Hi everyone, I'll get around to that fic I owe all of you very soon. I've been swamped with homework and the like since the year started. I should be preparing for a Macbeth audition on Monday, but I really don't feel like it. besides, I think I've withheld a chapter from all of you for as long as I care to. Thanks everyone for the support. Here's chapter seven. I hope you like it.

Wish Upon a Lost Wing
Chapter Seven: God of Death

Look up. That day… that clear day. Didn't it rain? But… while we were soaked in the rain, she silently gave us… an umbrella of smiles. As if to say, "Sky. Please don't cry."

Kazuki, Soukyuu no Fafner

Sasuke and Naruto continued staring at each other. It wasn't as though any ideas on what to say had just randomly popped in their heads. The Uchiha sat down on a couch, mainly to get off his painful ankle. He had gotten enough injuries over the years with his martial arts training to know when he was hurt and what to do. Right now, he had to rest.

But resting didn't mean that he couldn't talk to Naruto about how he had gotten injured, right? So therefore, his mind was flitting around, trying to figure out exactly what to say to the other boy.

"Who was that?" Sasuke asked softly, his voice barely above a whisper. Naruto heard it though. He had heard it and he knew exactly who Sasuke was talking about.

"Who was who?" he replied, trying to give the subtle hint that he didn't want to talk about what had happened. He leaned against a table, facing Sasuke with a dull look on his face as though he could care less. However, by looking at those cerulean blue eyes, Sasuke knew better. He knew much better. Naruto was trying to get his roommate to change the subject of the conversation, but Sasuke wasn't going to play his game.

"Naruto," he growled out. "You know who I mean, now tell me who the fuck it was."

Naruto just scowled at him for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, he sighed, cracking his defenses to give a brief explanation. "Mizuki Touya," Naruto replied. "Lower-level demon from Hell. He was my caretaker – if you want to label him that – during the oh-so-fun century I spent in Hell." Sasuke could pick up the sarcasm in Naruto's voice during a few of his words.

"And why does he want you?"

"Because I'm sexy."

Sasuke was silent. He ignored the comment, glaring at Naruto. Silently, he was sending the message, tell me the truth, dammit! Naruto seemed to have picked up on it, and with another sigh, he continued.

"Because I'm half-Demon and have another demon trapped inside of me, all right?" he growled. "Jeez, don't tell me that you happen to not know anything about us?"

"Us?" Sasuke repeated, eyes narrowing slightly from confusion.

The blonde smacked his forehead with his hand, muttering curses and other things that Sasuke seriously didn't know that his roommate knew.

"Look, there's two of us – well, three of us if you want to count the fox – in this body," the boy was explaining to him. "You have the idiot, Naruto. You have Kyuubi, the demon leader of Hell. And then there's me."

"And who are you?" Sasuke wanted to know.

"Mikaboshi Amatsu, the demon half of us," the boy said to him. Amatsu looked at Sasuke now and Sasuke could see differences from the normal Naruto. For one thing, his teeth had grown until fangs were their and his eyes were colder, more malicious than they normally were. It could have just been the light, but Sasuke could have sworn his eyes held a tint of red.

"Mikaboshi… Amatsu?" Sasuke repeated the name slowly, remembering where he had heard it from. "The god of evil?"

"Yeah, that's where I got the name. It was given to me by Kyuubi, so I take it in honor, unlike Naruto," the blonde growled. He laughed coldly. "Naruto is a name that was given to us in Heaven."

Sasuke was silent. Was he sure that he could deal with an Angel/Demon that had MPD? He didn't know, but according to the Hokage and them, he had to – at least for the time being.

Geez, exactly how many times is he going to change himself? Sasuke wondered. He didn't really want to know the answer to his question after he thought about it for a moment.

"What happened to you two when you were in Hell?" Sasuke wanted to know. Amatsu seemed like a more willing person to talk about something like that. However, Sasuke must have read Amatsu's personality wrong. The boy's blue/red eyes narrowed dangerously as he gritted his teeth at the memories.

"So that's what made Naruto go inside of us," Amatsu grumbled. He looked sharply, his features twisted into an evil glare. "Never, and I mean never ask Naruto about our time in Hell unless you really feel like dealing with me instead."

Sasuke wasn't scared, but he was wary. This side of Naruto didn't seem to be a pushover and in his current condition, it was iffy whether Sasuke could win or not.

"Whatever, I was just curious," Sasuke said, his eyes flashing dangerously. "After all, my neck is out there as well and I want to know if I'll be getting anymore unwelcome guests from Hell."

Amatsu shrugged. "That I can tell you is a probably," he told the boy. "Naruto and I haven't been to Earth before. We've been to Hell, we were in Heaven, but we weren't here. This place is pretty much a dangerous territory for us. I'll work a deal with you, if you're willing to sign a blood oath."

Sasuke cocked an eyebrow, an unamused look on his face. "What kind of blood oath?" he asked.

"Oh, you know. I'll come out whenever Naruto is in danger as long as I can draw upon a little of your lifeforce to be able to do so. This makes it so that whenever you see Naruto in danger, something in your head will trigger me to take over this body. Do we have a deal?" Amatsu asked.

"Couldn't I just teach Naruto how to defend himself."

"Sorry, dude," Amatsu told him. "Naruto and I are yin and yang. If I can fight, it means that he cannot. However, if I die, he dies as well and vice versa. There are just things that one of us can do, but the other can't. Without me, this kid wouldn't have made it this far – even with Tsunade-baba on his ass all the time. So, do we have a deal?"

Amatsu's reddish-blue eyes glinted at his roomy. Sasuke stared back. He overturned the information in his head. This would mean that his lifespan would be shortened every time that Naruto was in danger. He understood, then, what he had to do. He had to keep the blonde out of danger but whenever Naruto was in danger, then Sasuke would release a seal of sorts and bring Amatsu out in order to protect the blonde.

"Fine, whatever, to the terms you just said only," Sasuke snarled.

"All right, all right," Amatsu told Sasuke. The demon bit his thumb and scraped it along a scroll that he had fished out of Naruto's room. Dragging his thumb down the length of the scroll, Amatsu made several signs with his hands before finally slamming his palm onto the middle of the scroll. The letters that were written on the paper glowed with a red, blue and white light. It almost looked as though the lights were going to engulf Amatsu before a small silver pocketwatch on a chain appeared.

"Get over here, bite your thumb, or something, and put your blood on the scroll!" Amatsu ordered. This was straining his chakra too much and if Sasuke didn't put his blood on it soon, then there would be no one to protect. Sasuke hobbled over as slapped some of the blood from one of his earlier wounds onto the parchment. Immediately, the silver of the pocketwatch turned gold on the back of it, so now only the lid and chain were silver. The light disappeared.

Wiping sweat from his brow, Amatsu grinned easily as he handed the pocketwatch over to Sasuke. "All ya gotta do to call me, is screw this part open and to close off the summons, screw it shut."

Sasuke stared at the other boy, wondering why a demon was placing all of his power and abilities in Sasuke's hands.

"I should be leaving-" Amatsu began but he was cut off by Sasuke.

"Wait, why the fuck are you giving this to me, why not someone else?" Sasuke wanted to know. "Why'd you offer this to me?"

Amatsu just smiled at the boy. "Just keeping a promise," he murmured before he closed his eyes and fainted.

Sasuke sighed. He glanced down at the pocketwatch, putting it around his neck before screaming through the wall for Kiba to come back over to help him with Naruto.

Kyuubi-kun's Korner!

I know, insanely short. I know, completely confusing. I just can't write a passive Naruto, which is what he was becoming in this fic, so I made up Amatsu. Isn't he sexy? I love Amatsu… maybe I'll keep him around for a while. However, I explained as much as I felt I could (or as my brain thought of) in this chapter. I hope everyone liked it and I WILL get out that SasuNaru one-shot fic one of these days.

Ciao. I love you all!