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Chapter 14

"What are you talking about teme?" Naruto gasped at the raven who was sitting next to him with his arms crossed across his chest and an annoyed glare on his face.

"I have already explained it to you ten times. What is so hard to understand about something might be on Sakura?" Sasuke glances to the blond who furrows his bows.

"But ... she seemed fine. How do you even know something could be there?"

"Itachi and I both sensed it."

"It was very faint, but I knew something was wrong the moment I saw her." Itachi confirms.

"And you want me to do what?"

"We want you to bring her to the movies and meet up with me there. Act as if everything is normal and you just want to hang out with her, we don't want to scare her if it turns out to be nothing. We just have to get close to her for a longer period of time and see if we can sense anything more or we can see if it is affecting her actions in any way."

"Okay, but did anyone else sense it?"

"Madara and Obito were downstairs and Shisui didn't seem to notice, but it took Sasuke a little while to notice as well so I wouldn't be surprised if the others didn't either." Itachi said crossing his arms.

Naruto perks up and jumps off his bed. "Well then, if you both think something is really wrong then we better not waste any time. I'll go get her ready now and meet you there." Naruto grabs Sasuke's hand and starts to run. He looks back to Sasuke with a grin. "But I need you to drive me there."

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Naruto jumps out of the car and he runs up to the door with Sasuke not far behind. Naruto knocks, then they wait. A few seconds later the door opens revealing the pink haired girl. Her eyes go wide seeing Sasuke and Naruto. "Naruto, Sasuke. What do I owe the pleasure?"

"You have to come with us. I'll tell you everything while you get ready." Naruto starts pushing her back the hall to her room.

She looks back to Sasuke with confusion. "You can come in Sasuke." She says this as Naruto pushes her into her room shutting the door. Sasuke sighs taking a step in her house.

"Sakura? Who was at the door?" Sakura's mother steps out from behind a corner, locking eyes with the raven. Sasuke grumbles to himself. "Oh, hello. Are you here for Sakura?" Her mother moves her eyes up and down Sasuke many times.

"Yes, Naruto is with her right now."

"Oh, Naruto is here too? You must be their friend, what is your name?"

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke smiles at her making a smile appear on her face as well.

"It is nice to meet such a handsome young man. Sakura never brings her friends home." She pauses for a second, her eyes widening. "Oh. Are you dating my daughter?"

Sasuke's eyes widen. How did she come up with this conclusion? "No I am just-"

"There's no reason to be shy!" She laughs putting a hand on Sasuke's arm pulling him to the kitchen. "Let me make you some tea, sweety. Oh I have been wondering when Sakura would bring home her boyfriend." Sasuke felt his eyes twitch. This lady...

Back in Sakura's room, Naruto was turning her closet upside down. He was looking for a pretty outfit, just because she never let him pick out her clothes.

"Naruto. Can you tell me what the hell you are doing."

Naruto paused, seeing something that would look nice, not that she dressed badly any other day. He grabs it and walks over to Sakura holding it up to her. "Helping." He sets the dress on the bed and goes back to the closet.

Sakura sighs folding her arms. He was going to completely demolish her room before he is done. "Why don't I help you and you tell me what you are helping me with." She walks over to him putting a hand on his shoulder. Naruto stops rummaging her closet and glances to the pink haired girl.

"Well, it's not so much as helping. I just want to go to the movies with you, Sasuke and Itachi."

Her eyebrows furrow. "Why do you seem so excited then?"

"Because I have been wanting to hang out with you for a while."

She gives Naruto a slow blink. "Naruto, I appreciate that you want to hang out, but how do you know I wasn't doing something today? Wait, are you and Sasuke together now?"

"That is beside the point." Naruto crosses his arms. "Okay. I'll ask you then. Sakura, do you want to go to the movies with all of us and have a good time? And I knew you weren't doing anything because you are still in your pajamas." The blond smiles.

She smiled looking down at herself. "Okay, yeah I want to go. Now that I know what this is about, let me help you, trying to 'help' me." She walks to her closet and grabs a dress. She motions Naruto to turn, so he turns around, his back facing her. She changes rather quickly. "Okay, turn around." Naruto turns to face her and a smile erupts on his face. "How do I look?" She twirls making her dress flare out slightly. "I have to look cute going out into town." She said this slightly joking.

"Absolutely gorgeous, my lady." Naruto says putting out his hand for her to take it and his other hand behind his back.

"Why thank you, young sir." She says in the voice of a rich lady as she gladly puts her hand on top of Naruto's. They then look to each other and laugh.

Naruto opens the door for her and they walk out. Naruto arching a brow. "Where's Sasuke." They glance to each other once more and they then hear laughter. They follow it to the kitchen. Sasuke was sitting at the table with a fake smile and irritation in his eyes, while Sakura's mother was sitting in front of him laughing.

"Mom. I'm going out with Sasuke an-"

"Oh I know sweety. You sure have got yourself a fine man."

Sakura's eyes widen and she looks from her mother to Sasuke to Naruto, then back to her mother. "No, mom you misunderstood me. I'm going to hang out with Sasuke and Naruto."

"Alright, have fun honey. Don't bring her back too late Sasuke dear." Her mother smiles standing up.

"Mom. You don't understand." Her mom stops and arches a brow at her daughter. "Sasuke is gay." Her mother's eyes widen to the size of baseballs. "And he's dating Naruto." Her mother shoots her eyes to the blond who was sheepishly smiling and he gives her a half wave.

"You mean ..." Her eyes go from the blond to Sasuke. "How would you have a family?"

"I thought you would have already known how that works since you have a daughter." Sasuke says standing up. Naruto's eyes shoot to Sasuke, giving him a look. Sasuke shrugs. "It was nice meeting you." Sasuke says as he walks passed Naruto and Sakura outside.

Naruto looks to Sakura's mother with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry about him." Naruto then grabs Sakura's hand and follows the raven outside. When Sakura sees the car, she had to stare. It was the new black BMW that hasn't even been released yet. "I'll sit in the back. You can sit up front with Sasuke." Naruto opens the door for her and she smiles slowly getting in. When she was in Naruto gets into the back. Right after that, Sasuke pulls out and starts driving to the movie theater.

"How did you get this car? It's supposed to be released next year." She says this as she admires all the features and how sleek it looked.

"We have connections with people."

"I can see that." She teases.

When they get to the theater they all get out and walk up to the entrance where a familiar black haired Uchiha stood staring at the options of movies. Itachi turns and smiles brightly meeting Sakura's eyes. "I see you all made it."

"Yeah, sorry if we made you wait." Naruto laughed putting a hand on his neck.

"It's fine, I just got here myself. So, what movie do you guys want to see?" The four of them look at their choices of movies.

"What about that one?" Naruto pointed toward his suggestion.

"Really dobe? A romance movie?"

"Yes a romance movie." Naruto folded his arms and smiled. "I heard it was really good." Sasuke only rolls his eyes at the blond once again. Naruto then glances to Itachi and Sakura. "Is this okay with you guys?"

"I've actually wanted to see this movie." Sakura beams clapping her hands in front of her.

"It sounds good to me." Itachi chuckled at Sasuke's slightly annoyed expression. He hated these kinds of movies.

"It's settled then." Naruto beamed walking through the door and to the counter. "Four tickets for Time Square, please." Sasuke walked up next to him and handed the ticket man some money. The man then handed Naruto the tickets and Naruto turns handing everyone their ticket. "Does anyone want popcorn or a drink?" They look to each other to see if anyone did, but no one came forth. "I take that as a no." Naruto laughed and they all walked up to the person who checks your ticket.

They hand him their tickets and he checks them, then rips them handing the rest back to the four. "It's the last theater on the left."

"Thanks." Naruto beams as they all walk into the theater. It was kind of dark in the theater, but all that was playing was commercials. The four of them decided where to sit and took their seats. Itachi on the isle seat, then Sakura, then Sasuke and lastly Naruto. Sasuke and Itachi sat next to Sakura to be closest to her to see if they could sense anything on her today. And if they could, if it was the same scent as last time. For the most part, right now anyway, she was acting completely normal.

And she definitely did have a scent, although this time it was more noticeable. Now they only have to figure out what it's purpose was.

Going over some ideas in their heads, they kept coming up short. Maybe they could just ask her if she had any contact with Orochimaru or if he has done anything kind of strange. But for right now they will have to wait. They can ask her when the movie is done.

Since Naruto couldn't sense anything like Sasuke and Itachi, he decided to watch the movie, soon becoming engrossed in it. It was so intense for a romance movie. After an hour and a half, the movie was finished, letting the lights slowly start to dim back on.

"I guess that movie wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." Sasuke sighs. "What did you think Naru-" Sasuke stops himself mid-sentence hearing sniffling coming from his right. He turns his head to the side Naruto was on to see him crying. He arches a brow hearing more sniffling coming from the left. He turns to see Itachi with tears streaming down his face as well. Sasuke's eyebrows rise at the sight. He looks over to see Sakura putting a reassuring hand on Itachi's shoulder.

"It's gonna be okay you two." Sakura says in a comforting voice.

"It was just so touching." Itachi sniffles.

"He finally was going to be able to tell her that he loved her but he ended up not having enough time and she died." Naruto leans over on Sasuke's shoulder and sniffles.

"He was so close. Why did she have to leave?"

Sasuke was stunned. He moves his eyes to Sakura who looked to him and a smile appeared on her lips. "Come on you two. Let's go get some ice cream or something."

"I want Strawberry." Itachi sniffled standing up.

"I want chocolate." Naruto says standing as well.

"You can get whatever you want." She smiles putting a hand on both of their back leading them out of the theater with a very confused Sasuke following not far behind.

Once they left the theater, all four of them go to the ice cream shop not too far from it and order some ice cream. When everyone had their order, they all went and took a seat outside. Now was the time to ask her some questions.

"Are you two okay now?" She smiled at the two who had tears rolling down their cheeks not to long ago.

"Yeah." The two of them nodded licking their cones.

Sasuke stares at Itachi, waiting for him to look at him. When he finally does, Itachi and Sasuke stare at each other for a couple seconds before Itachi nods and looks to Sakura. The scent has gotten a little stronger over the time they have been with her.

"Actually Sakura. We need to ask you something." Itachi says with a serious voice as he lowers his ice cream cone.

She looks to him with wide eyes. "What is it?"

"We actually need to ask you if Orochimaru as done any-" Itachi stops mid-sentence and his eyes widen. Naruto looks from Itachi to Sasuke, who had the same look on his face.

"Sasuke, what's wrong?" Naruto tries to put a hand on his shoulder, but Sasuke and Itachi both shot out of their chairs and backed away. Naruto and Sakura both stand and give them concerning looks. "Sasuke, you're freaking me out. What's wrong?"

Sasuke's hand shoots to his mouth and he cringes as if he's in pain. "We have to go Naruto. Something is ... happening to us." Sasuke and Itachi both sprit away, leaving Naruto no time to ask questions.

"What the hell just happened?" Sakura asked, worry lacing her voice.

"I have no idea, but I think I know what they were going to ask you." He turns to her with a serious expression. "Has Orochimaru done anything weird around you recently? It doesn't even have to be that he did something weird to you directly, we just need to know if you've seem him acting strangely at all or doing something suspicious recently."

"No, not that I-" She pauses. "Well actually maybe, if you consider him bumping into me in the halls weird."

"Bumping into you as in physically?"

"Yeah. His arm will hit me sometimes when I pass him in the hall, and it seems like he purposely will come walk in a way that he will hit me not that I think about it. Why, is something wrong with him or is he doing something weird?"

"It's nothing." He didn't want to tell her about anything until he find out what was going on. "I should probably take you home and go find Sasuke to make sure they are both alright."

She furrows her brows. "Alright, but you better give me an explanation tomorrow."

"I'll try." Naruto smiles, hiding his true feelings, as they both start to walk home.

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After taking Sakura back to her house, Naruto went to the Uchiha mansion to check up on the two. Naruto opened the doors and took a step in. There on the top of the stairs was Shisui, with what looked like a nervous smile. Naruto pursed his lips and walked towards him.

"Are they okay?"

Shisui nods and they start to walk down the hall. "Madara had to check them out, but yeah they're fine."

Naruto lets out a sigh of relief that he didn't know he was holding. "That's a relief. By the way they ran from us I thought they were going to die."

"They could have if they stayed near her any longer than they were." Madara said closing the door from the room he just came out of.

Naruto's eyes narrowed and he looked to Madara. "What was it that was on her?"

Madara shakes his head with a glare on his face. "It's one of Orochimaru's ways of warning us. It is harmless to your friend, so don't worry. It is harmful to vampires though, as you witnessed. It is very hard to sense and if you stay around it long enough the scent alone could do some major damage." Madara sighed crossing his arms. "I only know this because Orochimaru made it and used it to kill some of the Senju clan. Hashirama asked me to help figure it out so I knew how to cure it. If I hadn't of known a cure, Sasuke and Itachi would be in some major trouble right now."

Naruto's eyes become more thin as he cast an angry glare to the ground. "Does it wear off?"

"It will wear off her around four days after it is used, so in other word most likely tomorrow."

Naruto's eyes soften and he looks up to the two Uchiha. "Are they in that room?" Madara nods stepping aside letting Naruto pass. He walks in and sees Sasuke and Itachi sitting on the bed just staring at the same wall. Naruto knitted his brows looking at the two. "What are you two doing?"

Both their eyes snapped to the blond making Naruto's eyes widen.

"Damn, it really did mess with our senses." Sasuke cursed under his breath.

"It's going to be fine otouto. Madara told us we will be back to normal by tomorrow. It's no big deal."

"No big deal? In this house, it's a big deal. Now anyone can sneak up on us and pull some stupid prank on us because we can't sense shit." Sasuke growled standing up.

Itachi gave Sasuke a half smile as he chuckled a little bit. "Oh otouto. Trust me, with what just happened, no one will be pulling pranks for a little while." Itachi stands and starts to leave the room, but as he was doing that he put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and whispered to him. "Don't mind him, he's just a bit peeved since he fell for Orochimaru's trick. He should simmer down soon." He pats his shoulder before he leaves the room.

Naruto just smiles and turns his eyes to the raven, who was staring at the blond. Naruto's eyes widen a little, not really sure why Sasuke was looking at him like that. "Why are you glaring at me?"

"What did he say to you?"

"Just that you're angry and stuff, nothing much." Naruto smiles walking closer to his boyfriend, but Sasuke looked as if he was off in la-la-land thinking about Orochimaru and getting even angrier. Naruto sighed pursing his lips to the side. "Why don't we do something to get your mind off of it."

Sasuke drops his eyes to the blond and sighed. "I'm not angry dobe, you don't have to worry about it."

"Then what are you thinking about?"

"I'm trying to think of a way to get that snake. He's starting to use your friends to get to us too. I think you need to tell them."

"Tell them what?"

"Tell your friends what is going on with Orochimaru. How he's after you and he could use them to get to you, like he just did. You need to tell them to be careful and to watch out for him, and if he does anything suspicious then they should tell you and you'll tell us."

Naruto frowns. He really should tell them about him. It would make them all at least a little safer. He nods looking into Sasuke's onyx eyes. "I'll tell them tomorrow."

Sasuke runs a hand through his hair. Orochimaru is a pain in the ass. He drops his hand to his side and looks to Naruto. "You still have that tournament right?"

Naruto's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Oh my gosh, yes! I'd forgotten all about it! I haven't been going to practice with Lee and Gai-sensei at all recently! I'm so not going to even stand a chance." Naruto hangs his head in a state of panic and depression grumbling to himself. "I'm doomed. I'm so doomed."

Sasuke couldn't help but smile a little at how much the blond overreacted to the situation. He hasn't been missing that many days of practice really. "How about I teach you then?"

Naruto pops up excitedly like a ray of sunshine, his huge grin spread across his face. "Really? You would do that for me?"

"Of course. I'm a good fighter and I'm guaranteeing that you will be better than anyone else there if you follow my directions step by step. And besides, it would work out better since you're here almost everyday anyway. Plus, we have our own dojo."

"I'll do it! I'll do it!" Naruto jumps on Sasuke, wrapping his arms around his neck and squeezing him tight. "You're the best teme!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes with a small smile. "I know I am, now let's get going. You have a lot to learn. And from what I know, you are a slow learner." Naruto laughed putting a hand on the back of his neck. Sasuke looks at him and his smile grows.

It's been a long time, I'm sorry about that. I was going to start this up again but I got sick, and I have a lot of missing work that I have to make up from school because I had to miss but I decided I wanted to write so I did this xD. I hope there isn't any mistakes, I'm still getting over being sick so I'm sorry if there are. I thank you all for being patient and I want to thank those who favorite, follow and reviewed last chapter, it means the world to me xD. I hope you enjoy.