A huge thanks to all those who reviewed, favorite and followed last chapter! But I also just wanted to say, I don't know if I will be able to update once a week like I usually do because school is starting up for me again ); but I will try to update as soon as I can.
Chapter 10: Master Plan
"It's the weekend Sasuke. I don't want to do my homework."
"Too bad. Your friends told me that you're failing so I am going to help you. And when we finish we can go for a ride on my bike if you want."
Naruto lights up. "Really?"
"That is only if you don't complain and get your work done." Sasuke says glancing to the now disappointed blond. "Why are you failing your classes anyway?"
Naruto shrugs. "It's nothing new. I fail my classes all the time."
"According to your friend, Kiba, you don't ever fail this many. He asked me if I was having sex with you and he thought that was the reason to why you were failing so bad. I swear sex if all you humans think about." Naruto's eyes widen and his face flushes a bright crimson making his steps falter. Sasuke glances back to him and smirks. "Come on." He says right before stepping inside.
Naruto quickly runs inside right after him. "W-what did you say to him?"
Sasuke close the door behind Naruto. "All night, every night." Naruto's jaw drops and his face burns a shade darker. He so did not say that. Sasuke smirks and looks back at him.
"Otouto, what did you do. You broke him."
Sasuke shrugs looking to his brother who just walked into the room. "Who knows." Naruto runs a hand through his hair and glances to Itachi.
"Naruto, it's nice to see you again. Has Sasuke done something bad to you?"
Naruto shakes his head and laughs nervously as he puts a hand on his neck. "No, he's been pretty nice to me."
Itachi smiles. "Doesn't sound like him, but I'll buy it for now." Naruto's gaze drifts over to the younger Uchiha. He's staring over somewhere else. Naruto lowers his hand from his neck and follows his gaze to see two people walk into the room. Both of their eyes move to the blond making one of them beam brightly.
"Sasuke, you finally brought him home!" Shisui walks over to Naruto excitedly. "I'm Shisui, Sasuke's cousin. You must be Naruto. It's nice to finally be able to meet you. Sasuke never shuts up about you." Sasuke shoots a glare to his cousin knowing that he just made that up. Sasuke never talks about Naruto with them.
Naruto smiles brightly. "It's nice to meet you too."
Obito walks over to them and stands next to Shisui. "I'm Obito." Naruto smiles and nods at him.
"Oh wow, there is so much I want to tell you about Sasuke. He has some interesting childhood stories." Shisui exclaims like a happy mother ready to exploit her son's deepest darkest secrets to all his friends.
"No way Shisui, it's my job to embarrass him. He's my little brother." Itachi protests.
"Okay then how about we do it together. I have some stories that you don't know."
Itachi blinks a few times. "Really?"
Shisui nods. Sasuke rolls his eyes. "You two can forget about it. I need to help Naruto with homework, so scram. Don't come into the dining room cause that is where we will be and I swear to God if you come in there and distract him I won't show you any mercy." Sasuke grabs Naruto's wrist and drags him into the dining room. When they reach the table Sasuke lets go of Naruto and they both sit down.
"But I wanted to hear those stories." Naruto teases.
Sasuke sends a glare to him. "Not happening."
Naruto grins and gets out his supplies that he brought. "You know we really don't have to do this."
"Yes, we do. Do you want to fail?" Naruto sighs casting his eyes to his papers and books. "What do you need done?"
"I have a huge paper due for science on Monday. I have around twenty math problems that I cannot do to save my life ... uhm ... something to do with English, and I have to research a dead person for history."
Sasuke looks at the stuff and opens the math book making Naruto groan. "This is going to take longer if you complain." Naruto groans again in his head and looks at the book with the raven. All he wants to do is go on the motorcycle with Sasuke, but noooo, he had to do homework. On a weekend for crying out loud.
Sasuke has no trouble with the homework, but Naruto on the other hand, he's a whole different story. Sasuke has to spend a good hour explaining how to do one problem. When he finally understands it, Sasuke lets him do the rest and then he corrects him when he sees him doing something wrong. The math homework is horrible since it takes so long, but when it's done they move onto the history. They didn't have to get on a computer or anything because Sasuke knows everything about the guy Naruto has to research. After history they move to English then science. The science paper takes forever too. By the end of all the work Naruto is too fried to process anything.
"How are you so smart?"
"You get bored when you have lived as long as I have."
Naruto scrunches up his face, not liking the sound of what Sasuke had just said. "So you study?"
Sasuke smirks at Naruto's disgusted face. "Reading. It does magic."
Naruto purses his lips to the side. "Say, Sasuke. How old are you anyway?"
"Age is but a number."
"Come on, I'm curious."
Sasuke shakes his head and closes up the books putting them away. "Ready to go?" Naruto jumps out of his seat as if he hasn't just been dying of boredom a few seconds ago. When they get outside Naruto glances around. It's already turning darker out. They spent all day doing work. Sasuke shoves a helmet at Naruto and he puts it on, straddling the motorcycle. Sasuke turns the bike on and some parts of it start to glow red.
Naruto's eyes widen. "Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, it does." Sasuke smirks and revs the engine and they take off. They ride around for a while, but then Sasuke decides to take them outside of the city. Naruto furrows his brows wondering where he could be taking them. When they pull to a stop on the top of a hill far enough away from the city, they can see pretty much all of it. It looks so small. The lights make it really pretty though.
Naruto takes off his helmet and gets off the bike, setting it on his seat. He walks over to the edge and stares at it with amazed eyes, Sasuke right beside him. "It's so pretty." Naruto whispers.
"It is."
Naruto glances out of the corner of his eye to see him staring with amazement as well. "I haven't ever seen something like this in real life. I've only seen pictures. It's so much better when you are actually here seeing it with your own eyes." Naruto sits down along with Sasuke.
"I used to come here often when we first moved here. Even though it was daylight out, it had caught my eye when we were passing by it going to the city. I know it would look beautiful when it turned night out, so I came up here many days later when it was turning dark out. The sunset was amazing. I wish we would have gotten here in time to see it, but there is always next time."
Naruto looks over to Sasuke to see his eyes gleaming with joy. Something he hasn't seen in them before. He has always seemed upset about something, but right now that look is completely wiped from his face. Naruto smiles looking back to the brightly lit city. He can't believe that he's never been here before. He has lived here his whole life.
He leans back and rests himself on his hands like Sasuke is. The temperature is perfect with a light breeze blowing past them, the smell of the crisp night air. If he didn't know any better he would say Sasuke brought him up here because it looks romantic, but that's just it, he did know better. Sasuke came up here because he wanted to show Naruto a place that he loves and holds close to him.
Naruto looks back to their hands and purses his lips, then looks back to the city. He wants to hold his hand, but he doesn't dare. One wrong move and he can ruin the moment, and trying to hold his hand would be the moment killer. He doesn't know why, but he just wants Sasuke to touch him. When he does it makes him feel different for some reason.
Just the fact that he's getting so close to Sasuke in such little time kind of scares him though, but he can't help it. He feels this attraction to the raven. It's as if they were two magnets that when pulled apart, would try and go back together. It, in a way, made Naruto happy. He hadn't ever had something that he felt like this towards and it feels sort of good, refreshing almost.
Sasuke keeps watching him from the corner of his eye. He can see him start to reach for his hand then slowly retract every single time. He doesn't want to make the first move. He wants to see if Naruto is actually willing to do it. He wants to know what Naruto is thinking, what he is feeling. He can hear his heartbeat, it's getting faster, and every time he goes to reach for his hand it speeds up even more. He doesn't want to make the first move because he knows that he himself wants the blond, but he doesn't know if the blond wants him like that yet. Sure they may be 'soul mates' but that doesn't mean Naruto is going to be willing to throw himself at Sasuke because of the fact. He's going to have to be patient with him. Something tells Sasuke this is all new to him, and if it's time he needs then it's time he'll get, as much as Sasuke hates waiting and being patient he is going to have to do it if he doesn't want to scare him away.
Naruto takes a deep breath. He can do it. If Sasuke didn't like it then he would apologize and back away. He can do it. It's just holding his hand. It's no big deal. They're only hands. Then what if holding hands turned into cuddling, and then cuddling led to kissing, and then kissing led to ... oh no. He is not ready for that. He only just found out that he likes Sasuke. He can't do that with him yet.
And who's to know, maybe Sasuke doesn't even like him like that. Do vampires even get into relationships? Do they date people, or do they just go straight for the good stuff and suck their blood? He doesn't see why they wouldn't get into relationships. He is just being paranoid.
Naruto looks down to his lap, then back up to the lights. He will do this. He slowly starts moving his hand closer to Sasuke's once more and when he brushes up against Sasuke's finger and he nearly runs for the hills, but the only thing the stops him is Sasuke putting his hand over Naruto's and intertwined their fingers. He did it. He actually did it. With a little help, but he still did it!
Sasuke smirks glancing to Naruto. He's panicking over nothing. He had a feeling he was going to have to help him on this one. He was about to move away again, and Sasuke didn't want to have to go any longer without his touch. It's just a little nudge in the right direction, that never hurt anyone before.
He kind of likes how nervous Naruto is though. It's cute in a way, it makes him appear so innocent. Something that most likely won't last all that long, so he was going to enjoy it while it lasts. He pictures Naruto, when they are together, to try and be the dominant one, but that wouldn't be happening. When they start going out, and yes he is positive they will, he knows that Naruto won't be shy to do something. Sasuke can't help but smile. A real, genuine smile.
Naruto is casually slowing his heartbeat back to normal. It isn't easy that's for sure. The thing that Naruto gets from this is that Sasuke likes him – or is at least pretending to to make him not feel as embarrassed – and possibly wants to get closer. Maybe he just wants to get closer because he wants his blood. No, Sasuke doesn't seem like the kind of vampire to do that, not that Naruto would really know. Naruto wants to get closer, but he doesn't want to move too fast. This is his first 'relationship' that he's had. He doesn't even really know if this whole thing is a relationship yet, or whatever the heck it is. Does holding hands mean he's now dating that person if they both like each other? Naruto has no idea. This whole relationship thing isn't his forte. He might have to suck it up and let Sakura rub it in his face that she knew that he liked him and ask Sakura what she thinks ... or he could just ask Sasuke.
No. Too risky.
They sit there for the remainder of the night, until the sun starts to come up. When Naruto sees the rising sun he freaks out. They get back on the bike after brushing off any dirt that's on them and drive back. They have to stop to get Naruto's stuff at Sasuke's house before going back to Naruto's.
Naruto doesn't want to go through the front door since he knows Jiraiya is probably on the couch and he'll wake up and question him, not to mention Kurama would bark at them until he sees who it is, so Sasuke picks him up and jumps through his window.
Sasuke sets him down and Naruto looks him in the eyes. "Thanks for everything tonight, Sasuke."
Sasuke smirks walking over to the window about to leave. "Whatever dobe." And he was gone. Naruto smirks. He knows Sasuke liked the thanks, but he's just bad at saying you're welcome or no problem. Maybe he'll teach Sasuke his manors while he teachers him his school work. He smiles at the thought and crawls into bed.
Naruto is panting heavily, breath coming out in rigid gasps. He can't believe how good he is at karate. He's so fast and way too strong. He can't beat him. It's not fair. He has lost a total of twenty nine times to him and he's working on his thirtieth.
He quickly jumps back, but it's no use. Sasuke jabs him in the gut sending him crashing to the ground. Sasuke walks over and put a foot on the sprawled out blond. Naruto has his eyes closed trying to catch his breath. Sasuke on the other hand hasn't even broken a sweat.
"That makes thirty." Sasuke smirks.
"Not ... fair." Naruto wheezes trying to get his foot off of his chest. "Oi, teme ... get your stinky foot off of me." Naruto struggles a little more before Sasuke takes it off and reaches an arm down to help him up. Naruto gladly takes it and Sasuke hoists him to his feet.
Outside the door stands Itachi, Shisui and Obito, all secretively watching the two practice. They had all tried to talk to Naruto when he came into the house, but Sasuke shooed them away again. They all just want to see Sasuke and Naruto get together, but they all also want to talk to the blond to see what he's like. The only problem is that Sasuke never lets them near him when he is in the house. Not to mention the blond is never here. They're lucky Sasuke brought him back again.
"What are you three idiots doing?" A deep voice sounds behind them making them all jump and snap around. When they all stare into familiar black eyes they relax. It's only Madara.
Shisui looks back to the training room then to Madara. "Sasuke finally brought Naruto over again and he won't let us talk to him because he thinks that we are going to tell Naruto some funny childhood stories about him."
"Which we are." Obito adds.
Madara looks into the training room. He thought he could smell the blond. "I see."
"What are you planning Madara?" Obito questions.
Madara shrugs with a small smirk gracing his lips. All of their eyes are trained on him. He never smirks unless he had some kind of evil plan up his sleeve.
Itachi arches a brow, the only one willing to ask. "Madara?"
Madara looks from Sasuke to the three. "You want to talk to Naruto, right?" They all nod their heads. "Then follow my plan." He smirks and they all follow him down the hall.
Sasuke and Naruto are going at another round, of course Naruto is losing but he's getting slightly better. Naruto's getting pretty worn out though when all of a sudden Obito comes bursting through the door.
"Sasuke!" Both blue and onyx eyes snap to the panicked Uchiha by the door. "You have to hurry! It's Itachi! He's in trouble!"
Sasuke's eyes widen then narrow quickly after. He then turns back to Naruto. "Stay here, I'll be right back." Naruto nods watching the two disappear. He wants to help, but he will only get into the way.
Obito and Sasuke are sprinting as fast as possible. Obito is showing Sasuke the way to where Itachi will be. They have to get there quickly. He glances over to see Sasuke's eyes with a death glare in them. He's not going to like it if he finds out what they are all up to.
Obito and Sasuke dodge trees left and right and jump over fallen ones. Obito knows Itachi is extremely far ahead of them right now so it should be okay. As Obito is lost in thought someone jumps out and tackles Obito with enough power to send them both right through a tree.
Sasuke stops immediately and goes to help Obito, but Obito stops him. "No, Sasuke! Go! Itachi needs you right now! I can handle this creep. Just keep going straight!" Sasuke doesn't hesitate. He knows Obito can handle them. He nods and sprints off. Obito blocks the punches coming straight for him. He fights with his attacker until he can no longer sense Sasuke.
When the coast is clear he backs off him. "Thanks Deidara, I have to get back now though."
Deidara takes off his hood and smirks. "Anything to torment Sasuke. Next time just don't make me smell like some old lady, hmm."
Obito rolls his eyes. "It worked, didn't it." He smile at the blond and runs off. He's going to have a little chat with a certain blond back home now.
Naruto is walking around the training room observing his surroundings. There are weapons hanging on the walls, wooden swords, ninja tools, real swords, armor, scrolls. Basically a lot of weapons and armor. Naruto grabs a scroll looking at the intricate design on it. It looks cool. There is a symbol on it. It looks like the one that's on Itachi's paper that Naruto took a while back. The scroll must have to do with Itachi's work.
"Naruto." Naruto jumps and quickly puts the scroll back, not sure if he is allowed to touch it and turns around. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" Shisui laughs walking over to the frightened blond. He forgot that other people live here.
"O-Oh, no. Not at all." He laughs and puts a hand on his neck.
"That's good. It feels like only yesterday that I saw you last."
Naruto drops his hand and arches a brow. "It ... was only yesterday, Shisui."
Shisui's eyes widen then he laughs. "That would explain why it felt like yesterday." Naruto grins looking at him a little confused. "I'm sorry about Sasuke." Naruto arches a brow. "How he had to leave so suddenly." Naruto mouths an 'oh'. "Something happened, but you don't have to worry about it. Everything is going to be fine."
"What exactly happened to Itachi?" Naruto asks a little worried. If Itachi needed help then it must have been pretty serious.
"He was fighting a pretty strong vampire and some stuff happened, nothing to worry about. Sasuke and Itachi will be able to handle it." He smiles warmly and glances to the door then back to Naruto. "How about we take a little walk and chat for a bit until Sasuke gets back? No use standing around with nothing to do so all you so is worry."
Naruto nervously looks around. Sasuke had told him to stay here. He would get angry if he left, wouldn't he? Although if he's with his cousin then it should be fine, plus he isn't leaving the house. Naruto shrugs. What bad could happen? "Sure."
Itachi is sprinting as fast as he possibly can away from Sasuke. He's kept running since Obito left him, but kicked himself into high gear when he sensed Sasuke even the slightest bit. It's hard for even Itachi to run this fast for so long, but he is the only one who can out speed his little brother when he is in a hurry. But holy shit! Sasuke is getting faster!
Itachi keeps glancing over his shoulder to make sure he isn't closer than he seems. He only has to go a little further, then he'll be in place.
"The plan goes a little something like this." Madara says looking at the three sitting at the dining room table. "Shisui will leave and go get Deidara, that's when Obito and Itachi will go to the fern forest on the east side of the city. None of you can be in the house for the beginning of this for this plan to work. If you are gone then Sasuke will sense that you are all away. When Itachi and Obito get to their assigned spot, Obito will stop and come back to the house, letting Itachi continue deeper into the forest and get to the meadow where he will stay. Obito comes back to the house and runs to Sasuke in a panic. You will tell him something happened to Itachi. Sasuke will stop the practice with Naruto and you will show him the way to Itachi. Then in the forest on your way back to Itachi we will have Deidara, who will be disguised and sprayed to have a different smell, attack Obito to get him away from Sasuke. You will tell Sasuke to keep going and that you can handle it and Itachi needs him more. Once Sasuke is gone and chasing Itachi, you can come back. While all of that was going on, Shisui will be the first to talk to Naruto. When Obito makes it back, Shisui will leave and Obito will get to talk to Naruto. Shisui, you will go to the northeast forest after this. When Sasuke catches Itachi, Itachi will be furious. You will tell your brother that they, the attackers, knocked Shisui out when he was protecting you from an attack and they took him. Sasuke and Itachi will then go and try to find him. Sasuke will notice that Itachi is unstable and extremely weak after his fight. Itachi, you will insist that Sasuke carry on alone and you come back to the house after Sasuke is out of your sensing range. When you get back to the house then you will get your chance to talk to Naruto, and Obito will go back to the place that he fought Deidara. Obito, you will be extremely weak, but you beat the one who attacked you. Sasuke will find Shisui. Shisui, you will be unconscious. You will wake up and ask where you are and where Obito and Itachi are. Sasuke will tell you what happened and you insist on going to find Obito. If he says that Obito will be fine, which I know he will, then ask him what condition Itachi was in. You both got beaten badly by them. He will then go to find Obito. When you guys find Obito you will both help bring him back and by the time that you all get back, I will have finished talking with him. Now, whatever you do, do not tell Naruto what we are doing. If he knows and Sasuke finds out and asks Naruto if he knew about this then he will get angry at Naruto for no reason. And I also don't want to have to deal with his rampages. Understood?" They all nod standing up. "Good. Then let's get to it."
Sasuke is going to kill them. Itachi bites his bottom lip and pushes forward. He's almost there. He just has to get to that meadow. He dodges the trees and he can finally see it. He smiles and runs into it. He runs to the center and falls, making himself look injured. Sasuke better believe this, or he is screwed.
Sasuke could sense himself getting a lot closer to his brother. He sees a meadow ahead of him. He must be there. Sasuke jumps into the meadow and sees Itachi. He looks injured. Sasuke stops right next to him and kneels down, putting a hand on his shoulder. Itachi is trying to go somewhere. "Itachi, stop. Where are you trying to go."
"I have to go save him. They got Shisui. He protected me from an attack and he got taken." Sasuke glares over to where the forest begins. Who attacked them, and what do they want?
"It was so funny." Shisui laughs as they walk making Naruto smile. "When Sasuke was little he had played with Barbies and he must of wanted to smell the Barbie's shampoo bottle to see if it smelt good, but he shoved it up his nose and sucked it up and he started bawling because he thought something bad was going to happen. He ran to me because Itachi wasn't home and started freaking out asking if he was going to die. I was so confused, but when I found out what had happened I couldn't help but laugh." Shisui chuckles remembering the look on his face.
Naruto is also laughing just thinking about it. He only wishes he could have seen it. "I didn't see Sasuke as someone to play with Barbies." Naruto smiles looking over to Shisui.
"Oh, I know. He would never admit to it now though." Shisui laughs. "Oh, I remember this one time when we were all walking down the street Sasuke wasn't looking where he was going because he was looking back to us acting like he was some tough guy and he ran right into a pole." Shisui laughs remembering Sasuke hitting it dead on and falling on his butt. The look on his face was priceless. Naruto laugh along with him. Sasuke was so much different when he was younger, he sure has changed a lot. "It was actually the pole right across from the cafe that they always go to. Itachi was worried about Sasuke and went to help him, but Itachi looked up and saw the cafe, he left Sasuke like nothing had happened. The look on his face was priceless." Shisui chuckles. Naruto's face hurts from smiling so much. Sasuke's family is so interesting, why doesn't he talk about them more?
"Shisui," Both Naruto and Shisui stop and turn around. They're been walking in the garden since it is nice out. "you're wanted." Obito says walking up to them.
Shisui frowns not wanting to leave, but then smiles at Naruto. "Looks like I have to go. Why don't you stay with Obito so Sasuke won't get angry at you for leaving."
Naruto nods as he watches Shisui disappear. Naruto's eyes then move to Obito. "Where's Sasuke?"
"He had me come back to watch you. Let's walk."
Sasuke is worried. Itachi is a lot slower than normal, and he seems extremely weak. Something happened in that fight, something bad. Sasuke slows his pace down to his brother's so they're side by side. Sasuke glances to Itachi and narrows his eyes. Itachi is fumbling with his steps and not acting like himself.
"We have to stop. You are too weak to continue."
"N-no. I can keep ... going." Itachi suddenly falls and Sasuke catches him, glaring at him.
"We're stopping. You have to get to the house."
"But I have to help Shisui." Itachi tries to stand up again but falls. He hits the tree beside them denting it. "Dammit!" He growls glaring at the ground. "Sasuke, promise me you will save Shisui. I will only slow you down if I come along. You're right. I have to get back to the house. You go help Shisui, before it becomes too late."
"Let me bring you back to the house then. I'll make it fast, and those vampires could come back to get you if I leave." Sasuke goes to help Itachi, but Itachi slaps his hands away making Sasuke stare at him in bewilderment. Why is he being so stubborn?
"I can get back fine. Go help Shisui, Sasuke." Itachi growls this making Sasuke curse himself under his breath.
He can't just leave Itachi here. They could come back and kill him. He goes to say something, but stops when he sees the glare coming from his brother. "Fine." He spits standing up walking away then turning back glaring at him. "But if you don't make it back then I am going to have to hurt you." He then sprints off to find Shisui.
Itachi smiles watching him leave. That was easier than he thought it would be. He slowly walks back until Sasuke is out of his sensing range and started sprinting, a smile forming on his lips. "Sorry otouto, but you made us do this."
"I will never forget the look on Sasuke's face that one day." Obito smiles thinking about it. "He was around seven years old. He was taking a shower. He said he heard something coming from the drain so he looked at it and froze. Apparently he stared at it for a while before he saw the little mouse come out of the drain. I imagine his eyes were nearly popping from his skull, shocked that something actually came out of the drain. He stared at it, watching it walk towards him. When it touched his foot he screamed and ran out of the shower with suds still in his hair. He ran down the halls dripping wet and butt naked, screaming bloody murder. Of course I ran to help him and then he told me the story." Both of them burst out laughing. Sasuke being terrified of a mouse, that is unexpected. "The funny thing is," Obito says when he calms down looking at Naruto. "he is still terrified of mice to this day." Naruto slightly smiles at this. The smile on his face made Obito smile. "You're planning something, aren't you?"
"Maybe." Naruto laughs. "I have to see this for myself."
"He will act all tough around you, but trust me, he is probably thinking about running away." Obito's eyes widen when he remembers something. "That reminds me of another story." He smiles looking to the blond on his left. "This story is very un-Sasuke like. It was when he first went to a new high school. He was used to people admiring him for his looks, but they never bothered him. When he got to the new school though it was horrible. Everyone came up to him and grabbed him and tried to flirt with him. He must have had some kind of panic attack and he ran away and he ran right into the girls bathroom. He was mortified for months, which is reasonable. He then ran into the boys bathroom and locked himself in a stall. Teachers tried to get him out but he refused. They actually had to call us to come and get him out. I have to admit I felt kind of bad for him at the time seeing him so freaked out, but now we all playfully pick on him about it since he is used to the flirting he gets now." Naruto thinks about it. It must have been horrifying, he knows he would be embarrassed to no end if that happened to him, but it is kind of funny that he ran into the girls bathroom.
Obito stops when he can feel Itachi close. Naruto looks back to him and Obito smiles. "I have somewhere I need to be. Why don't you go back to the house."
Naruto arches a brow but nods. "Alright, see ya." He waves as Obito sprints off. Naruto purses his lips. Something seems awfully fishy around here. He shrugs and starts back to the house. He steps inside and closes the door walking to the stairs then freezes hearing the door close again. Naruto slowly looks back and his eyes shoot wide open. "Itachi!"
"Naruto!" Itachi smiles. Naruto furrows his brows and walks to him. Itachi stops smiling when he sees Naruto's inquisitive stare.
"Itachi." Naruto crosses his arms and glares at him. "What is going on?"
"Okay, okay. Don't get mad. I can't tell you what's happening because if you know then Sasuke will get mad at you too if he finds out."
"If he finds out? Itachi, what are you doing to him?"
"Nothing bad, I promise. He'll get over it soon." He beams remembering what he wants to show Naruto. "Come with me, come with me!" He grabs Naruto's hand and sprints up the grand staircase and into the library. He grabs a photo album and sits them both on a chair smiling brightly. "I have always wanted to do this." Itachi bounces happily and looks to the blond with a gleam in his eyes.
Naruto finally understands what was going on. He rolls his eyes and smiles. These guys are asking for it when Sasuke gets back here. They better hope he doesn't find out.
"Okay, okay. Where to start?" Itachi looks at the covers of the many photo albums he has on his lap not sure where to start. "Oh, this one! This one is funny. It's filled with baby Sasuke." Itachi gushes excitedly. He opens the photo album showing Naruto cute baby Sasuke. He had such a cute butt. Naruto smiles at all the pictures. "This one is funny." Itachi points to a picture of Sasuke sitting in the tub crying. "In this one he peed in the tub and he thought he was going to get into trouble so he started to cry." Naruto can't help but chuckle at that. He is actually pretty happy that all the Uchiha wanted to talk to him like this that they went to such lengths to do it. Not to mention he is getting a lot of stories that Sasuke probably never would have told him about himself.
"Shisui! Oi, Shisui! Wake up." Shisui groggily opens his eyes and looks at Sasuke. "Are you able to walk?"
"Sa-suke?" Shisui slowly sits up with Sasuke's help. Sasuke narrows his eyes looking at him. "Where are we? Where's Itachi and Obito?"
"We're in the forest. Obito got attacked but told me to keep going. I found Itachi and he was weak so he went home alone. I have to get you home now."
"No. W-we have to ... go find Obito." Shisui cringes standing up.
"Obito will be fine. He's not weak."
"Neither were Itachi or myself, but look at us." Sasuke stares at him then growls. He's right. Dammit. "We have to go back to where he was last."
"Do you need help, or are you able to run on your own?"
"I think I'll be good, I'll just have to take it a little slow."
Sasuke nods and they sprint off. It takes them a little while to find Obito laying next to a tree. Sasuke growls and kneels next to him. "Obito?"
"I'm ... fine." Obito mutters.
"Then get up. The train is leaving."
"S-Sasuke.." Shisui says a little disbelieving that Sasuke would make him walk on his own.
Sasuke rolls his eyes at him. "He said he's fine. If you're fine you can walk." Sasuke glares down at Obito. Sasuke stares into Obito's eyes and grumbles to himself. He slowly helps him up and wraps his arm around his neck. "Let's get back before anything else happens."
The must have lost track of time looking at Sasuke's pictures because Madara walks into the library and leans on the archway. Itachi's eyes widen and he looks up smiling. "Oh, Madara. Is my time up now?"
"Yeah, so hurry into your room and get into bed."
Itachi closes the photo albums turning to Naruto whispering. "Good luck, Naruto." He stands up putting them all back and leaves making Naruto arch a brow. Good luck?
Naruto looks to Madara and stands up walking over to him. "I take it it's your turn to talk to me?"
Madara nods. "Follow me." Naruto obeys and follows him down the hall. He knows he isn't going to be hearing a funny story from Madara, he doesn't seem like he's that kind of person. "What exactly is Sasuke to you?"
Naruto is caught off guard by the question. "Well, he's really nice and he's a great friend."
Madara glances to him waiting a little bit. "I'll ask once more. Now this time tell me what you actually think."
Naruto drops his eyes to the ground. What does he actually think? He really likes Sasuke. He likes him enough to want to date him. He wouldn't say he's in love with him yet, but he does really like him. "He makes me really happy. I feel safe when I'm around him, and he is really fun to be around. I honestly really like him. I don't love him yet, but feel like I will with a little time."
Madara looks at Naruto then back to where they're walking. He thinks over what Naruto said, liking the answer. "Sasuke likes tomatoes." Naruto arches a very confused brow at him. Why did he bring that up? "If he is cranky one day just give him one." Naruto then understands. He must have approved of him. Naruto smiles and nods. "But I must warn you," Naruto stops smiling and looks him in the eyes as they stop right in front of the front door. "if you lead Sasuke on I will not hesitate to kill you."
Naruto shows no fear. In fact, he actually smiles. "You don't have to worry. I wouldn't ever plan on doing that." Madara arches a brow. For some reason he kind of liked this boy. Maybe it's because he reminds him of Hashirama. He is his distant relative after all.
Out of the middle of nowhere, the door slams open. "He found out! I repeat! He found out!" Shisui screams running into the house with a frantic Obito right with him. They don't hesitate to shut the door. They just run right up the stairs. "Itachi! Abort mission! Run for it! Itachi!"
Naruto blinks a couple times and glances to Madara. "I was wondering what was taking them so long." Madara says crossing his arms. The three other Uchiha run down the hall to the main entrance and run down the stairs only to skid to a halt and run back up them after seeing a certain someone sprinting to the house through the open door.
"I'm going to kill all of you!" Sasuke shouts as he sprints in the house and right up the stairs after the three. All of a sudden there's a lot of banging, cracking, slamming, screaming and things breaking.
"S-Sasuke! Wait! I can- NO! MADARAAAA!"
Naruto raises worried brows. Madara sighs. "Looks like I'm needed." He walks up the stairs casually as if Sasuke wasn't beating the shit out of his relatives and sibling. Naruto's eyes widen when something sounds like it exploded. What has he gotten himself into?
What did you guys think? This is personally my favorite chapter XD I hope you liked this chapter. I made it a little longer since the last chapter was really short. Review your thoughts :3 I love reading what you guys think about the chapter. And if you have any thoughts on how I could improve anything then feel free to tell me :3 Thanks for reading!