revenge." His black hues began to wander off and stare at the items that use to belong to him. "It's funny but, you actually make this place seem like home." He wrapped his arm around his friend and pulled him closer to his side.
"I wonder why."
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A/N: I had fun re-writing this chapter, hope you had fun reading it. By the way, there are many typos in the past chapters. Like, missing words and such. But until my beta edits it, please do not beat me up for it!
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