Falling for the General's Son

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did there wouldn't be so many fucking filler episodes! I shouldn't have to find out the ending by playing the video game! I digress, enjoy the following story of Sasuke and Naruto finding one another, fighting as they do and possibly falling in love.

Chapter 4: 9 Tail Fox Technique

(Sasuke POV)

This is gun training week. The recruits will be learning how to handle rifles and hand guns. I have always hated this week. It is shocking how many people suck at shooting a gun. Shikamaru is a good shot. He hits his target every time. As good as Naruto is in everything else, he is a horrible shot.

Choji is also doing well. He has improved a lot. I'm glad my tricking Naruto worked. Now I have to find a way to get Naruto to become a decent shot. I have no hope for an excellent shooter out of him.

"Recruit Uzumaki, do you enjoy pissing me off?" Naruto looks up from his position on the ground. "No sir, I'm just not very good."

"Don't be so weak Naruto. Look through the scope, concentrate, hold your breath and fire." Naruto does as I say. I see his body tense. I see him holding his breath. He pulls the trigger and my keen eyes see his shot. Not perfect but he did hit the target.

"Good job recruit." I walk off to check the other recruits. Some are doing well and others are doing poorly. One of the recruits is doing worse than Naruto. "Get up recruit! You are the most worthless shot here. I can't understand how anyone could be this bad! Do I need to work you like a dog?" The recruit stands up with his gun and points it at me.

"You need to shut the fuck up! I'm sick and tired of your bullshit! Maybe you will learn not to piss off a man with a gun!" Idiot. I quickly grab the gun and shove it into his face. I break his nose and he falls to the ground.

"Based on your skill I doubt you could have hit me. Unfortunately for you this behavior will result in you being kicked out of basic and a nice stint in prison. I hope it was worth it idiot." I walk away from the moron as Military Police arrest the fool. It's not like this is the first time someone was determined to kill me and it likely won't be the last.

I cut things short for my recruits and send them to do a suicide run. This has been such an interesting few weeks. I have to monitor the recruits but it will give me time to read more of my book. I haven't been able to lately.

I sit down and open my book while the recruits run. I have been increasing their time slowly from one hour. It's been going up by thirty minutes every week. We're up to three hours, though they do get breaks for water. I'm not heartless. I won't push the time any further.

As the recruits run I read. It isn't long before I see recruits slowing down. They need motivation I guess. "If you don't pick up the pace you will be doing the obstacle course for two hours!" I yell at the recruits.

The recruits pick up the ace and keep running. Despite losing lots of weight, Choji is still the slowest recruit. "Lard ass! Get over here!" Choji weakly runs over to me. "Sir!" Choji salutes. "Why are you constantly the slowest person? It disgusts me how slow you are. You need to run, how do you intend to survive in war if you can't run?"

"Sir there is no war at the time." He just back talked. "Excuse me?" I say. Choji understanding his big mistake pales. "You do not talk back to me!" I punch Choji in the gut and he falls to his knees. "Give me 200 pushups, now!" I yell. Choji drops to the ground and starts.

(Naruto)

Sasuke seems a little off. I doubt it has to do with the guy pointing a gun at him. I've heard things. The last guy who did it had his arm, nose and jaw broken by Sasuke.

We are running the suicide run. I have gotten use to it. Sasuke increased our run by two hours now but with good breaks to recover a little bit. My thoughts are interrupted by Sasuke yelling . . . at Choji. Not again. I run over to Sasuke and Choji.

"Sir! You can-" I'm silenced by Sasuke shoving me to the ground. "Don't interfere! I will get this through your skull Choji! You need to work harder! You need to act like war is breaking out tomorrow!" Sasuke yells. I get up and grab Sasuke by the arm. He looks at me. "Let go." I ignore him.

"Stop treating him that way!" I yell. Sasuke growls. "Let go of me recruit."

"Not until you stop Sasuke!" Oh shit. I shouldn't have said that. Sasuke arks his fist backwards and decks me in the face. Sasuke ignored me for now and looks at Choji. "You will not tell anyone what Naruto called me. You will be silent about it or I swear by all that is unholy, you will suffer." Sasuke walks away from him and comes to me.

"As for you recruit, I will deal with you later . . ." He grabs me and pulls me close. He whispers into my ear. " . . . Don't think of not showing up to our practice." Sasuke lets me go and takes his seat and continues reading his book.

I continue the run until it is free time. I grab dinner with the guys, Choji, Shikamaru and Kiba. "Six more weeks of this is going to be such a drag. The sergeant was a bigger dick than usual. He made me do one hundred push up because I said hi. Learned my lesson." Says Shikamaru.

"At least he didn't make you do two hundred pushup and threaten to make every moment of your life miserable." Says Choji.

Kiba takes a bite of his food and while chewing decides to talk. So not attractive. "Doesn't he do that always anyway?" Kiba says I think. It sounded kind of mushy.

"Kiba, chew your food." I look at Choji. "How are you by the way?"

"I'm alright. I'm getting used to the work and I am trying hard but he still rips into me. He seems to be easy on you." Choji says. I rub the side of my face. "Oh yea, real easy." My three friends laugh at me.

"He's right though man, One night I saw you two going onto the elevator and when you got back you went to the showers. At first I thought maybe you two were fucking but then I noticed you would show up with bruises. That's when I also noticed how you started getting really good with sparring." Kiba says. This is not good. Sasuke didn't want anyone noticing we were training privately.

"You don't know what you're talking about. Sas-the Sergeant would never personally train me. He hates all of us." God I hope they didn't notice that mess up.

"Whatever you say man, you're lucky to have the sergeant like you. You're probably the first ever." Kiba says.

"I deny everything. Let's talk about something else." I suggest. Kiba moves on to talking about some female recruits that he saw.

(Normal POV)

Naruto met up with Sasuke as usual by the elevator. Sasuke looked more pissed off than usual and Naruto was more than a little nervous. Sasuke wasn't the type of person to make mad. The two rode the elevator up in silence.

When the elevator stopped Sasuke walked towards the gym without waiting for Naruto. The blonde recruit follows behind his superior to the gym. When they get in Sasuke takes his shirt off and tosses it to the floor near his stuff. Naruto does the same and once again he forgot to cover up his tattoo. Fortunately for Naruto, Sasuke didn't recognize it. If he had Sasuke would know that Naruto is a Namikaze. That is because the tattoo is a family seal also known as the Namikaze Crest. It is a spiral pattern with a script surrounding it, the script branches all around it eight times. The tattoo is usually placed on the abdomen surrounding the belly button but some have opted for the back or shoulder.

Naruto has his on his abdomen. Menma has the crest in three places. One on each shoulder and the last on his abdomen, Menma had family pride. Sasuke has seen the family seal and knows it but he hasn't realized he knows where he saw the mark. His current anger wasn't helping his memory recall.

"I thought things were simple for us. We spar in secret, you show me respect and not give any hint that me and you are anything less than professional. It is strictly against the rules for me to train you and give you any form of edge. One of the tests you will do is sparring and you are getting an unfair lead." Sasuke says.

"Sasuke, I know . . . I just don't like seeing someone being treated that way." Naruto says. "That's the military Naruto! It is my job to order recruits around and get them ready for war. If I'm not hated, I'm not doing my job!" Sasuke yells at Naruto.

"Well congratulations, I hate you!" Naruto says. Sasuke swings at Naruto and hit him in the face. He falls to the ground. "What was that you little bitch?" Naruto rubs the side of his face and gets back up. He goes to try and hit Sasuke but the sergeant redirected the attack and sent Naruto the floor. The blonde swung his leg and swept Sasuke's. The raven haired officer fell to the mat. Naruto climbed on top of Sasuke and pinned his arms above his head.

"Pinned you Sasuke!" Sasuke looks up at Naruto, his eyes slowly scanning Naruto's body. His eyes rest on the tattoo and go up to meet his sapphire eyes. "You're right . . . you win. Let me up." Naruto lets go and helps Sasuke up. The raven sergeant grabs Naruto's right arm and pulls it back. Sasuke uses his other hand and shoves Naruto against a wall. He whispers into Naruto's ear. "You're unwise to lower your defenses."

Naruto feels Sasuke's warm breath on his neck and he shudders. Naruto puts a foot on the wall and pushes off. Sasuke loses his balance and let's go of Naruto as he falls down. He catches himself and does a flip so he lands on his feet.

Naruto gets up off the floor and runs towards Sasuke. The two trade blows. Sasuke gets tired of the prolonged fight and does his own special family take down technique.

Sasuke delivers a few punches breaking Naruto's defensive position. The raven delivers a blow to the blonde's stomach and makes him lurch forward. Sasuke gives him a uppercut and knocks Naruto backwards. The blonde still stands and Sasuke goes in for the final hit. "It's over!" Sasuke runs and delivers a barrage of punches and finishes with a kick to the chest.

Naruto falls to the ground. "Hit the showers." Sasuke says.

"Fuck you." Sasuke stops in his tracks and turns around. "What did you say?" Naruto forces himself up. Blood drips from his mouth. "I said fuck you. I don't get you! I thought we were getting along really well and we could be friends when basic is over but you treat me worse than anyone else!"

Sasuke lets out a laugh. "I'm pretty sure I treat Choji worse than anyone else. I treat you quite well. I have only been hard on you when you challenge me, which happens to be fairly consistent! Yet through it all I still spar with you. Believe me when I say that shows that I like you quite a lot!" Naruto blushes. "You're right, I am going back. I'm sorry, I will try to be less of a dick." Naruto says quickly and runs pass Sasuke. The raven haired officer grabs Naruto's arm.

"Just like that? You surrender that quickly? What's wrong with you?" Naruto pulls free. "Nothing, I just agree and I was being a hot head. You kicked my ass and I need to clean up my mouth which is bleeding."

"Naruto . . . is there something you want to tell me?" Sasuke asks picking up on something from Naruto. "I'm fine. I need to go." Sasuke lets him go and Naruto heads back to the barracks to shower up.

(Sasuke POV)

That was odd. Naruto went from his usual fire ball attitude to smoldering pile of ash. I wish I could accredit it to my skills as an asshole. I am going to ignore this for now and go to bed early.

As I walk towards my room my phone begins to go off. I look at the ID and it is Yagura. Ugh, I don't want to deal with him right now. I let it ring as I go to my room. I see Naruto head to the showers. He is in his boxer. That tattoo, where the hell have I seen that?

It really doesn't matter anyway, it just bugs me. I go into my room and strip naked. I quickly take a shower and dry off before going to bed.

"Sasuke?" I hear Naruto say. I turn around and see Naruto walking towards me. He is naked. My God . . . I want to faint. He is coming closer to me. Please don't, I don't think I can handle this. He gets close and wraps his arms around my neck. I feel a kiss on my ear. "Do you want me Sasuke?"

"Naruto . . . we can't." I say. I feel a bite on my neck. "I didn't ask if we can be together, I just asked if you want me?"

I wake up in a sweat. I look at my clock and it says 05:30. I need to get up. That dream was too much. It might be hard to look at Naruto today. I wish I could just screw him and get this desire out already.

I get dressed and wake up the recruits as normal. They stand in attention. "Alright men, today is going to be a little different. We will do our morning run and some exercises, keep in mind that higher officers will be monitoring you. Then you will eat lunch and after lunch we will be having a sparring session for the higher ups. This happens regularly, they like to know how the recruits are doing and evaluate their placement at the end of basic. As we are on the seventh week and just over half way through basic you can think of this as a mid training exam. It is unwise to disappoint the higher ups. If you all get satisfactory marks today, I will give you a easy day on Friday, meaning you run in the morning and that's it." I say to the recruits.

The recruits head outside and start their run. I watch the recruits run and am joined by Menma, Kakashi, Tsunade, Itachi and Nagato but he goes by Pain. He is odd. They watch the recruits on their run. They are doing well, even Choji is running well. Incentive always helps even if it is slightly a lie. If they do well they will only have to run Friday but it will be triple the length.

Thank god I don't have to yell at anyone today. As soon as the run concludes they do exercises. Again they all work hard and do their exercises to satisfaction. I know what they look for and this is good.

They finish and the recruits go to mess for lunch. Meanwhile I have to join the officers who were monitoring my group. Each of them give praise or critique and for the most part it is all good but Menma is his usual brutal self.

"By far your worst bunch yet. You must be losing your touch Sasuke. That Uzumaki is by far the worst of them all." This takes me by surprise. Naruto is the best in the group. "With all due respect (which isn't much) recruit Uzumaki is the best of the group." Menma smirks. "Then clearly this reflects your failure as he is terrible."

I wanted to bite back but Kakashi did for me. "Enough Menma, I think his recruits are good. Far better than the other groups we've seen. I have high expectations for the sparring later." Kakashi says. Menma remains silent given Kakashi was once his drill sergeant and even now Kakashi is his superior.

The rest of the lunch is talks of upcoming shit I don't care about because I am just a sergeant and it literally has nothing to do with me. When lunch is finally over I head to the sparring arena where my recruits are waiting. The officers all take seats and wait. I gather the recruits and explain things. "Alright, it's time to spar. Pin your opponent by any means necessary aside from lethal moves."

The recruits all begin to spar and I go and sit with the officers to get an idea of what they think. They seem impressed aside from Menma. They all are giving praise to their fighting skills. Tsunade even gives a wonderful endorsement. "That Naruto, he could be great for my assassin unit." Tsunade says. That seemed to be too much for Menma because he stood up and went over to Naruto.

I stood up and walked over towards them. Menma interrupts the sparring and challenges Naruto. Don't do it Naruto. I get over there but I am too late. "Fine, as you wish . . . sir." Naruto says with a very clear hatred dripping from his tongue.

"Lieutenant I must insist you don't do this. This is completely inappropriate." Menma lets out a laugh. "I don't think I need your permission Sergeant." Menma glares at me and I look at Naruto. "Don't do this recruit. If you don't accept the challenge he can't do anything. Decline now."

"No sir, I do not quit. I don't back down." Naruto says with strong resolve. I nod and back away. I need to stand near just in case Menma goes too far.

"Nice to see you have resolve, but a lot it will do for you during the fight." Menma taunts. He takes his officer jacket off and removes his shirt. Naruto takes his shirt off as well and the two take position for fighting.

Naruto begins with an opening move. He punches Menma and the raven haired officer blocks. Naruto drops to the floor and swings his leg making Menma fall to the ground. Naruto wraps his legs around Menma's chest and squeezes. He is going for a quick takedown. Normally I would be proud but this won't work on Menma.

Menma breaks free from the leg squeeze and rolls away. The two get up off the floor and run towards each other. They trade blows. They seem to trade punches evenly. Menma backs away and does a roundhouse kick. The kick sends Naruto backwards. He did manage to block the kick but that will leave him in pain.

Naruto regains his composure and runs towards Menma. He gets in a fighting stance. Oh he is using one of the ones I taught him. Itachi will not be happy I taught family fighting to someone not in the family.

It seems to take Menma by surprise because Naruto manages to land several blows to Menma. The raven officer fell to the mat and spit out blood. He stands up and grabs his side. "Where did you learn that move?" Asks Menma.

"What's wrong? Can't keep up?" Naruto replies with a vicious attitude.

"Idiot, I will show you real fighting skills." Menma stands in a very familiar way. Oh boy he is pissed. Before Naruto can so much as think of defending Menma moves in a flash and unleashes several punches and kicks before finishing it off with a head butt. Naruto falls to the mat. I shake my head. Menma walks over to Naruto and grabs him by the throat and lifts him into the air. I run in and shove Menma away. He drops Naruto to the ground.

Menma runs towards me and swings at me. I grab his wrist and twist. With my free hand I punch Menma. As he loses his balance I punch him the gut and make him lurch forward. I grab his head and bring it down onto my knee.

Menma falls to the mat next to Naruto. That's when I notice why I know the tattoo Naruto has on his abdomen. I first saw it on Menma when we first had sex. I remember him being on top of me and when I traced my fingers on his body I saw the tattoo. I asked him about it and he told me it was his families crest.

If Naruto has the same tattoo does that mean? Is he . . . a Namikaze? I will have to deal with that later. "Kakashi, please remove Menma. I will take care of recruit Uzumaki." Kakashi nods and picks up Menma. I might have been too hard on him.

I pick up Naruto and head to my room. I ask Itachi to order the recruits to go on a run. The other officers have to damage control and fill out reports. What Menma did was an issue. It is against the rules for officers to engage in fighting with the recruits.

I take Naruto to my room and lie him on my bed. He should be alright. I get him an ice pack and I clean up the blood around his lips. Naruto starts to stir. "Sasuke! Where am I? Where is Menma?"

"We're in my room. You lost to Menma, he started choking you out and I intervened. I knocked him out. I brought you here and cleaned you up." I say to him. His eyes begin to water up. "Are you ok?"

"I'm sorry. I failed you Sasuke." This takes me by surprise.

"How did you fail me?"

"I should have won. All that training and I still lost." He sobs out.

"Naruto, you got in a good amount of hits. More than any other recruit would have been able to do. You should be proud."

"Thank you for that Sasuke." I nod. "You need to stay awake. So I'm going to grab a movie and we're going to watch something. I need to make sure your are ok and that you aren't more injured than we think." Naruto nods and holds the ice pack to his head.

I start looking through my movies. While looking I think back to the Namikaze crest. Naruto has one. He must be a Namikaze. If he is why would he lie about it? Why would the general treat him so badly? That's when I think back to when we hung out during parent's weekend. "I uh . . . well they are very strict. They have always demanded perfection from me and my brother. My brother was always loved because he is so perfect. I don't meet their expectations so I am mostly criticized and degraded. My father . . . let's just say the day I got whipped my dad would have been happy to be there." Was he talking about the general? Why would his own father want to whip him?

Itachi should know something. I will have to ask him. I want to ask Naruto now and see why he is likely lying to me about who he is. I'm not fond of lying. However, Naruto is injured and it would be dickish of me to press into something he clearly wants to hide.

I spent the rest of day and evening with Naruto. We watch movies and I make sure he is ok.

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