A/N: Okay. First off, I'd like to apologise to everyone who has been waiting for the next chapter of this story to come out. I know what it's like to wait for updates and I just want to say thanks to everyone who has continued to read this. This chapter for some reason or other was a complete failure. It went through six different versions, before I settled on the final version you shall read in a moment. It's actually all six versions meshed together into one. So this chapter… Is the load of crap that I've been working on for five months… XP Enjoy!

Chapter 4: Visitor

"…And the teacher gave me detention! Just for putting a whoopee cushion on his chair!" Naruto's arms flailed out as he retold one of his earlier stories in high school. Iruka laughed little as the blonde attempted to eat and talk at the same time.

"You know, Naruto, maybe you should just eat first and then tell me about high school life." Iruka suggested, having finished his first bowl of ramen. Naruto however had already finished his fifth bowl, and was still asking for more.

The blonde grinned at his old sensei, and proceeded to gulp down the rest of his dinner. When he had finished this one, he turned to his primary school teacher and grinned at him.

"So you've heard about my life, what happened to you after your best pupils left you?" the blonde joked. Iruka gave a small smile.

"Well after you all left for high school, I was assigned a younger group. Oh! Do you remember a boy named Konohamaru?" the older brunette asked as he motioned for a waiter to bring the bill.

The blonde chav's faced screwed up in concentration for a few seconds before his eyes widened and his mouth was upturned into a grin. "Sure! I was that little brat's 'buddy'(1) for a few years. Why? Was he in your class?"

"Yes actually, he was. And I think he learned a few things from you…" At this statement, Iruka sent a playful glare towards the blonde, while Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "And he decided he wanted to be a ninja for a year. Said something about 'I'm going to grow up to be like Naruto-niichan and become the greatest ninja ever!'. Something you perhaps told him when you were still in primary school?"

Naruto laughed out loud at this as his mind wandered back to the times when his dream was to become a ninja.

"Hey! How was I supposed to know that kids were so impressionable when they're that age? Anyway, what happened then?" Naruto enquired. Iruka gave him a look that clearly said 'do you really want to know?' in which Naruto just sent a nod in reply, all the while grinning his face off.

Iruka sighed. "Well he got his two friends, Moegi and Udon so that they became a 'ninja team'… And they decided to assist the school in doing… 'missions'…."

"Okay stop! Stop right there. I kind of get the picture…" Naruto sweat dropped as he imagined the kind of havoc the threesome caused when they had left. It could have only been hell for the brown haired teacher. And the other teachers as well for that matter.

"So tell me. Why are you and Sasuke not speaking to each other anymore?" Iruka enquired, while sipping at his cup of coffee. At this Naruto tensed up slightly, and the brunette felt as though he had tread upon a delicate topic. He was about to wave off the subject when Naruto spoke.

"The dirty goth decided it would be a good idea to take his pain out on me just because his mum had died." the brown haired man had to suppress a shiver at the icy tone in Naruto's voice. It was almost as if the smiling blonde that was here a few moments ago had disappeared and was now replaced by this icy and clearly angry child. Iruka didn't say anything, in which Naruto took to as a sign to continue.

"The few year that we were in high school we were still the best of friends. He took care of me when I got picked on by the older kids. But during the second year, his mum died of cancer. Apparently his dad and Itachi knew about it but didn't tell him because they were afraid that he wouldn't be able to take it. And clearly they were right." the blonde's fists were clenched tightly together.

After getting over the initial shock of the personality change of Naruto, Iruka's mind finally processed the fact that Sasuke's mother, Mikoto Uchiha, had passed away. Sadness suddenly took over him. Mikoto was one of the most respected women in the whole of Konoha. She was beautiful, she was kind, and she was possibly the most desirable women of her time. At the age of twenty three, she married her childhood friend Fugaku Uchiha, and the two started up their own small business. Two years later she gave birth to her first son, Itachi Uchiha, and another few years later, her second son Sasuke Uchiha.

In those few years, their small business had grown and grown, and now, it was one of the biggest company manufacturer's in the whole country. They owned different clothing ranges, catering brands and of course, their very own Uchiha brand.

The family were flourishing. Itachi was the top of his school, and was moved up so many years that he went to college at the age of fourteen. He then attended university at the age of seventeen, and currently at nineteen years old, he was helping his father with the Uchiha Corporation business.

Sasuke wasn't far behind. Although not a prodigy like his older brother, Sasuke still came top in everything. One thing he was known for was that he was more handsome than his brother. This lead to his forming of a fan group of girls, which followed him everywhere he went. They wouldn't admit it, but even the chav girls had a thing for him.

Even with the widely known fact that, yes, the Sasuke Uchiha….

Was gay.

"Afterwards we started to grow distant. I tried to cheer him up, take him out to places and invite him round to our place, but he kept refusing! Eventually, while we were walking home, I was talking to him 'bout something, when he turned 'round and punched me in the gut! Then he told me to shut the fuck up and leave him the hell alone!"

Naruto was now starting to shake in anger, and if one looked carefully enough, they could almost see his eyes turning into slits and colouring themselves red.

The bill for the dinner arrived. Iruka, not wanting to upset the blonde anymore, put down the money, and suggested that they went home.

Naruto, seemed to snap out of his daze, before grinning at his old sensei. And together, the two walked home. During the walk home, Naruto started to talk about how he and Kiba had ended up becoming the best of friends, and Iruka listened. But his mind was still thinking about what had happened between the raven and blonde.

Such a sad way to break up a friendship. Honestly Sasuke... do you know how much you really hurt Naruto?

----- The Next Day -----

Ding dong. The door to the Umino household rang throughout the empty hallways. When no movement occurred, the doorbell rang again, except this time, it was pushed many times in a row so that sounded like it was stuck on a broken record. A blonde head poked out of one of the bedroom doors, and a fisted hand came up to rub the sleep his sky blue eyes.

As the doorbell once again impatiently rung, Naruto opened his eyes wide, and put a glare on faster than you could say "seven o'clock in the morning". Sprinting down the stairs while almost knocking everything over in his path, Naruto finally reached the front door, fists clenched and ready to punch whichever stupid asshole was at the door.

As he flung open the door, while plunging his fist forward, a mess of raven hair caught his gaze, before his fist was caught in a pale hand, his arms twisted behind his back and he was pushed to the hallway floor, with a heavy weight atop his back. "What the fuck do you think you're doing Uchiha!?" spat Naruto, his face getting pressed into the cream carpet.

Sasuke smirked above his prey, one of his hands holding Naruto's fist to his back, and the other hand, randomly playing in the little chav's short cropped hair. "Aw, the little chav dumbass is trying to act all hard. Anyway, what the fuck do you think you're doing inside Iruka's house anyway?" Sasuke's triumphant smirk then turned into a dark glare. Naruto struggled beneath the goth boy and tried to get up.

However, Sasuke was having none of this. He picked Naruto up, only to throw him against the wall, and proceeded to grab the blondes neck. Naruto was about half a head shorter than Sasuke, so it wasn't hard for the raven to lift the blonde a few centimetres off of the floor.

"I'll ask you again you idiot of a human. What do you think you're doing in Iruka-sensei's home?" Naruto huffed, but his glare didn't waver as the two opposites started a silent glare war. That is until Iruka, who had been woken by the two boys' antics, came stumbling down the stairs in nothing but a t-shirt and some boxer shorts, that the two broke their gaze and looked sheepishly at their old sensei.

"Oh Sasuke! I forgot that you were coming over today. Let me just get dressed and you can meet me in the study. Naruto, be a good host and get Sasuke something to eat or to drink okay?" And with that said, the brunette ran up the stairs again and shut the door to his bedroom.

For a moment, the two teenagers were in silence. Naruto glanced at Sasuke who was looking just as confused as he was, and Sasuke glared back. Giving Naruto one last good shove into the wall, Sasuke let go of his death grip on the neck of the blonde, which caused the shorter male to stumble a bit.

Naruto glared at the taller boy, but didn't let the fact that he had just been owned deter him from giving Sasuke a good shove as he made his way into the kitchen. Sasuke simply smirked and straightened out his black 'The Nightmare before Christmas' hoodie, before following the blonde in the direction of the kitchen.

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"So then asswipe. Going to tell me what the hell you're doing here?" Naruto practically spat the question at the goth raven. The blonde was currently stood at the counter top, pressing the button to put the kettle on boil and took out some coffee granules from the cupboard above.

"Why don't you tell me why you'rehere first dumbass. Seeing as you look so comfortable right now." The raven smirked, motioning towards the fact that the blonde boy was wearing nothing but his bright orange boxer shorts.

At this Naruto blushed, but still managed to glare in Sasuke's direction. "None of your damn fucking business!" the blonde huffed as he held the boiling kettle and poured the water into the cup. Unfortunately for Naruto, being the clumsy teen that he is, knocked over the cup with the coffee in it, which caused a spillage over his naked chest area.

"Aw knob head!" screamed the blonde. A string of curse words flew from his mouth as he jumped up and down on the spot to try and make the pain go away. Sasuke had immediately rushed over to the sink and had grabbed a dishcloth from the side. In the matter of a few seconds he had turned to cold tap on, ran the dishcloth under the running water, and pressed the dripping piece of cloth on Naruto chest.

At this contact, Naruto's body immediately froze up and a light blush dawned on his cheeks. "Jeez you stupid chav. If I didn't know better, I would've thought you'd have lost all those brain cells of yours through all that crack you've smoked…" the raven's words were meant to insult, but he had said it so softly, that Naruto's mind just waved it off.

The blonde was currently too busy staring at the raven haired goth, while said goth seemed to be concentrating on cooling the small burn on Naruto's chest.

"You're going to have to get some ice on it later. And that red isn't going to go away anytime soon." Sasuke took away the cloth, only to replace it with his cold fingers. The touch caused Naruto to shiver slightly. But surprisingly… it wasn't in disgust.

"Sasuke…"

It was only a whisper but Sasuke sure as hell heard it. He looked at Naruto's face, eyes slightly wide in amazement. He hasn't said my name in three years…

The two simply stood there. One was staring down at the other in amazement, and the other looking up; a blush on his cheeks and a sort of dazed look in his eyes. The silence that hung in the kitchen was weird, but comfortable at the same time. And neither wanted to break it.

"Um… Am I interrupting something?" As if an electric current had passed between Naruto and Sasuke, the boys quickly broke any sort of contact and turned to see a grinning brunette standing in the doorway of the kitchen.

Iruka laughed at the disturbed looks on the pairs faces, before they both turned to glare at each other. "Hey Naruto. I thought you said you and Sasuke didn't talk anymore?" Iruka enquired, moving over so that he could get a cup of tea.

"We don't! I hate that bastard with my whole fucking… Err… Fucking…. Aw fuck this I can't think of anything good to say!!" And with that, the blonde stormed out of the kitchen, with a face that rivalled the colour with that of a tomato.

Sasuke smirked at the blondes antics before turning to the older brunette. "So Iruka-sensei, how have you been?"

The brunette teacher smiled, and proceeded to talk about Naruto's current predicament.

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A/N: 1) Sometimes in primary school, the little reception kids are assigned an older kid to look after them. I had one when I was five and I was told to be this girl's 'buddy' at the end of primary school.

Thanks for reading this people! I know it's much shorter than the other chapters and it took the longest to upload but I swear t you all now! I will write the chapters quicker and hopefully I will update more regularly too! Love you all!