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Chapter Nine: The StormWho would have thought that after such a beautiful night such an incredible storm would follow.
Not only did Sasuke and Naruto have to keep the kids inside and occupied with a safe scissor-less, no-glue-involved, lets-try-not-to-run-into-walls activity, but for some reason Iruka decided to place them on opposite sides of the room! UGH!!
The others were doing fine for now. Sakura was on the phone with some guy again. Ino and Shikamaru were playing with the little kids and Ino was laughing her butt off every time that one little boy yanked on Shikamaru's hair.
Lee was being chased by around 15 of the little ones who were covered in paint and had torn most of their clothes off. They were screaming something about him using all the green...
Normally Neji would have made a move to help his boyfriend out, but at the moment he and Hinata were in a heated discussion over the proper way to change a diaper...
It seemed that the only person having any sort of success that day was Iruka. He had gotten all the babies he could to go to sleep and was now searching for the last bottle for the fattest baby.
Kakashi was teaching 9-year-olds all about Icha Icha Paradise. No one else really thought of this as success, but Kakashi did.
You'd think that with all the geniuses in the room there'd be a little more order. But nope! They were all totally oblivious to the chaos.
Well, the only people that could do anything about it were anyway.
Iruka kept getting distracted by a certain silver haired pervert. If he'd been paying closer attention he would have seen what said pervert was doing but why would he be paying attention to anything except the perfect ness that is Kakashi?
Kakashi could have done something to calm everyone else down too.
Or at least, if he was aware of his surroundings he could have.
But he was too busy having a huge war with himself.
Why hasn't he told Iruka about what was happening? About the bet? If he told Iruka then it would all be called off, right?
Words couldn't express how badly he wanted to tell Iruka what Sasuke was doing to Naruto. Especially because word on the street was this wasn't the first time anyone had been so cruel to the blonde.
But if he ratted Sasuke out then what would happen when they had to move again? He couldn't stand it if his own son wouldn't talk to him.
He guessed the best thing to do would be to just let Sasuke enjoy the time he was having with Naruto. That way, even if it was only going to be for a very short amount of time, Sasuke could be happy for once.
If anything the boy deserved that.
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Naruto was totally ready.
When did he meet Sasuke? Almost a moth ago?
He'd Googled it; he'd read about it, he'd asked Iruka about it and apparently a month was the perfect amount of waiting time.
It was going to happen soon. Maybe when they all went to his and Iruka's special place this weekend.
But Naruto was sure about one thing. It had to be raining when it happened. Every bad thing that has every happened to Naruto - his parents dying, Kabuto, first day in an orphanage, etc.- had happened on a rainy day.
So, logically the only way to finally get over the rain would be to have a really good thing happen to him while it was raining.
Perfect logic.
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Some of you m ight be wondering where Kiba has been the whole time.
Well, he was in the kitchen. On the phone.
Unfortunately this was the worst phone call he'd ever received.
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"Okay kids, it's time to play a game." Cheers and whoops could be heard around the room. The naked chibis chasing Lee even stopped so they could join the circle.
Choosing to ignore their naked ness, Iruka began the game.
"The rules of the game are as follows. You pick one person- in or out of the circle- and think of something to say to them. It sounds stupid but you'd be surprised what can happen."
Immediately all the little girls' hands shot up. They were throwing glances at the different boys and it was obvious they were all excited to tell them how cute they thought they were.
"I wanna pick the first one Iruka!" Naruto jumped up and down earning a group eye roll from his fellow volunteers.
"Fine." Iruka waved his hands as if dismissing the whole thing. He walked away to help Kakashi with the snacks.
The other teens all joined Naruto at the game circle. This could be interesting.
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When I say the "Other teens" I mean everyone except Kiba.
Dog-boy snuck out the back door and was on his way to meet Shino.
He wasn't one to pass up such valuable information after all.
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Once everyone was finally seated around the "game circle", Naruto picked a little girl with orange hair to start.
"Um, I want to tell Grey something." She pointed to the only little girl who wasn't freaking out about talking to anyone. The little girl looked up from the snagged rug she was playing with and mentally prepared herself for torment.
No one really liked her or her name.
"What do you have to say about Grey, Amy?" Naruto asked. Behind him Sasuke was asking himself how Naruto learned all these names so quickly.
"Um-that's she's very pretty." Grey's eyes widened and Amy blushed before hiding her face in Sakura's side. (She was sitting next to her.)
Before Ino, Sakura, Naruto and Lee could "aww" though, some of the little boys and girls started to "Boo" and "Correct" Amy.
"She is not pretty!"
"She's got grey hair!"
"And who in the world has got purple eyes?"
"She's quiet and stupid!"
"Shut up! She is not!" Amy got up and pushed the last boy to speak. The kid fell on his butt and started crying. Amy humphed and walked over to a blushing Grey. Amy sat in the purple-eyed girls lap and crossed his arms.
The assistants looked at each other skeptically. What were they supposed to do?
Alas, Ichigo saved them when she raised her teeny hand in the air.
"I wanna say something to Naruto."
Said blonde grinned. The sign to go ahead and speak.
'You remind me of noodles."
"Ramen?"
"Nope. Just noodles." And she sat back down next to Michiko and they started to play, completely ignoring the blonde's sad face.
"Well Sasuke reminds me of chocolate." One little girl piped in sick of waiting to be called on.
"No, a library stupid!"
"Idiots, he reminds me of death."
"He reminds me of underwear!"
"Well, whatever he reminds us of, he's still hot!"
"Get him!"
Before he had time to react Sasuke was tackled by a hundred little fangirls. Well, it was more like 12 but it felt like at least a hundred!
No one bothered to help him either. Naruto was laughing his ass of at the scene. Sakura, Ino, and Hinata were looking at how adorable Amy and Grey were. Lee and Shikamaru left to chase after rogue chibis. And Neji sat on a bookshelf watching it all.
"Great game Iruka." He commented when the two older volunteers entered and witnessed the mass chaos for themselves.
"Maybe cake isn't the best snack food today." Iruka quietly started backing out.
"Definitely not." They stepped back into the kitchen to find carrots and sleeping pills.
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"Shino! Get your sorry ass out here!" A brunette shouted to the trees. He was greeted with a boy who jumped down from one of the higher branches.
"No need to shout." Kiba glared at him fiercely. It was really enough to make anyone fear for their lives. And Shino would have were he human. But everyone was convinced he was an alien.
"Just tell me what you know about Sasuke." Had his collar not been covering up his face, Kiba would have seen Shino smirk.
"Patience." He tutted and shook a finger at Kiba. This just pissed Kiba off more and he growled, clenching his fists.
Shino had called him earlier in the afternoon telling him when and where to meet him. Apparently Shino's friend coming from one of the city schools had some serious dirt on Sasuke. It was something that could possibly harm Naruto and that was the only reason Kiba was here.
He hated Shino.
"Tell me already, will you!" Kiba shouted. There was a rustling in the trees and all of the sudden Kiba heard a whisper right behind his ear.
"He's a cheat." Kiba spun around at lightning speed and came face to face with lifeless eyes of the scariest blue you could imagine. It was like looking into ice.
"W-what?" The boy began to walk around Kiba in a slow, predatory circle.
"Uchiha. Is. A. Cheat." Kiba stepped back when the boy stopped so he could see him more clearly. He had fiery read hair and a tattoo on his forehead but no color to his skin and no eyebrows.
The eyeliner was scary too.
"You're crazy." Kiba scoffed.
"I'm a victim." The kid growled, showing his teeth at the end. As he said this his stare turned from emotionless to sanguinary. He truly had it in for Sasuke.
And this was the deciding factor for Kiba.
"Stop it. This is a sick joke. I've never seen Naruto happier."
"That's the way it always starts. But it will end in pain." A pink tongue darted out and licked dry lips. Kiba was practically shaking with fear of this boy.
"W-what will end?"
"It's all a set up. A bet. A scandal. It always has been." He got right into Kiba's face and the bloodlust in his eyes slipped away. "Tell your friend to watch his back."
And the mysterious boy vanished. Somewhere along the line Shino had vanished too.
Kiba was left standing alone with is best friend's fate in his hands.
But he did nothing about it.
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Sasuke groaned and plopped his head down on Naruto's shoulder. The other boy giggled.
"Don't tell me you're already tired. It's only been two days!!" Naruto put an arm around Sasuke and the brunette snuggled closer to him. They were in the back seat of Kakashi's car driving to some restaurant or other for dinner with their guardians.
"I don't do well with kids, Naruto." He whined. Naruto rolled his eyes but kissed the top of Sasuke's head anyway.
"It'll be fine eventually. You could get used to it."
"Or not."
Iruka sighed and turned to the drivers seat to laugh at Kakashi who was practically sleeping while he was driving.
"You're such a wimp." He laughed.
"So much laughter Iruka! Too much!" He shook his head in a severely over-dramatic way. This only made Iruka laugh harder, slightly rousing Sasuke and Naruto from their sleep.
"Mmph." Sasuke mumbled something into Naruto's coat and snuggled closer to the blonde. As a reaction Naruto hugged him tighter and stretched just a little bit before settling all the way down onto the seat from his position against the door.
"They're wiped out." Iruka whispered to Kakashi. The older man nodded and pulled into the restaurant parking lot.
"How about I go in and grab our dinner and you stay here with them." Iruka nodded before kissing Kakashi on the cheek. The other hopped out of the car and walked in the door to pick up their dinners.
Once he came back he saw the cutest scene he could imagine. Iruka had apparently turned back to look at the boys and fell asleep in that position.
Kakashi shook his head and smiled at the other. It really was adorable.
Now, sure it was a long way out of their way but for some reason a day away from his son was too much for Iruka so they had to drive all the way down a highway and seven detour streets to get dinner and now Kakashi had to drive back down the highway and seven detour streets and an added three neighborhoods to get to his and Sasuke's house.
This drive all in all took a little over an hour.
But by the time he'd gotten back to his house, there was a massive storm going on.
The radio - before it died - said that it was the worst storm their town had gotten since the great flood of '71.
Which was apparently very bad.
So he pulled into his driveway and thought about how he could get everyone into the house. He's going to have to wake someone up. Why would he carry all of those people plus the (cold) dinner into the house in such a horrible downfall?
Clearly the only person to wake up would be Sasuke.
And he did.
Albeit very ungracefully.
"Ow! You bastard!" Sasuke shot up, rubbing his head.
"Shut up and grab your boyfriend. We need to get inside fast." Kakashi said already unbuckling Iruka and picking him up. He also managed to grab the bags with dinner in them.
"Whatever."
Sasuke wrapped his arms around Naruto's waist and shifted so he was carrying him bridal style. Once he was totally awake he sees how heavy the rain was falling and a flash of lightning lit up his house, which looked amazingly creepy compared to what it was like in the day.
"On three we'll run." Kakashi was ready at his door. He waited for Sasuke to have a hand on the doorknob and began to count. "One, two, three!" He shouted. They made a run for it and made it into the house being only slightly drenched.
"Shit!" Sasuke swore. Kakashi nodded and spat out some water.
"Good night." Kakashi left the bags with his shoes by the door and carried Iruka up to his room.
Sasuke took off Naruto's shoes and his own then headed upstairs.
But once he took off all the wet clothes (from both him and Naruto) and got under the covers with the blonde, that's when something shaky started to happen with Naruto.
Just as Sasuke was about to drift off again, Naruto started to thrash around and whimper slightly.
Thunder clashed and the blonde screamed.
But the most troublesome thing for Sasuke was that he was still sleeping.
Quickly and urgently he started to shake Naruto awake.
"Naruto. Naruto, wake up!"
Blue eyes shot open and a desperate hand shot out searching for something. Not knowing what else to do Sasuke brought his own pale hand to clash with the tan one of Naruto.
The blonde's eyes started searching around frantically and all the while Naruto was sobbing.
"Shh. What is it?" Sasuke stroked Naruto's hair back with his free hand. After a few minutes of silent nothings and more choked sobs Naruto calmed down enough to breath properly. Soon they were lulled into a sleep-like state and almost drifting off when Naruto broke the silence.
"Sasuke, don't leave me." The Uchiha's eyes flew open to the size of saucers. The whispered words caught him off guard.
"W-what?" He stuttered. Naruto's fist tightened and he buried his face under Sasuke's neck on the pillow.
"Please." He sounded desperate. "Don't leave me."
Sasuke licked his lips and tightened his hold on Naruto. He wasn't thinking about the bet. He wasn't thinking about what would happen when Naruto found out. He wasn't thinking about why he wanted to do this but...
He didn't want anything else except for Naruto to go to sleep and forget whatever horrible dream he'd had.
"Never."
Somehow what he'd said finally relaxed Naruto enough for the blonde to almost immediately fell asleep.
Unfortunately leaving Sasuke to his regrets and the sounds of the storm outside.
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Naruto was sitting on a tire swing in his backyard. His dad was pushing him and his mom was pointing a camera at them.
"Okay, Naruto hold still!" She giggled. The little boy settled down finally and made a peace sign while sticking out his tongue.
His dad thought this was a good pose and decided to take it up as well.
Naruto's mom finally got the timer set up on the camera and ran over to stand with her two favorite boys, also deciding to make the silly face.
The camera flashed and Naruto laughed.
Was this what heaven would be like? He wondered.
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The next day, Naruto was sitting at a window watching the rainfall down onto the windowpane.
"Whachya looking at, kiddo?" An older looking version of Naruto ruffled the hair of his son.
"The sky is crying daddy." The little boy pointed out to the rain.
"Oh, that's because everything is sad when it rains." This only made the boy's frown deepen. "But," The boy looked up.
"But, as soon as the rain stops everything is happy again. Even happier than before." Naruto looked up to see his mother looking more beautiful than he ever remembered her.
"Why are you so pretty mommy?" The parents smiled at their son, knowing perfectly well what he meant.
"Well, we are going to go out for a little while Naruto." The boy jumped up from his previous slump and bounced up and down.
"Where are we going?!?!" he shouted. But his happiness died away again when his died sighed sadly.
"Well, Naruto, your mother and I are going to be the only ones going out tonight." Naruto's eyes widened and he looked up with his lower lip sticking out at his dad.
"Don't you love me anymore?" He asked. Immediately his mother was by his side and giving him a huge hug.
"Of course we do sweetheart. But we haven't had time to ourselves for four years! Maybe it's time, don't you think?"
Naruto sniffled and the doorbell rang. His dad left to go answer it while his mom hugged him closer.
"Do you promise to come back?" The woman grinned at her son.
"Promise." She pulled back and stood up tall. Naruto's dad walked back into the living room with a girl following him.
"Okay Naruto. This is Kelly. She's going to be watching you for a while okay? You have to be a good boy for her now, okay?"
"I promise daddy!"
"Good! We'll see you in the morning then."
"Bye!"
Naruto ran to the window and watched as a car drove down the road and further into the storm.
Two hours later there was an urgent report on the news about a car crash and the casualty count was two. A man and a woman.
A little boy's life was never the same again.
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Okay! Thank you for the reviews last time and I will definitely be updating at least twice in two weeks because that's when my Spring Break is! (Sorry if I said it was next week because I thought it was but it's in two weeks). Please review again!! SHANK YOU!!