"Speech" 'Thoughts'

Chapter 10: Current Status, Future Fears and Uncontrollable Sensations

Naruto couldn't hold himself together as they left the school. The presentation ended half an hour ago, but the Inuzuka family and Naruto had remained in the theater while everyone was forced to continue class. All of their friends sensed that they shouldn't ask the questions that everyone wanted answered.

The ride home was silent. Kiba and Naruto were with Tsume while Hana drove herself home. The two teenage boys headed straight to Kiba's room. Tsume almost objected. It wasn't that she didn't trust them, but after today, anything could happen. The door was swung shut as the brunette approached the hall. However, it never latched. No latching, no locking, no barricading. The door was ajar. She may not see everything, but she would hear most of everything above a whisper. It wasn't in her nature to spy on her children, but when the demon introduced himself, she chucked that part of her out the window.

Right now, they needed to trust everyone around them. That was the only reason she left them alone. She walked in an hour later to check on them. Her son's arms were wrapped around the blonde's back, holding the death sentenced teen to his chest. Naruto's face was smothered by Kiba's shoulder while the brunet's chin rested in his boyfriend's unruly blond locks. What got her to turn around was that both teens' faces had glimmering trails of tears. The couple cried themselves to sleep while comforting each other at the same time.

The two slept the entire day, only at seven did they get up. They were inseparable for the two hours they were up. Tsume and Hana had only gotten at best 20 words from either of them. The house felt like Armageddon was waiting patiently for them. All of the dogs except Kuromaru were whining. Neither brunette could figure out was going on. It was if they were picking onto the emotions of the couple if not Naruto's.

They fell asleep again half an hour before the women did. It was as if the house had become a graveyard in the course of one day. Usually there was a comfortable silence shrouding the house. Not that night. Nothing stirred except the beings that held human forms. Four were rolling over, muttering in their sleep; dreaming about the upcoming disaster. Only one form sat perfectly still in an office chair facing two sleeping forms.

Blood red eyes glowed in the dark as the two slept. His worries were brewing in the storm in progress. Kyuubi on no account thought that complications could arise after the two became a couple. Sure, they would have a hard time and he would do everything to keep them together. However, he never thought that this complication would, could ever occur, other than hormones.

Now it made perfect sense. Why the blond was attracted to the boy. This was not good at all. At the start of this, he knew that the two had demon blood in them, but this new discovery was enough to complicate even Hell's simplicity.

He sat there; his pupils never leaving them. He sighed lightly as today's events played through his mind. He didn't get close to what he wanted to say. His half-demon form depleted his strength in this world. He hasn't felt this tired since the boy's third birthday.

His thoughts turned towards the blond and his boyfriend's future and past. The one phrase he could use to describe the blonde's past would be: shit happens. But that wasn't quite true. Destiny changed after the forces of good and evil became involved. However, the roles were switched: good fell victim to the deadly sin of jealousy while evil did something it believed to immoral. Which was ironic considering evil shouldn't even have morals. But Kyuubi had them. After living for hundreds of years, he became accustomed to them. Circumstances in his past proved that they were important.

As he thought of his next step to keep the two together, he didn't realize that one of them had woken up until he looked up. The blonde's boyfriend's eyes were open and glaring pure hatred and fear at him. Kyuubi wasn't shocked at this point, especially when his embrace on the kitsune tightened slightly, protectively. If not possessively.

They remained like that for several minutes before Kyuubi got tired of being watched. Finally, he whispered for the brunet to follow him the living room. Kiba just stared at him. His eyes said 'yeah right, I'll leave my boyfriend alone so you can steal him away from me.'

Kyuubi sighed quietly before whispering harshly, "I could wake him up right now so he can become an emotional wreak again." The brunet's chocolate eyes became confused slightly. The demon didn't have time for the wordless arguing. "I will be the one who will take him away. Both the angels and the demons have agreed to this. However, I'll only be allowed to do this on his birthday. If I do it too early, I will probably be thrown into to the underworld for a year, which is worst than being in Hell for eternity."

Kiba weighted the options he had before him and reluctantly chose to leave the emission of warmth from Naruto. Carefully, he snaked his way out of the cerulean-eyed teen's embrace. With one last glance back towards his boyfriend, he followed the fox demon.

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Currently it was 10 o'clock in the morning and the couple was sitting on the couch while the blond surfed the internet. Kiba wrapped his arms around the blond fox sitting in his lap. He leaned forward and kissed the annoyed blonde's cheek. He'd convinced the blond to use his computer to look up anything about their situation. Whether it be information on demons, angels, rituals, Kyuubi, or Naruto's past.

The blond looked everywhere except his past. Kiba doubted that he would do it, but he tried to urge him to. He urged this because of the conversation he had with Kyuubi. The demon kept his promise of leaving Naruto alone last night. However, the information Kyuubi shared was not what he expected. As soon as he was in his room, Kiba was on the internet looking for answers to the demon's riddles.

The red haired male gave him the title of a fable. The Fox and the Raven. A hungry and wise fox spotted a raven with cheese in a tree. The fox began to flatter him, puffing up the raven's pride. The raven cawed proudly, dropping the cheese to the ground where the fox ate the cheese. Kiba couldn't figure what this meant. He figured that the fox was Naruto or Kyuubi, but nothing else made sense. Would someone use the brunet's pride to get to Naruto? The riddle/fable seemed so random.

Kiba restrained his blond back as said blond nearly chucked the computer. The computer had a mind of its own. They kept coming to several different websites over and over. Even after searching hundreds of links, they came back to the same websites.

The chocolate-eyed teen believed that Kyuubi had something to do with it. He never mentioned the redhead's visit last night. Kyuubi earned the brunet's trust, for the time being. They read the websites after being redirected to them for the millionth time. Keywords were popping up every paragraph: ritual, demon's blood, life and death, and the word bijuu kept coming up. However, the final paragraph on the last webpage explained the 'claiming ritual.'

Both teens were blushing madly as their mouths fell open. The paragraph was very descriptive and it didn't help them when they scrolled down to illustrations. According to the paragraph, sex was used to claim someone. If a person on the verge of dying was claimed by a being of demon origins on midnight of the day they were to die, they would live as long as their owner lived. However, the person claimed or 'dominated' would have to live six hours after the day they were destined to die. Just as the fox said.

Kiba only saw one problem with this: a being with demon blood must claim the blond. He wasn't. The brunet couldn't figure it out. Kyuubi was protecting Naruto in his own messed up way, right? Then why was he not separating the two? Why have Naruto keep close to his friends if he was going to die?

The answer was simply complicated: the savior. Naruto's savior existed in their group. Someone who was also of demon origin would have to claim the blond. According to one site, a person with demon blood would have control over the type of animal that their blood was related to. That part cleared up the mystery behind the fox that came to them when Naruto passed out. Kyuubi's blood was in Naruto, making the blond part fox.

Yet, that was another thing that bothered Kiba. Naruto never told him what he experienced in his dream. He said that he experienced something from his past before he saw a fox when he woke up. The brunet couldn't pester his boyfriend about it since he wasn't telling him about Kyuubi's midnight stop. It was only fair.

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Naruto was pissed beyond belief. He knew Kyuubi was messing with his mind for kicks. The only reason he wasn't shouting for the demon to show himself or leave him the fuck alone was because Kiba had some kind of calming effect on him. No matter how frustrated or hotheaded he got, all Kiba had to do was hold him tight and whisper soothing words into his ear. Everything around him stopped mattering entirely when this happened. It was unnatural to him. Usually Kiba or Sasuke could calm him down within five minutes, but now, Kiba was doing it in a second.

The blond fox was also annoyed that Kiba even suggested this internet search. When he caved in, the stupid computer, or Kyuubi, was causing him to think homicidally. He was completely frustrated and it being only ten in the morning wasn't helping, at all.

The cerulean-eyed teen was also confused about why he woke up to Kiba on the computer last night. Currently he was sitting in his boyfriend's lap looking up stuff about demons. Did he find something and wanted him to find it himself? Was his boyfriend looking for some way to save him without him falling into someone else's hands?

He made sure to completely stay clear of his past; however, his computer (under the red-haired demon's influence) went to a web page about it. Finding this the last emotional straw of the morning, Naruto turned off the laptop. It was his second choice of turning it off, Kiba was floundering around trying to prevent him from throwing it down the wood stairs.

For five minutes the blond walked around fuming about that last website. He never made it past the first paragraph before it was closed. Kiba couldn't control the blonde's temper. So he sat on the couch with Akamaru at his feet, both watching the kitsune. The brunet couldn't blame why Naruto was pissed right now. The blond was perfectly fine until his family's history was in front of them.

Usually, Naruto would never get this mad. Only a few times has he seen this. Once was yesterday when the blond crushed his fist against the Uchiha's face. Kiba didn't want to be on the receiving end if it was enough to knock the bastard out.. The brunet did have a theory and a theory was better than nothing. He believed that after the revealing of the blonde's demon blood, that it became a little more active. Basically, now that Naruto's nature has been shown, it's awakening and slowly affecting his emotions and physical strength.

It could explain yesterday's events. Naruto had managed to punch Sasuke about three feet out of his chair before Tsume or himself could even get near him. The blond teen has never moved that fast, never. It was only by coincidence that he saw, but the chocolate-eyed teen caught a glimpse of the small shocked expression come into existence on Kyuubi's face.

Deciding to eat a little early, he separated from the brunet, who gave a small pout, and headed towards the green kitchen. Tsume offered him access to their food, as long as he didn't eat them out. He got out a small pot full of water and put it on the stove for three minutes. Not even two minutes later he was eating the one food that Kiba had baited him with at the hospital. Ramen.

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Kiba pouted at the lost of contact with his boyfriend, but knew what the blond was doing. He sighed quietly and followed Naruto to the kitchen and watch from other side of the counter. Naruto was never the patient one. Especially in the few minutes it took to make ramen.

The blond kept pacing until the water was boiling. At that point he threw in the instant ramen and stirred until the satisfying smell of ramen filled the room. For some reason, the scent was stronger than usual to both Kiba and Naruto. The brunet had ramen before, but never has it smelt so delicious. His senses were going crazy as another smell reached his nose. The odor drove his mind into overdrive. He felt like he was starving, but not for food and he didn't know what he was famished for. His mind forgot the unknown aroma instantly when a bowl of ramen was pushed under his nose.

Looking up, he found the blond holding out two pair of chopsticks to him. Kiba smirked as he grabbed the hand holding the utensils and pulled the shocked teen towards him. Gently, he placed his lips on Naruto's soft ones. In no time, he discovered that he was kissing the source of the aroma. He was drunk off it instantly.

He felt the blond stiffen for a moment before relaxing into the kiss. Dropping the chopsticks somewhere on the counter, the blond wrapped his arms around the brunet's neck, kissing back passionately. Kiba snaked his hands around the blonde's waist as his tongue ghosted over the fox's bottom lip, begging for entrance.

Naruto didn't want to right away. He wanted to play with the brunet, but he felt Kiba's tongue slide into his opening mouth. He experienced searing flames under every inch of skin as his stomach became tied with knots. He panted due his shortness of breath. It was excruciating; he felt scorching blood flow through his veins. Ecstasy washed away all thoughts, leaving only heat and pleasure.

Kiba slightly pushed the blond against the counters. Trapping the blond, he moved onto the fox's neck: nibbling, sucking, and kissing. Receiving mixed moans of pleasure and ragged gasps for air as his reward. He loved the sounds his kitsune made. It satisfied him to no end that he was pleasuring the one he loved. Slowly, he brought his hands to hem of the blonde's shirt, lifting the black t-shirt slightly. He ran his thumbs in slow circles just above the fox's hips, causing the blond to purr in heated bliss.

He felt hands entangle themselves in his brown hair, pulling lightly. Only when his entire palm covered the blonde's flesh, did the brunet realize the kitsune's heated state. 'What the hell? ... Not again!!'

"Oh my God, could you two do that some other time, either in your room or at his apartment? This isn't something I want to see when I get home. Can't you wait 19 days till your birthday Kiba before you start anything like that in public?"

Both jumped as Hana's voice shocked them out of their dazed state. They jumped apart and blushed heavily as they fixed their appearances while Kiba snapped back at his sister. Hana wasn't any better; it took everything not to develop a nosebleed. She continued to watch their red faces until something on her brother's cheek caught her attention.

His face was still flustered, but there was a patch on one cheek that was a deeper red. His cheek was a medium red, while an upside triangle of a darker red rested in the middle. However, it wasn't a regular triangle. It was curved towards the brunet's mouth, almost like a fang. She blinked and it was gone, as if an eraser was applied to it at light speed.

The boys' blushes were nearly gone; only enough remained as evidence to their awkward predicament. Hana brushed off her thoughts as the two decided to warm their cold ramen. She walked back downstairs to help her mom with the dogs as the two ate. They cleaned up their dishes and headed towards Kiba's room. They froze in the doorway. Inside the brunet's room was the red-haired demon. He was standing next to the brown bed, glaring at the two. Pissed didn't even exist in the description of his appearance. Nothing could describe him as he blankly stated, "Come in and shut the door. We need to talk about control. Now."