I was proud of myself for updating but then I took a long time between chapters, Again. Curses.

But, after updating I made a little time line for things that I want to happen and I now know where I'm taking this! Please continue to read and review my wonderful readers.

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Chapter Eleven.

The Sasuke-doppelganger smirked at him before taking a few wobbly steps, forcing Naruto to back up.

"Not Sasuke," the man murmured, his voice rough, "even better."

Naruto eyed him wearily, had he saved the lesser of two evils? This guy was acting drunk with his weird walk and slurred speech. Plus he had just said that he was better than Sasuke. Who the hell was this guy? Naruto was broken out of his thoughts as the man took a few more stumbling steps towards him, forcing Naruto to back up against the brick alleyway wall. Naruto held out his hands to the approaching man.

"Hey, you alright? You're walking kind-"

Naruto stopped talking abruptly as his outstretched hands were grabbed and he was pulled to the man's chest, his own chest hitting it with a slap at the force. Naruto stood there for a few seconds, dazed with shock before snapping back into reality and looking up at the man furiously. He reached his hands up and pressed them against the man's stomach in an attempt to escape and recoiled as he felt something wet and warm through the shirt.

"Hey, you're-..."

"Itachi." The man interrupted.

Naruto blinked at him, surprised and then confused.

"What?"

A hand snuck around his waist and pulled him closer.

"I'm Itachi."

Naruto looked down at the arm around his waist and then up at the man pointedly. The man stared back blankly, a faint smirk on his lips and Naruto glared.

"That's great, Itachi, but you do know that you're-"

"Terribly attracted to you?"

Naruto gave a loud, frustrated groan and glared into the raven's now startled face. He reached up his hands and struck them against Itachi's chest in anger.

"No, fucking dammit! Just listen to me and stop fucking interrupting me! You're bleeding, that's what I've been trying to tell you and you won't stop…you…" Naruto trailed off as his mind caught up with him and he looked up at Itachi alarmed, "Did you…did you say that you were…attracted to me?"

Itachi raised an eyebrow and clucked his tongue and shook his head.

'I should be kicking this guy's ass right now, not blushing at him!' Naruto thought and began to struggle again.

Naruto froze as he felt Itachi lean down, he could feel his breathe against his cheek and he looked up at Itachi's face, which was a lot closer now than he had remembered it being before.

"You missed 'terribly'." Itachi whispered and smashed their lips together.

Naruto tensed up as his heart gave that obligatory seize that it does whenever you kiss, really kiss, anybody. The heart seize was normal, what came next however, was not. One second he was inwardly wailing about getting raped in the ally way and the next his mind was flooded with thoughts of Sasuke.

'The fuck?' Naruto thought as his mind was filled with snapshots of Sasuke. Sasuke smiling at him, Sasuke looking at him shocked, Sasuke looking at him angrily, Sasuke looking annoyed.

Naruto felt his skin break out in goosebumps as his mind continued to be filled with everything Sasuke while a tongue probed sensually at his own.

….A tongue!

Naruto's jerked back with a gasp that turned into a strangled cry of pain as he hit his head on the brick wall behind him. His hands flew to the back of his head and he rubbed at it, whimpering pitifully before he realized that he was free from Itachi's grip.

Itachi stood back, watching him appraisingly and smirking.

"You ok?"

"You kissed me!" Naruto shrieked, feeling quite violated…OK not really but that was the problem! He just got kissed by a guy and he didn't feel upset about it at all; The thing that he was most upset about was hitting his head.

"You're welcome."

Naruto gaped at Itachi in shock before letting out another frustrated, furious groan.

"You're even worse than the bastard!"

Itachi blinked at him before narrowing his eyebrows angrily, his mouth turning down into a scowl.

"Sasuke's touched you better?"

Naruto's eyes widened in shock and his cheeks burned furiously at the idea, why aren't I feeling disgusted?

"What? No! He hasn't…hasn't touched me at all…" Naruto protested awkwardly.

Itachi looked at him, processing this information and then gave him a lecherous smirk.

"How unfortunate for him! You're quite the catch!"

Naruto averted his eyes awkwardly and shrugged, why me.

"Thanks?"

For a few seconds they were silent before Itachi snapped his fingers in realization, startling Naruto. Naruto looked at him expectantly and Itachi looked back impassively.

"You're also going to have to take me to the hospital." He said calmly.

Naruto's eyes widened,

"Wait what?"

Itachi gave him a small smile and a wave before promptly collapsing.

Naruto's eyebrow twitched as a curious hand slid down his back and towards his jeaned ass.

"Itachi…" He growled out warningly.

Said raven gave a put off 'humph' and the hand settled on his waist.

'Not better.' Naruto thought dryly, gripping the pen in his hand so tightly he thought it would burst as he filled out the registration papers.

"Now, how did you stumble upon Mr…" the nurse trailed off, flipping through the papers she had been given.

"Uchiha." Itachi filled in casually and Naruto gaped at him.

"You're related to Sasuke?"

"I'm his brother actually."

"Excuse me!" the nurse called out loudly, interrupting them, "how did you stumble upon Mr. Uchiha, then."

Naruto glared at her slightly, he didn't like her; she had an attitude.

"I went out to get a drink at the corner store right outside of my neighborhood and heard a fight in an ally way right next to it so I went and stopped it and found him."

The nurse receptionist gave him a disbelieving look and popped her gum.

"You went out to get a drink at…" she checked the time on her wrist, "three in the morning."

Naruto full out glared at her now, 'fuck you too, fucking four-pig tails.'

"I couldn't sleep. Look, are you gonna help him or not? He's bleeding."

At this information the nurse turned professional and started sifting through the papers seriously now. She checked various boxes and filled in blanks, checking her watch numerous times.

"Do you need a nurse to roll him back or can you manage to get him back to the ER by yourself?" She asked.

Naruto's first reaction was to get the nurse but Itachi's hand on his waist slowly started to lower itself down to his ass again, Naruto growled and it stopped.

"If I get you a nurse are you going to molest them too?" he asked quietly.

At this the hand slid immediately back up to his waist and held onto him tightly.

"I won't go with anyone but you, Na-ru-to." Itachi said firmly.

Naruto sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He couldn't give Itachi to someone else and sacrifice their innocence. He would have to take him himself.

"Wait…" Naruto said, slowly realizing something, "how did you…?"

He looked at Itachi and felt his eyebrow twitch as he watched the raven wave his driver's license that he had given to the nurse for registration. Naruto growled at him and snatched it out of Itachi's hand and shoved it into his pant's pocket.

"No I'll take him." Naruto sighed, resignedly, "to the back and then left, right?"

The nurse gave him a surprised, impressed look as she handed him the papers to give to the receptionist back there. Naruto saw her look and understood; he folded the papers and got a better hold on Itachi.

"My-.." Naruto started and stopped immediately.

'My wife works here' is what he had almost said, out of habit.

'Fuck!' Naruto thought, frantically. He was in the hospital where Sakura worked! Of course he had driven here 'out of habit' too! He didn't want to see Sakura yet! Or at least not now with Mr. Wandering-hands all over him! He straightened out the papers on the front desk and then turned tensely and walked around the desk, heading towards the back. Naruto's mind raced and he was barely aware of holding on to Itachi or the people that passed him. He forced himself to move quickly for Itachi's sake but his body screamed for him to run out of there. He wasn't ready to see her at all.

They rounded the corner and got to the row of curtained work stations where the ER doctors worked and the ER receptionist there motioned for him to give her the papers. Naruto's heart pounded and he was beginning to feel light headed, he shuffled sluggishly over to her, feeling like he was walking in jelly, and silently handed her the papers.

She looked at him cautiously and then at the papers, shuffling through them and she nodded; the two buns on her head wobbling with the movement.

"I've got a stab wound patient out here for whoever's free!" She yelled out.

Naruto bristled as he heard the metallic scraping sound of a curtain being pulled back suddenly. He knew that he was supposed to turn around but he couldn't, he was so scared that it was going to be her.

"I'm free." An all too familiar voice called out hesitantly and Naruto swore that time froze for a minute.

He swallowed and tightened his hold on Itachi's waist and grimaced as he realized he was sweating. He could see the receptionist and Itachi watching him carefully but he ignored them and forced himself to turn around and face her; she looked shocked but not terribly so.

Seeing this, a spark of anger ignited in his chest.

'You bitch!' Naruto screamed inwardly, 'I bet you don't even care right now, do you?'

They stared at each and the nurse broke the tense silence.

"The patient is Itachi Uchiha. This gentleman rescued him from a mugging and reports a stab wound on his stomach." The receptionist informed Sakura and that seemed to snap her back into work mode.

She nodded towards the brunette and Naruto automatically recoiled as she stepped forward to get Itachi. Sakura froze, realizing her mistake and slowly reached for Itachi's wrist and pulled him over to her. Naruto sighed when her back turned and he followed her as she led Itachi towards her work station. She sat Itachi down on the chair and turned around closed the curtain around them and Naruto's stomach coiled into a ball.

She wasted no time in getting Itachi's shirt off and Naruto felt another flare of anger.

'You've gotten real good at getting rid of guy's clothes. How many did you have over to practice?'

She inspected Itachi's wound, pressing down to check for internal bleeding and asking him questions. Naruto watched as a lock of pink hair fell from her ponytail and Naruto was hit with the memories of her cooking in the kitchen, wearing nothing but his shirt, hair tied up loosely with locks hanging down messily. She'd smile at him and always manage to get him to either: take over and cook it or to take her. Naruto blinked as his eyes stung with the threat of tears and he crossed his arms.

"You saved him, huh?" Sakura called out to him without taking her eyes from Itachi's wound.

Naruto blinked in surprise and then nodded slightly,

"Yeah."

He watched as her red mouth turned up into a rueful smile.

"There you go, being Mr. wonderful again."

His hands tightened around his biceps, his nails digging into his skin. She had called him that teasingly in their three years of marriage, whenever he was being too nice. It hurt terribly to hear her call him that again, knowing that she had been fucking some kid while he had worked for her, had loved her.

She peeked at him from over her shoulder, looking hopeful but Naruto stared her down until she finally looked away.

She continued to exam the stab wound (it wasn't deep she said) and she straightened up and pulled at her latex gloves. She crossed over to her metal tray that carried all her medical utensils and grabbed a needle.

"You'll need a few stitches. No scar, I promise. Think you can manage without pain medicine?"

Itachi looked at her appraisingly and then nodded silently. Sakura gave him a smile and grabbed a stool and brought it over to Itachi and sat on it.

"Wait." Itachi commanded and Sakura looked up at him expectantly, "Naruto, come hold my hand."

Sakura deadpanned at him and then looked curiously over her shoulder at Naruto. Naruto looked back at her before sighing and shoving his hands into his pockets. He crossed over to Itachi and reluctantly pulled out a hand and clapped it into Itachi's. Itachi nodded at Sakura to start and she smiled at him curiously.

She leaned back in and prepared the needle,

"Won't hurt at all." She said.

"There you go, lying again." Naruto said and this time he didn't bother to meet her hurt and stunned gaze. He felt Itachi give his hand a squeeze and he smiled ruefully and squeezed it back.

They drove back in silence; Naruto was looking forward in an emotionless way that Itachi didn't like and Itachi was sitting awkwardly in the passenger seat, one hand on his stomach.

"Who was-"

"My ex-wife."

Itachi grimaced and nodded, looking out the window. So that's why the blonde had gone from 'fuck me, I'm adorable and happy' to 'fuck me, I'm angry and tense'.

"Well I guess she's still my wife technically but…" Naruto trailed off with a shrug and Itachi nodded in understanding.

"How do you know my foolish little brother?" He asked finally after moments of tense silence.

Naruto gave him a curious look at the name and smiled.

"He's my lawyer AND best friend."

Itachi raised his eyebrows and smirked.

"Is that right?"

Naruto nodded, another car passed them, their headlights flooding their own car momentarily with light and Itachi gasped. The blonde was looking forward, pink lips turned up in a smile as ice blue eyes slowly melted into just gorgeous pools of blue; all from just talking about his little brother. The wheels in his head began to turn.

"And you say….that you haven't done anything with him?" Itachi asked carefully as his mind started to race.

A look of irritation flickered across Naruto's face and he shot him a glance.

"No, Itachi, we haven't done anything. Why are you so obsessed with that?"

Suddenly everything clicked in his head and Itachi gave a sinister grin before schooling his face and turning towards the window and observing the night with disinterest.

"Oh, only because of my little brother's….history…."

Itachi was met with silence and he tensed, waiting to see if Naruto would take the bait.

"….history?"

Itachi grinned at the window, hook line and sinker. He turned back towards Naruto who was looking from the road and back to him continuously, he was curious.

"You mean you don't know?" He asked in mock shock, "I'm surprised; I thought you would have done research on your own lawyer."

Naruto's eyebrows furrowed as he processed what he was hearing.

"What don't I know?" He asked, his voice sounding accusing.

"Oh, only that my little brother has been called repeatedly, 'New York's Playboy'. He gets what he wants easily and then throws it away. What he wants usually is a one night stand….but, you're sure you haven't done anything with him?"

Naruto's hands were gripping the steering wheel and he looked rather panicked.

"Yes! I'm sure!"

Itachi gave a deliberately slow whistle.

"I'm impressed, for you to look like you do and have him not try to make a pass at you….that's a little odd, don't you think?"

"No, we're both guys!" Naruto said unsteadily, his voice shaking slightly.

Itachi gave a loud scoff.

"That means nothing to my brother, boys and girls alike, he's had them all."

Itachi watched as Naruto processed this information, his blue eyes becoming wide and panicked. Itachi could almost see his mind racing.

"You're lying…" Naruto whispered out and Itachi gave a chuckle.

"No no, I don't lie. I'm not implying anything; I just merely find it rare for my brother to not bed someone of your looks." Itachi said in mock-thought, "you say you've been working with him for a couple of months?"

Naruto nodded mutely, his eyes locked on the road before him as he twisted into the neighborhood and Itachi watched the corner store fly by from the car.

"Sounds to me like you're a special case." He said slowly.

Naruto looked at him sharply.

"What? What does that mean?"

Itachi gave him a look and shrugged his shoulders.

"You don't know of my brother's history so you don't know how impossible it is to believe he hasn't tried anything with you which leads me to believe that you're…special to him." Itachi watched blonde and when he got no response he took it a bit further, "like maybe…he doesn't want only your body but-"

"But what?" Naruto barked out, his hands gripping the steering wheel as he sped past houses recklessly. "What else could he want; if he even did want anything?"

Itachi could see that this was hitting a chord with the blonde and he thought carefully about how to phrase what he was going to say next; the next thing he said would be the starting piece of his game and he had to start it off right. After a moment's thought Itachi looked forwards and pressed a fist to his mouth thoughtfully.

"Maybe he just wants….you?"