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Chapter 7: Love Bite
"You haven't seen anything strange going on with him recently, have you?"
"No. He's fine in my classes and whenever I see him in the halls he seems normal. Why are you freaking out so bad?"
"I'm just ... I'm worried about him." Iruka sighs resting his forehead in his hands. "He told me about some guy and how he bit him and then left as soon as he said that."
"I'm sure he's fine. He's a teenage boy, so it doesn't surprise me that he is doing this. But don't worry I'll make sure to watch him a little closer to see if he is acting weird." Kakashi says putting his hand on Iruka's knee to try and comfort his husband.
"Thanks Kakashi."
"I couldn't help but overhear." Iruka and Kakashi snap their eyes over to Orochimaru who is leaning on the wall. "Are you talking about Naruto?"
"What about it?" Kakashi glares. He hates Orochimaru as much as Naruto does. He smells something fishy going on with him, but Iruka on the other hand likes to give people a chance to prove themselves to him before judging them. Typically Kakashi is the same way, but Orochimaru is an exception. Iruka puts a hand on Kakashi's telling him to calm down.
"Do you know something about him?"
"I'm not sure, but I think I saw him with a bad group of people. I saw one of the people he was with. It was Kagura." Iruka's eyes widen. Naruto was with him? That can't be right. He wouldn't do what they do. "I don't know if you know exactly what Kagura and his friends do, but by that look you are giving me I'm guessing you have an idea."
"I have only heard rumors."
"I'll tell you then, but you might not like it." He pauses and Iruka nods. "Kagura sells drugs, they also do a lot of them. They steal things. They almost killed someone. They all have been arrested at least twice. They also will kill someone if they betray their trust, so Naruto won't willingly tell you he is with them or that he does that kind of stuff." Orochimaru glances over to Kakashi to see his unbelieving glare. "I too am worried about him. I think the drugs are messing with him. He said something about how vampires are still alive, but I saw that he wasn't himself when he told me that."
"That's enough, Orochimaru." Kakashi spits.
"I'm just trying to help, Kakashi." Orochimaru grins.
"Thanks for everything Orochimaru. I'm going to go find Naruto." Iruka shoots to his feet and is out the door in seconds.
Kakashi stands continuing to glare into the yellow eyes. "I don't believe any of the shit that spills from your mouth. Naruto would never do that. You are just aiming to make Iruka worry more than he is and you are trying to get Naruto into trouble when he doesn't need to be. I see the way you look at him. You need to knock it off before I need to step in and stop you myself."
Orochimaru's grin never falters as Kakashi gets closer. "I have no idea what you're talking about Kakashi, what am I doing."
"You watch his every move with a disturbing hunger in your eyes. If you try anything on him then I swear I won't hold back." Kakashi steps back away from him.
"I can't stop what I'm not doing, Kakashi." Orochimaru slips past him out the door. Kakashi clenches his fists. Kakashi takes a deep breath and composes his lazy nature and exits the teacher's lounge.
Orochimaru walks down the halls smiling at people that pass him, granted he always smiles so it isn't anything new. Right now he is heading to a certain blond's locker. He wants to give him a present. Orochimaru saw him walking into school today with a lunch bag. The good thing about the hallway that Naruto has his locker is there is little to no traffic and there aren't any cameras. He already got the janitor's keys and he stops in front of a locker opening it. He swiftly grabs the bag opening it and taking out a piece of food putting something in it. He makes sure that it isn't too much, only enough to have a good effect. Once he is done he puts everything back the way it was and leaves as if nothing had happened.
Naruto sits down on the top bleacher with Shikamaru, Kiba, Sakura, and Sai. They all used to sit out here for lunch until they got yelled at, then they stopped. But right now Naruto is missing it and he brought them all back out saying he'd take the blame if they get caught. Also, he knew they were all going to want an explanation about the mystery man he got in a car with.
"Tell us now Uzumaki before I beat it out of you." Sakura snarls making Naruto's eyes widen in shock.
"Tell you what?"
"Who that guy in the nice ass car was yesterday." Kiba says just as interested.
"Oh. That. You saw that?"
"You did make eye contact with all of us as you left the parking lot." Sai adds.
"Right, well he's just a friend that I made a little while ago."
"A friend or a friend?" Sakura leans closer.
"A friend. That's it."
"Is it that friend?" Shikamaru says opening his lunch.
"Yeah."
"That friend? Who is that friend?" Sakura is practically on top of Naruto now.
"Sakura ... can you ... uhm ... give me a little space?"
"Not until you tell me everything about him."
"Okay, okay. I'll tell you, just back up."
She narrows her eyes looking into his blue ones. When she deems him trustworthy she leans back. "Proceed."
"There isn't much to tell about him. It's just that he is the brother of the guy that I ran into and accidentally took his paper."
"That guy has a brother?!" Sakura grabs him by the shirt and pulls him closer.
"...yeah."
She releases him and looks out to the football field. "Why couldn't have I run into him instead." Naruto rolls his eyes at her. Naruto takes out his sandwich and takes a bite. "What are they like? Are you close?"
Naruto shrugs taking another bite and swallowing. "They're really nice. They have a big family ... if you wanna call it a family. I'm not sure if they're related or not. As for the close part, I don't know. I just started talking to the brother yesterday."
"Wait so you're talking to him or just talking to him?"
"We are talking to each other as friends."
"So he's available?"
"I really don't think he would date you."
Her eyes snap over to the blond with malice in them. "What is that supposed to mean?"
Naruto puts his hands up in defense. "I'm just saying that he doesn't seem like the type to date people. That's it, I swear."
"That better be what you meant. But I have to go anyway. I have some work I need done. I'll see you guys later." She stands up with lunch in hand and jumps her way down the bleachers.
"You really should watch how you word things around girls." Kiba says opening his lunch. "They're sensitive creatures."
"It just kind of slipped." Naruto finishes the rest of his sandwich and pulls out some more food.
Kiba shoots to his feet and looks to Sai. "Sai! We didn't finish our report!"
"That's all right." Sai says it as if it's nothing and takes a bite of his sandwich.
"No, it's not all right! We have to go!" Kiba grabs Sai and they stumble down the bleachers to the school.
Naruto purses his lips to the side and furrows his brows. So much for all of them eating lunch out on the bleachers. "And it's down to two." Shikamaru says as he eats his lunch.
"I don't care, I like eating lunch with just you anyway."
"I feel honored, but I'm actually going to have to go too." Naruto looks over to him with puppy-dog eyes. "Oh, don't look at me like that. Asuma-sensei has something he has to tell me. He told me to meet him at lunch this morning. Something about something that only I can do or whatever." He shrugs standing up. "Whatever, but I'll see you for the rest of the classes today and at the dojo."
"Alright." Naruto smiles and watches Shikamaru wave and walk down the bleachers. Naruto looks back to his food and finishes it. After a while he leans back against the fence and sighs closing his eyes. For some reason he starts to feel dizzy and his body feels a little heavy. That's when he hears a creak come from the bleachers next to him. He slowly opens his eyes. Right there in front of him is a familiar face. Naruto smiles. "Hey, Sasuke! What are you doing here?"
Sasuke furrows his brows at the blond. He is acting a lot different right now, and his smell has changed faintly too. "Naruto, have you taken a drug?"
"Drug? No silly. I just ate my lunch and now I'm feeling really happy." Naruto stands up and almost falls but Sasuke instinctively catches him. Being so close to him he can really smell it. Something happened to his food because there was definitely a drug put in it. It hasn't set in all the way yet so maybe he can suck it out of his blood system. Sasuke cringes at the thought but he is going to have to do it if he wants Naruto to go back to normal. From the smell he can tell it isn't a normal drug.
"Naruto, I'm taking you with me. Something got into your system and I'm going to help you, but I can't do it here." He doesn't wait for Naruto to reply as he quickly picks him up and jumps in the direction of his house. He makes quick time but when he gets there he growls. Everyone is still here. He walks to the back of the house and jumps to the window his room opening it and jumping in then closing it. He walks over and gently sets Naruto on his bed.
Naruto looks around with heavy eyes. "Hey, this is your room Sasuke. Your bed is really comfortable, y'know." Naruto snuggles up and closes his eyes.
"Don't fall asleep on me dobe. This is probably going to hurt."
"Hurt? Why? What are you going to do?"
Sasuke grabs Naruto turning him onto his back. Naruto furrows his brows and looks up to the raven who is now straddling him. "Try not to make too much noise. They'll notice you're here sooner." Even in his current state Naruto understands what he is saying. He swallows thickly and slowly nods. Sasuke turns Naruto's head to reveal his neck more and he lowers himself.
It shouldn't hurt that bad right? He's had it done before. Sasuke's fangs sharpen and he sinks them into his neck. Naruto immediately gasps and made a sharp wince. He grabs the bed sheets in both fists and his breathing turns labored. This was nothing like the other times. Why does it get worse each time it happens?! He can feel his blood burning as it leaves him and soon all his body feels like it is on fire. He trades a hand from the sheets to Sasuke's arm without thinking. He starts to get extremely dizzy, and as soon as that happens Sasuke pulls back and quickly gets off of him putting a hand on the wall, his other to his mouth. Naruto slowly looks over to Sasuke to see him coughing. Naruto wants to go over to help him seeing him in what looks like pain, but he can't move and soon enough his eyelids close on him.
Sasuke's breath is heavy. His hand still over his mouth. That isn't any normal drug. It is specific to hurt vampires. The only one who makes drugs like this is the one and only, Orochimaru. Sasuke glares up moving his hand from his mouth. So he's finally back. Sasuke walks over to the door, struggling a little bit and opens it. There, standing right in front of the door, is everyone in the house. Sasuke looks to them with a glare. He knows why they are all looking at him confused. He's unable to retract his fangs and his eyes were still glowing red.
"We need to talk." Sasuke says closing the door and goes to the dining room heavily sitting in a chair. He puts his elbows on the table and puts his head in his hands. When he's sure everyone is in the room he speaks. "What was the meeting about yesterday?" He looks up at everyone. "Was it about him?"
"Yes." Madara says sitting across from him.
"How long have you all known?"
"Only a couple days."
"Where is he?"
"We don't know. We decided last night how we would look for him. You are to watch over Naruto because we seem to think he wants something to do with him, as proved just now." Sasuke stares into Madara's eyes. He's a little disappointed that he wasn't going to help look for Orochimaru, but he's glad that he's told to watch over Naruto. Now he has a reason to stay with him. "But you cannot tell Naruto about this."
Sasuke furrows his brows. "And why is that?"
"Because he doesn't need to be worried about this."
"He should at least know that some maniac is trying to get him to do who knows what to him. He doesn't know to keep an eye out."
"That's why you are there."
"This is stupid, he needs to-"
"Sasuke." Itachi puts a hand on his brothers shoulder. Sasuke glares back to him and Itachi shakes his head. Sasuke scoffs and leans back.
"Then tell me how you are planning on catching him. We can't catch him by trail. He doesn't leave one. He is hard to keep a grasp on. He can get out of the stickiest situations without even trying. He makes drugs that hurt and weaken us. And he never stays somewhere for long if he knows he has been found out."
"We have a plan."
"Then tell me the stupid plan."
"No."
"Dammit Madara!" Sasuke shoots to his feet slamming a fist into the table glaring into Madara's amused and clam eyes. Sasuke glares at him for a little while then leaves in a pissed off mood.
"He always was easy to piss off." Deidara says with a laugh.
Itachi sighs watching his brother leave. "Must you always upset him? Now we need another new table." Itachi walks to the kitchen grabbing some blood and a wash cloth with some water then following Sasuke. When he reaches the hall where Sasuke's room is at he stops. Sasuke is sitting outside the door to his room. Itachi sighs and walks over to him throwing the blood packet onto his lap. Sasuke grumbles at it. "Drink it, it will make it so you can retract them." Sasuke sighs and brings it to his mouth. Once it's gone he throws it back to Itachi who catches it and his fangs go back to normal along with his eyes. "You know he does this to get a rise out of you."
"I know he does."
"I also know that you want to know everything about it to make Naruto as safe as possible, but by not telling you everything is helping to protect you and Naruto."
"How is keeping us in the dark helping us at all?"
"If Orochimaru catches either of you then he could use a drug to make you tell him all that you know. Even if you don't think Madara cares about you, he does. Just believe me." Itachi puts a hand on his shoulder. "Now go check on Naruto." He drops the water and wash cloth on Sasuke's lap. "He might need these." Itachi turns and goes back down the hall.
Sasuke stands up and walks into his room. Naruto is breathing heavy. He frowns walking over to him feeling his forehead. He's burning up. He is normally hot to Sasuke since he's constantly cold, but this isn't normal. He wets the towel and rests it on his forehead. Sasuke then grabs a piece of cloth and wet it to clean his neck where he bit him. Once it's clean he opens the drawer and grabs that cream and puts some on him. Now all he has to do is wait.
Quick pictures of the accident pop into his head. Their faces bloodied. Car completely totaled. His mother impaled through the forehead and a wooden piercing through her heart. Her eyes dead but wide open. The bone in her arm extruding from her skin. Her legs snapped in half. His father has very little life in him as he slowly bleeds out and no one is helping them. His arms completely broken. Legs crushed by the car. The whole car is practically flat. His eyes slowly filling with tears as he looks at his dead wife in the seat next to him. His eyes move up to see his only son. He's being dragged away by Jiraiya. Screaming and punching him, telling him to let him go. Screaming for his parents. Pedestrians giving the boy their sympathetic looks. The boy is going to be an orphan now. Minato's tears roll down his cheeks as he watches his son slowly turn into nothingness until all he sees is black. Naruto remembers the tears. He remembers watching the life drain from his father's eyes. He couldn't do anything. He had run to the wreck when Jiraiya had told him. Jiraiya tried to stop him, but he couldn't catch him as Naruto slipped from the house. Now he wishes he would have listened to Jiraiya and stayed home.
His breathing quickens. He is starting to get worked up again. The memories of that day haunt him almost daily. He grabs something and tries to calm himself. He's attempting to wake himself up. He needs to wake up. To open his eyes and just talk. Get his mind off of it before he has a panic attack. That's when he feels a cold hand on his arm. He can faintly hear his name being called but he can't open his eyes.
Sasuke grabs his arms tightly and looks at him worriedly. Naruto had started to freak out for some reason. He's trying to wake him up, but it isn't working. He doesn't want to do this, but there is no other options. Sasuke goes to do something, but Naruto jolts up with tears in his eyes and he is shaking. His breathing is still rigid and uneasy. Naruto clutches the bed sheets in a panic. Completely unaware of his surroundings.
"Naruto, what happened?" As long as Sasuke has been alive, which is a very long time, he had never seen this happen before. He stops and looks him over. He is shaking terribly. What had he dreamt about? Dreams can't be that terrifying can they?
"I ... I was ... right there. Like it just happened. I ... I haven't ... it hasn't ever been that bad. I could see every ... little detail. It ... I ..." Naruto closes his eyes and drops is head shaking it back and forth. "I'm sorry. I didn't know this would happen."
Sasuke puts his hand on Naruto's making the blond look to him. Sasuke doesn't know how to comfort him, but he doesn't want to see him suffer either. This must have been from the drug in his system. Sasuke stares into watery blue eyes. "Don't apologize, Naruto." Naruto turns his hand over and squeezes Sasuke's. Sasuke slowly takes a seat next to him. He isn't good at comforting people, but he wants to show Naruto that he can come to him if he needs somebody.
Naruto's breathing slows back to normal after a few moments. He looks down to their hands and he gets a funny feeling in his stomach. He slowly turns and puts his legs over the edge of the bed. He looks to the wall then to the door then finally the window. It's getting dark out already. His eyes widen at the realization. "How long have I been asleep?"
"Since lunch."
"Wha-" Naruto shoots his eyes to Sasuke. "What exactly happened? Did you take me out of school?"
"Yes I took you out of school. If I hadn't then you would have been in a lot of trouble." Naruto arches a brow. "Someone put a drug into your food to get you into trouble. Is there anyone that you think would do that?"
Naruto frowns thinking about it then shakes his head. He may not be friends with everybody, but he doesn't particularly have any enemies either. "No. I can't think of anyone."
Sasuke sighs standing up. He doesn't even know if he knows Orochimaru. He could be watching Naruto from the shadows, and he can't just ask him if he knows him. Sasuke paces around the room.
"Sasuke," The ebony haired individual stops and turns to Naruto. "when you helped me ... did you get hurt?"
Sasuke stares at him for a little while. "No."
Naruto drops his gaze knowing that Sasuke was in pain from the drug he took from him. Sasuke just doesn't want to admit it. Naruto purses his lips and glances back to the raven. "Thank you for helping me again. I swear I don't usually attract this much trouble."
Sasuke looks away from him to the window. "I should probably bring you home now." Naruto nods standing up. Sasuke opens the door and Naruto follows him to the car. Naruto rubs his hands together, his one hand is still tingling from Sasuke's touch. He looks out the window as they ride to his house, lost in thought. He doesn't know how everyone is going to react to him missing practice and the rest of the school day. Sasuke pulls into his driveway and looks to Naruto. Naruto opens the door and steps out. He's about to close the door but Sasuke says something.
"Naruto."
Naruto looks to him. "Yeah?"
"... be careful."
Naruto smiles at him with his biggest smile. He knew he cared. "I will." He closes the door and goes inside. Kurama comes running to him and Naruto drops to his knees and catches his dog as he reaches him, burying his face into his fur. Kurama slowly wags his tail and nudges him with his nose. "Something is going on Kurama, and I don't know what's happening." Naruto hugs him a little tighter and whispers. "Kurama ... I'm scared."
