I have been so busy with school. I'm currently learning Japanese, which is awesome for when I go to Japan two years from now or whenever. And I started writing a comic. . Kyaaaa! Ever since I learned Japanese, I keep laughing at all the nya and kya the anime girls do. The sound effects are hilarious. Have you guys seen Arashi ni Shiygare something? I spelled that wrong. But yes, that tv show made me sound like I was dying. I could not stop laughing. And I've come upon this Naruto blog. My story was rated...well, it was bad. Not this story, but another story. I couldn't be mad since all his other reviews funny enough to make me laugh. Oh boy, I keep talking about laughing. Well, yeah, school has been keeping me. I haven't thought about the time or writing this until someone sent in a message promising ramen. I have your username and will hold you to it. ;D

Chapter 9

"Naruto?"

"Hmm?'

"I don't want to."

'Why not?" Naruto knew the answer to his question perfectly, but chose to put on an innocent face to make Sasuke squirm. And squirm, he did.

"I-It's embarrassing."

"Come on. If you were slashed on the stomach by a big, mother panda, I would help you out too."

"B-But…but…"

"…argh!"

"What's wrong?"

"The pain! The doctor said I needed plenty of food and rest, but that stupid Gaara hasn't been as cooperative as you would think. And then you came and I thought I would be able to…argh! But don't worry. I'll manage somehow. Let's just hope my stitches don't open again."

"Okay, okay. Stop trying to get back up."

Naruto lay back down and opened his mouth with a smile. "Ahhh."

Sasuke gingerly lifted the spoon and brought it up to Naruto's lips. As the blond ate, Sasuke tried not to think about why he was so embarrassed. It was only spoon feeding someone. He's done it to Neji, when the boy was sick and Itachi had been out of town, and even to Kiba, when he had been drunk. He tried not to think about the spoon being in Naruto's mouth. At least, not too much.

"So I've wondering, why are you friends with Kiba?"

Sasuke didn't know how to answer that. He shrugged and replied, "We just are. We grew up together and he's always been….nice." Nice was an understatement of what Kiba really is. The boy is a natural pushover.

"And now he's marrying your cousin?"

"Yes. Why are you suddenly asking this?" As far as Sasuke knew, Kiba and Naruto are merely classmates.

"You two don't exactly seem to be the type of be friends. Acquaintances, maybe, or a friend of a betrayed friend."

"Betrayed friend?" Sasuke quirked a curious eyebrow.

"Yeah, I was watching this anime about ninjas."

"Right." Sasuke delivered another spoonful into Naruto's mouth. He was getting the hang of this and his girly emotions have died down.

"Were you ever in love with him?"

If the spoon had been a knife, Naruto would've been poked. Sasuke considered the question carefully before answering. He couldn't understand why Naruto would ask him that. In love with Kiba? Was the blond joking? "No. We're only friends."

"Hmm." Naruto thought about the answer then asked, "Did he ever try to kiss you?"

"What? Ew. No. Why are you asking so many weird questions today?"

"No reason," Naruto said between mid-bites.

Except Sasuke knew there was a reason and he dreaded to know what it was when Naruto finished swallowing.

"Just that…you don't have many friends and he being the only one, I thought there must've been times growing up that you were curious about each other."

That made things more confusing for Sasuke. "If we were curious about each other, we would've just asked."

Naruto made a face, possibly irritated by Sasuke's lack of understanding. "About your body?"

Sasuke dropped the spoon into the bowl with a surprise. "Are you suggesting we touched each other? My god, are you sick? I've never even kissed anyone before." Sasuke watched as Naruto's face pan out into a shocked, emotionless mask before the blond sat up in surprise, only to fall back into the couch with pain. Sasuke didn't know what to do so he patted Naruto's arm awkwardly. "You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah," Naruto said nonchalantly. "So what you're saying is I'm your first boyfriend? You've never been on a date with anyone? Girl or guy?"

"I've been on lots of dates," Sasuke said, a little annoyed for some reason.

"Well, excluding the weird ones you meet with your brother…"

"Umm…" Sasuke found to his shock that he hasn't been on a real date with anyone before. Sure, girls asked him out, but it was hard to get to know her when all he saw in her mind was him ravaging her. Or the other way around. The reason he got along with Kiba is because of his honest/pure mind. There were thoughts about beating him up on occasion, but Sasuke had deserved them and found them amusing rather than threatening. Yeah. Naruto would be his first…ever. "I guess so."

"Seriously?"

Sasuke nodded his head in a care-free manner. So he was scared out of his mind when Naruto screamed to hell. "What? Are you in pain?" Except Naruto was gripping his head, not his stomach. Could there be something wrong with his mind? Well, he is mumbling to himself.

"I knew there was something not quite right. No wonder you were so entrancing."

"Entrancing?"

As if remembering he was here, Naruto reaches out casually and strokes the side of Sasuke's face. "Yes, very much." Naruto set the bowl aside and pull Sasuke down towards him. He kissed those lips lightly, so as not to scare the inexperience boy away, and during the middle of this, he held Sasuke closer to his body, but Sasuke suddenly resisted and pulled away.

"Wait, wait, your wounds," Sasuke said, keeping weight off of Naruto.

Naruto barely gave it a second thought and flipped himself over on to Sasuke. "Now there are no worries," he said before resuming the kiss. This time, he intensified the kiss after finding Sasuke's resistance was not because he didn't want to.

Sasuke was keeping up as much he can, but actually doing something you've only seen on TV was much harder than it looked. Naruto, on the other hand, neither cared nor noticed the sloppy kisses he was receiving. His senses were overloading with Sasuke's essence and beneath it, he can feel the throbbing soul yearning for him. As a demon, lust is supposed to be the only thing that was simple to him. And he felt it. But with Sasuke, another strong feeling arose. It overlapped with his lusts and intertwined. The feelings fought, trying to dominate and let itself be ruled by the other. Naruto licked and sucked those lips and received beautiful moans of gratitude. He was satisfied with this, just kissing, and yet this action crushed his judgment. His control slipped by waves until his demonic fangs protruded from their hiding place. Luckily, Sasuke didn't notice. He, too, was caught up by the feelings rushing over him. The lips kissing him moved to latch onto his neck.

His fangs descended to Sasuke's neck. He knew what he was going to do; he needed to bite. His body ached for it and Sasuke would belong to him. Whether Sasuke wanted to or not. Naruto had less than a few seconds to remember why it would be wrong to before the front door swung open. The interruption caused Sasuke to instinctively push himself away and stopped any lusty feelings from completing its fruition. Sasuke didn't dare look at anyone. He quickly sat up and adjusted his shirt, which had been unbuttoned, he didn't know when, during their activity.

Naruto snapped his head around to glare at Gaara, who had wisely covered Neji's eyes before the door fully opened. Because if not, Neji would've seen Naruto's eyes pulsing red and snarling his fangs at them. Gaara's nails darken into black. Just a precaution. The red head wasn't sure if Naruto knew who he was at this point. He didn't say anything; not wanting to cause any unnesscary panic for Sasuke and Neji, but also unprepared if his saying something would cause Naruto to spring into an attack.

"Sorry about that," Sasuke apologized.

Neji was quiet. If there was any indecency, he was okay with Gaara covering his eyes. But Sasuke's voice woke Naruto from the trance he was in. His eyes returned to their blue state and everything returned to human form.

"Neji, Sasuke, you two should probably go," said Gaara, removing his hand from Neji's face.

"Why?" snapped Naruto. His appearance remained normal, but the angry aura around him increased. "They can stay if they want."

"No, I should go."

The anger disappeared from Naruto as he turned towards Sasuke. "Ok. If that's what you want. When are you coming back?"

Sasuke blushed at the pleading look Naruto gave him and replied to him with a 'maybe tomorrow.' "Ah, thank you for letting me stay, Gaara-san. Have a good night," Sasuke said. Neji allowed himself to be drag out, but not before waving a confused good-bye at Gaara.

Gaara closed the door and imagined everything to be over, however when he turned back around, he was met with Naruto's demonic face. "You're welcome."

"Nii-san," Sasuke greeted as soon as he opened the door. "When did you get back?"

"Just now. Kiba and Hinata said hi," Itachi said, not looking up from his paperwork.

"Oh." Sasuke didn't inquire about his brother's meeting with the couple. Kiba is like family to them and he is Sasuke's childhood friend, but they had all been against him marrying Hinata, especially Neji, but Neji has issues. They were completely sure if Kiba fully understand the consequences of what he was dealing with. But Kiba had proven himself. Sasuke was stung to find the full extent of Kiba's commitment and how deeply he had thought about it all these years. Hinata was the same as Kiba. She knew the family has been trying to find ways to break the curse and there were chances Neji, Itachi and Sasuke himself won't be the ones to do so. She promised her children would, that she wasn't going to let her family suffer. Hinata is mature to know her own decisions. She and Kiba made that clear. How to argue that, indeed?

Itachi interrupted Sasuke's inner thoughts with, "How did your meeting with Naruto-san go?"

Sasuke stop in the midst of taking off his jacket. "How did you know about that?"

"After sulking for two days, I figure you would've gone to him for an explanation."

"I was not sulking."

"Were too," said Neji, who pushed past Sasuke's intruding figure aside to get inside.

"What about you? What were you up to with Gaara-san?" retorted Sasuke.

"We went for a walk."

"Oh? Is that all you did?" teased Sasuke, jabbing Neji in the side with his elbow.

Neji gave his cousin a blank stare before replying, "Sasuke, don't be a pervert." Then he retreated into his room whilst Sasuke yelled obscene things.

Sasuke huffed his way to his brother's side. "Can you believe—?" He stopped mid-question, because where his brother had been was this big empty space. Seconds later, he heard a door from upstairs being closed. "Everybody's mean," he mumbled, annoyed.

Naruto paced the floor then sat down to fidget and go up to pace again. He did this for a while, wringing his hand and frowning with deep thought. Or not so deep. After Sasuke left, he couldn't bring himself to calm down. He wanted to go to Sasuke, touch him, mark him, take care of him, everything! His breaths came in shallow, rapid paces.

"Will you sit down? You're giving me a headache."

Unable to control himself, he fired destructive spells at Gaara, who merely absorbed it into a black sphere from his hand. Naruto groan in pain and drop himself into a chair. "Sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"It's your first time finding a mate?" asked Gaara.

"What? Mate?"

Gaara narrowed his eyes in irritation. "What is your grimoire there for? Decoration? A mate is someone you—."

"I know what a mate is!" Naruto clutched the arm seat. His hand sparked and fire sprung from underneath his palm.

"Please stop destroying my furniture."

Naruto looked at his hand in surprise, quelled the fire, and restored the chair to its original form. "Argh! I didn't know it was supposed to be like this." Then seeing Gaara's composure, he asked, "How come you aren't like this?"

"It's easier to control oneself the second time around."

Naruto's brain went into overdrive over that and he sat up from the chair in anger. "You sure you didn't curse them?"

"Stop dripping acid onto the floor."

"Huh?" He brought his hands to eye level and saw the green smoke spawning from them. He shook his hands and it disappeared. "My bad."

"You're clearly not controlling yourself without Sasuke."

"Clearly," he repeated sarcastically. Suddenly, he brightened up. "So I should go find him?"

"That would be bad. He doesn't know you're a demon. What happens when your eyes start glowing in the dark?"

Naruto sighed and leaned heavily into the chair. "Damn it. What am I suppose to do then? I'm going crazy."

"Maybe it would be a good idea for you to return home. Your wounds have already healed."

"No." The blond glared at him for even thinking about that. It's not as if home was such a bad place. Heck, who are we kidding? It's Hell. His main reason was leaving Sasuke behind. With Itachi's approaching birthday, the demon responsible for the curse could up any day now. And Gaara was more concern for Neji's safety so he'll protect Neji and Itachi, but Sasuke wouldn't stand a chance. He couldn't leave. What he needed to do now was find the demon first before he contacts Itachi, but Gaara has always been tight lip about his past with them. Even if they were "friends," Gaara wouldn't tell him anything. "You know I can find whoever cursed them."

Gaara glance at Naruto's serious look. Yes, he knew. Naruto has connections everywhere and lots of demons owed him favors they didn't want to owe. And Gaara knew by keeping his mouth shut he was toying with Neji's life line, but he's never spoken about what happened to anyone. Neji, though understanding and kind, is still too young to handle the burden Gaara holds. Not too many humans are capable of comprehending truths. Sure, they understand. Naruto would find out who. Even without his connection, there is that spell in the blond's own grimoire. "Alright. However, this doesn't count as a favor."

Naruto balked at him, but doesn't counter with anything. After all, Sasuke's life is on the life too. He held out a hand. "Shall we then?"

The red head eye the hand warily. "…did you wash that?"

"…"

Neji was on his bed, reading through the grimoire when Sasuke walked into his room. He hopes his cousin wasn't sulking again. They were family, but it was still annoying. Sasuke moved at a steady pace and sat down on his bed across from him. He didn't say anything, prompting Neji to start the conversation. "What?"

"Do you think nii-san has been acting weird?"

"You mean, besides him dying?"

"I'm serious."

"So am I," Neji said, tensely. He flipped the pages more forcefully than he intended to.

"Oh. So you've been thinking about it too?" Sasuke sighed and flopped onto his back. He sat back up, frustrated. "What are we suppose to do?"

"This." Neji turned the book around for Sasuke to see.

Sasuke saw the picture of a young man, maybe around mid-to-late twenty. The man had neat black hair and dark eyes. He was dressed in what seems to be the 17th century fashion. A hint of a playful smile was on his lips, as if catching a child doing something he shouldn't have. What was strange is that he felt familiar to this person. "Who is he?"

"Don't know. Unlike the rest of the book's illustrations, this one doesn't have a description." Neji had felt something from this man when he came upon it, but his powers did nothing to help since it could not tell him the past. And nothing of the future came from it, probably meaning this person died already. He didn't want to bring it to Itachi since he agreed with Sasuke that ani-sama is acting weird, even for being Itachi. "I was hoping you could get something from it."

Sasuke didn't have the power to see into the past like Itachi, obviously, but he can grasp the residue of people's thoughts on objects they had strong feelings for. He never told his brother of this ability, probably because he knew his brother was already hiding things from him. But if it came down to it, he also didn't want to burden his brother with any more worries. Neji knew. But Sasuke hesitated on this. Sure, he was sacrificing animals left and right in the hopes of summoning the demon and riding of the curse, but this seems real. The book had an unearthly feeling to it. People's minds were already such a frightening place; he didn't want to see the mind of whoever made this book. But… He took a deep breath, placed his hand on the book, and let his mind loose.

He waited for horrible images. Nothing came. The two looked at each other in confusion. Maybe it was too long ago and there was no residue left to see into.

"Well, that—," Neji stopped. He had reached out to close the book and a strong heaviness drifted over his entire body. He looks towards Sasuke and saw the same expression he might be wearing on the other's face.

Neji and Sauske pulled their hands back. They gave each other a final look before deciding to give whatever this was a go. Both extended their hands back towards the book and released their powers to see into the object. Neji's powers struggled against the invisible wall blocking him into the future. With Sasuke's powers to read into the past owner's thoughts, he pulled Neji along with himself back. Neji's powers developed into a hindsight towards the past.

Once things stopped swirling, the vision stopped at a house in the middle of the woods. It was a cozy-looking place with smoke running from the chimney and plants growing near the side of the house. The attention catcher was the young man chopping wood, not too far off. He immediately sensed someone watching him and turned towards them. He broke into a smile and walked over. Once he was close enough for them to feel uncomfortable, he kissed them.

"Welcome back," the young man said.

A/N: There hasn't been any questions so...

Naruto and Gaara's identity are no mysterious anymore. It's just a matter of when and where when their identity is revealed to Sasuke and Neji.

Do you guys know any place that sells okonomiyaki? I've tried the Korean version and it wasn't to my taste. If you guys know, that be great. Just name a restaurant.

I was also thinking of making Thou Shalt Not Kill into a manga. A web-comic mostly. Not with the Naruto characters, of course. I need a drawer. You know. Cause I can't draw. But surprisingly I made a comic and they published it. Ah, it's amateur work.

...now I feel embarrass for asking.

Narra 2.0 : What if someone agrees, you meet them and they turn out to be a psychopath?

...now I feel scared. How would I go about doing this? My friends don't know I'm moonlighting as a fanfiction writer. Watch out, I could be your friend. If a web-comic becomes popular, do you make money off of it? I'll try to update again.

Narra 2.0 : Yes, after you finish that paper, memorize all those japanese characters, do the homework and read these many pages.

By the end of the year. T.T