Chapter 10
It's like I'm on fire now! I was so excited after posting a chapter yesterday after so long time not hearing from me. But not completely satisfied 'cause it was so damned short…so I thought, write one more and make it even longer! Weeeee :D
Disclaimer: I stole Naruto last night. So he belongs to me now! (I was asleep, but it still counts! Right?)
Warnings: Boy do I have a few surprises for you this chapter! (evil laughter) anyway, I still swear like a sailor, though I can't imagine you'd be surprised if followed the story this long ;)
Thursday
-All knowing POV-
When the sun rose that Thursday morning over Konoha-gakure everything seemed completely normal. The villagers went on with what they usually did every other morning. Some of them baked bread, others did the laundry, and children went to school with high sighs of despair and so on, just normal stuff. But there was one thing that was nowhere near normal.
For the first time in many ears the Uchiha mansion had hosted more than one soul for the night. Two boys to be precise. On a normal day these two boys were so-called arch enemies, but after a night of quarrel perhaps this morning wasn't so normal for these two after all.
Inside the room Uchiha Sasuke usually used for his bedroom, he and Uzumaki Naruto rested peacefully in each other's arms. Sasuke's cheek was slightly bruised as he leaned it against Naruto's head, which was lying on his shoulder, their legs intertwined, and Naruto's arm held the other teen protectively.
This was not at all normal, but with them looking this blissful together you'd almost think it was.
But every beautiful moment have their ends.
This one ended when Sasuke awoke.
-Sasuke POV-
Sasuke felt his eyelids flutter as he returned to consciousness. As soon as he started waking up, he felt the pain from his bruises, and was painfully (literally) reminded of last night's events. When he attempted to sit up he felt something unusual weighing him down. He had never slept in the arms of another person before and did therefore not immediately realize what was going on.
When he finally opened his eyes, he shot them again, rubbed them hard with the back of his hand, and then looked again to make sure he was seeing right. But the sight didn't go away. Naruto was still leaning against his shoulder in a very too-friendly manner, and for a moment Sasuke felt an urge to make sure his pants were still on, but realized how ridicules a notion that was.
Still lying there he tried to recall last night. He remembered the beating very well, but after that his mind went kind of blank. But with Naruto snugging into his shirt like this, there had to be something missing from his memory disc.
He decided not to push his luck, and sneak out. 'Cause there was the possibility that this was not intentional and the he would be blamed if Naruto awoke after him in this position. So he gracefully slipped out of Naruto's arms after untangling their legs. He got up slowly, not wanting to provoke his sore body, though he thought he remembered to be in a worse state last night, but who was he to complain.
As he reached his full height he looked at Naruto one more time. An urge made him cover the other teen with a blanket and Naruto sighed in content. Sasuke couldn't put his finger on it, but something inside him seemed to soften for a moment, before it hardened even more. He shook his head, there was no way he could think of the Dobe like that, and the chances vanished even further when he looked at his own body in front of him.
He turned his back on Naruto and left the premises to find some breakfast.
-Naruto POV-
Naruto turned over in his sleep and one of his hands hit the floor and the impact shook woke him up immediately. He bit his bottom lip and hissed from the pain as he examined the bruised knuckles. Usually these kind of wounds wouldn't be there after a good night sleep, but seeing as the hand in front of him wasn't even his it was safe to say that nothing was as it used to be anyway.
Speaking of which he thought and looked around for Sasuke to find the room empty. He felt his bottom lip shiver for a moment before getting a grip on his emotions. What ya think would happen you idiot. He thought as he removed the cover over him and got up. But he couldn't get Sasuke's words from last night out of his head.
"I want you, in your own body"
As he remembered the exact words goose-bumps appeared on his arms as if he was cold and he pulled on his jacket to hide it. Oh how he wish he knew what Sasuke had meant. He sighed and walked into the hallway.
I can't believe I'm doing this again, but maybe I'll find that damned kitchen today! He thought trying to figure out which direction to go.
-Sasuke POV-
Sasuke wanted to destroy something.
He didn't care if it was a plate, a trashcan or best of all a bowl of ramen! He was SICK and TIRED of eating that shit both morning and evening, and it had only been about three days since the switch. His body craved a release of some of this frustration, and fetching a bat to hammer down the Ichiraku-stand sounded pretty good right now.
He sighed deeply and leaned back on the park bench he was currently positioned at.
So here he was, sitting on a bench, wishing everything would go back to normal. To the times where he asked the dobe out for a bowl of ramen, where he actually didn't have to eat one!
He leaned his head back and sighed again. But this time the sigh had a small longing added with the frustration. How he would cherish it if he could do just that, take Naruto out and treat him some of that bloody ramen, 'cause he knew how much the blond boy liked it, even though he didn't get it. But to see that big grin on his face…Wait? What?
The puzzled look on his face from that strange train of thought must have alerted Kiba as he approached the bench and he barked out:
"Well who peed in your ramen bowl this morning?" Sasuke groaned when he heard Kiba's voice. No, not more RAMEN!
"Shut the fuck up dog boy" He realized his mistake just as he made it. He jerked his head up and stared at Kiba, who looked stunned. Naruto never called Kiba dog boy, but Sasuke always did.
-Naruto POV-
Naruto moved around the mansion from room to room searing for that bloody kitchen but it was really nowhere in sight. He thought it would make the most sense if it were to be situated at the bottom floor, but he was so sure he had already checked all of them.
But on his way through the many rooms, he couldn't help but wonder what it had been like to live here when the Uchiha clan had still been alive. Judging from the beautifully painted walls in most of the rooms, his guess was obvious. But the glory days for this place was long gone, since the walls were all covered in dust and spider-webs.
Most of the rooms weren't furnished, but some of them contained large closets or bookshelves. One cupboard in particular caught his eye on his passing through, and he stopped to examine it. Like everything else in this house, except Sasuke's room it was heavily dusted and had suffered from years being unnoticed. But something about it oozed family, a feeling unfamiliar to the young boy, have been raised mostly by his teacher.
He reached out his pale fingers and graced the frame to remove some of the dust. It had the Uchiha symbol engraved in the material. Of course Naruto snorted and rolled his eyes.
He opened the door to reveal the inside, expecting to find empty shelves and more dust, but there was no dust inside, but an awful lot of notebooks. Naruto tilted his head to the right in a questioning manner.
That was odd, how come the inside have been spared from dusting? Then again, I didn't examine any of the other closets so maybe they all look like this inside? He mused, reaching out for one of the many notebooks. Being a blonde he didn't even consider the possibility that someone on regular basis had cleaned it to hide his things in it…
He opened one of the journals still sure that he had come up with the right solution. That is, until he read a couple of lines in the journal, before he screamed like a little girl and dropped the notebook.
This is Sasuke's diary He gaped looking at the journal in front of his feet, before turning is gaze to the rest of the many notebooks. Make that plural!
-Sasuke POV-
"Dog boy? Jeez you've spend too much time with duck-hair, haven't ya?" Kiba grinned and sat down on the bench.
Sasuke let out a mental breath.
"Yeah, I guess. Sorry about that, you caught me on a bad day" Sasuke forced out the apology. But it seemed very Naruto-ish to do.
"Hehe don't think about it" Kiba said. "Anyway, I've been looking for you! I wanted to tell you about my new plan on how to make Hyuuga Hinata notice me! I thought that if I went to her house and left her a flower and…" As Kiba explained his glorious plan, Sasuke's mind started to wander 'Dog breath and Hinata? Wow, that's …weird? She is so shy and he is so thickheaded!' Sasuke mused.
"…so what do you think?" Kiba asked looking excited.
"I think you should consider the fact that someone else than her might find the flowers, like her father maybe, and you'd get your ass kicked if it has your name on it. Come to think of it, maybe I should give her flowers with your name on, just for the sport" Sasuke said smirking. Kiba's face turned pale.
"Oh fuck! You wouldn't!" Kiba barked. But when Sasuke didn't reassure him of anything, Kiba changed tactic: "If you do, I might have to tell everybody you're faking your interest in girls!"
Sasuke jerked his head to look at Kiba and stared at him.
"What?" Kiba mistook Sasukes surprise as one of you-wouldn't-dare-to-reveal-something-that-secret-surprise instead of the real what-the-hell-is-he-talking-about-surprise Sasuke was experiencing right now.
"Oh so that shut you up, huh? I bet you are regretting ever telling me that dirty little secret of yours Naruto, because I can always count on it to shut you up!" Kiba grinned. Sasukes mouth fell. He isn't JOKING!? Sasuke didn't know what to do. He was stunned beyond surprise. Is Naruto gay?
"But Sakura?" He said weakly, trying to make sense of it.
"Okay, you're bi-sexual preferring males." Kiba said dejectedly "Especially dark haired, onyx eyed wonders like the Uchiha, quoted directly from you Uzumaki." Kiba shuttered at the thought and Sasuke felt a mix of feelings, everything from horror and all the way across the scale ending with a weird flattered happiness?
But he was torn out of his thoughts when Kiba suddenly yelled: "Akamaru! He is in this stage right now, where he has to smell everything" Kiba said shaking his head in wonder. "That's why he is taking his time around the bushes today. Where are you boy?" He called out the last part.
That particular information worked like a kunai to the gut for Sasuke, and he started to grow nervous and fidget uncomfortably. I know I'm in Naruto's body, wearing his clothes and live in his apartment, but Akamaru has a dangerous nose, and as far as I know, he can smell chakra. And last I checked I was not on such friendly terms with Akamaru. Sasuke thought, distinctively remembering kicking the dog on more than one occasion.
Akamaru came when his master called and jumped into his lab. He checked Kiba's hand for a treat for his good behavior and then switched his focus to Sasuke. A low rumble emerged from his throat and he barked with his puppy-bark and turned hostile. As Kiba looked at Akamaru to check what was wrong, Sasuke got up from the bench and thought: Okay, time to go!
-Kiba POV-
"Hey Naruto, where are you going?" Kiba shouted.
"I just remembered something I have to do, see you later" Sasuke yelled over his shoulder running fast out of sight.
Kiba raised an eyebrow and looked at Akamaru again. Something was defiantly not right.
"What is it Akamaru?" The dog barked.
"What do you mean his chakra didn't smell like Naruto's? What kind of insane notion is that?" Akamaru barked his response. Kiba's eyes widened.
"Maybe we should go see the hokage"
(A:N) R&R please!