Author: My secret Darkness

Disclaimer: No, I don't own Naruto... -cries-

Warning: It's rated M, it's yaoi, so stay away flamers and homophobes!

A/N: In case that some of you wondered why I didn't update for a while, here is the reason: The dreaded, annoying, teacher infested, nearly-killing-me-with-homework-and-tests school!

I'm really, REALLY sorry, but teachers probably just hated me and tried to ruin my grates, so they wrote test after test, they don't grew tired at all.

Well, this is the (hopefully) long awaited fourth chapter, I hope you'll like it.

Enjoy! And...merry Christmas everyone!


Both boys stared at the unwanted audience in the doorframe of the hotsprings, and the two stared at the couple with very different expressions.

Ino was blushing like mad and suddenly noticed that the wooden door was very interesting, she never knew that there were so many shades of brown! And the droplets of water on the door, very interesting indeed!

While Ino tried to look innocent Kakashi was grinning like the pervert he was, at least you could assume that he was grinning from the way his mask moved and his one visible eye was closed in an arch.

While Sasuke stared at the girl and his adviser in both horror and embarrassment, Naruto looked back an forth in childlike confusion.

"Really, Sasuke, I knew that you like your little pet, but you could have told me that you liked him that way, I could've borrowed you some of my books!" Kakashi said, still grinning, and Sasuke blushed slightly. Luckily the mist in the air covered that up, so he could at least keep a bit of his pride.

"Hey bastard what is he talking abou-" Finally, Naruto's brain clicked. The position he and Sasuke were in, the fact that they were naked... Wait, naked?!?

Naruto "Eeepp"-ed and jumped up, using his tails to cover himself up. Of course Sasuke didn't have the advantage to have tails to cover his privates, which almost caused Ino to pass out before the embarrassed and humiliated prince grabbed a random towel from a pile near the water and wrapped it around his waist.

"Ino, Kakashi, " he growled out behind gritted teeth, and suddenly the hot air seemed to turn cold, and a certain maid shivered in fear and gulped, that was not good.

"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?"

Ino was more than happy to answer that as fast as possible, at least she wasn't about to be killed anytime soon.

"I met Kakashi in the hallway and we talked a little, he told me that he wanted to tell you something about your training and he insisted that I told him where you were, so I brought him here."

Content with that explanation, Sasuke turned his glare from the frightened maid towards his still grinning advisor and sensei, and he felt the urge to kill the man. There were times that he valued Kakashi's presence over everything, and on other occasions he just wanted to kill the man in order to get rid of that annoying grin.

"Of course I wouldn't have come here if I hand known that you were...getting frisky." Kakashi said, and Naruto, who was busy looking like a ripe tomato, reached a new level of embarrassment.

"Why, Oh why is this happening to me? I just wanted to take a bath in the nice warm water of that waterfall, but that royal ass-wipe of a prince just had to instruct those guards and that old bat to capture me. And in addition he is a lecherous, horny pervert! Gah! Just my luck!"

While Naruto continued his mental tirade, Sasuke just glared his best death-glare at his sensei, who just winked in return and then disappeared with a puff of smoke, leaving a stunned and embarrassed Ino behind.

"Well, I'll go and tell Hinata that you'll visit her tomorrow, have a nice evening your majesty!" And with that the frightened maid fled the place as fast as humanly possible.

An awkward silence followed, but only until Sasuke glared at Naruto, who in turn glared back, and Naruto huffed childishly and turned his back towards the prince, whose eyebrow twitched slightly in suppressed anger and annoyance.

"Really, you aren't the prince of the fire country, you are the prince of perverts! Are you sure you like girls and that you aren't gay? Or do you just like to capture and molest poor innocent foxes?"

Sasuke, feeling insulted in his pride, twitched slightly at that, how dare that lowlife to speak to him like that anyway!

"First, I'm not a pervert, you were the one who started this, it isn't my fault that you're a short-tempered idiot, and second I do like girls, I just still didn't found the right one to be with. And lastly, I'm not discussing my sexuality with a demon who doesn't even has a gender at all."

"HEY! I resent that! I'm a boy, I've got a dick!" the blonde yelled, fur bristled in fury and turning around to glare at the raven, who in turn glared back.

"And you've got a womb like a girl, Tsunade told me that most demons are genderless, including fox demons. And stop with that vulgar attitude, you're near royalty, at least pretend that you've got some manners!"

This continued a long time, unknown to the two boys two person where eavesdropping, listening to each and every word they said, or rather yelled.

"Kakashi, don't you think that this is strange? Normally Sasuke-kun acts all grown up and mature, far too mature for his age, and his pet makes him act like he's twelve again, what is going on?" Ino asked, wincing when Naruto rose his high-pitched voice again.

"I don't know, but this is strange indeed, we should keep an eye on this, it's rather interesting. And who knows what other talents that little fox has got, this will definitely worth to interrupt reading my precious novel."

Ino stared, Kakashi was actually willing to sacrifice his reading time? But on the other side, the silver-haired pervert simply loved it to tease and mock Sasuke, he was one of a few persons who could do that and live to tell the tale.

"Believe me, nobody, and I MEAN nobody was able to get a reaction like that out of Sasuke, I almost forgot that he may be seventeen now, but he still is just a teenager, sometimes I forget that, he is always acting so cold and distant, it is good to see that he's just human too."

To say that Ino was stunned would be one hell of an understatement, Kakashi was talking like a serious grown-up man, not like his normal lazy/childish/perverted self.

"Well, lets leave those two alone, I don't want to get burned with one of the prince's jutsu, and it seems like he'll snap soon." And with another poof they were gone, and Sasuke and Naruto continued their... discussion.

"Why did you brought me here anyway, it's not like I asked you to. AND AGAIN, I'M NOT A PET!"

"You stunk, and you were dirty, I couldn't allow my PET," Sasuke smirked in smug satisfaction when Naruto's fur bristled more "to walk around like a stray I picked up from the streets."

"Thats enough, I'm leaving!" And with that the angry fox stomped over to the door.

Well, he tried to reach the door, when suddenly he was held back by something and he received a pull from the dreaded choker around his neck. When he looked down he saw... a leash?

He followed the thin leash that seemed to be made out of light with his eyes and of course it lead to the Uchiha, who held up his right arm to show a golden bracelet, and the string of light seemed to come from that bracelet.

Naruto felt the urge to just rip the other boy apart, but then again that choker would drain his chakra, and without chakra he was no match for the human.

He growled dangerously, only causing the princes smirk to widen.

"Well, it is evening already, I wasted the whole day because of you, so please don't enrage me, you would regret it."

Just when Naruto wanted to spat another vulgar insult, his stomach decided to end the conversation for him.

"Grooooowwwwwlll!!!!"

Sasuke merely raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow while Naruto blushed, oh he really, REALLY hated that old hag for capturing him.

"I see. Well, we should eat dinner first shouldn't we?"

Naruto's expression immediately brightened at the mention of food, and he happily bounced up and down, already imagining the different kinds of food the palace kitchen would be able to serve him.

While Sasuke calmly got dressed he was pestered by Naruto, who didn't need to get dressed due to the fact that his tails could cover most of his body anyway.

"Ne, Sasuke-teme, could you ask the kitchen to serve ramen for dinner? What is the food in the palace like? Do you have your private cook like Ino is your private maid? Do you-"

"What makes you think that you'll get any food today? You weren't exactly cooperative weren't you?" Of course Sasuke didn't mean that, for some strange reason he liked his new pet, and because of that he didn't want Naruto to starve, but he wanted to teach him a lesson.

At that sentence Naruto stopped bouncing and stared at Sasuke in shock, his ramen dreams disappearing into nothingness. His eyes got slightly watery, his...owner couldn't be cruel enough to let him die of starvation... could he?

"No...Nonononono!!!! Please, I'll behave, or at least try to behave, but PLEASE let me eat, I didn't get any food since yesterday morning, and those guards of yours didn't gave me food either." Thew blond pleaded, tears already in the corners of his eyes and at the verge of bawling.

"You won't start complaining because of every little thing, and you won't be disobedient for the rest of the day, only then I'll give you ramen."

"...Ok." The blonde had mixed feelings about this, he really didn't like the thought of having to obey the stuck-up bastard of a prince, but he needed food!

After they go dressed the walked through the the huge hallways of the palace, and finally entered an even larger dinner room, and Naruto was once again amazed of the size of everything, the dinner room could easily fit more than hundred people!

Sasuke sat down on the large ebony desk and snapped his fingers, and a rather chubby guy with scars resembling swirls on his cheeks came towards them, he wore the normal clothing of a cook and looked friendly.

"Yes your majesty?"

"Chouji, could you make some ramen in addition to the normal dinner, my pet seems to be hungry."

"Of course your majesty." The boy named Chouji looked at Naruto curiously, everyone in the palace already heard of the demon their prince wanted as a pet, it was highly unusual for Sasuke to show interest in anything, so everyone was curious about the pet fox. And this means that as soon as Ino entered the kitchen she was bombarded with questions, and Chouji now noticed that she was right, the young demon really looked good, not normally good but stunningly beautiful. Even without the tails and all he would look too pretty to be an ordinary human.

After Chouji went to the kitchen Sasuke stared at Naruto, who huffed and turned away from him.

"Stop staring, it's embarrassing to be stared at like that you know?"

"Are you stupid? Oh wait, scratch that, of course you are. I wasn't staring, I was wondering if you plan to eat on the floor instead of just sitting down like a civilized person."

Naruto just glared at Sasuke and sat down on the chair next to him, since that stupid leash didn't allow him to leave Sasuke's side.

After some minutes of glaring, Chouji and several maids entered the room, each of them carrying several meals.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow, was it him or were they bringing more food than normal, how was he supposed to eat all this?

"Chouji, why did you bring that much food? Normally you just bring two or three trays."

Chouji, who just placed a steaming bowl of ramen infront of a very happy fox, looked uncomfortable, and was about to answer when suddenly the door swung open.

A man with pitch black eyes and the same black-blueish hair steeped inside the room, and suddenly every movement froze. That is every movement aside from Naruto practically inhaling his ramen, but even he stopped to look why the air suddenly turned cold like ice, and he looked t the Sasuke-replica. He really looked a lot like Sasuke, but a few things were different.

Both wore the same emotionless mask, but while Sasuke's eyes at least showed some kind of emotion, this man looked like a living statue cut out of ice, and Naruto involuntary shuddered, he didn't like the guy, Sasuke was a bastard but the Sasuke-replica looked downright scary.

The man scanned the room, spotted Naruto who still looked shocked, and he raised an eyebrow in a familiar fashion. Then his eyes drifted to Sasuke, and his lips twitched to something like a smile, or rather a smirk.

"Hello little brother."


DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!!!

Can anyone guess who it is? XD Well, since Itachi entered the story it will (finally) get more exciting, I hope you liked it. And I just decided to let Ino play the "good girl" part, you'll see what I mean, just one hint: A pink haired princess who wants to marry poor Sasuke...

Please review!