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Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood
Colours
4 - Sweater Weather
These hearts adore
Everyone the other beats hardest for
Inside this place is warm
Outside it starts to pour
4:24 p.m.
August 20th, xxx1
The last term for Nauro tin U.B.C passed by in a blink of an eye, all three months of it. Now it was august and Naruto was already hunting down for a couple of good places to move into around the GTA.
He was excited. Since he had grown up in the area, he had a couple of old friends he had wanted to meet up with. This seemed like the perfect opportunity.
"Gaara, I'm looking for a place Mississauga-Toronto-ish." Naruto spoke over the phone.
"Why?" He asked. "Don't you still have School, why are you moving?"
"This and that, now I'm being transferred to UofT."
"That's a bit surprising. Congrats."
"Yeah, I was surprised too and thank you."
"What are you looking for?" Gaara walked into his room. The curtains were closed. He shut the door and lay down on his bed, breathing out a sign.
"Something around Credit Valley."
Gaara thought for a while. "I could get you into an apartment building about twenty minutes away from there."
"Really? Where about?"
"The central area. Across from YMCA and the central library."
"Whao. Those are really hard to get."
"And I own them."
"You're not going to kick anyone out." Naruto said warningly.
"No, we have an empty apartment no one's rented yet. It's a thousand but you can pay seven hundred." The ginger lied. The apartment was over two thousand but if he told Naruto that he wouldn't let Garra reduce the pricing for him.
"Shut up. I'm paying in full."
The ginger smiled, of course Naruto couldn't understand that he had just won. Neither would he know of his smile. "Well, if you say so, it's on the fifteenth floor."
"That's pretty nice. When can I move in?" The blond was walking around silently, his dog came up to him and barked, Naruto smiled and put his pointer finger on his lips. Kurama silently sat down and Naruto pet his dog's head. He fed him a treat.
"Don't you want to come in and take a look?" Garra raised an invisible eyebrow.
"Nah, I trust ya."
"Well, alright I guess. Try to move before the end of next month."
Naruto's eyes darted towards his calendar above his study table. It was the twentieth. He shrugged, he would manage that. "Classes start on the fourteenth so I'll probably be in by the end of the week. I'm done packing."
Kurama stared at Naruto, tilting his head in curiosity. Who was Naruto talking to if not him? He looked around the room and no one was there. He barked.
"Listen, Garra I'll talk to you later okay? Kurama's being a bit of a handful."
"Alright."
Before disconnecting Naruto's features smoothed up. "And, try to get some rest."
"Hn." And Garra hung up.
Naruto brought his cell from his ear to in front of him and stared at it for a while. Worrying about his insomniac friend.
He tossed his phone on to the bed as he got up.
Stretching, Naruto walked down the stairs, his dog pattering along with him. "All, right boy, let's go for a walk." Putting on his rain jacket Naruto grabbed a cap. Leashing Kurama, he opened the door to a warm, moist, autumn.
1:00 a.m.
August 30th, xxx1
Naruto breathed out as he stretched. Today was the day. Naruto Uzumaki had settled down in Mississauga, Ontario all by himself. He had moved out. His friends gave him a minuter farewell party, where the congratulated him on his big step, a week before he left for Mississauga.
His apartment was already furnished so he had only driven down to Mississauga with a few suitcases.
It was late at night and the blond was dead tired.
Everything hurt.
Naruto dug into the only bag he had brought upstairs with him. It had a bedsheet a pillow and his toiletries. He took out his pillow and bedsheet.
He checked if he had locked the door, which he had.
He flopped down on his new bed, after spreading down some sheets. He was out as soon as he hit the bed. Good thing he drove in his sweats and a comfortable shirt because he's wake up with annoyed and aching more than necessary.
6:00 p.m.
September 10th, xxx1
A week after, There was a knock on his door. Naruto headed towards the green front door knowing full well who was on the other side. After all they had just spoken over the intercom.
When the blond opened the door, his eyes shined, he smiled.
"Hey,"
"Hi." Naruto was grinning. "Been a while."
"Yeah, five month." They casually started to walk inside, Sasuke shutting the door to the apartment. "Doesn't seem like it though."
Naruto hummed as he reached out for Sasuke's hand. "Yeah?" Sasuke clasped Naruto's hands with his own.
"Yeah, with you pesking me with all your calls and all your texts." Sasuke smirked.
Naruto gasped dramatically. "I'm so hurt. I see how it is. Watch me even try to make contact with you again."
Sasuke nodded. "Sure, I'll watch... as you crawl back to me crying, begging me to take you back."
"Shut up." Naruto laughed, still holding Sasuke's hand he walked him over to his couch. "Wanna eat?"
"Depends." Sasuke's eyes slightly glistened.
Naruto gave him a 'you wish look' and got up from the couch, separating their hands.
"I already cooked before hand." Naruto walked over to his kitchen, taking a right, a dining table was set for them to eat. "So, let's eat," Naruto smiled as he turned around. Sasuke was right in front of him. He breathed out a sharp breath and moved back. "Don't do that!"
"Do what?" Sasuke smirked.
Oh, darn that smirk to hell.
"Shut up, take a seat and eat."
"Nice," Sasuke snorted. "You're such an amazing host."
The blond went into the kitchen to grab the plates so he could serve. Naruto had cooked a snapper with zucchini and tomatoes. Rice was tucked around the fish while the fruits were decorating one side of the plate.
"Gotta say, the presentation is pretty nice. Let's see how the food is."
"Alright, chef Ramsay." Naruto made an annoyed face, mocking Sasuke.
Sasuke picked up a fork , stabbing the fish and gathering up as much of the content on the plate. Damn it was good. The fish wasn't dry, burnt or raw and the tomatoes... his eyes had practically rolled to the back of his head. "It's… reasonable."
Naruto snorted as he laughed. "You're practically orgasming over my food."
Sasuke shrugged. "Don't get ahead of yourself. I said it was reasonable."
Naruto hummed. "Alright."
Finishing up with their food Naruto got up to do the dishes. Sasuke got up to help him dry up the plates but his phone rang to interrupt it. Sasuke ignored it at first but it rang a few more times. He pulled it out of his pockets to shut it off but looking at the name that flashed onto his cell's screen he breathed out a sigh. "I have to take this."
Naruto shrugged. "I understand." He smiled. "There's only a few things to wash." The blond turned around to get back to scrubbing after flashing Sasuke a smile.
Sasuke grabbed his jacket. Pulled out a cigarette, his lighter and walked out to the balcony. Putting the cig into his mouth he lit it up. He definitely needed this cigarette,His phone buzzed again and he picked it up on the first ring. "What, brother."
"Aren't we as lively as always? Well, anyway, your services are needed."
"I'm off today."
"I know- wait you're with Naruto?" Sasuke would normally be perking to get to work. Naruto would be the only reason he wouldn't want to.
Sasuke took a drag off his cig and blew out the smoke. The autumn winds were hitting his face, though it was cold he walked over to the blackonry ledge and leaned on it. "Yeah, he moved down to Mississauga after a transfer. I was giving him a visit."
"I see… unfortunately this is an important mission you need to carry out. You'll have a team but it's necessary for you to lead."
"You can always find a replacement." Itachi heard Sasuke's voice crackle through his receiver filled with background noise of the wind blowing. His eyes narrowed."Now brother, we all know where letting people get in the way of work can lead us to." He spun in his chair, getting up he walked up to the glass wall behind him. He looked down at the traffic below.
Sasuke took in a sharp, long inhale of the death stick in his hand.
Naruto opened up the balcony door. "What are you doing outside and barefoot? Get inside." His blue eyes darted to the rolled tobacco in his soulmate's hand. He walked up to Sasuke and grabbed his cig and tossed it to the ground. The blond extinguished the flame with the slippers he was wearing. He glared at Sasuke but his eyes softened easily. "A-ah, sorry."
Sasuke gave him a confused look. "It's only a smoke, it's fine." Naruto smelt the cigarette smell from Sasuke and he scrunched his nose. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Wanting to be a doctor… and all that… ya know…" He laughed awkwardly, trying to justify his actions.
"Understandable." Sasuke brought his cell back up to his ear. "I'm sorry Naruto but I have to leave."
"I'm sorry I didn't mean-"
"No," Sasuke cut him off. "It's not about that. It's just work I was supposed to be off today but it's an emergency."
"I understand. I'd be a hypocritical asshole if I got mad." Naruto would have to do the same thing to Sasuke sooner or later. When would become a doctor and all.
The cold finally running up his legs, Sasuke decided to slid the glass door open to get inside the heated apartment. He cold bare feet stepped on the warmed carpet. "I really am sorry."
Naruto came in behind him and slide the door close.
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's coat as he slid on his shoes slightly murmuring into it and talking to whomever was on the other side. Sasuke got up and Naruto helped him shrug his jacket on.
Sasuke squeezed Naruto's hand and leaned in to simply kiss Naruto's scarred cheeks. "I'll see you soon, okay?"
"Yeah, alright." Naruto smiled. Sasuke did too, slightly.
8:20 p.m.
September 11th, xxx1
It was a simple escort mission. Nothing too big. He had to drive an important businessman from the Canadian side of the border safely to the American side. And then hand him off to the American agent and be on his merry way back home.
There wasn't much of a problem, no hassle. He had to pick up the guy from a few blocks from where he was and drive towards Niagara falls. It was only about a six hour long mission. That is if it all went smoothly.
He parked his Mustang outside an agent building that was located in Mississauga. The man was also inside. He ran up the stairs and got a room to get changed in. The companies provided some extra's just incase for emergencies. He wasn't going to drive all the way downtown to Toronto and get changed and drive back up.
Putting on a white mask, painted red with lines to indicate a hawk face. He put a gun in his boots and a few daggers into a pouch strapped onto his leg.
He exited the room to find his mission.
Which wasn't hard to find. The man was tall and slender, pale and had purple makeup around his eyes."Mr. Sannin. I shall be your escort for today. Along with my team. You may refer to me as number Seven." Sasuke turned around and pointed at Suigetsu. "That's five and the one with the red hair's three, the ginger is fourteen."
The man got up, his long black hair swaying about behind him. "That's a bit inconvenient. Can't I have any names?"
"Nah, identities need to be top secret, ya know? It's an agent thing." Suigetsu said.
Sasuke glared at his customer behind his mask. He wasn't really happy with the way he had been called down, he wasn't happy with this man's attitude and he wasn't happy with anything.
Sasuke sat in the back with their customer, Suigetsu drove while there was a car behind them and in front of them offering protection. They were almost at the border.
"Mr. Seven." The man, who called to Sasuke, Orochimaru was doing the creepiest things. He was ignoring him with the best of his abilities. The weirdo was getting on his last nerve. "Since you won't let me know your name can you take your mask off?"
"No."
"And why not?"
"Policies." He dismissed.
Orochimaru hummed and got up to move to where Sasuke was. Being in a limo he had to bend down and awkwardly make his way to him. When he got there he made the best effort to grab Sasuke's wrists and pin them away from him. He ripped his mark off and Sasuke's eyes widened and he pushed the old freak away from him by punishing him. Orochimaru could only see a blinding white light, barely getting a sight of the agent's face.
"You saw my face." Sasuke accused
The long haired man rubbed the back of his hand along his lips. "I would've if you hadn't rudely pushed me away like that." Orochimaru spit out.
"Policies. Mr. Sannin. Don't cross the line and don't get hurt." His glare couldn't be seen by the older man, he had been quick to cover up his face again.
The limo came to a stop at the borders of the the two countries.
Sasuke got out of the car and made way for his customer to be handed of to an already waiting agent on the other side.
Orochimaru slowly glided towards the other side as he smirked at Sasuke.
7:00 p.m.
November 7th, xxx1
Sasuke walked onto the balcony of his apartment. It was night time. The Traffic down at the road was creating a good amount of noise. It was raining. Sasuke was wrapped up in his sweater as he smoked his cig.
He rubbed his eyes with his palm, his cigarette in the same hand.
He breathed out a sigh. Breathing out mist.
The door to his balcony opened and Itachi walked outside. "Hey,"
"I'm not in the mood, Itachi." Sasuke sharply stated.
"I can see that." The older Uchiha explained. "Is it about work?"
Sasuke sighed again, shaking his head.
"Naruto..?" Itachi took a wild guess.
"More like Naruto and work."
Itachi stood next to Sasuke silently, both of them gathering their thoughts. Itachi blew out a soft, frustrated breath. "We all know where this whole soulmate thing leads to."
Of course, it was point blank. Legit relationships like marriages. Naruto and Sasuke had last found each other for nine months, to be exact. Most of the time it was over the phone, but he had felt like he had known Naruto forever. 'That's how soulmates work, you idiot.' He remembered.
"I don't know what to do."
"Do you…" Itachi tried to pick the right word. "...like him?"
"There's obviously an attraction." Sasuke took a drag from his cig. Sasuke didn't know if he liked Naruto at all.
"Him moving to Mississauga is a great way to spend more time with him." Itachi continued. "It would be a good way to know what you want, how you want it and when you want it."
"The more time I spend with him the more danger I put him in." Sasuke argued.
"Mother did just fine." Itachi offered.
"She was an agent." Sasuke snorted. "I can't marry him."
"You might as well then, keep him in your sight and protect him." The older brother suggested.
It wasn't like Naruto wouldn't be able to protect himself. He could. He was a grown man. He knew how to fight.
That wasn't what Sasuke was worried about. The organizations that he was up against were dangerous. This wasn't a cop chase. This was Rank-A shit. He had trained his whole life through the toughest of trainings to deal with it.
Naruto wouldn't be able to stand a chance.
"It's something I don't need to worry about at the moment." Sasuke tried to be convincing.
Itachi couldn't do anything but agree, for now, he could wait and let things play out.
3:00 p.m.
November 10th, xxx1
"He just won't agree with it." Itachi sighed.
"I know, honey, we knew he would act like that." Mikoto spoke over the phone. The receiver was face down on the base of the telephone, it being on speaker so the three "adults" of the family could discuss the only "child's" stubbornness.
"I don't think there is much we can do other then let time pass by and let things play out." Itachi murmured his suggestion.
Fugakau nodded his head. "I agree, I think we can trust Sasuke to take the right decisions when it comes down to it."
"I understand, father but I just can't shake this uneasy feeling I have over this situation."
"Be a little more Positive, Itachi. You're being more paranoid than your father." Mikoto laughed.
Itachi smiled at that. That was right, though Fugaku wouldn't show much of a reaction to anything they all knew he was the mother hen.
Fugaku snorted. "Don't be gray clouds." His way of telling them to not be idiots and to shut the up.
Minato laughed. Itachi smiled and Fugaku wasn't too far behind, though he tried not to. Leaving a loose cover around your family once in awhile wasn't that big-a-deal.
'I guess we have to leave this up to you, little brother."
7:00 p.m.
December 24th, xxx1
It was christmas eve and Naruto was walking around his kitchen cooking up a special dinner for two.
That's right, two.
Sasuke was going to spend the night with him and the next morning Naruto would have to take a flight to Vancouver while Sasuke would have to drive down to Mississauga road to be with his family.
Spending time together would have been nice but both of their families were who they spent Christmas so it couldn't be helped. Also, Naruto was really missing his parents, he wanted to go home.
Taking out a whole sizzling chicken from the oven, Naruto bumped the oven with his hips to close the oven as he sung along to Christmas song. "All, I want for Christmas is you!" He sang off key. Grabbing a plate he had decorated with salad, he plopped the chicken on top. "Viola." He laughed.
Making his way to the table, he put two chairs into the storage and the other two seats were placed on opposite sides. Red wine, plates, forks, spoons, knives and glasses were placed in the right places.
'Dress to impress.' Naruto snorted, referring to the dining table.
He walked into his washroom to take a once over and see if he looked displayable, then he let out a chuckle. Why was he feeling so insecure?
The bell rang and he slightly jogged to the front door. Putting his hands on the door knob, Naruto breathed out as he shut his eyes. Turning the doorknob he greeted his soulmate with a smile. "How'di do ma'm."
Sasuke gave him a 'what the fuck' face and snorted, laughing slightly. "I have a dick." He walked through the door and took off his shoes. Naruto stood at the door for a second and guffawed. Closing the door shut he started singing along with the playlist still playing throughout this house. "Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock."
Sasuke made a fake hurt noise. "My ears started bleeding."
"Wow, bastard. It's been like, what, thirty second? And you're already insulting me."
"I'm all about beating personal records."
Naruto rolled his eyes. "Nerd."
Sasuke sniffed the air and walked over to the kitchen. "Something smells edible."
"Don't even, your thirst for my food is too real." Naruto pointed to his lips. "Look you're drooling."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Whatever." Naruto walked over to Sasuke. He started unbuttoning Sasuke's jacket, a button at a time then he unzipped the second layer underneath the buttons. Sasuke was swearing a nice black sweater. He put his hand on his chest. The wool was soft. "You look unpleasantly nice."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows. "Is that a compliment?"
"Take it how ever you want to." The blond slide of his date's jacket and grabbed the little beanie off of his head. "I'll go put these away. Take a seat if you want."
Sasuke hummed. "Alright,"
Naruto sauntered off, down the hall, and Sasuke made his over to the little stereo, which was inside of a glass cabinet placed under a flat screen T.V. There were a few stacks of CD's. All sorts of music was shelved in the little doorless cabinet underneath the stereo. Indie, pop, classical. Everything from The Arctic Monkeys, to Ed Sheeran, to Evanescence along with a few mixtapes with random things written on the case, indicating its content.
He hadn't realised Naruto was into music to such an extent. If he had known he would've gotten him something music related for Christmas.
Sasuke grabbed "X" from the row of CD cases and replaced the CD with the christmas mix tape. Letting the music play.
-I can't sweep you off of your feet
Naruto walked in and gave Sasuke a funny look, walking over to him. The raven shrugged.
I'm thinking about how-
Naruto extended his hand for Sasuke to take. Sasuke stared at his tan hand and placed his pale hand on it. Naruto pulled him in close.
So honey now, take me into you loving arms
Naruto silently guided Sasuke's hands to his waist, Sasuke slightly squeezed his midriff. Naruto put his hands on his soulmates waist. Awkwardly swaying.
Baby we found love right where we are
Not really sure of what they were doing, they started slowly spinning.
When my hands don't play the strings the same way
Naruto, stopped to a halt and made a strumming motion on Sasuke's waist. Laughing he tossed his head back and slowly moved his hands to Sasuke's pale neck, intertwining them behind it. He leaned in close.
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Sasuke's left hands traveled up Naruto's waist and he pressed it against the blondes chest, loosely.
Darling place your hand on my beating heart
Naruto's heartbeat was racing up, faster and faster. Sasuke brought his hands back down to Naruto's waist and tossed Naruto back, Naruto clung onto Sasuke's collar thinking that Sasuke was trying to throw him to the ground. Sasuke, not expecting his own added weight, was thrown off balance; they fell in a pile of tangled limbs.
Naruto laughed for it to be interrupted by his stomach grumbling right when the track was in the middle of transitioning.
'Tell me you turned down the man that asked for you hand 'cause you're waiting for me-'
"Let's eat?" Naruto suggested, chuckling from his embarrassment.
Sasuke nodded and they did all that while talking about anything and everything.
This time Sasuke helped with the dishes while Naruto tried to encourage him to sing along with the "jingles".
"No, you enjoy that." He refused to take part in such things.
"It's more fun with other people."
"Hurry up so we can start with the presents."
That got him fired up but more importantly distracted.
10:47 p.m.
December 24th, xxx1
Sitting outside on the couch, with the music turned off the two of them exchanged gifts.
"You first." Naruto volunteered for Sasuke.
Shrugging he dug into the Christmas themed gift bag and picked up the content inside. Unwrapping it slowly, torturing Naruto.
"House of the Scorpion." Sasuke muttered, reading the title of the book.
"Yeah, I bought you a copy, it's a really good book, ya know." Naruto said excitedly. "I just need to talk to someone about this book, it's been torturing me."
"You can read? More unexpectedly a thick book like this?" Sasuke snorted.
"Shut up! I bought you hard copy too. Don't be rude." He stuck his tongue out. Sasuke gulped. Naruto crossed his arms. "There's more."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows but dug back into the gift bag. There was an envelope which Sasuke proceeded to rip open. It was a simple card covered in bold red letters that wrote out "Jingle Balls." He looked up at Naruto and all he did was snicker. Sasuke shook his head and smiled. Opening up the card for a gift card to slide out. It was a hundred dollars gift card for hudson's bay. "Why?"
"What? I just didn't know what you'd want but you'd obviously wouldn't want anything unnecessary. I wasn't sure what type of stuff you'd like to wear."
"Yeah, but a hundred bucks?"
Naruto shrugged. "Shut up, Hudson's not cheap. I'm going to open my Christmas present now." There was a Christmas card on top of a black and white, soft, big knit sweater. He decided to read the card first. 'Merry Christmas' was written out in cursive at the front. When he opened it up to find the normal "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" written out in neat handwriting. "You're so basic." Naruto complained.
"It's a card." Sasuke snorted.
Naruto took out the neatly folded sweater and it unfolded to only throw out a game for the xbox. "No fucking way! Destiny? Thanks man."
Sasuke shrugged. "Merry Christmas, right?"
Finally giving his attention to the sweater Naruto rolled his eyes. "You were complaining. You asshole, this is from Farfetch." He rubbed the material on his face. "It's soft." He grinned.
6:20 a.m.
December 25th, xxx1
Naruto tried to sleep on the plane ride to B.C. It was a short five hours flight but he hadn't been able to sleep much at night. He had been thinking about the little dance him and Sasuke had. It wasn't supposed to be as intimate as it had gotten. Sasuke had pulled a fast one and had tossed him back or else god knows how long it would've taken for Naruto to finally stop him from sucking Sasuke's face off.
His flight was scheduled at midnight, so after opening their gifts Sasuke dropped Naruto at the airport then went home. As soon as Naruto would get home he'd hit the bed and wake up probably around noon.
Naruto was excited about christmas. He wanted to spend it with his Family.
This was the first Christmas their first christmas together, Sasuke and Naruto's. Though, they only spent the eve together. Even if they had been dating for about a year they had only met about a handful worth of times. It was still a bit… awkward, Their relationship was so platonic still.
Even if they were to kiss how the hell would they know when to kiss? Heck, Naruto didn't even know HOW to kiss, fuck when to do it.
Naruto heard from many of his friends about how it comes naturally and that everything he was going through was normal. Naruto and Sasuke were perfectly fine, yet Naruto still felt awkward. Was that really normal?
Apparently.
The blond's mind wandered towards all the possibilities of how Naruto couldn't give Sasuke what he wanted. Sure, he knew about sex and all but he'd only learned how to be active with a girl. He didn't know anything when it came to where he was.
Fear of Sasuke leaving him slowly creeped up on him. His hands moved towards his chest and he sort of felt at rest when he felt the soft texture of the sweater Sasuke had bought him. Maybe he was just thinking too much into it. It would be normal for them to not move fast even though they'd been together for the period of time that they had been together.
They could take the time to build something up.
2:00 p.m.
January 3rd, xxx2
It had been about a week since Naruto had arrived to Vancouver. He had done some volunteering at a few shelters, gone to visit a couple of friends and had an enjoyable week so far with his family.
"You've gone around doing good deeds all this week." Kushina said, the family was sitting beside a fireplace, sipping on hot chocolate. "How about we do something good for you too." Kushina leaned as she hummed suggestively nudging Naruto's arm with her elbow.
"Wh-what do you mean, ya know." Naruto curled up into his orange blanket.
"I think your mother's right." Minato joined. "You're going to leave in a few day and I think we've pushed this up far enough."
"Yeah, yep, your father's right, ya know!" Kushina grinned.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Naruto's eyes shifted.
"What about you and Sasuke?" Kushina looked at her son cheekily, putting a hand at the corner of her mouth, she slyly whispered. "How far have you gotten, aye?" She raised an eyebrow suggestively.
"What?" Naruto shouted. "I don't think that's anything that I should be discussing with my parents!"
"Oh, don't be ridiculous!"
"I'm being ridiculous?" Naruto screeched.
"So you guys…?" Minato sobbed.
"No…" Naruto closed his eyes and leaned back.
"On a serious note, I hope you understand how this all works." Minato's eyes showed no emotions.
"I know… but I just… I'm confused."
Kushina patted Naruto's head and smiled. "Hey, that's perfectly normal. Don't beat yourself over it."
Minato sighed and smiled. "Well, how do you feel?"
"I… don't know." Naruto said honestly.
Kushina hummed. "Well, how does Sasuke make you feel?"
"I dunno… happy… I guess."
"Well, that's a start." Minato said.
"Ya know, let's tell him." Kushina suggested. Minato shrugged and then nodded. "When your father and I first met I was being transported from Japan to Canada to be sold. I was the last of my linage, highly priced in the black market."
"Waoh, Ma, what? You never even even told me that." Naruto freaked out. What the hell? Kushina just casually dropped the matter like it was nothing.
Kushina shrugged. "Your father asked to take over the case. Soulmate impulses obviously, like you moving to Mississauga for a week." Naruto nodded, understanding, his gaze on Kushina still intense. "I didn't know what to do. The only way I could leave a trail to my where abouts was through my hair. Pulling them out strand by strand." Kushina winced.
"Shit, that must've hurt."
"Damn straight it did." Kushina laughed. "But I dunno if I regret it. My hair became my red string of fate and that's why I love it so much."
"I saw her hair, and it was in colour; nothing else was in colour, obviously, I had to follow it." Minato added, seeing Naruto's confused look.
"Your father made me love who I am and him very much. If Sasuke makes you love being you, loves you for being you then he's definitely the right one for you." Kushina smiled, patting Naruto's head.
Naruto closed his eyes as he breathed this something he should be worrying about right now?
10: 38 p.m.
January 3rd
"How have your holidays been so far?" Naruto spoke through his cellphone.
"It's going alright. Itachi's being a pain in the ass but it's alright."
"I love Itachi so much. Tell him I said thanks."
"Shut up, idiot." Sasuke shot down making Naruto laugh.
Naruto hummed thinking about what to say next. After talking to someone for over an hour over the phone you suddenly have nothing to talk about.
Sasuke shifted, pulling his left leg in as he sat crossed legged on his bedroom floor. He was multitasking. Typing away a report while talking to Naruto. He heard Kushina's voice faintly call out to Naruto.
"Ah- listen I have to head out."
Sasuke hummed, a slight scowl on his face. Even Though he was expecting a response like that.
"Before I go though." Naruto paused, taking in a deep breath. Sasuke waited, rising his left eyebrow. "I-" He paused again.
"Yes?"
Naruto didn't reply for a while. "I think I like you, Sasuke." Naruto rapidly shot out and then Sasuke heard a beep indicating Naruto had hung up.
Sasuke stared at nothing in particular as his eyes widened, his irises undilating. He slapped the flap of his laptop shut, his cell slipping out of the grip in his hand and he slapped his hand onto to his face, blushing. "That fucking, idiot."
He really, really, wasn't expecting that. It came out of nowhere and just bitch slapped him. What the hell was he going to do with that? Why was he over reacting? It was only a confession. He knew Naruto liked him. They were soulmates. He got up from the floor and flopped on his bed, groaning.
"Fuck…" Fuck because he really liked Naruto too. Fuck because he didn't think it could be possible for them to be together. Fuck because he was the reason they couldn't be together. Fuck because for the first time in his life he let his emotions slip. And worst of all he wasn't regretting it one bit.
"Fuck!" He shouted out in frustration.
"Language, Uchiha." Mikoto's voice shouted from downstairs.