"NARUKO!" She heard someone shout. She looked down stopping in her tracks. Sakura and Kakashi were heading straight towards her.
She scanned their worried faces wondering how long she had been missing. What do I do? She thought looking in the direction of Sasuke. She closed her eyes thinking. She remembered the feel of his lips on hers. She remembered her heart beating faster like it only beat for him. The taste of his breath, the smell of his sweat, the sound of his voice saying her name every memory burned into her brain eternally.
If she could just somehow lose Kakashi and Sakura she could go after him. She could help him find his brother, help him find his heart, bring him back home. If only she could get away. She made her decision landing lightly on the ground next to the two ninja. She liked Sasuke, she loved her brother and these were his comrades.
"Are you hurt?" Sakura asked. Naruko shook her head no causing Sakura to hit her over the head. "What were you thinking?! Where did you go? What happened?" She cleared her throat testing to see if her voice had recovered any. It hadn't and the attempt hurt enough to cause her to lift her right hand to her throat massaging it hoping the pain would recede. Sakura seemed to get the idea using her medic skills to get Naruko talking again.
"Thanks." Naruko said quietly glad to hear the sound of her own voice.
"What happened?" Sakura repeated.
"I..." She ran her hand through her hair messing it up. "I guess I got a little lost." She said trying to sound dumb.
"Naruko," came Kakashi's threatening voice. It was clear he would accept nothing less than the truth.
She sighed looking at the ground. "Sasuke came to see me." She started hoping this was the kind of answer Kakashi wanted. She continued, "We fought." Kakashi nodded as if they'd already figured that part out though Sakura's lip started to quiver. "Someone followed him, took me back with them. I just got out." She said leaving out several rather key details.
Kakashi scanned her with a look that meant he knew there was more to the story but he looked over at Saskura and sighed accepting. Sakura looked like she was wanting to cry. The loss of Sasuke twice in so short a time was driving her to despair. "Is Sasuke-kun...Is he.. ok?" Naruko just nodded not knowing what to say.
Sasuke was fine, physically but mentally? Naruko thought of his cold dead eyes. The hatred in Sasuke still scared her. Most of all the idea of hurting, none the less killing, your older brother regardless of what he did was so wrong in Naruko's mind it made her almost sick just thinking about it.
"We have to find Itachi before he does." She declared wildly.
"It will take more than just us to do that." Kakashi stated frankly. Naruko spared one last look in Sasuke's direction before turning back towards the leaf village.
It became quickly clear that something was not right ahead of them. There was a loud roar and screams ahead. Naruko rushed in ignoring advice to the contrary what she saw temporarily freezing her in place. Kyuubi.
"You" The Kyuubi roared recognizing her.
"You're... You're back!" She yelled happily feeling like she had found another link to her family.
The kyuubi was shocked temporarily by her joy at seeing him since it was his intention to kill her.
Naruko felt a warm glow as chains poured out of her body tying the fox demon down. Somewhere deep inside of her she felt her mother's presence. Naruko followed her heart and ran at the demon getting in close to his face.
"Stop!" She yelled at him as he struggled and roared at her. "Just shut up and let me help you!" She chastised him. Shocked by her odd statement the kyuubi quieted down. "Thank you." She replied politely getting the fox demons full attention. "You're in danger out here on your own. There's a group called the Akatsuki, they're after the tailed beasts. Please let us protect you!"
Kurama laughed a deep dark laugh. "Protect me? Stupid human! Do I look like I need protecting?" His laugh was silenced when a masked member of the Akatsuki appeared. "Those eyes." He said noticing the sharingan visible through a hole in the mask.
Naruko looked from the kyuubi to the Akatsuki and made a dangerous decision. She released the chains on the kyuubi leaving him free to attack her at will.
"Kyuubi," The masked Akatsuki said holding up his hand throwing out a purple chain.
"Stay away from him!" Naruko shouted hurling a rasen-shuriken at the man. It just passed right through him. Kakashi used his sharingan to suck the shuriken away to keep it from hitting the kyuubi. While Naruko went in for a frontal attack with her chakra blades. The Akatsuki was damaged severely as Naruko slipped through him as if hit by the wind attack causing the purple chain to fail to reach it's target.
"Kyuubi!" She shouted "Run! We'll hold him off here!" She looked over her shoulder waving him away.
"You're just like him." He replied making a small resigned growl. "Come here, bump fist's with me."
Making sure the Akatsuki still hadn't recovered completely, she turned around to look at him waving her arms about wildly, "Are you CRAZY?! Can't you see we're in the middle of a fight!"
"COME HERE!" It was clearly not a request. Naruko ran over to him holding up her hand. "If we do this, we're stuck as partners. Together for life." He informed her.
"Right! Yeah, if it will keep you safe!" She agreed quickly. They bumped fists merging their chakra together. Naruko became the jinchuriki of the nine-tails.
The masked Akatsuki stared at the spot where the kyuubi disappeared from then turned to look at Naruko deciding he had taken enough damage in a lost cause and said, "I'll be back for you jinchuriki." as he disappeared into his own eye.
The masked Akatsuki quickly went about summoning the remaining members. He sent Deidara and his partner Sasori after the one tails currently protected by Gaara, the Kazekage, then the two tails, Pein would get the three, five, six and seven tails due to his six bodies and Konan by his side, Kisame after the four tails, Itachi after the nine tails leaving Tobi to get the eight tails. The group quickly dispersed after the meeting and set about capturing the jinchuriki and taking the tailed beasts.
One their way to the sand village Deidara and Sasori found Sasuke first. They fought, Deidara's hatred of Itachi and his anger over Sasuke's killing of Oorochimaru driving him, Sasuke fighting for information on the location of his hated older brother. After a vicious battle, explosives vs Sasuke's chidori and curse mark, Deidara was dead nearly taking Sasuke with him.
Sasori continued on to the sand village alone while Sasuke took some time to recover. Luckily Deidara's big mouth had revealed to Sasuke that Itachi was headed to the leaf village to find the nine-tails jinchuriki, Naruko. Sasuke switched directions heading towards his old village. The only thing on his mind was hope that he would make it to her before his brother.
He found her a few miles away from the village with Kakashi and Sakura. Good, I made it first. Sasuke's plan was simple, capture and hold Naruko and his brother would come right to him.
Naruko quickly scanned the trees, she felt as though she was being watched. Now that she had the nine-tails she knew the whole Akatsuki would be after her. She glanced back towards Sakura and Kakashi who were looking a little worn from their battle with the nine-tails and the masked Akatsuki and distracted. She calmly stepped into the shadows of the trees knowing something important was about to happen.
He stepped into her view knowing she wasn't the type to call out for help.
"Sasuke," she said. He had forgotten how good his name sounded on her lips.
She didn't smile but thought hard, "Itachi is the one who's after me" She said finally putting the pieces together.
"Naruko," His voice came out soft, almost pleading, not at all the way he had intended.
"We have to lead him away from the village." She said her hand twitching as if she had intended to grab his. He nodded turning from her and heading towards the Uchiha compound knowing she would follow.
As they entered the compound Sasuke lost control of himself and reached back for her hand, leading her inside. She took in the view, the building was dirty and disused. She blushed finally realizing Sasuke was still holding her hand.
"Now we wait," He said squeezing her hand a little.
"Now we wait," She repeated taking a step closer to him.
She was so close, so close Sasuke's mind stopped working properly. What does it matter anyway? We may both be dead in a few hours anyway. He reasoned with himself as he released her hand wrapping his arms around her and placing his lips on hers. He felt himself growing hard as she tangled her hands in his hair arching her back so their hips ground against each other. It doesn't have to mean anything, he thought, It's just physical.
He pulled his lips away from hers leaving her out of breath. She felt his hands grab her hips so firmly his fingers dug into her sides. His mouth was then kissing the line of her jaw, drifting down her neck to land just over her throbbing pulse as her heart beat quickly.
He felt her pulse through his lips, the beating of her heart. It turned him on, drove him crazy, her life was enchanting to him. He bit down on her neck in that spot hard causing her to moan and pull him tighter towards her with her arms. It could take Itachi hours to get here. He thought pulling away from her, his hands drifting to her jacket zipper.
She was nervous but stayed still as Sasuke unzipped her jacket and pushed it off her shoulders. She felt exposed as he kissed the rise of her breast as his hands moved to pull her arms out of the jacket.
When he repositioned his hands on the jacket he felt something hard and metal in the breast pocket. He finished getting it off her then pulled it towards him, going to find out what it was she kept so close to her heart.
She made a move as if to grab the jacket back but Sasuke stopped her with a glare. He reached in and pulled out his own leaf village headband. She shook a little unsure of how he would react. Her heart almost stopped as she saw a tear fall from Sasuke's eye to land on the metal.
The headband brought so much back to him, the scratch through the leaf was the last thing Naruto ever did. He killed her brother and yet she wrapped her arms around him pulling him close. Her hands moved over his body trying to distract him from the past and his regret.
She hooked her fingers under the waistband of his pants running them over him. She untied the purple belt releasing his outer layers of clothing so he stood in nothing but his pants, sandals and a very loose flowing white top over his shoulders. She felt him shudder under her touch as her hands brushed off his top slowly dragging them down over his pecks and abs.
His eyes were dry now his only desire to be closer to the woman in front of him. He hooked his fingers around the bottom of her shirt and pulled it off over her head leaving her in just her bra and pants. Her eyes screamed her desire. His hands reached under her butt lifting her up to wrap her legs around his middle her arms holding onto his shoulders. She felt his erection grind against her as he kissed her deeply one hand moving to pull the ribbons out of her hair. He dropped to his knees taking her with him without breaking the kiss where their tongues fought for dominance in the others mouth. He ran his fingers through her long golden hair grabbing a fist full and moving her head into his kiss.
With her feet on the floor she began to move her hips over him at the same tempo as their tongues. When he couldn't take her undulating hips anymore he released her hair flattening his palm to cradle her head, placed the other on her lower back and slowly lowered her to the floor not breaking their kiss. When she was beneath him his right hand moved to rest on her belly. He felt her erratic breathing and her hips buck beneath him under his hand causing him to slide it down her pants.
She pulled her mouth from his as she became distracted by his fingers on her opening. He pulled her bra down exposing her nipple which he took in his mouth. He sucked hard causing her back to arch letting his two fingers slide easily into her. She let out a little gasp as he entered her that turned him on so badly he didn't know if he could wait any longer. He stretched her out knowing that it was her first time.
He bit her nipple and slid a third finger in pushing them in and out of her. She wanted him in her so badly she couldn't control her lips, she pulled his head away from her breast with her hand in his hair so he would look her directly in the eye. "Please," She begged.
She sighed as he pulled his fingers from her pulling her pants off in one swift movement. He was glad she hadn't tried to touch his erection yet, as it was he was having trouble keeping from cumming just at the sight of her begging for him. He pulled down his pants just far enough to expose his penis. He watched her eyes widen as she took the view of him in and when she licked her lips he couldn't take it anymore and just slammed himself deep inside of her.
She made a noise of pain mixed with pleasure then began running her hands up his sides pulling him closer down on top of her body. He laid his bare chest against hers kissing her deeply as he started to move inside of her, slowly at first then harder till he felt something break inside of her. Her nails dug into his back but she made no other indication of pain so he continued his slow movements.
She could hear him trying to control his breathing and she felt his body sweating beneath her fingers. His mouth stayed on hers but his tongue stopped moving as he focused on his hips. He began to thrust into her deeper until he hit something amazing. It was the best feeling she'd ever felt and she arched her back guiding him into that spot with each thrust after. She could feel the pleasure building inside of her and she forgot everything but the feeling of that spot every time he drove himself into it.
He began to speed up feeling his orgasm coming and trying so that they came together. He hit her as deeply as he could as fast as he could. Finally releasing his seed inside of her panting out of breath.
She forgot how to breathe as she came beneath him. She had never felt anything so amazing before. The smell of their sweat mixed together with the smell of sex leaving her wishing for more. She felt him twitching inside of her with the strength of his own orgasm. She moaned a little as he pulled out of her, quickly trying to get dressed not sure what to think about what they had just done.
He was still Sasuke and he was still going to kill Itachi. This changed nothing he would still kill her if she got in his way. She lay down on the floor fully dressed, though she left her jacket unzipped, and was surprised when he lay next to her pulling her close to him. She felt safe, protected, and drifted off to sleep in his arms.
