Sasuke watched Naruto scarf down his fifth bowl of ramen, he found it unbelievable that the blonde could keep his figure while eating like such a pig. Naruto set aside the empty bowl and sighed with a satisfied smile painted on his tanned face. When they were done Sasuke followed Naruto back to his house, this being the second time he was invited to the surprisingly nice apartment.

Chapter Four: Toxic Smoke Bomb

Naruto fumbled with his house keys for a while until the door finally came open. He carelessly threw his sweater on the floor and kicked his shoes off messily leaving them scattered on the floor.

"Dobe, that's a fire hazard" At this Naruto simply rolled his eyes in annoyance.

I stretched out on his sofa and propped my feet up on the coffee table.

"Teme, this isn't you house," He grumbled at my comfort.

"So? You invited me here" I said with a grin.

"Don't get so friendly with me, get your fucking feet of my table" He fell on the couch and kicked my feet off with his hand.

"Mh, right you say 'Don't get so friendly with me' after I was so kind as to not kill you for invading my sanctuary, took you out to eat and shared my life's story with you."

"One, I never meant to find your stupid bench two, you never 'took me out to eat' I paid for my own food, and three you probably tell that story a lot because you seemed pretty unaffected" He huffed angrily.

There was something about him just now, like he just suddenly took everything in offence which wasn't like him. Sure I only knew Sunshine boy for a few days but he seemed pretty easy to figure out, emotionally at least…it wasn't hard to figure out what was bothering him.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to" I said fakely showing sympathy. Honesty curiosity was my strongest emotion right now and I half wanted to force him to tell me the other half was too busy putting up an act so that I wouldn't scare my toy away.

He smiled at me sarcastically seeing right through my act, "Don't give me that shit… we promised right? I never go back on a promise"

I turned myself slightly so that I was facing Naruto directly, pulling my legs up onto the couch and sat Indian style.

"Want some hot chocolate or tea? I bought some the other day" He asks casually.

"Tea"

A few minutes' later Naruto returns with two mugs filled with camomile tea, "I didn't know if you wanted honey in it or not so I just left it as is"

"I don't like sweet stuff so it's all good"

"…How can you not like sweet stuff? You're like…not human"

I roll my eyes, "I actually want to take care of my body, unlike you"

"Pfft my body is sexy"

"Not for long, if you keep eating sodium filled ramen and other junk food you'll get fat"

"Hmmm…. 'Not for long' Eh? Does that mean you admit my body is hot right now?" He said teasingly.

"Yeah" I bluntly said, I blew onto my tea to cool it off and then took a short sip.

Naruto stayed quiet for a long while.

"I never tell that story to anyone or at least not the away I did with you" I said remembering what he said a few minutes ago.

"huh?"

"You said that I probably told everyone the story about how my parents died, I do, but not the way I told you. Whenever people ask about my family I say 'They got massacred by my other brother, he's part of the Akatsuki…I was eight' and then I shrug. No one but you and Suigetsu…"

"But you were so… you said it so bluntly, like you were reading it off a book or something"

I shrugged, "I'm good at hiding my emotions"

"Then what are your true emotions how do you actually feel about what happened?" Naruto asked, setting his tea on the coffee table.

I thought about it, I feel… empty. Like my soul was ripped out and now I'm just a blank canvas that was one painted with colour before someone decided to paint white over it. Such a poetic thought there, I should be a poet.

"I don't know" I said coolly, this is partly true.

Naruto let out a long sigh and reached for his tea to take a sip before placing it back down.

"You said you don't know Kyuubi, you can't not know Kyuubi if you know Kurama"

I say nothing, honesty truth I had no idea who either of them were, the only reason I had any interest was because of that IM…

'Do you not remember? Hmmm? I'm keeping your dirty little secret about Kurama so you owe me… if you don't do what the fuck I say I'll tell and you'll get kicked out of school.' I remember reading.

Naruto stared off into the distance, not really looking at anything in particular.

"Kyuubi is Kurama's twin brother" Naruto says, looking back at me, "What do you know?"

What was it that I knew? I scanned my memory for the IM I read.

"Nothing really, I just know you have something your hiding about Kurama, Kyuubi is keeping your secret but is blackmailing you with to make you do whatever he asks in return"

"Mhh…yeah, I guess I have to start from the very beginning" Naruto said thoughtfully.

I nodded, pressing him to go on. I placed my empty mug on the coffee table and turned my attention to Naruto, who was staring down at his fingers and examining them from all angles.

"You obviously know I didn't always go to Konoha high, I went to Jubi academy before"

"The boarding school that was closed down a year ago because it's ventilation system was intoxicated?" I asked.

Naruto nodded, "Yeah, that was my fault" Naruto trailed off tracking the pattern on his socks with his fingers, "That's the secret that Kyuubi's keeping"

"That's it?" I said not bothering to hide the disappointment in my voice.

Naruto laughed awkwardly, "You don't know much about what happened that day do you?"

"No not really…" I admitted

"…Well I'm going to start from the very, very start. My mother was Kushina my dad was Minato,"

"You never meet your parents" I said filling in the blanks by myself. Everyone knew they were assassinated sixteen years ago, Naruto was sixteen.

"I learned about this a lot later in my life, I'm was raised by my old school's principle but he passed away and I was put into the custody of Tsunade which is why I moved to Konoha high"

Tsunade was our school's principle…

"You know how my parents died right? Everyone does"

I nodded some more. Naruto had a look on his face as he recalled the story he probably knew long before he even knew that they were his parents.

Minato, the governor of Konoha, was coming home from a business trip to see the birth of his son. He was excited that he was going to be a father. Minato pulled out his pocket watch and looked at the time, if only the train would move faster. He groaned with impatience. Suddenly the train stopped. He looked out the window; it had stopped in the middle of nowhere.

"What the heck" Minato murmured to himself.

'Bing bong' "Hello, Minato!"

He jumped at the sound of the intercom.

"We disconnected the rest of the train from your section, now it's just you. The rest of the train has kept going; you're a sitting duck Minato"

"What do you want?" Minato asked the empty room.

"I believe you have some information about us that we would like for you not to share….but also, it seems as is your caring some valuable other information that could be useful for us in the future." A man said as he walked into the room for the one other train cabin that was still connected. The man had fiery red hair and bright brown eyes, he smiled devilish, "Do you mind if we take your suit case, Minato?"

"No," Minato said seriously, with a blank face he took out a gun that he had hidden in his jacket.

"Hmm…now you wouldn't want to do that Minato, your son was born a few hours ago and we happen to have them, your wife and child, in a nice safe place, that is, safe unless you don't participate"

Minato placed the gun down, "Take me to them" he ordered, "Now…and then we'll see"

"Other way around Minato…you give me what I need and then I return your little family"

"Liar" Minato replied, "We both know you can't have me alive after this, I know too much, so if I'm going to die I much rather see them first"

"Tsk, Fine."

Minato follow the red haired man, clutching on to the suitcase filled with papers and information. Three other men walk behind him.

They finally made it to an abandoned farm house, where he saw his wife holding a small baby. She looked up at him and smiled a scared smile, he could only smile back.

"They say that he got killed protecting me but he managed to kill the man who brought him there. Then my mom with all her left over strength shoot down the three other men be she wasn't able to escape big shot herself. Before Minato died he burnt whatever it was that they wanted… I obviously remember none of it since I was literally like four hours old.

I was found not too soon after by Kyuubi and his mother… The men that my parents killed were members of the Jinchuuriki"

"Of course," I mumbled to myself, "Akatsuki's rival gang" I then said factually, not really making any point by saying so.

"Kyuubi and Kurama happened to be the sons of the leader of that gang, they were four what that happened. Their mom raised me till I was two, then she died of sickness. Those two have been in my life since the very beginning, Kyuubi always hated me and blamed me for his father's death but Kurama was indifferent.

Anyhow, as you may know, after Minato was killed - the Jinchuuriki feel off of the face of the planet, probably because thee members died along with their leader. Point being…The survivors really had no pint to go on so they laid low for a little, slowly they were caught by the police or either died. Now all the members of the former Jinchuuriki have been wiped out.

But they all left family behind, when Kyuubi turned thirteen he went out to find the children of the form Jinchuuriki gang planning to resurrect what his father had started."

Naruto sighed, shaking his head in disappointment, "That's went things went all screwy, I seriously thought he was kidding. But when he actually left to find them I realized he wasn't joking, sadly Kurama started to play along to."

He paused and looked at me, "I had already moved out when I was five and started living with that old man, so when Kyuubi decided this I didn't know for a while until Kurama told me.

It kind of…tumbled out of control. Turned out the Kyuubi succeeded in finding everyone, and a few others agreed to join – angry because their father or mother was put to jail or killed. It was more of a revenge kind of thing. But things happened that I wasn't aware about, neither of them told me, they had no reason to and I was the son of an ex-enemy so I was blind about all the crap they started.

During all of that me and Kurama kind of… evolved into friends with benefits, we never told Kyuubi but he found out when we were hiding in the schools storage room" Naruto blushed at the memory, making me raise my eyebrow at the thought of what he was possibly doing in there.

"I had never seen Kurama hold a gun or knife up to someone… but then one day I did, this was earlier last year Kurama and Kyuubi had just turned nineteen, they dropped out of school the year before so they never graduated. So anyhow, one day I was with Kurama and we bumped into some thugs that had something to do with him. I don't even remember what happened I just know I was standing there a few minutes after and realized Kurama had stabbed the life out of them.

I got really confused after that, because Kurama was always the nice one I never imagined that he could actually kill a human being. It had looked like he had done it so many times before because he just wiped the blood off his hands and dragged me back to my house.

I had enough of it, you know?"

I nodded; Naruto just shook his head again with disappointment.

"Guilt was overriding me, because I never told a soul about what I saw. I later saw in the news that one of the thugs was the father of a three year old girl, there were missing person ads everywhere about the guy – it seemed as if after Kurama brought me home he took care of the bodies. He was later officially declared dead since no one could find him. Sure he was a thug, but he probably did it to get money to help his family, either way he was still human.

First time I ever saw someone get killed was by the guy I let hold me in a way I never let anyone else…"

Naruto started to chew on his bottom lip.

"I had two clear choices, one: get caught up in it all and make myself a clear enemy, and tell the cops about what I saw – sending Kurama to jail Or two: I could just shut my mouth and avoid the wrath of Kyuubi and the rest.

I tried to do both

That's when I thought if could send all of them to jail by setting them all up secretively then I could get away with it, do the right thing – sorta and save my own skin…

I was fifteen what do you expect would happen, it totally back fired on me and it happened to be a lot worse than I had anticipated"

"So you set up a toxic smoke bomb in the school and made it look like it was Kurama?" I said

"Yeah…but I messed it all up, it wasn't supposed to be that strong…"

I snorted, "You're an idiot, so then Kyuubi found out you set Kurama up and started to blackmail you with it"

"Yeah, Kurama almost died because he was so close to the smoke… and some kid actually did die, so you know I felt guilt even stronger because it was actually my fault, even if it was unintentional.

Kyuubi didn't bother doing anything about me sending Kurama to jail for manslaughter …in a way I let him off easy since if they found out about him killing a few thugs and being part of the Jinchuuriki things would have been a lot worse. So he's not as mad as he would be if I told the truth but he hated me from the start so now he's making my life a living hell, " Naruto grumbled.

"If Kyuubi tells everyone it was actually my fault I'll be the one in jail for man slaughter… I half feel like I deserve it but the other half really doesn't want to get caught. I need to do something with my life other than getting tangled into all of this… people hate me enough as it is."

"You know if you just tell the truth you might just get off," I said

"No, sure I'll probably go to juvie instead since I'm not of age but honestly would anyone let me off? People blame me for my father's death, and then I knew about Kyuubi starting a gang again and I said nothing as well as not speaking of a murder and putting a toxic smoke bomb that killed a kid in a school." He blinked at me, "My life would be over if anyone knew, I'll be expelled from school and locked up and when I get out I'll never get into college because I never passed school and I'll never get a job because I never got into collage and have a record"

"You're exaggerating…but yeah it would be pretty bad. You just dug your own grave" I said trying not to laugh at his stupidity, not in a mean way.

"I know…I didn't to save myself from Kyuubi's rage but I just got myself into more shit then I was already in" Naruto chuckled scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

"So… what does he make you do to keep him quiet?" I ask.

"That is classified" He said grinning, trying to hide whatever it was.

"Fine," I huff, "Can I stay here?" I said looking at the clock it was already getting late, and once again I rrreeeaaalllyyy didn't want to go home.

Naruto smiled at me, "Yeah sure, let me get the blankets and pillow"

For the next few hours we watched reruns on TV until 3 am. He would laugh at stupid stuff and get teary eyed when happy or sad moment occurred. I found it interesting how he could have so many emotions. I caught myself staring at Sunshine boy, his blonde hair sticking around everywhere like it usually does. His face lighting up with the flickering lights of the TV. We got tired so I fixed the blankets he gave me on the couch and stripped down to my boxers since that's usually how I slept.

"Holy crap teme…you're so pale"

"Hn" was my only response

Naruto got up off the couch to let me sleep; he made his way to the bedroom.

"Night Sasuke" He said.

"Night" I grumble so quietly I could barely hear myself,

"I hope I can trust you…" I heard him whisper more to himself then to me, before closing the bedroom door.

"You can" I said to the empty living room, "Maybe..." I finished. Then drifted off into my usual dreamless dreams.