Hola mi amigos! Hope you liked that lemony part last chapter (; LOL Sorry I haven't updated . I've been swamped in homework orz OH! I read your reviews and I really appreciate them! And thanks for the corrections! I'll go fix them now and then start on chapter 8 ^-^ Anyways here's chapter seven!


Chapter Japanese to English Translations

Ne: Yo/Hey/Um

-kun: Male term of endearment or casualty. It's kind of like a nickname you could say.

Oka-chan: Mom

Ohayou: Good morning

Ojii-san: Grandfather

Chibi: Small/Midget/Smaller version (For Naruto it means "smaller version" I'll expand on it next chapter!)

Tou-san: Dad

Senpai: How to respectfully address an older student

Nii-san/Aniki: Older Brother

Kitsune: Fox (it's Itachi's nickname for Naruto)

Baka: Stupid/Idiot/Jackass

Dobe: Stupid/Loser

Teme: A rude way to say "you"


"Ne, Naruto-kun, let's go see Oka-chan."

"NO!" Naruto yelled sitting up in his bed. His breathing was heavy and he was drenched in sweat. He grabbed his hair and brought his head to his knees. "Dammit," he whispered to himself.

He looked at his clock. It was 3 in the morning. He heard his door click. Tsunade was appeared in her nurse scrubs. She was about to leave for work.

"Naruto, is everything alright?" she asked sitting next to him on the bed.

Naruto nodded and put on a small smile. "I'm fine. I just a bad dream."

She ruffled his hair. "I've gotta get to work but you want me to make you a cup of tea?"

He shook his head. "I can make it. I think I'm gonna go crash in the living room in fact."

She kissed his forehead and stood up. "Can you lock the door for me?"

Naruto nodded and got out of the bed. He was wide awake now. He locked the door and went into the kitchen. He heard the front door open as he turned the fire on the kettle. "Ohayou, Ojii-san," Naruto called.

"Ne, Chibi, what are you doing awake?" Jiraiya said popping his head into the kitchen. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, just a bad dream is all. You want some tea?"

"No, I'm going to lie down but if you need me don't be afraid to come bother me." Naruto nodded at him and Jiraiya headed to his room.

Naruto looked over at his phone. It was off. He wanted to turn it on and call Sasuke. He knew he shouldn't. The whole reason for this trip was so that he would clear his mind of all this. He sighed and had the dream replay in his head.


"Where are we going Tou-san?" Naruto asked. He sat in the back seat of the car. It was a very rainy day. He had just left his grandparents' house with his dad. He noticed they hadn't gone the way they usually go.

Minato was silent and Naruto was worried. He looked out the window and started thinking about all the toys in the trunk from his grandparents as early birthday presents. He'd be five next week. He looked at his dad through the rearview mirror. He had a smile on his face and Naruto smiled back sheepishly.

"Ne, Naruto, let's go see Oka-chan." With the smile on his face, he turned the steering wheel to the left.

Naruto's eyes widened. Even at four years old he knew that turning on a cliff with gates at the edge was bad.

"TOU-SAN!" he screamed but they were already flipping over the cliff.


Naruto closed his eyes and combed his fingers through his hair. He looked at the TV. There was nothing significant on so he just sipped his tea and looked at it mindlessly. He wished that he were sitting here with someone. The tea calmed him enough to put him back to sleep. He dreamed of nothing this time. He woke up to the smell of bacon. He sat up and yawned.

"'Bout time you woke up, Chibi," Jiraiya called from the kitchen. "I hope you're hungry." He came into the living room and with a plate of eggs, bacon and toast.

"Yeah," Naruto said with a small smile.

"So, what brings you here this time?" Jiraiya asked sitting on the couch across from Naruto. "It's been a while."

"Can't choose between two guys," Naruto said with a sigh. He took a bite of his toast and swallowed. "Kakashi thinks that I'm in love with one and in love with the idea of the other."

"Interesting," Jiraiya said scratching his chin. Jiraiya ruffled Naruto's fluffy blond hair. "Can I tell you a story that might help you out?"

"Sure."

"It's about your dad." Naruto tensed a bit and Jiraiya gave him a small smile. "Did you know your mom and Sasuke's mom almost ended their friendship over your dad?"

Naruto's eyes widened. "You're lying!"

Jiraiya chuckled. "You know how the three of them were best friends but then your mom and Mikoto started crushing on Minato big time."

"Well, what happened?"

"Well obviously he chose your mom and you wanna know why?" Naruto nodded hesitantly. "Because he knew in his heart that your mom was the one he was destined to. He had a little trouble deciding since he didn't want to hurt Mikoto's feelings but she got over it. She realized that your mom was more in love with him than she was."

Naruto pulled his knees to his chest. "I'm not him though," he mumbled.

Jiraiya laughed and slapped Naruto's back. "I know that! All I'm saying is think about who you really want to be with."

Naruto smiled a little. "I will."

"Great, now eat up and don't worry, alright?"

Naruto nodded. For the rest of the day, the two remained in the living room. They caught up on things going on in their lives. Naruto asked Jiraiya about his amphibian research. Naruto was old enough to be able to intern with him this summer but he was going to wait until college. He wanted to be an amphibian researcher just like his grandfather. He'd been obsessed with all types of amphibians for as long as he could remember; toads, frogs, newts and all those types of things were so fascinating.

He was having a great time and forgot about his problems just for a bit. It was not until the car ride that he began to decide what he would do with Shikamaru and Sasuke. Who makes you happier? The question repeated in his head the entire ride home until he was asleep. By that time he came to a decision. When he arrived home, Jiraiya carried him to his room and Fugaku grabbed his bag from the trunk.

"He's still a little baby no matter how much he denies it," Jiraiya whispered to himself.

Fugaku chuckled overhearing the comment. "They both are." He looked over at a sleeping Sasuke and closed the door. "Sasuke wouldn't eat all day. He only does this when he's worried about something."

Jiraiya smirked at him. "He's probably just worried about Naruto. You think he's still set on marrying the boy?"

Fugaku chuckled. "You bet he is. Itachi has already spilled."

Jiraiya laughed. "Why am I not surprised?"


Naruto woke up to find Sasuke standing over him. There was a frown on his face as his black eyes clashed with Naruto's bright blue, sleepy ones.

"Hey," Naruto whispered. Sasuke stayed silent. Naruto sighed and sat up. Sasuke watched him and Naruto pulled him down to sit next to him. He put a hand over his and said "Remember when we first met?"


Six year old Sasuke walked down the hallways of FSA Elementary. He was bored in class so he asked if he could go to the bathroom. He decided to waste some time by walking around the school. He wanted to find Itachi but he knew that he had lunch and Itachi didn't like it when he was in there during the junior high lunch period. It was chaotic and he didn't want Sasuke hurt.

As he walked around with the hall pass he saw his principal standing with a man with long white hair and woman with pale blonde hair who was holding the hand of boy who looked about Sasuke's age. Sasuke couldn't see his face because they were looking in a classroom. All he saw was a mess of bright blond hair. When the boy turned around, he had the bluest eyes that Sasuke ever saw. They were even bluer than Itachi's friend Deidara. He was really pretty to Sasuke even with the band-aids on his cheeks and the sadness Sasuke could see in his eyes. As he came closer, Sasuke realized he was taller than the blond, but only by an inch or two.

"Ah, perfect timing! This is one of our brightest students here at FSA," the principal said with a huge smile. He looked down at the blonde boy. "Uzumaki-kun, he's a senpai of yours."

Sasuke bowed to the boy and was actually blushing because of how pretty he thought the boy was. He held a hand out and put on his best smile. "I'm Sasuke, nice to meet you."

Naruto grabbed his hand hesitantly. "Naruto," he responded quietly.

The blonde woman smiled at Sasuke. "I hope you'll take good care of my Naruto," she said with a wink.

Sasuke smiled and excused himself. He suddenly realized how cold his hand felt without the other boy's in it. Weird, he thought to himself but ignored it.

Later that same day he found Naruto crying and went to comfort him before he went home. He had to leave him when he heard his brother call him to hurry up so they could get home to meet his new brother. He wasn't there when the boys got home so they started on their homework.

Itachi and Sasuke had shared a room but once news got out that there would be one more person added to the family, Itachi had moved out of the room and into the guest room. The basement had turned into the new guest room. Sasuke would be sharing the room with their new brother. He was super excited because now he wouldn't be the youngest anymore.

Itachi's bed was now replaced with white sheets with ramen swirls all over. The shelf above the bed that once held all of Itachi's books was replaced with stuffed animals. All of them were frogs or toads and there was one newt. There was also a desk the same size as Sasuke's in the room.

"Sasuke-kun, Itachi-kun, come downstairs!" their mother called.

Sasuke tried to not run downstairs and seem so excited and just barely accomplished it. He was wide eyed by the time he came face to face with his new brother. "Naruto?" he said to himself.

"Itachi, Sasuke, this is Jiraiya and Tsunade," Fugaku introduced. He looked over at Naruto. "And this is Naruto, your brother."

"Aha! I thought it was your son Mikoto! He looks just like you. And look how big Itachi got! Has it really been that long?" Tsunade said patting Sasuke's head. He wasn't paying much attention to her. He was too focused on Naruto. Tsunade turned back to his mom. "I saw him in the halls when we visited the school."

"Oh that's wonderful!" Mikoto exclaimed.

Sasuke looked over at Naruto who seemed to be stuck on one of the legs of the white haired man from earlier. The man had red tattoos under his eyes and patted Naruto's head. That only caused Naruto to cling even closer. Sasuke walked over to Naruto and held his hand out. Naruto looked up at him with a surprised look but Sasuke just smiled. "You can call me nii-san, kay?"

Itachi came over to the boys and patted Naruto's hair. "I'm Itachi. Welcome to the Uchiha family."

Naruto was very quiet. He looked like he was on the verge of tears when Tsunade and Jiraiya left. Sasuke kept a close eye on him. When they went to bed, Sasuke woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of a small cry. He knew it was Naruto and he had to be a big brother. He remembered that whenever he had a bad dream, Itachi would climb into his bed and go to sleep with him.

Okay, time to be a big brother, Sasuke thought. He stepped out of his bed and tiptoed to Naruto's bed. He got under the blanket with Naruto and found his face and pillow stained with tears. "Bad dream?" Sasuke whispered to him.

Naruto nodded and Sasuke hugged him the way Itachi had hugged him when he had bad nights. He felt Naruto relax and they both fell asleep. When Sasuke woke up he was awestruck by Naruto's sleeping face. He almost burst when he watched the boy wake up and rub the sleep out of his eyes. He was just so pretty. Mikoto came in the room to wake them up.

"Ohayou boys," she said in a cheery tone.

"Ohayou, Oka-chan," Sasuke responded. Naruto smiled slightly and whispered a good morning.

Mikoto went over to the bed and sat down. "Did you sleep well, Naruto-kun?"

Naruto nodded. "I had a bad dream but Sasuke—er, Nii-san—made it better."

Mikoto smiled at Sasuke and Sasuke smiled back feeling pretty proud of his self. She looked back over at Naruto. "Tsunade told me that your bandages can come off today."

Naruto seemed to tense up a bit but nodded. Mikoto slowly took off the bandages around his cheeks. He had three scars on each cheek that looked like whiskers. Sasuke smiled. He looks like a fox, he thought. When they got dressed for school, Sasuke noticed that Naruto still had bandages around his stomach.

When they got downstairs, Itachi was already eating. He looked up at his little brothers and smiled. "Ohayou," he said then glanced at Naruto's cheeks. "Ne, Naruto, can I call you 'Kitsune?'" he asked.

"Uh, sure," Naruto said hesitantly. "Why?"

"You look like you have whiskers. It's cool."

Naruto blushed a bit but smiled and thanked Itachi for the compliment.

Naruto clung to Sasuke for the rest of the day. He sat next to Sasuke at breakfast; held his hand as they walked to school. During their lunch time, Sasuke found him and they sat together. Girls were glaring all day confused and jealous of the closeness Naruto was to their crush.

While Naruto was on his way out to find Sasuke to go home, he was stopped by a group of girls. Two girls of the group he recognized as Sakura and Ino. He looked at all of them confusedly.

"Are you Sasuke's girlfriend?" Sakura asked.

Naruto cocked an eyebrow at them. His hair had been pinned up on the side; a style done by Mikoto. He did look like a little girl from a distance. "No," he answered. "He's my, um…"

" I'm his Nii-san," Sasuke said ruffling Naruto's hair. "I was wondering what was taking you so long. Aniki is waiting for us." He grabbed Naruto's hand and led him out of the sea of girls "Sorry about that. They won't leave me alone."

"They thought you were my boyfriend. I don't look like a girl do I?"

Sasuke stopped walking and looked at Naruto in the face. "Just a little, but only because your face is pretty," Sasuke teased.

Naruto blushed slight. "Baka!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Dobe," Sasuke scoffed.

"Teme," Naruto scoffed right back.

Sasuke chuckled and ruffled Naruto's hair again. We're getting married one day, Sasuke thought to himself.


"I'll never forget those two days," Naruto said quietly with a weak smile. He turned to Sasuke and before he knew it, Sasuke pounced on him and locked their lips together. Naruto was caught off guard at first but then kissed back. Sasuke broke the kiss for air and stared at the blond. Naruto saw so much sadness in his eyes and suddenly he lunged at the blond again but hugged him this time. He snuggled his face into the nape of his neck.

"I don't want you with him," Sasuke mumbled. "I'm sorry about what I did that morning. I wasn't thinking, but please don't stay with him."

"Sasuke," Naruto said quietly. He ran his fingers through the other boy's hair.

"Stay with me." It sounded more like a plea than a demand.

Naruto sighed and smiled. "Okay," he breathed. He lifted Sasuke's head and kissed him again. It felt right to kiss him and it had erased all traces of Shikamaru on his lips.


TO BE CONTINUED