SADLY I DON'T OWN NARUTO; IF I DID THEY WOULD BE LIKE 'OMG! I LUFFLE YOU!' AND I DON'T OWN ANY MUSIC USED IN THIS STORY WHAT SO EVER

An angel's cry

Chapter Seven:

"Above all else your mission is to keep an eye on the blond boy, I know not his name but I cannot trust him so close to my pawns. He gains their trust too easily. Chances are that he may soon learn how to contact her and tell her of our presence. She may even choose a confrontation. She cannot fight me, her soul is currently too weak to fight me, but if she gathered her angels against me then we wouldn't have a chance," the dark man explained to the Akatsuki.

"Instead of going to your separate places in three days, you all shall gather in Orochimaru's town, you will all be leaving today. You will watch him and make sure he makes no contact with her, I plan to attack her on Monday, and if there is any interference I will kill her on sight. Not only will I kill her, I will do it in the most painful way possible."

Sasuke opened his eyes and took a moment to look around the room. Where was he? What happened? The last thing he remembered was running down the stairs from the school roof so he wouldn't be late to class, but he wasn't in class. As Sasuke's left arm began to ache he remembered almost falling asleep on the stairs on the way to his locker, but that was it. He assumed that meant someone found him asleep somewhere, but normally they would take him to the nurse's office but this wasn't the nurse's office either. He was lying in his room at Kakashi's house and there was something wet on his forehead. Sasuke pulled the wet rag off of his forehead and sat up to discover something or more so someone sleeping in a nearby chair with blond hair.

"Naruto?" Sasuke questioned, but as soon as he looked at the face he realized he was Minato. Sasuke sighed. "What the fuck is going on with me? The blood, overly tired, and now I'm mistaking Minato for Naruto," Sasuke scolded himself then grabbed some clothes and a towel then went to take a shower.

Minato looked around as the scene of his dream changed once more. He saw a girl crying and holding a body. Minato approached the girl, he could only see her outline clearly, the rest of her was a blur. He put his hand on her shoulder and looked down at the body she was holding. It was an injured boy, he looked slightly pale, but Minato assumed that was his natural skin color. He wasn't very injured over all just a few scrapes. The girl suddenly hugged Minato, and cried into his chest. Minato's eyes widened and he blushed slightly. He hadn't ever really ever hugged a girl, at least not to his memory, such contact was unusual. Minato subconsciously wrapped his arms around her.

"Don't worry, I promise he is safe," he reassured her. "Just be careful Azami-Chan." Minato was shocked at himself, how did he know her name? He noticed the girl slightly pull back then she nodded and sniffed. She then looked into his eyes; Minato was then given a surprise. Unlike the rest of her, he could clearly see her eyes. They were the greenest eyes he had ever seen.

"What is your-

"Hey! Minato wake up," Sasuke interrupted his dream.

"Oh, Sasuke-niisan, what are you doing here?" Minato asked. Sasuke sighed.

"That's what I should be asking you," he replied.

"Oh, well I didn't have school today, it's a teacher work day and Kakashi needed someone to keep an eye on you," Minato answered.

"But why am I here?" he asked.

"Don't you remember? You were found in the hallway passed out, Naruto-san found you," Minato explained to Sasuke. Sasuke sighed, had he really become this pathetic? So feeble that a feeling a little tired after a sleeping a full 8 hours plus the time on the roof that it would make him just pass out? Sasuke began to cough into his hand. His cough attack lasted at least two minutes causing Minato to worry. Sasuke looked into his hand as did Minato. Once again, Sasuke had coughed up blood. Minato panicked.

"Oh- you coughed up- and- please just lay down Sasuke," Minato asked as he ran out of the room to get a glass of water and quickly brought it back to Sasuke, but he was already asleep. Minato relaxed. What was it Sasuke had gotten himself into? As long as no one else got into this too, like Naruto. He seemed like the type to get wound up in all sorts of trouble by himself. Minato left the room again and got a new ice pack for Sasuke and put it on the sleeping male's forehead.

Minato walked over to Sasuke's nearby desk to hopefully find a pen or pencil so he could work on his homework while Sasuke slept. Instead of just a writing utensil, he also found a note book. He couldn't control his curiosity; he just had to take a look inside. Minato opened to a random page and read, it seemed to be the end of a song… but the lyrics weren't familiar to Minato. Sasuke never seemed like much a music person to Minato in the first place. Minato put the note book away and began on his homework.

"How long do you think it will take to find him?" Naruto asked. "We've already been looking for like three days!" Naruto complained while he was walking with the group to Kakashi's house.

"Calm down, we got here on Monday and it's only Thursday, we will find the angel of darkness soon, it will just take some time," Gaara answered.

"Well how will we know when we find him?" Naruto asked. Ino lightly hit Naruto in the back of his head, as if to tell him to use his brain. "But all she told me was that I would feel drawn to him, and I'm not even sure how that feels," he whined.

"Don't be so stupid Naruto, remember that every angel has a star shaped birthmark?" Ino explained.

"Yeah, but WHERE is that birthmark always?" he countered. Naruto may have not been the smartest angel in the human world but he still sometimes thought things out.

"It's on the head of course!" she said triumphantly.

"Where?" He repeated. Ino used her hand this time and pointed to her ear.

"It's usually behind the right ear!" she said as if she just won.

"So I am supposed to find him by looking the ears of every boy at our school?" he asked. Ino looked down.

"Fine, you win this time Naruto," she gave in as they entered Kakashi's house.

"Oh, hey guys I have to go to heaven on Saturday, I'm giving her a report of how the first week here has gone," Kiba announced.

"What?" a shocked voice replied. They turned their heads to see Minato. All of the angels cursed inside their minds. Why did Minato have to be in the front room at the time?

"Oh they call their home town heaven because its name is pronounced similarly," Sasuke supplied from the door way to the kitchen.

"Sasuke! You should go lay back down!" Minato ordered. Sasuke sighed in defeat.

"Oh, thanks for finding me in the hallway Naruto," Sasuke commented then went back to his room with his glass of water. Minato's jaw dropped.

"Sasuke just said thank you… how… strange…" Minato stated still shocked.

"Is that unusual for him?" Ino asked and Minato nodded.

"It's like wounding his pride, he couldn't take care of himself today and that wounds his pride even worse, he's a pretty independent person," he explained.

"Huh… That's stupid," Naruto commented. "Pride is one of the most useless things in the world," Minato chuckled. "I'm going to check on him…. I'm curious to see how he is doing," Naruto said simply before leaving.

"Well that was strangely blunt of him," was the last remark before he left. Naruto walked up the stairs and entered the long line of corridors. Each door was different. Some had a differently shaped doorknob and others had something different about the color and or design of the door. Naruto sighed as he realized he should have started from the staircase in the kitchen instead of the one in the hallway, considering Sasuke's room was much closer to that stair case.

Naruto continued walking and mentally noting how close he was to their rooms until he hit his head on something. Naruto looked up. He had run into a door. He looked around and curst. Where the heck was he? Naruto put his hand on his face and felt something running down his face. What the hell was it? Naruto got some of the liquid on his fingers and looked at it. It was crimson red. Naruto rolled his eyes. Great, he had cut his face on the door. Oh well, Naruto healed pretty fast so he decided to just let it be. Naruto sighed and decided to back track. Naruto got all the way back to the living room.

"If you used the hallway stair case it doesn't lead to- oh you're bleeding," Kakashi commented before magically pulling a band aid out of his pocket and he gave it to Naruto.

"When did you cut yourself Naruto?" Ino asked. Kiba rolled his eyes, obviously to Kiba it seemed it was under a minute ago.

"About five minutes ago," Naruto answered putting on the band aid.

"Naruto… don't your cuts usually start healing the second you're cut?" Naruto just shrugged in response. Naruto then set off to the other stair case in the kitchen and quickly made it to Sasuke's room. Naruto slowly opened the door as he heard a voice.

All the kids said, "We're too young to die, aren't we?

All these bored faces lining up in this empty town..."

It was Sasuke. He was singing. Huh, that seemed weird to Naruto. He quietly entered the room and watched Sasuke sit on his bed singing to himself and writing down the lyrics and taking note of how a verse is supposed to be sung. Sasuke looked more relaxed then he had been the whole time Naruto had been on earth.

All the kids said, "On this windless night,

We're going to make a difference!

Naruto smiled. Sasuke was in his own personal paradise. Not only that but Sasuke had a lovely voice. There was no voice Naruto could possibly compare it to. It was deep and very soothing. The words just flowed out of Sasuke's mouth. Sasuke felt unusually happy, especially considering how he had been feeling as of late.

These yelling voices of ours

Can't be erased by any terrorist

Naruto frowned. He had come in during the last few verses sadly. He wished he could have heard the whole song. Sadly it seemed as if he would probably never hear Sasuke sing again, considering Sasuke just looked over at Naruto with a look that clearly meant please-tell-me-that-you-just-got-there-and-heard-nothing-of -my-music. Naruto smiled at Sasuke.

"I liked your song, although I missed most of it, it sounded like a nice song," Naruto complimented.

"Thanks, I guess we traded spaces this time," Sasuke commented. "Last time I found you singing and scared the crap out of you,"

"I was not fearful!" Naruto argued. "You surprised me!"

"Really? I can clearly remember you looking at me like you had just seen Hannibal." Sasuke smirked.

"Who?"

"Oh, I forgot you haven't seen any horror movies," Sasuke replied dismissing his comment. Although, it made him slightly curious what Naruto would do if he had actually seen Hannibal the cannibal.

"What are those?"

"Movies made to scare people," Sasuke answered.

"Why would people want to be scared by a movie? That's kind of dumb. I mean what's the point of watching a movie that scares you? So you tremble in fear?" Naruto asked. Sasuke paused and thought for a moment.

"For entertainment I guess," was Sasuke's reply. "Oh, why did you come up here?" Sasuke asked out of curiosity.

"I… I just wondered if you were alright since I found you collapsed on the staircase face down. I wasn't sure if you were okay," Naruto hesitantly answered.

"I'm fine, aside from the occasional head ache, but those don't last long," Sasuke told Naruto. Naruto grinned.

"Good, because I will need your help on Monday to continue looking for the angel of darkness, with your help I can do it for sure!" Naruto cheered. Sasuke felt his heart drop slightly. Oh, he just wanted help finding the angel… Wait! What do you mean 'Oh,' Sasuke! Of course that's what he would want! It's not like you two even know each other very well! Stupid Sasuke! Sasuke yelled at himself mentally.

"Are you sure you're okay Sasuke?" Naruto asked again. By the glare he was giving to the empty space in front of him one would think there was something there that he certainly wasn't too fond of. Sasuke just nodded.

"Oh! Sasuke! Kakashi asked me to tell you your father said he should be back tomorrow," Naruto extended the message. "And that some of his co-workers were also coming so the spare bedrooms at your guys' house will be full." Sasuke nodded.

"What?" Sasuke asked, feeling Naruto's expectant eyes staring at him.

"Well… since were friends I can meet your father right?" Naruto asked. Sasuke sighed and nodded.

"But it's not like he is actually my father, I'm adopted, anyways I look much more like one of is co-workers than him. Who knows, maybe I'm actually related to him," Sasuke said, his mind wandering aloud.

"What's your father's name?" Naruto asked.

"Orochimaru," Sasuke answered. Naruto put his hand to his chin and tilted his head. Where had he heard that name before? He could have sworn he heard Kiba ranting about someone named Orochimaru but Naruto doubted it was Sasuke's adoptive father.

"It sounds so familiar…"

To be continued

Nanami: Your wishes are my command! Here is a full update, and I'm pretty sure this counts as soonishly. I just want to say thank you very much to last chapter's reviewers, I was inspired to work on this.

Sasuke: Stop whining! I'm the one you're trying to kill off!

Nanami: Did you forget Naruto is in the same basic position as you right at this moment also?

Sasuke: OH HELL NO!

Nanami Yupp. Oh and I realized, I'm torturing Sasuke in two of my stories, in one he is slowly dying and in the other he has rabid fan girls stalking him all the way to his insane asylum.

Please review, I'll luffle you forever.

Inspired by the song tsubasa wo daite