I present: Chapter 4! Now we're back with Sasuke and Naruto, right where chapter 2 left off. By the way, I plan to be putting up the Kakashi/Iruka chapters every three or four Naruto/Sasuke chapters, in case you were wondering. There is a point to them, I promise!
No, I own nothing Naruto-related, other than a few fanfictions and a wall scroll signed by Yuri Lowenthal.
"First of all, I'm NOBODY'S bitch." Despite the fact that his roommate had just saved him from almost certain rape, Sasuke wasn't planning to get on his knees and declare his eternal thanks. Judging by the other man's previous actions, he could very well be a rapist himself; this was jail after all.
The boy, apparently called Naruto, groaned. "Are you always this difficult? No wonder the 'Snake Queen' was into you."
"What do you mean by that?" Sasuke shot back.
"I mean," Naruto continued. "..is that you're Orochimaru's type: The stuck-up little prick, who thinks he's better than everyone else. And I've got some news for ya rich-boy, and yes it's that obvious," he added with a grin. Then he went on, his voice changing from teasing to stern, "if you keep parading around here like you've been, someone's gonna... Let's just say you won't stay so pretty."
"Fuck off," Sasuke hissed at the other, barely resisting the urge to smash in Naruto's face. He wasn't a violent person, but he also was never one to take anyone's crap. And he certainly was not going to sit there and let a criminal lecture him, especially not someone who looked even younger than himself. "And mind your own business brat."
"Brat? I'm 20 you bastard! I'm older than you," Naruto scoffed. "Oh, and if you want to talk about brats, I'm still waiting for the one in front of me to thank me for saving his butt from being raped-literally.."
"Yeah, I should be so thankful to the guy who claimed me as his own personal whore!" This confrontation was starting to pass from irritating to emotionally taxing on the younger man.
"You thought I was serious about that? God you're dense!" Naruto said, seeming to settle down a bit but still giving the other a scathing look, as if to say, 'wow, you're the single dumbest piece of pond scum to ever walk the earth'. "I only said that so that no one would come on to you anymore. It's part of my plan for the two of us, and it's gonna help us both. So, c'mon, trust me," he said, a rather goofy grin spreading across his face.
"Trust you? Give me one reason I should trust anything you have to say!" Sasuke ended up yelling at his smiling cellmate. He had meant to keep his stoic demeanor in place, but this guy...something about him made Sasuke feel not like himself. He usually stayed calm and calculating, not like this...at least not since...damn it. "My life is none of your concern!"
Naruto's eyes softened, those clear blue pools regarding the dark-haired man. His fist were clenched, his eyes were cold and steely. But those aggressive features weren't what Naruto was watching. It was the boy's shoulders- they were shaking, not out of rage, but in fear. The subtle, almost unnoticeable motions that Sasuke wasn't even aware he was making was what Naruto gazed upon. "I don't want to see you get hurt... So it is my concern. And if you don't start learning to trust, you're just making yourself the worst thing you can be around here. Alone."
Before Sasuke could respond, a loud bell sounded out through the prison indicating that the inmates' hour of recreation was over. "We had better head back to our cell, before the guards show up," Naruto said. Sasuke nodded; they weren't even supposed to be in this part of the prison during the hour. They turned to leave, Naruto speaking one last time. "Just think about what I said, alright dumbass."
'Why is this guy so interested in me?' Sasuke thought to himself as he followed his cellmate back to their shared excuse for a living space. Sasuke was still wary to trust the blond man. He still hadn't shaken the thought that Naruto was just going to molest him himself. Even so, this boy seemed somehow different than the others. He looked 'softer', as if there was something familiar, welcoming, warm about him. Like there was a kindred benevolence that started within the other boy's chest and radiated not only throughout his own body, but the whole area around him. And what the blond had said was true, he was alone.
The guards gave them no trouble, for as far as they knew, the two prisoners had done nothing to warrant any further punishment. They entered their cell, the door automatically closing behind them. Naruto retreated to his top bunk without a word. Sasuke walked over to his own bed, and sat down, his back slightly hunched over. About an hour had passed, before either spoke. In truth, this was an improvement; before their fateful encounter that day neither had spoken a single word to the other. Finally Sasuke tilted his had up to speak to his cellmate.
"Fine. I trust you, for now at least. So what's this 'master plan' of yours?"
Naruto, who until that moment had been lying casually on his bed, shot his eyes open, and bolted upright. "That was fast! I thought you'd spend at least a few days sulking before you gave in," he chirped, sticking his head over the side of the loft, that same ditzy smile plastered across his face.
Sasuke grimaced; never in his life did he think he would meet someone so annoying his eye would actually twitch from annoyance. But here he was, staring at the upside down head of a moron convict, who had assumed he was the type to sulk like a little emo-boy. He had spent most of the last hour sulking, but that was beside the point. His answer to the blond was a swift punch to the underside of Naruto's bed; shaking it considerably and making its inhabitant flip over the side and land painfully onto the hard stone floor.
"YOW! What was that for, bastard? I could've broken my damn neck!" Naruto yelled, understandably upset with his dark-haired companion. Sasuke actually did feel a little sorry for the poor boy, he had meant to scare him, not make the idiot actually fall. Luckily for the elder, the flip had caused him to land on his ass rather than his head or neck, making the fall much less harmful. "Sorry..." Sasuke said, offering Naruto his hand. The blond brightened up considerably at this seemingly kind gesture, and took Sasuke's hand. Then Sasuke continued. "...for a second there, I forgot what a moron you were, and thought you weren't dumb enough to fall from something like that."
"GAHH! You bastard!" Naruto yelled at him once again. But then he settled back down and plopped down next to Sasuke on the bed. "You know, that was a pretty strong punch; anyone could have been knocked off."
"Really?" Sasuke asked with a smirk, his tone becoming lower as it laced with condescension. "Your name is Anyone? I thought it was Naruto," he mused before letting out a low chuckle.
"Shut up." Naruto moaned. "I'm serious though, that was some punch. What did they put you in here for? Beating up a Pit-Bull?"
The sheer irony of those words made Sasuke smile. "Quite the opposite actually. Draft-dodging."
Naruto blinked in surprise. "No kidding? Huh, wouldn't have pegged you as a coward or a pacifier," he said, shrugging.
"It's pacifist, not pacifier you moron," Sasuke grunted, annoyed. "And I'm still waiting to hear this plan of yours."
"Oh right...Well it's not actually my plan. My friend Iruka was the person who came up with it," Naruto admitted, scratching the back of his head. "And he's waaay smarter than I am-"
"No kidding," Sasuke interjected.
"Do you want my help or not, bastard?" the blond growled. "Anyway...Iruka's really smart. He was in law school before he was arrested. The two of us met here after I turned 18. That's when I got transferred from Juvie, I guess he'd had it rough when he first came here and wanted to make it better for me..."
"Would you get on with it?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I guess I was kinda rambling there. But it's actually pretty simple: I tell people I'm banging you, and then I don't actually do it!" Naruto chirped, clearly proud of himself.
"..."
"So what do ya think?" Naruto asked.
"I think it's the stupidest plan I've ever heard. No one would fall for that," Sasuke monotoned. He couldn't believe he had, even for a moment, thought that his cellmate would magically have a plan to solve his problems. He was just about to tell the boy to leave him alone, when something happened he wasn't expecting. Naruto wrapped his arm around his shoulders, and stared at him with that same stupid grin.
"Well yeah, but that's why we make it convincing," Naruto grinned. But his cellmate wasn't appeased just yet.
"Convincing how?" Sasuke questioned, cocking his head to the side in suspicion.
"Like I smack your ass once or twice, brag about how you can't walk without a limp, that sort of thing. And at night I get in bed with you, you pretend to try and fight me off, I make a few thrusting motions and moan a little, you scream a bit and we're done. Oh, and if you can fake cry a bit, that'd look good too," Naruto answered, rather quickly.
"Yeah," the dark haired man muttered. "And why is it that I'm playing the damsel in distress?" He inquired skeptically.
" 'Cause I'm the one with the rep around here. That's why I can punch goons like Snakey back there and not be dead! Besides I've been in here for years, and you're...well...pretty," Naruto explained, blushing a bit at the last word. Sasuke shared a similar reaction.
There was a long, excruciatingly awkward silence, before Sasuke spoke. "Fine. But I've got a few rules: No kissing, no groping, no nudity, no dirty/mushy talk, and if I ever feel as much as a boner, I will END you."
Naruto laughed heartily. "Deal." Then he extended his right hand. Sasuke showed the boy his first true smile since...awhile, took his hand in a tight grip, and shook.
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