"Why would I do what?"


All Hearts
Part 8


The angel had deflated himself from spiked up hair to wet flattened hair and tight clothes to loose indoor sweats. Emerging from his bathroom, Sasuke was still rubbing his head with a towel, trying to dry away the drops of water that just kept sliding down strands of his hair.
His stoic face was somewhat confused looking but irritated at the same time, finding the tone of Naruto's words slightly offensive.
It was clearly a negative question that Sasuke had twitched to and had a feeling he wasn't going to like it, not that he ever liked any comments that were raised, concerning him.

"What are you afraid of?"

Those black coal eyes widened as all the blood circulating within his body froze in that instance. It was something he had never expected to be asked.

...well that was some reaction I got there,Naruto thought raising his eyebrows right up, as high as it would go from the sight of someone looking as shocked and... frightened.

Sasuke knew this wasn't an ordinary question and he knew exactly what Naruto had meant by those words.
It was those azure sincere eyes that penetrated right through his heart, as if Naruto really was an angel who could read his heart like an open book.
Or more the fact that it was something Sasuke feared of getting someone to find out or ask of it...


"Brother...? What are you doing?"

Within the shadows of the room, Itachi was sitting on his bed without the lights turned on. The air was still and the atmosphere was sending the younger Uchiha queer, uneasy feeling, even though this was his beloved brother right in the centre of his vision.

What went wrong to make him feel this way?
Was it perhaps the lighting?
Or was it the slightly disturbing moonlight that sliced a piece of the room?
Or was it because Itachi didn't turn around immediately turn around towards his dear little brother and give the warmest smile he always did, filled with love... but instead... Slowly turning towards him with blood red eyes and a smirk that didn't show a trace of vice.
He winced at those unnatural color contacts which he despised.
It seemed like his older brother was possessed by something...
Something bad...

"Sasuke... come here..."

Sasuke...

Those smirking lips formed to say his name over and over again...

Sasuke...

Sasuke...


"...Sasuke!"

"WOULD YOU RESPOND FOR F-CKIN SAKES, YER DICK!"

Hearing words that never came out from Itachi's mouth, Sasuke snapped back to reality physically and mentally.
Immediately Sasuke clutched the side of his head and clenched his jaw as he waited for the pain to subside.

Naruto had hit him hard with a fist that was still raised at the ending point, moving up and down in rhythm with Naruto's hard breathing.
Sasuke came back to reality a second too late to avoid the blow and the skull was screaming pain, although it was as though his almost physical memory just flew out of the ear from the other side.
He sighed and sat down on a stool as he still kept a palm to the part of the head where it was still aching.

"S-sorry... got a bit dazed there..." Sasuke mumbled, downcast.

"A bit!? A bit!? You took a mental trip over to the f-ckin moon! I thought you weren't gonna come back, asshole! We all tend to take trips every now and then, but only as far as the brain, f-ck! Not outside the brain!" Naruto ranted on and Sasuke just had to look up with a raised brow.

"I was out of it, but I was still here, Naruto," Sasuke disagreed.

"No you weren't! I called out to you, I poked you, I shook you, I tried to leave you, I threatened you, I whispered to you, I pecked you but you still didn't come back!" Naruto hysterically waved his arms around and explained.

"...pecked?" Sasuke's eyebrow flew to the hairline.
Naruto put his two middle fingers against a thumb, and made a shape of a fox with a hand.

"I call it the fox peck!" he said proudly with a smile.

So that's why my pain isn't willing to subside any time soon...
Sasuke's head lolled down in defeat as he sighed deeply.

"You took so long to come back that I can't even remember what we were talking about, f-ck!"
Sasuke looked up at this, and saw Naruto had swung his arms over and put his hands behind his head while lazily looking away, obviously remembering it well enough not to forget, but a look of defeat and giving up on the subject after sensing something too deep to be stepping into.

"Anyway! Can I have more of those magic noodles that I f-ckin love to bits!?" Naruto cried as he turned to face Sasuke full on, closing up on him with eyes so anticipated with excitement that Sasuke could swear that he saw heart-shaped marks popping out of them, expressing how much he was loving this thing. Although Sasuke couldn't help noticing the huge difference between the sparkling eyes and the choice of words that were coming out from Naruto's mouth.

Nevertheless, there goes Naruto again, changing the air of mood with a click of his fingers.
To Sasuke, he thought that Naruto was much more magical than a cup of 3 minute instant ramen noodles.

"Yea, sure..." muttering, Sasuke played a small smirk with half-mast eyes that showed evident relief and relaxation, "have as much as you want."

Naruto was able to sense people's emotions well and he knew the boundaries of where to step on and not to step on.
The landmine of Sasuke's that Naruto had stood on was now inputted into his brain and knew not to approach that area anymore.
Not unless Sasuke was willing to let Naruto enter his danger zone anyway.

The room filled up with the smell of ramen noodles and the room was suddenly filled with life unlike the usual cold, dark and loneliness that Sasuke had created.

He hadn't felt 'at home' in so many years, that he couldn't believe that he actually preferred this than being alone, changing his mind 180 degrees from all these years, now that he met this angel that was sent to this poor dark raven perhaps out of pity.

But what Sasuke didn't know, was that even angels can taint and cause deepest darkest tragedy, or have darkness looming just around the corner waiting for the two to become close enough to prey upon...


"Sa...suke..."

Croaky voice dampened by the clammy, cold atmosphere.

"Help..."

Sound of a body dragging towards his way.

"Hel..p me... Sasu...ke..."

Blood fingers trying to reach out for him.

"Please...help me..."

Inhumane bloody iris staring hard at him.

...Sasu...k...e...