CHPT: 18

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Dedicated to my cat, BlackJack, who lies across my arms as I type this.

'Thoughts'

/Kyuubi thoughts/

Naruto bolted upright to stare directly at his rival's face. He'd been resting back on the couch, but now…

Sasuke's face reddened and he scowled, turning away and slamming the door to his room shut, peacefully alone in the darkness.

Naruto stood up, he wasn't sure what was wrong with him or Sasuke, but he was pretty sure it had something to do with the scent that was drifting through the air, driving him crazy, and he was pretty sure it smelled like sex, and cum, and everything he wanted to do to Sasuke.

He pushed out the Kyuubi, he didn't want him here for this, he wanted this scent all to himself. 'He didn't really did he…?'

He slightly walked against the wall, careful not to make a noise, his eyes drifting to the closed door. He could smell it, cum, it smelled like Sasuke's earthy scent and light sweat. Naruto pushed up against the door, he could hear every breath on the other side.

"… You know, I think I love youlove you…"

"Okay, I'm confused."

"It's a dome,it's like some twisted snow-globe thing." Everyone stared, there was indeed a massive display of chakra, the energy fizzing and bubbling in a purple color before twisting itself. A mile wide in diameter it had to be, the dome's height reaching far above the ground.

Kakashi pushed up his hitaite, his sharingan scanning over the mass, eyes turning to look at him with worry, "This is certainly strange."

Naruto stood there for a few minutes, his eyes getting wet as he looked back on everything he'd been through, and how a lot of it had been about Sasuke, about the first friend he ever had, and now the man he thought he was in love with.

Could it be that simple? Just be in love with Sasuke?

Sasuke understood him on a level no one else did, and it seemed Sasuke realized that of him too. Sasuke didn't say no every time Naruto invited him to hang out anymore, and he still had that snide, blunt side of his, but it wasn't so focused on being an ass as before- or at least part of the time he did it in a while that was taken lightly, he had loosened up.

Naruto dragged a hand through his hair, his eyes double checking to make sure there weren't any claws and that he wasn't being subconsciously affected by the Fox.

He sighed, it wasn't that simple… Sasuke…

Sasuke picked Orochimaru, hated his brother so much that Itachi was more important to him than anything, and Sasuke didn't love him.

Because that had to be it, Sasuke could never love Naruto, didn't even know the real Naruto. The real Naruto that was plagued with dreams of his canine teeth slicing its way through pathetic human bodies, Naruto that had to excuse himself from being to close to kunoiches when they had their cycle, the Naruto that could smell a fox miles away.

There was no possible way, that anybody, could love him. It didn't matter if he was only a vessel, didn't matter if he wasn't really a demon…

He really wasn't a human either, and Sasuke, who saw everything in black and white with no shades of grey, could never understand that. Sasuke wasn't quite sane, but he wasn't crazy.

People just didn't fall in love with the vessel of creatures that were said to be the most foul and evil things in existence.

Not that Sasuke was exactly "pure" from demons himself, Tohno hadn't really been human or demon either, but he was only a distant uncle. No matter how Sasuke could be disgusted by the cruelty inflicted on Tohno didn't mean he was willing to mate with a-

'Half-breed?'

Naruto chuckled darkly, there it was, that god forsaken voice that didn't even have a body and yet was capable of making Naruto something not worth love. Naruto's eyes blinked, the action causing the moment of pity to break. He stepped away from the door, but couldn't leave.

There was something he had to do, had to say, no matter how stupid Sasuke might think it was and how he probably had lost the emotional capacity to understand it long ago.

It almost surprised Naruto, how easy it was to open the door, to see the man that he had always… loved, who, in some twisted martyr way, must deserve better than Naruto, Kyuubi, could ever give him.

And then there was the silence, the slow motion, as Sasuke's shocked face turned in his direction. Naruto looked, just for a moment longer than normal, at the pale skin, the hair that was still a little damp, the eyes the were dark and mysterious and far more secrets than most mortal men. He was the moon, and in that context, Naruto was the sun, far too different- and yet similar in all the… right, good ways.

And So Naruto could feel the strength of the emotion that came along whenever Sasuke was involved.

"I'm going to save you."

It was true, he was going to save Sasuke, no matter what it took.

"Strange?! That's all you've got?! What happened to being a genius?!" Sakura looked to her Sharingan wielding sensei. There were only so many possibilities if Kakashi couldn't figure it out, all containing the component of being more powerful than they.

"Purple chakra…"

Everybody turns to look at Iruka, who's wearing an expression of shock and fear.

"Blue chakra is human, red chakra is fire demon, green chakra is water demon, white chakra is air demon, but purple…

Purple is dead chakra…"

A/N: OMG, next chapter and after all your lovely suggestions we have Naruto being the brave savior he is, but not sexing Sasuke.

That's it, the next chapter is going to have lime and love, I can't take this friendship/teamwork crap when they're much better off as mates.

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-Alika613