Hello everyone,
took kinda long, sorry, but University is keeping me busy.
But now you get a chapter a bit early for christmas.
Disclaimer: I own anything from neither Naruto nor DGM.
Later that night Sasuke is abruptly woken up by the noise of someone moving through his house. He thinks of a thief and hurriedly grabs a kunai laying on his bedside table. He moves out of his room and down the stairs as soundlessly as possible, following the noises coming from what he determined is the kitchen. Why would a thief go to the kitchen? Wouldn't he rather head for the study with the Justus and all?
As he approaches the door he sees a person kneeling in front of his fridge searching in it. It gets really weird now. He is about to attack when he discovers the white shock of hair and a familiar face. It's Allen! What the hell is he doing in the middle of the night (4:23) at his fridge?
"Oi, you, Allen! What are you doing?"
The boy shoots around, shocked and also embarrassed. "I-I am sorry, but you see… I was really hungry and, well, only wanted to get a snack. And it's because of my weapon and…"
But the raven simply cuts off his hasty words with a groan and a dismissive wave of his hand. "It's okay, just don't do it again. I nearly attacked you because I thought you were a thief."
Before the other can answer with more than another "I'm so sorry" another voice sounds from the stairs.
"Oi, what are you doing, moyashi? Shouldn't you be sleeping and not raiding other people's fridges?"
Apparently Sasuke wasn't the only one who woke up. Kanda is a pretty light sleeper as well and noticed his companion's movements.
"Great, now everyone is awake," Sasuke mutters. But when he sees Allen opening his mouth to retort to Kanda he immediately cuts in. "No, no fight now. Go back to your rooms now, both, and sleep and most of all: fucking let me sleep!"
With that the Uchiha stomps off again, the exorcists following, Allen munching on something he found.
In the end Sasuke got not a lot of the much needed sleep in this night.
He wakes up the next morning pretty late for his usual routine. When he opens his eyes he groans as memories from the past day come back to his mind. He sits up and notices that the exorcists are most likely already awake. He can hear the clattering of pans and a smell of different kind of foods from the kitchen downstairs. Just how much are they actually making? The Uchiha grabs his clothes, throwing them on and heads downstairs after a short visit to the bathroom (his personal one).
When he steps in the door he is presented with quite a peculiar sight. Since he moved without a sound the exorcists haven't noticed him yet. Allen is surrounded by different pans doing everything from curry rice to waffles. Kanda is to the side, warming up some soba he apparently found in Sasuke's fridge. 'Yuck, is he actually eating that for breakfast?' the Uchiha thinks. He has nothing against soba and eats it himself on occasion but for lunch or dinner, not breakfast. He decides to simply watch the scene unfold. He sees as Allen has trouble turning some pancakes. Surprisingly Kanda moves over with a grumble (well he got hit by a flying half-baked pancake before), standing behind his colleague and guides his hands. The white haired boy appears to be slightly flustered at that. Though whether it is because of embarrassment due to his failure with the food earlier or because the long-haired male is so close to him, Sasuke can't tell. Some minutes later Allen hits his hand on one of the handles which results in him tripping. Surprised the Uchiha watches Kanda catch him (hold his shoulder to stop Allen from hitting the floor). With a string of curses he shoves the boy upright again.
"Oi, stand on your own, baka moyashi! Not even being able to walk properly alone anymore?"
That of course results in another one of their fights leaving Sasuke smirking in the doorway. Only when the white haired exorcists nearly trips over a full pot in agitation, he decides to interrupt.
"That's enough you two! Stop fighting, will you?" he is still smirking.
The two exorcists shoot around surprised, Kanda even drawing his sword. They relax as they see who it is.
"Sasuke! How long have you been standing there?" Allen asks slightly embarrassed.
"Long enough," his smirk growing wider, "to see that you two care about each other, more than you normally show…"
Allen blushes hard and even Kanda's cheeks are tinged slightly red. "That's not true! He's an idiot!" they shout in unison pointing at the other.
Sasuke only smirks again and walks over to the table which is already set up. He peers at the food curiously. "So what's for breakfast?"
He slightly blanches though when Allen starts to count down several dishes. It is enough to feed a small army! Who is supposed to eat all that? When he asks that the white head only laughs sheepishly and Kanda snorts and rolls his eyes, sitting at the table with his soba, causing Allen to pout. The younger raven choses his own breakfast from the load the other made. Though the bites fall of his chopsticks when he sees the white head dig into the food and eat it all, all he made, in some minutes. Kanda doesn't seem fazed by it in the slightest so apparently it's quite normal. Sasuke is still shocked and has to literally force his food down. When they start to clean up (another fight between the exorcists and the ninja finally getting seriously annoyed with them) they suddenly hear a loud knocking at the front door. When the Uchiha answers it he is nearly overrun by an exited blonde.
"Teme? Where are you? It's 8:50! We have to get to the training grounds!"
"Yes, yes, we're coming," Sasuke groans and pushes the blonde off of him slightly uneasy. "Allen, Kanda! It's time to meet with the others!" he shouts back into the mansion.
His answer is a "In a minute," from Allen, followed by some grumbling and a "Come on, Kanda, stop complaining."
And then they see a smiling white head, dragging a frowning samurai behind him into the hallway.
"Good morning Naruto," he greets smiling.
"Morning," the blonde happily exclaims.
"Sorry for interrupting your happy reunion, but we really have to get going now or we will be seriously late," Sasuke reminds the others, putting on his forehead protector.
Every time he does that a warm feeling rises in Naruto's chest at the thought that the Uchiha is finally back in Konoha again. Back in his live again. He is happy to spend as much time as he can with the raven.
Now the boy he has always been watching shoos the two exorcists and the blonde himself out of his house. Naruto smiles in a soft way at the raven's back who is walking ahead with the equally silent Kanda next to him. Allen notices his gaze, looking back and forth between the two of them. Finally coming to a conclusion he grins. The blonde though oversees that, too focused on watching the Uchiha.
When they arrive at the training grounds as predicted the rest of the group is already there. Shikamaru is leaning against a tree yawning. Lavi is bouncing excitedly with Neji simply plugging his ears shut next to him.
After a happy greeting session due to Naruto and Lavi and two fights between the two usual couples only stopped by their respective friends they are now ready for their first lesson. The exorcists are sitting on the ground in front of the ninjas.
"So okay, we decided to start with history. So here is a map of our lands," Neji says as he lays a huge map in front of the four. Lavi is immediately all over it, Allen and Linali following though not as eager while Kanda isn't interested at all.
That's it for today. Thanks for reading.
Hope you liked it nonetheless.
I am afraid the next chapter will be a bit out of genre, sorry. I also don't know when it will come out.
Reviews are always appreciated.
