Author's Note: i know this chapter is short but don't worry. we're just about to get into the good stuff. 8D mwahahahaha. thanks to all of my reviewersss again.
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Nothing, nothing from Sasuke, not a word in a week and a half.
"Is it too much to ask for a little bit of closure?" Naruto wondered aloud as he lit a spliff, sitting the plastic lawn chair on his cube of a balcony. He had just returned home from work and needed to relax, but found himself having trouble with sitting down at all.
"Who are you? Why are you always on my mind?"
He shook his head, letting the smoke fill his lungs as the tension in his shoulders loosened.
"I don't know," came a voice from somewhere behind him, raising the hairs on the back of his neck and making his azure eyes grow wide.
"Sasuke?"
Before he could even turn around he felt two, strangely cold arms encircle his shoulders from behind, lips buried in his warm neck. Naruto let out a harsh sigh.
"Fucking retard, you scared the shit out of me."
Sasuke purred in his ear.
"You smell good," he growled complacently.
"Where have you been?"
"What, I'm not your wife."
"Fuck you."
Sasuke started chuckling. Naruto had never seen him do that. He craned his neck towards the source of the sound, attempting to catch a glimpse of something he thought he might never see again. Sasuke leaned forward playfully.
"What're you looking at, huh?"
Naruto turned red as Sasuke leaned inwards to kiss him, pecking him gently on the side of the mouth. Naruto saw him smiling. It made him feel warm.
"Why are you in such a good mood?" Naruto asked.
"Just because, Dobe."
Naruto felt him reach down to grasp the hem of his shirt. It rose up, Sasuke's pale fingers tickling the golden-colored fuzz on his abdomen. Naruto let a small, surprised gasp escape from his lips, hungry for more. But Sasuke wasn't interested in eating right now. There was something he needed to find out.
He grabbed Naruto roughly by the shoulders, flinging the chair backwards and leaving Naruto sprawled out on the ground, moaning groggily. He lunged forwards and yanked up his shirt.
"You do have it!"
"What the fuck, cunt!" Naruto yelled wildly, kicking his legs and trying to stand up like a turtle caught with his soft belly exposed to a predator.
"You have a nine-tailed demon fox sealed inside you!"
"What the fuck are you talking about??"
"Your tattoo!"
"Oh, that? I don't know what that is..."
"Well I do!!" Sasuke was practically on top of Naruto now, giddy with excitement. Naruto was simply dazed, looking up at his incredibly "out of character" Sasuke and trying to put two and two together. So, say that he /was/ a carrier for a nine-tailed fox demon. What did that mean? Why was Sasuke so happy about it?
"Explain, teme."
Sasuke helped Naruto up and stole a camel that had been flung from Naruto's fingers at the time of impact and took a puff. It was still burning.
"Is there weed in this?"
"Yes, you're ignoring the question, Sasuke-teme."
"Oh. Well it goes like this. Basically, you've been alive for 1,000 years and your soul keeps being transported into different hosts. So you're being reincarnated again and again. I used to have a cat. I called him Dobe, because he was a retard, but that's besides the point. The tattoo on your stomach is actually a seal - I have one too." At this point in the story Sasuke pulled down the collar of his black t-shirt and turned around. Naruto noticed three, spiralling black dots placed in a neat little triangle on his neck. "That's the thing that allows me to keep a human appearance on earth. I have four tails, but I can add or lose them, depending on the circumstances. Mine is kind of small. but Naruto, yours is fucking massive in comparison. That thing inside you is huge! Has there ever been anything in your life that you can't possibly explain?"
"Try everything..." Naruto groaned, taking the spliff from Sasuke as he passed it to him.
"Name one, dobe."
"Well, both my parents are dead, and I lived in an orphanage for a big part of my life. No one would take me, Sasuke. There was something wrong with me, something preventing me from getting adopted out. They would take one look at me as if they knew..."
"What if they did?"
"But knew what?"
"I told you, there's a giant nine-tailed fox demon harbored in your insides."
"But how would they have known, Sasuke? Who would have told them?"
The question was asked too late. Naruto had answered it in his own head. Baa-chan. Baa-chan would have known.
"Was there someone, anyone, that you think suspected anything about you?" Sasuke inquired, smirking as he saw the apparent realization sneak up behind Naruto and bite him in the ass.
"Yes. The owner of the orphanage. She was also a doctor, and a damn good one too. She started doing tests on me when I was younger. She noticed that I healed abnormally fast."
"And why do you think that happens to you? Where are the cuts I gave you last week?"
"Gone."
There was a long silence as Naruto passed the joint back to Sasuke. The raven spoke first.
"Anything else weird?"
"The cat collar..." Realization dawned on Naruto yet again. "Wait, were you saying something about a cat before? Why did you pick up my cat collar that day? Sasuke..."
"Naruto, you were my fucking cat. That's why I didn't kill you. I didn't know it then either, but when I was alive, I fucking loved that cat. Kiba told me that sometimes the spell messes up...That it's possible you can get put into animal bodies instead of human bodies."
"Fuck. We have to go see Baa-chan."
"Baa-chan, dobe? Who is Baa-chan?"
"The headmistress in my orphanage, stupid. I already told you about her."
"Fuck you."
"Don't even think about flying away on me, Sasuke. You're coming."
"Ugh..."
"And who is Kiba? His name sounds familiar."
"I'll explain later, dobe. Later."
