Bitter Hate Turns Sweet is next to be updated. I am currently writing my own fiction that I will be posting shortly.

Really short, last chapter I wrote for Angels To Fly was started by the original writer and so I changed up my writing to fit her style better. But I'm starting this new chapter on my own so now, you will notice the difference in our writing.

Thanks for reading.

Chapter 10: Persistence is Key

The blue inked pen drew in synchronizing fluidity, decorating the single sheet of loose leaf with intellectual ideas and proclaims based off the essay question he was assigned to answer. He paused briefly in a sequential five minute mark and revised his thoughts as to make sure his words were written in a clear format that is easy to comprehend.

His mind is in full focus, the silence within the class assisting his effort to pass the pre-finale exam.

The class is divided into three sections solely based off intelligence and nothing more. Naruto finds this to be an act of idiocy for the reason that every student that resided within the room would take the same exam, harboring the same standardize questions. Separating the class into groups based on intelligence and teaching each group accordingly is not only biased but also discouraging. It's ensuring that the group with excelling academic ability will pass with a breeze while the academically challenged others that is looked down upon will fail.

Assigned to the average group, Naruto sat in the middle part of the class while his exceptionally brilliant best friend sat pridefully in the front with his head resting on the desk, visible ear buds plugged in his ears. Naruto concluded from this action that Menma had finished his essay in another record breaking time.

His eyes are back on the task at hand when the loud speaker sounds through the class with a message.

"Uzumaki Naruto to the main office please… Uzumaki Naruto to the main office now please, thank you."

Naruto inwardly thanked the heavens, needing a break of the endless essays he's been completing this whole week, and quickly gathered his unfinished assignment into his hand while using his unoccupied left hand to swing his backpack over his shoulder.

"Don't miss me too much Uzumaki." Kiba freely announces with a wide anticipating grin, sat in the back of the room with the rest of the below average students. "I'll make sure our next encounter goes without any interruption."

Naruto rolls his eyes both at the pitiful teacher seated before him and the words that evade his ears like a swarm of bees seeking fresh pollen from a freshly bloomed flower on a Spring's day. "I'll be leaving now Sir." He bows his head in a traditional form of respect and makes his way out of the classroom as fast as his legs can carry him.

It's approximately a three minute give and take walk before Naruto is by the main entrance office and walking inside. He is greeted by the polite secretary that he's seen perhaps only five times throughout his many years in the school. Naruto bows and mutters a small hello. "I was called here."

"Naruto Uzumaki?" The woman asks more vibrantly than necessary, her red coated lips forming a sweet smile.

Naruto justifies her question with a nod and her smile widens incredibly, her plump cheeks creating a set of pillows beneath her soft eyes.

"You have a visitor here to see you. If you'll please follow me." She removes herself out of her seat in a elegant manner, her suit complimenting her skinny frame excellently with her long legs in full view. Naruto follows her as he was instructed to do further into the wide office to where he noticed to be a small waiting room. "I'll leave you now."

"Thank you." Naruto bows in gratitude before he enters the opened entrance into a small column of the office, harboring comfortable chairs and a single man. The back of the man seems familiar but not familiar enough to be recognized. "Hello?" He initiated, hoping that the man will reveal himself at last.

The six foot plus man eagerly turns his body that seems to be mostly composed of muscles to finally face his person of interest. The blonde is petite and stands barely above his abdomen. "Good afternoon." He greets professionally. "Sorry to have disturbed you but I'm here based on my young master wishes."

Naruto immediately remembers the face to belong to one of Sasuke's men from yesterday's encounter. "Um.. You're one of Sasuke's colleague?" The word seemed to best fit his inquiry since he wasn't absolutely sure what role the man played for Sasuke.

The assistant takes the title as it is and answers Naruto with a single nod. He then outstretched his right hand that enveloped a small paper and gives it to the blonde. "Sasuke wanted me to give this to you. It will enlighten you of the reason for my sudden appearance."

Naruto is quick to open the elegantly folded paper and skim through the textual contents. A smile is displayed on his face in absolute admiration of the alluring, artistic use of old fashion cursive in Sasuke's handwriting. The words are aligned in a manner in which his task is given to him straightforwardly with no hidden intentions.

"If you'll like, I can wait for you to finish the remaining fifteen minutes of your final class before we leave." Suigetsu offered when Naruto placed the letter into his uniform pocket.

"No, no, it's not necessary. It'll be fine with me if we leave now. Just give me a second to sign out at the front desk." Naruto states with a warm smile.

"Of course, I'll be waiting by the door." Said the man as he left the office.

The five year old sat comfortably by the edge of his mother's bed. His small feet swung in an unaware rhythm back and forth as his tiny hands shuffled freshly popped corn kennels into his mouth, slight grease around his plump lips. His brown eyes looked at the mess of clothing seemingly turning into a mockery of a hill on the ground created by his frantic mother.

"Okay baby, how about this one?" Kyuubi stands in front of his son, clad in perhaps the twentieth outfit he had tried on since his return home from work.

Jay analyzes his mother crucially and debates the outfit choice carefully in his head. "I like this one mommy."

Kyuubi huffs out a breath and combs his long slender fingers through his pixie styled hair. "Jay, you've said the same thing for everything I've tried on."

"Why are you trying on so many clothes?" Jay questions with his hands thrown up.

"Because baby, a very handsome man asked your mommy out tonight and I have to make sure I look my best. You know, this is important to me." The nervousness oozes out of his words, clearly expressing his vulnerability of someone actually wanting him to the max.

Jay, although young, can see the desperation in his mother's eyes and he thoroughly runs over every outfit his mother had tried on until one stands out. "Mommy, I like the last one better."

Kyuubi turns to face his mother with an eyebrow raised. "Why that one love?"

"Because it looks nice on mommy body." Jay says with a determined smile.

"Yeah, okay. I'll go with that, thanks baby." Kyuubi presses a soft kiss to his son's forehead and smiles when his son giggles. His phone vibrates and he brings the cellular device off the dresser to answer. It's a message from his little brother informing him that he would be doing some studying after school in the library and would return home late.

"Who's that mommy?" Jay sips a good amount of fruit flavored liquid out of his juice box.

"Your uncle is going to be home late so mommy has to reschedule his date."

"Why?"

"Because there's no one to watch you baby." The young mother draws in a long breath before exhaling dramatically out of frustration. He opens his mouth to rant about his unfairness in life and his brother's habit of wrong timing when a sudden voice that does not belong to him speaks.

"My darling is going on a date?" A voice more feminine and an octave higher than Kyuubi's muses.

Kyuubi turns to uncover a tall blonde beauty, with a large box of pizza in hand and a small boy clinging to her side. "Yugi, what are you doing here?" He hoists the small child that ran to him in his arms and smothers his chubby cheeks with endless kisses.

"Well, I was hoping I would bribe you of forgiveness with your favorite vegan pizza," Yugito enters the room, settling the pizza on an unoccupied nightstand before making herself comfortable on the dressed bed. "But it seemed that won't be possible since my Kyuu is going on a date."

"I can't go, I need someone to watch Jay."

"Let him come over to my place, have a slumber party with Kota. It's a Friday night so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Have I told you how much I love you." Kyuubi cooed, nestling his small frame on the woman's lap and nuzzling into the crook of her shoulder much like a cat.

"I know you do, you dramatic freak." She rubs Kyuubi's back soothingly with a smile on her face. "Can you now let me explain what happened between the Uchiha and your brother and afterwards you let me dazzle you up for this date of yours?"

Kyuubi grins, his eyes watching in adoration of the two boys on the ground playing with his IPad. "I'm all ears."

"Come on now, Jason. You can do better than that." Sasuke encourages his security guard excitedly, his shirtless chest glistening with small beads of sweat while black skinny jeans fitted tightly around his small waist. "I believe even I can do ten times better than that."

The honorable and moralistic security guard with his large stature can no longer maintain the harsh grip forcing his numb arm to the table and so with much resistance, let's his frail arm fall limply to the table. The cackle of his young master sounds through the large living room and with no shame, he laughs as well.

"Sorry to disappoint Sasuke, perhaps next time."

Sasuke holds both his sides in his hunch state of tumultuous laughter. "You mean to tell me Jason, the biggest one in my crew is beaten so easily by Tsukasa, the smallest man in my team of guards?"

"Don't base a person's capability solely on their size, Sasuke." Tsukasa, the winner of the short lived arm wrestle spoke in a respectful tone.

Sasuke's laughter seizes and he wipes small tears from beneath his eyes. "You are absolutely right."

Due to his brothers absence and boredom, Sasuke had pitted his body guards in a friendly game of arm wrestling for pure entertainment, his choice of winners already calculated before the match had begun. His predictions had all seemed correct except for the last match that had defied his prediction and proved it to be wrong.

"Alright, Tsukasa, let's see how you stand against me then." Sasuke states in slight humor but serious enough to actually get off the couch and sit opposite of his body guard.

''Perhaps another time Sasuke, your guest awaits you in your room." Suigetsu announces dutifully upon his return.

Sasuke bids him a good afternoon and thanks him of his small errand. He instructs his securities to do as they please before hurriedly leaving them. He absolutely hates to keep people waiting especially important people.

Naruto hastily turns when the door to the strange, expensively modernized large bedroom is swung open revealing a site that springs heat to his cheeks. A canvas of a perfect Greek god's upper body is revealed to him, with beads of sweat glistening in the bedroom light. A small portion of a v-line escapes from the jeans clad lowly around his hips, the bold writing of Calvin Klein in full view.

"Hey there, kitten." Sasuke greets with enthusiasm, shutting the door behind him softly.

Blue eyes reluctantly traveled up to see a smug look on the Uchiha's face as he advanced towards him. The endearing nickname Sasuke greets him with does not faze him, instead it brings a sense of warmness to his being. "Hi, Sasuke."

Sasuke's pale hand caresses Naruto's cheek softly, his thumb rubbing small circles over the permanent whisker marks. "I know it was very sudden for me to bring you here but I thought we needed to catch up on things now that I know where my kitty had been hiding from me all these years." Sasuke retracts his hand suddenly and walks over to his closet to acquire a shirt.

"In your letter, you told me not to ask any questions and simply follow your assistant's instructions." Naruto is still passive, his right hand grasping the latch of his book bag tightly. "It was over an hour drive, making what you asked of me nearly impossible to do yet somehow I placed all my trust in a man I didn't know because you asked me to."

Sasuke chuckles lightly, buttoning halfway up the black and blue flannel he had chose out of many others. "I'm sorry if I caused you to feel any sort of uneasiness kitten, but why did you not refuse my offer then?"

"Because I knew exactly what would've happened if I did." Naruto unconsciously brought a hand to his cheek, fingers tracing each carved whisker marring his skin. "You've displayed many traits to me that you haven't grown out of. This made me wonder how many others are yet to be broken."

The Uchiha stayed quiet before he instructed Naruto to place his bag in the vacant leather arm chair by the door and come to him. "I heard about your parents. I'm sorry." He enveloped Naruto into a quick embrace before pulling up and seating them both on the bed. "I assume that's why you left Konoha?"

"Yeah, Kyuubi and I had to stay with our aunt for awhile until we were able to move out into a place of our own." Naruto's eyes watch the door as if someone would walk through at any moment. "Where is this place?" He questions out of curiosity.

"My current humble abode until my house is finished with construction which will be in about a week." His eyes are full of admiration when Naruto rubs his eyes for a reason unknown to him, resembling his nickname for him marvelously.

"Are you staying here alone?"

Sasuke ponders on the answer. "No, I'm here with my brothers. Itachi decided to visit the bar and Kagami decided to accompany him to keep a watchful eye on him." He explains, a smile tugging on his lips.

"Why, isn't Itachi grown enough to drink without his brother by his side?" Naruto turns to face Sasuke since the five minute they've spent conversing,

"Itachi tends to become very unstable when he's drunk." He frowns at this. "I have a business to run here and I need all the positive press I can get."

"You're the one obtaining your father's legacy in Suna?" Naruto asks with widened eyes.

"You sound very displeased." The sadness in Sasuke's tone is enough to make Naruto mindlessly bring the Uchiha into his body for a warm hug.

"No, no. I didn't mean it like that. It just caught me by surprise, is all." Naruto assures eagerly. "I'm glad it's you, congratulations Sasuke."

Sasuke's smug nature is heightened, slowly converting into something that is teasing. "My kitty, you'll never escape from me again." He presses Naruto deeper into his body, body heat being exchanged and shared among the two. "You're happy I found you, aren't you kitten?"

The question bears only one answer that Naruto whether pleased with it or not still have to answer. "Yes, Sasuke." With slight difficult, Naruto maneuvers his frame from Sasuke's tight hold and looks at the nearly whimpering Uchiha with a big smile. "I'm hungry."

Sasuke is playful enough to jerk the petite blonde to his chest and effortless pin the smaller male beneath him on the large queen size bed. "What are you hungry for?" Sasuke asks, his voice reaching a deeper octave than usual.

"Not what you're thinking of, lover boy." Naruto laughs lightly, thankful that Sasuke had not changed at all. "I missed you so much."

"I know kitten. I missed you too." Sasuke lowers his lips to leave a lingering kiss to Naruto's forehead. "Come on," Sasuke shamelessly slaps Naruto's thighs as he removed his weight of him. "I'll order us some room service."

"What time is it?" Nervousness had engulfed his whole being as he frantically maneuvered to and from the mirror to his closet.

"Almost six pm." Yugito is seated on the bed, legs crossed Indian style, with a half eaten slice of pizza on her lap. "Will you calm down already,"

"No, he's almost here and I look terrible. Maybe I shouldn't go. What if he thinks I'm boring as well, like every other person I've dated. Yugi, what if he's only interested in.."

The blonde is quick to grasp her blabbering mess of a friend by the shoulders and shake him vigorously. "Hey, calm down. Not every man is like that Uchiha bastard and the loser rotting in jail."

Kyuubi seems uneasy but then his mind goes into a calm state and his body relaxes.

"You look absolutely stunning and this man was not a fool to ask you on a date. He saw the beautiful, smart, enthusiastic man before him and knew he had to have him so be yourself and let him fall in love with you."

The doorbell enters the room like a thieve in the middle of the night, igniting two set of screams. One full of excitement and one full of horror.

"He's here, he's here."

"I think I'm going to be sick."

"No, it's just you're nerves. Come on let's go." Yugi literally shoved his paralyzed better half out of the room, down the hall, into the living room. She quickly makes her way to the door and open it to find a dapper tall, handsome man with a strong built frame, extremely dark eyes and hair gelled back. "Hello." She greets him more cheerfully than ordinary. "You must be Shisui."

"Good evening, it's my pleasure to meet you." Shisui speaks in a trained elegant manner and lowers his head to press a gentle kiss to the back of beautiful woman before him soft hand.

Yugi notices that he resembles and acts like a fairy tale prince and she is assured her friend will be in good hands. "Kyuubi, it's not good to keep a man waiting, a handsome one at that." Yugito winks innocently.

Shisui cheeks are coated a soft pink when Kyuubi is at last revealed to him in all his glory. He's absolutely stunning and his beauty stretches further than it should. His sweet, warm and intelligent personality enhances his alluring appearance even more. "You look absolutely breath taking."

Kyuubi smiles widely, his cheeks tugged upwards to reveal his stunning straight teeth. "So do you."

"Shall we go then?" Shisui invites, hand connecting Kyuubi's slim fingers into his bold ones.

The redhead waves farewell to his best friend before he is led down the apartment corridor.

"Where we are going is of a long ride from here but I hope it will bring you bounteous amount of delight. It is an hour drive away, I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all."

Long chapter, I know but I'm excited to write next chapter.

Can anyone guess where Shisui is taking Kyuubi? Also, which two set of brothers do you guys think will have the most interesting relationship? Can anyone guess how Naruto got his whisker scars?