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OMG, I saw PoTC: AWE last night:Hearts: It was so good! I even got tickets for the better of the premiere shows XD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GHETTO ICE PRINCESS!.!.!.! THIS CHAP'S DEDICATED TO YOU!
Naruto rubbed his eyes as he sat up in bed, his head throbbing for some unknown reason. His vision was fuzzy, the room he was in looking like some sort of mirrored fun house, figures walking in front of him in the form of a blobs. He blinked rapidly, the focus coming back, watching as the blurry outline of Sasuke became clear.
The raven was pacing, his dark eyes full of various emotions that the blond couldn't put a finger on. His palms were being rubbed together as if in worry, his usually shiny hair dull and limp around his well-sculpted face. Naruto shifted in the bed and leaned forward, watching with intrigue.
"Hey, where am I?" he suddenly asked, not the least bit afraid of being in someone else's home. During his first few months at college, he'd been to many parties and, like most partygoers, had gotten extremely drunk and had passed out in the bathroom. He'd almost always wake up the next morning in one of his friend's rooms. Luckily for him, none of his drunken fiascos ended up in sex.
Sasuke looked up sharply, immediately going over to the bed and bending down so he could see the scrapes on the other male's arms. Naruto gave him a confused look and yanked his arms away, not very fond of being touched by the bastard. He looked down and his mouth opened slightly in surprise when he saw the small wounds caked with blood. The band-aids covering them had been poorly put on and were no longer sticking to his flesh too well.
"What the hell happened?.! Where did these come from?.!" He hollered, his voice cracking. Sasuke scowled and shook his head to rid himself of the ringing in his ears, slapping a hand over the dobe's mouth. He gave him a firm stare, and then nodded his head toward the other dorm bed, Hide Zou sleeping peacefully under cotton covers.
Naruto looked at his boyfriend in worry.
"He's fine," Sasuke reassured him. "You don't remember what happened last night, do you?" his voice wavered with sadness, but Naruto didn't notice, too confused and worried. He didn't remember anything past the café incident, nothing at all.
"Not really…" Naruto rubbed his temples and looked down at his covered lap, trying to think back to the previous day.
"We were coming back to campus and you slipped down the steps that led to the front court. Hide Zou managed to grab onto your arm, but then he fell as well. You two are lucky, no major wounds, just scratches," Sasuke lied trough gritted teeth.
He wanted to tell the truth, wanted to say that he got the injuries when he tried to protect himself from his hallucinations; that he injured his head when he collapsed. But even if he did tell the blond, he wouldn't remember and definitely wouldn't believe him.
Naruto looked at Hide Zou, then at Sasuke, smiling. "Thanks for fixing us up. I guess you're not such a teme after all... but I still hate you," he grinned, laughing.
Sasuke's eyes widened at the word "teme", thinking that some of the memories were unconsciously in his mind. Before he could speak, his dorm room was shoved open and a cursing Sakura stumbled in, along with a quiet (but worried) Hinata. They both came in, the pink-haired girl shifting looks between all three males.
"How come I don't remember yesterday?.!" she shouted.
"I-I don't remember anything, either..." Hinata added softly, hands clasped in front of her.
Sasuke inwardly cursed and walked over to them, having forgotten about finding an excuse for them. He couldn't just say that they fell, too. So he did the only thing he could do, use his Sharingan. His eyes melted into red and the wheels in his irises rotated around his tiny pupil, causing the room to fade into black and everyone's bodies to freeze.
He was lucky that Kyuubi had granted him his wings back, as well as his Sharingan. Before he'd come to the college, he'd spent a couple of days practicing with his eyes, learning mostly every technique they could pull. One of them included false memories. But unfortunately, he couldn't use it to implant memories into Naruto's head.
Staring into Sakura's eyes first, he filled in the blanks in her mind, then did the same for Hinata. He'd already filled Hide Zou in when he'd woken up during the middle of the night for, well, a glass of water.
His wheels churned again and he rewinded time, back to when both Sakura and Hinata came into the room. He let his eyes dissolve back into their original color, then watched as the two females came into the dorm room, Sakura not looking as irritated as before.
"I'm so glad you're ok! You fell pretty hard!" Sakura went to Naruto's side and pulled him into a bone-crushing hug, rubbing her soft cheek against his. She then went to Hide Zou and looked down at his snoring form with a frown. "Well, it looks like he's just fine and dandy."
Naruto laughed. "Yeah, we're both doing fine thanks to Sasuke-teme. He's ok for a stuck-up prick."
Hinata giggled.
Sakura snorted.
Sasuke scowled and threw his T.V. remote at the blond's head, immediately knocking him out.
xXxXx
Sasuke walked up the steps of the Tokyo Tower by himself, the rest of the group back on campus studying for a test. He'd taken the oppurtunity to slip away and pay a visit to Kakashi, hoping to tell him about Iruka being his teacher and such. Reaching the very top, he walked past a few businessmen who were conversing about their clients, and leaned against the railing at the very far end of the tower.
Kakashi was beside him, staring at him with eyes dull, yet full of amusement. Even when bound down for eternity, Hatake Kakashi was a cheerful man. He smiled underneath his mask and began the conversation first.
"Regaining his memories is completely seperate from your objective," he stated. "You want him to fall in love with you, ne? You don't need memories to do that. He fell in love with you once, I'm positive it will happen again."
The raven snorted and crossed his arms, keeping his voice low so no one would hear him. "He has a lover who he's very serious about, and despite me really wanting him back, I don't think I'll be able to break off their relationship. Don't say that I'm giving up because I'm not," he glared at the man, but then sighed and gave him a soft look.
Kakashi raised a brow. "What's with that expression?"
"Iruka's one of my college teachers."
The scarecrow chuckled. "So he did get that job afterall... He got a call from the college the day I was bound here and he never got the chance to tell me if they accepted him or not," he smiled once again. "I'm happy for him."
"If you want, I could somehow bring him up here so you could see him again," Sasuke offered, but the silver-haired man shook his head with a low chuckle.
"It's best to leave him to his life. I'm also getting used to eternity here and I don't want to ruin my progress by seeing his face. If I let myself forget his smile, his eyes... then that would make me happy."
Sasuke looked over at his sensei, wondering if that would've been him if he'd stayed in that god forsaken apartment, alone with only himself and his thoughts. He shook his head to rid himself of the thought and pushed forward from the railing, an officer having come up to tell him the tower was about to close.
"Forgetting him would make you happy?" he asked Kakashi.
"Forgetting me made Iruka happy, didn't it?" the spirit answered with dull amusement.
The raven bid his farewell and began going down the steps, only to see Naruto and Hide Zou right at the bottom, wearing thin coats to keep them warm in the chilly night air. The blond was being held by strong arms, a pair of lips running down his exposed neck as he ran his own hands down Hide Zou's sides. Despite himself, Sasuke cocked an eyebrow.
"What're you two doing here?" he asked, not too bothered by their scene of affection.
Naruto made an embarrassing sqealing sound, then shoved his boyfriend away and blushed, glaring daggers at the raven. Hide Zou licked his lips and straightened his yellow jacket, grinning at Sasuke, reminding him of the cheshire cat. They both stared at Naruto when he started yelling.
"Why the hell did you leave?.!" he screeched. "You said you were going to study with us, then you leave and we have to search for you like some stupid American detectives! Do these shoes look like they're made for running around Tokyo?" he growled and pointed down at his bright orange fuzzy slippers.
"No?" Sasuke answered slowly. "And I'm sorry I left, I had to take care of some business."
Hide Zou arched a brow. "Drugs?"
"No, just normal errands. Getting groceries and such."
Naruto frowned. "Then where's your groceries, hmm?"
Sasuke smirked. "I wasn't able to get to the store yet. I took a quick stop here because I saw an old friend."
"Likely story," Naruto began, walking around the raven. "But you're probably some Yakuza member giving information about us to your leader. You want us assassinated, just because we called you a stalker. But you know what? You are one!"
His boyfriend yanked him against his chest and chuckled. "He's not completely... sane at this hour of the night. He usually goes to bed around ten," his wristwatch read 1:34 a.m. "He's just spouting nonsense."
"I am not!" the blond struggled.
Sasuke let a small laugh slip between his lips and began walking to a small grocery store that was most likely still open at this ungodly hour. He didn't want them to think he was lying about the errands, so he decided to pick up a few things; fruits, toilet paper, maybe some Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
"Now where're you going?" Naruto asked while yawning loudly.
"To get my groceries," the young Uchiha stated and went into a a small drug store. Hide Zou and Naruto remained outside, the blond constantly yawning, stumbling over his feet, and mumbling things that made no sense whatsoever. It was probably his imagination, but the Jrocker swore Naruto mumbled something about having wings hidden beneath someone's jacket.
"What'd you say?" he asked, his arms wrapping around his lover's rounded shoulders.
"Nghhn," Naruto buried his head in the crook of his boyfriend's neck and sighed. "I'm sorry, Sasuke... I can't remember anything..." her whispered, somewhat regretfully against Hide Zou's exposed skin.
The other male furrowed his brows. What's he talking about?
Sasuke came out of the store a few moments later, two grocery bags in each hand. He walked past them and Hide Zou lifted Naruto up, keeping him against his chest to warm him. Thinking about what his lover had said before basically falling asleep standing up, he spoke.
"Sasuke?"
"Hn?"
"Did Naruto... forget something important to you?" he asked, curious. "Or about you?"
The raven froze and he turned, looking at the sleeping face of the handsome blond in Hide Zou's arms. Did the man know, did Naruto say something? ... Does he remember something?
"No, why?"
"Well, he mumbled something about him being sorry for forgetting. It was right before he fell asleep."
xXxXx flashback xXxXx
"Plan on telling me what you dreamt about or do I have to molest it out of you?" he smirked, dumping his school bag onto the floor and kicking off his boots.
Grinning a bit, Naruto plopped down on his bed and took off his sneakers, "Well... I don't really know."
"You don't know?" the other male looked skeptical.
"I'm telling the truth! I remember as soon as I wake up, but then it fades away, no matter how hard I try to remember..." The blond laid back, not moving an inch when Hide Zou jumped onto the bed next to him and wrapped strong, warm arms around his waist. He smiled widely, loving how his boyfriend became like him on rare occasions. "It's strange. Once the memories are gone, I feel empty, but I'm shaking... And I don't even remember if the dream was scary or not."
xXxXx end flashback xXxXx
Hide Zou thought about that.
Did he remember certain things only when he was asleep?
He shook his head, not wanting to think too much on it. The blond was just having a silly, random dream, like almost everyone on the planet did. Not all dreams had explanations.
After a half an hour walk, they reached the campus and walked across the front lawn, some dorm room lights on in the East Wing. Sasuke walked his seperate way, while Hide Zou took Naruto back to their room. They said their farewells to each other, then went to their rooms.
As Sasuke went into his first floor room, he didn't notice the figure following him, the shadow lurking in the dim hallway. Crimson hair and white wings disappeared behind one of the many corners in the dormitory as black eyes looked up.
The raven just shrugged tiredly and shut the door, oblivious to the figure just outside of his bedroom door.
I'm sooo sorry it's short, but it's like... one in the morning. I'll make the next chap really long to make up for this!
