Sasuke's POV

"I love you!" He stated in a forced even tone. He saw Naruto's eyes pop open wide in surprise and just when the blonde was about to say something, he poofed and vanished into thin air.

At first, Sasuke was too surprised to notice what had happened, but when he realized he was still staring blankly at the spot Naruto had been a few seconds ago, with his arms wrapped around nothing, he felt his temper boiling. He felt really damned stupid for being tricked like that and angry that Naruto had lied to him when he said he wasn't going to run away anymore.

But Sasuke DID know that Naruto must've still been somewhere in the hideout's area, because his Sharingan confirmed that when he captured the blonde, it had been the real one, not a Kage Bunshin. And judging by the state of tiredness from Naruto's body, he guessed that he wasn't too far away, if anything, he was probably hiding.

So Sasuke decided to plaster on a fake smirk and projected his voice saying, "Hn, well I guess you are still scared of me, my little Naru. But I still do enjoy a nice game of hide and seek. But since you've deceived me, when I find you, I'm going to have to punish you. Just remember, you brought it upon yourself." At the flare of nervous chakra he sensed, his smirk came more easily as he set out to hunt the sneaky nin out.

Naruto's POV

When Naruto heard the bastard say that he was going to 'punish' him, he temporarily lost his cool and lost a little bit control of his chakra. He cursed himself and knew that he was going to have to start moving now if he didn't want to be found. Though still, he was pretty proud of himself for tricking Uchiha Sasuke, the prodigy boy that has always been better. Although after hearing Sasuke mutter "I love you", the desire to escape vanished.

What he saw through his clone's eyes had been real and true and pure. Sasuke was laying his soul out to him, only to figure out he'd been deceived. Naruto was going to come out and apologize, but when he heard what Sasuke was going to do to him, he lost his nerve and started moving.

Even though he was still feeling dizzy from being knocked out and woken too early and from the completely unexpected confession, he still managed to move and hold himself as a ninja. The only major problem was, was that he had no clue where he was going and knew he was going to get himself lost. The underground hideout was just a maze of hallways and Naruto knew he had to get to the stairs and bust out. With that thought, he slowed down a little in his pursuit of stairs.

Did he really want to escape? Finally after hearing Sasuke-teme confess what he'd been dying to hear since he'd realized his own feelings? He knew he wanted to let Sasuke know what he truly felt now, but his body was in survival mode and it was screaming for him to run. Naruto was torn between his heart and common sense. He chewed his bottom lip nervously for a few seconds, with eyes averted to the ground and then made his decision. He'd escape, but then when he was feeling better, he'd let Sasuke come and find him. At least when he had his full mind back and the strength of his body again. His eyes shone with determined light and he nodded his head with grim firmness.

He was about to take off jogging around the next corner he found when he ran into a hard chest. Oh damnit! Naruto thought nervously, He found me! Damnit to hell! Now I doubt I'll ever be able to leave. Not that Naruto really wanted to, though.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard someone clearing his throat and looked away from the chest that was eye-level with him, and instead of looking into onyx eyes like he expected, he looked into golden snake-like eyes and felt the colour draining from his face with one thought: Oh shit! Orochimaru looked down on him with a frown. When he met golden eyes, he expected them to be full of anger, but light for battle. Instead he found them contradicting the frown on white, thin lips. They were full of sick satisfaction and amusement.

He was about to turn away and run, knowing it was his only chance at survival, considering his sluggish body was too weak to fight, when Orochimaru's hissing voice froze him in place. "So, Naruto-kun, we meet again! How long has it been, a few months, maybe?" When Naruto just stood and looked up to him, not frozen anymore with no more fear in those blue eyes, instead with burning hatred and anger, Orochimaru just laughed, "Well, that's unique. Do you know how many people dare to look at me with that kind of a glare, boy?" When Naruto didn't answer, Orochimaru put a white, long finger under his tan chin and leaned into whisper in the blonde's ear, "Only the ones that end up dead."

Well, that definitely got a reaction out of him. Naruto felt himself stiffen up and was about to fight for his life when he heard a cool, even voice ask, "What are you doing, Orochimaru?" Naruto had never been so grateful to see Sasuke before. Even after all these years, the raven still somehow managed to save his ass.

Orochimaru just gave one last meaningful glare to Naruto and released his chin, chuckling and leisurely turning around, "Now, nothing, Sasuke-kun. Just wondering what to do with the new guest here. Maybe you'd like to take care of him? Or can I? He seems like a fighter, just like you, and you know how much I love to have those types squirming under me, don't you, Sasuke-kun?" The snake-sannin asked, still chuckling. But Sasuke didn't seem amused, if anything his face hardened further with a suppressed rage that made Naruto slightly frightened again. Sasuke's tone was a complete contradiction to his face though, it was cold while saying, "Didn't you say that I should get rid of the Konoha shinobi, and take any prisoners I thought suitable?" Orochimaru looked mockingly thoughtful before drawing out, "I recall telling Kabuto to mention something like that to you, yes." "Well Naruto is a person I thought would be a beneficial prisoner. Now, anymore questions?" With a shake of the head and an amused smirk, Orochimaru said, "No, but please do remember that you are speaking to your sensei, Sasuke-kun. And sensei's deserve a little more respect than that."

Naruto only heard Sasuke let out a trademark hn that would piss anyone off, but Orochimaru just laughed unpleasantly, "I'll take that as an of course then, Orochimaru-sama. And by the way, Sasuke-kun, we don't usually allow prisoners to run around freely like you allow Naruto-kun. I hope you understand that it's not some playground here, otherwise I might just have to lock him up myself, and use MY methods to get information out of him." Sasuke just sent him a glare that could burn holes through anyone's skull and grabbed Naruto's wrist roughly and dragged him roughly through the maze of hallways and corridors.

When they were out of hearing range, he was surprised when Sasuke yanked him up close, and then pinned his arms to a random stone wall. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Do you know what he would've done if I hadn't been there to save your sorry ass?" Sasuke hissed close to his face.

Now, with Naruto being his old self again, he wasn't scared, just angry at the treatment but noticed the true beauty of the pretty pissed off Uchiha. He was so captivated with looking at Sasuke that he didn't realize he was staring until Sasuke's furious expression softened, but then turned into a smirk, "Well, with you being so submissive and quiet, I guess I can punish you now."

That most definitely snapped the jinchuuriki out of his daze and glared at Sasuke asking in a steely voice, "And what exactly is my damned punishment? You know, you bastard, I'm not a child, and if anything especially not yours!" It only made Sasuke's smirk spread wider, "Well, if you want an adult punishment, then allow me to give you one, one that will show you just how much you are mine." And with that, Sasuke roughly smashed his lips onto the shocked boy's ones.