Chapter 21

PRESENT

Now Naruto was silent, staring up in the air for five minutes.

"ON WITH THE STORY!" Siideru roared in his ear after becoming pissed of waiting for too long.

"That's the problem. I don´t remember anything until I woke up again, and the house couldn´t tell me anything more about Sasuke, because he ran after me. And what happened after I woke up, well ... I won´t tell anyone but Sakura." he put on a snob face, folded his arms and turned his back at them.

"WHAAAT?" Siideru began tugging on his face, but suddenly she turned to who she thought might be the real culprit, Sakura. To her surprise she was wearing an expression of pride equal to Miadelh´s frog face, but it looked more like a rat trying to squeeze all of its face as close to the nose as she could with a big grin.

"SAKURA! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" Siideru demanded while she shook Sakura violently, hoping that the stupid expression might wear off.

"Well ... first of all Naruto´s story has many details missing. And I definitely have to get Sasuke´s side of the story to explain everything to you fully. As you can see Naruto was saved, but nevertheless they both hate each other. And I´ll tell you the reason for their hate as soon as we talk to Sasuke." Siideru snorted. "Fine. But how the heck are we going to do that? He can sometimes be even more stubborn than Naruto and that´s saying ALOT!" Naruto glanced with a death glare at her while Sakura was making the rat face again. "Fufufu ... well you see ... over the years I have collected quite a few things which I can blackmail Sasuke with." she made a happy schoolgirl giggle which slowly turned into an ominous cackle. "Indeed, it is a very nice collection... care to blackmail the truth out of him with me after school?"

"It is after school ..." Siideru pointed out. "OH SHIT, HE´S AT KUNG-FU PRACTICE! AND I´M SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TOO!" she slammed her hands on her face so she looked like the painting The Scream.
Than she took a deep breath while standing up, so she looked like a balloon expanding. Holding her breath she said "!"all in one inhale and then she jumped out the open window and sprinted down the street. She ran so fast that every skin on her bones flapped around and the wind actually gave her scars she ran so fast. Everyone that heard her coming ran crying away because they thought that a herd of rhinos with asthma were charging at them.

Meanwhile in the dojo

"That is it! This is the last time Siideru skips practise!" The master angrily said to himself. Normally he would always keep himself calm, but now Sasuke was encouraging him by whispering poisonous words into his ear to punish Siideru.
"Hn, she isn't only always late. She also is always rude, loud and inappropriate!" Sasuke scoffed.
"That's right, if she isn't here within this second I'll-"The master was interrupted by a loud scream followed by Siideru, throwing herself through the doors, slamming to the ground and rolling all the way up to the master's feet.
Slowly she looked up, only to meet the master's disapproving face towering over her.
"Siideru, good for you to join us...We were just agreeing that this was your last chance, and we shou-"
Siideru cleared her throat and stood up like a soldier. "Well, the reason I'm late is because my dog ate my uniform...and I had to make him throw it up and clean it!" She said, while trying to hold back a smile.
"Oh? Well if that is the case-"The master began, but once again was interrupted, this time by the annoyed Uchiha.
"Hn, is that so? You don't have a dog...you don't like dogs!" He spat out, standing up to tower over her.
"Well I've never! Lying to me now?" The master narrowed his eyes and shot lightings from his eyes.
Siideru cursed under her breath before coming up with another excuse. "OK. I didn't want to say this...but...you see, I found this stray cat and it was reeeeaally hungry, so I-" Siideru stopped suddenly as she saw the face on her master change, his eyes became bigger and tearful as he sighed with happiness and smiled like an idiot. "Oh, that was so sweet of you Siideru." He sniffled and Siideru grinned with pure evil success. "Oh, it was nothing. I love cats..."
"Really? Me too!" The master's smile grew.
"Oh, I know!" Siideru snickered.
"Oh, please! You actually believe that?" Sasuke spat out. And the master turned to face Sasuke, his idiot smiley face went all mad and serious. "You should be more like Siideru, Sasuke" He venomously hissed, clapped on his shoulder and walked away. Leaving Sasuke frozen. "Now children, give me 10 laps!"
Siideru smiled. "Heehee ... ten laps is nothing ... usually he makes us do something like sixty laps around the neighbourhood!" she said while giving Sasuke a little pat on the head while he was still frozen. The master turned around and corrected them. "No, no, Siideru, YOU will run ten LONG laps for being late. You know the route. Sasuke, you will go with her, to learn from her AND to make sure she doesn´t just sit somewhere staring at the clouds instead of running!" They both looked at their master with devilish hate but he had already closed his eyes in a smile and walked away.
"This is your entire fault Siideru! I bet you couldn´t even show up at every practice for a whole WEEK!"
Siideru swooned in agony. "It´s not my fault I get distracted easily." Then she noticed that Sasuke was shirtless and began staring at him while he began scolding her some more. "Yeah ... exactly ... uhuh ..." she mumbled agreeingly, while hearing Sasuke´s voice somewhere far far away. Sasuke noticed that and used the chance to make an evil deal with her, like she usually did to other people.
"If you don´t show up at practice for a whole week, you have to tell the master that you can´t stand cats, and think they are smelly!" Siideru mumbled "I accept!" before realizing what he had said. "NO WAY, I take it all back!"
Sasuke smirked. "So it´s okay when you do this all the time to others, but not okay when I do it to you?"
 Siideru scratched her head. "No, not really. It´s just usually I make a condition that both sides may benefit from the deal ..."

"Oh ... I get it ... so if you ACTUALLY make it, which no way in hell is going to happen ... I will ... be shirtless every day the week after!"

Siideru slurped at this delicious statement.

"ACCEPTED WITH NO BACKING OUT!" she roared while thrusting her fist into the air. The master had crept up silently from behind them while they were talking and used the chance. "GET MOVING YOU ASSHOLES!" he roared while they least suspected and that sent them running as fast as they could from the building.

"It´s impossible to be on guard when you´re around Siideru...And then I mean on guard for something else because you take all my energy!" Sasuke puffed out while they ran past something pink. "WAIT A MINUTE!" she turned around and faced Sakura´s back who she could hear was cackling and holding a suspicious box. As she was going to shout at Sakura, Sasuke´s hand grabbed her and tugged her back at the speed of light. "No way in hell that I´m going to allow you to slow us down! Do you know how long it takes to run this route?"
Siideru gulped. Sasuke couldn´t find out what was in that box, even if she herself didn´t know, because he might destroy it if he found out.
The two teenagers kept on running for about 10 minutes, with Siideru singing the whole time, until Sasuke couldn't take it anymore and was about to yell at her when Siideru beat him to it. "All right! Can't stand it anymore Sasuke! You have GOT to tell me what is wrong with you! You aren't usually this frowny..."
"I already told you!" Sasuke retorted as he began picking up his speed.
"No you didn't, you only told me about 1/80 of the story and you didn't tell me WHY!" The blonde haired girl said and tried to keep up with the race car called Sasuke.
"Hah! I have no obligations to tell you anything!"He said and ran faster, Siideru following right behind him. She realised that she had to end this conversation soon, because she knew that she would never be able to keep up much longer with Sasuke.
"Sasuke! It isn't healthy to bottle up your feelings. I'm your friend! You can tell me!"
Sasuke laughed mockingly as he turned his head to look at the girl about to have a heart attack. "Hn, friend?" He spat out as he gained even more speed. Siideru then knew that she would not be able to convince him, so she had to take drastic measures. "All right Sasuke if that is what you want, FINE! But I warn you. What I am about to do now is because I have to! Don't blame me for not warning you!" She wheezed out as she took all her strength that was left and gathered it into her legs and tackled him down.
"WHAT THE-!"
"I have some serious blackmail stuff on you that will definitely make you change your mind!" she wheezed out before she collapsed of exhaustion. Sasuke froze but turned around and looked at her with sceptic despise in his expression. "What dirt can you possibly have on me, the perfect human being?" he almost smirked with pride, but behaved himself.
"Well ... the problem is ... I have no idea ..."
Sasuke thought quietly for a moment. "It´s in that box Sakura was holding, isn´t it?"
Siideru tried to lift her hand out to him, looking like a pitiable child asking it´s mother for help, but Sasuke didn´t help her to her feet, instead he sprinted back to the dojo.
"NOOO, CAN´T LET HIM GET TO THE BOX!" Siideru sprang up and with every last bit of effort somehow managed to run at full speed, although the consequences were that she looked a bit like a ostrich trying to fly without success with her legs flapping around like a windmill. But all that delightful display of fine running was for nothing, because Sasuke had reached Sakura way before Siideru. Of course, Sakura didn´t even suspect that Sasuke knew what was in the box, so she didn´t flee from him immediately.
"NOOO SAKURA! RUN AWAY!" Siideru shouted while she flipped in the air and crashed into the pavement. Sakura looked slowly with a horrified face at Sasuke, who was trying to keep his usual face but it was slowly turning into a ´OH SHIT SHE FIGURED OUT´ face. Then they both ran away leaving Siideru behind, a disfigured pile, like butter had been spread on the pavement. "...help..."she coughed out her last word.

Sakura didn't manage to run away from Sasuke for long. And caught up to her soon, by jumping in front of her and looking demanding in her eyes he said with an ice cold voice that would freeze penguins. "The box...or your life..."
Sakura stared dramatically back at him, not really sure which option she should pick. After valuing both sides she decided to safe the box instead of her life.
"Hah! Not so fast, Sakura. You can't get away from me..." The viciously proud prince said as he saw in her eyes that she was planning her escape.
"I will never give you my collection, it took me sweat, tears and BLOOD to get this stuff!" Suddenly the pink haired girl filled up with courage, nothing was going to stop her. Not even that handsome smexgod topless- wait what?
" I don't care if you di- OH for the love of god-!" Sasuke snapped as he saw Sakura not listening at all, just staring at his chest. He rolled his eyes and looked at the box. "Wait! Is that my shirt?"
Sakura was trying to sneak his shirt, which she had stolen from the dojo just before he caught up with her, into the box by very slowly pushing it into a really small hole on the corner of the box. "No! It´s just my... really big handkerchief... for the hay fever." Sakura gulped. She really hoped that Siideru would be there in time to save her. There was no way that she could keep the poor box from the clutches of Sasuke for much longer. "Let me see what´s inside, and I MIGHT spare your life." With a reluctant sigh she opened the lid, and let him have a look. He took up a raven lock of hair. "What´s this? How can you possibly blackmail me with this... wait... it´s MY HAIR!"

Suddenly his expression became mortified as he realized that she was a really big stalker and the box was full of items related to him. He threw the hair away somewhere really far while Sakura whispered to herself "No bother, I have LOTS of more in my other boxes ... fufufu ..." Then he gathered the courage to take up another item and shouted "YOU STILL HAVE THIS? OH GOD, I CAN´T EVEN REMEMBER DOING THAT!" he threw the item back into the box and stepped away from the girl who had a big smirk on her, even if he just found out that she was a huge stalker, that he would have been proud of in any other circumstance. Then a giant shadow towered over him followed by a roar from behind him and he smashed into the ground unconscious.

Later that night

"Stop it Sakura, as if he isn't going to be furious enough when he wakes up like this, but seeing you sniffing around his room...he's going to explode..."
Sasuke heard Siideru say, her voice muffled like she was far far away. He had a massive headache and opening his eyes didn't help because someone had planted a lamp right in front of him, the light pointing right into his face.
"All right, all right. I'll control myself, but only if Miadelh throws away Itachi's sweater, the one she is using as oxygen."
Miadelh hissed with disapproval as Siideru tried to approach her. "...Then you will have to take it away from her."
Sasuke grunted because of the pain and the three idiots in his room, and with that sound he caught the three idiots' attention.
"Well well, isn't Sleeping Beauty finally awake?" Siideru sat down on the chair, which was right in front of Sasuke.
"Take that lamp away from me and get out of my room, or better, out of my house!" Sasuke growled and shot them his ultimate death glare and the girls flinched with fear, even though he was tied to a chair they feared he could tear the rope and go berserk.
"Now now Sasuke, you know that isn't going to happen until we get what we want." Siideru smirked like a true master in the bed. Sakura and Miadelh relaxed a little, hearing Siideru's too good for her own confident.
Sasuke took two deep breaths before he began trying to break loose from his prison, roaring with anger.
The three girls stared in terror at the smexy terminator in front of them until Sasuke succeeded to tear the rope to shreds, glaring at them with murderer's eyes. It was then when Sakura fainted and Miadelh curled herself into a ball, shaking furiously and sobbing. But when Sasuke took one step forward, she screamed out. "IT WAS ALL SIIDERU'S FAULT!" and ran with Sakura outside.
The furious Uchiha then fixed is eyes and murder intend on the blonde haired girl, still sitting on the chair, STILL looking too confident for her own good.
"Come on, you know you want to tell me what happened!" she said with a devious grin.

Sasuke snarled at her. "Why do you think I´d tell YOU?"

"Well ... I do have plenty of crunchy, delicious blackmail. But I also thought you might change your mind because Naruto already told us what happened."

"WHAT? That can´t be, then you wouldn´t be asking me!" Siideru sighed like she had taken care of three lions that had destroyed her furniture, took all the space in her bed and eaten her homework for all of her puny little life. Then she repeated what Naruto had told her.

"Ah, I see. He didn´t tell you the reason for why I´m mad at him ... but he has no right to be mad at ME for it! It was his entire fault ... well maybe technically it wasn´t, but he could have acted differently about it!"
 Siideru smirked because she thought something might slip out of him but he noticed it immediately and she got nothing more out of him.

"Wow ... you guys act exactly alike in your stubbornness!" Siideru grunted while making the same sigh again. Then Miadelh burst into the room again running to the sweater and hugging it intimately. "I promise I´ll never leave you again!" she whined while she resumed using it for air. Sakura tiptoed nervously back after her. "Whew, I see he has cooled down at last." she staggered like a crab back to her blackmail box, which Sasuke hadn´t noticed yet. "NOBODY GETS MY PRECIOUS!" she roared while she ran away with it to a safer location. Sasuke tried to follow her, but Siideru blocked his way, it helped her that she was truly terrifying. Realizing that escape was hopeless and the fact that she would never leave him alone until she got what she wanted, he slumped into his bed and sighed deeply. Meanwhile the whole time Siideru carefully kept her predatory eyes on him, prepared for any tricks Sasuke might have up in his sleeves.
"...FINE!" he sighed once again. "I give up, you have made it clear to me that you aren't going to give up, Siideru...Siideru?" But the only reply he got was a loud cackle. "Siideru?"
The insane blonde continued to cackle for a few minutes until she explained her actions to the ever growing furious Uchiha glaring at her. "You don't have anything up your sleeves, because you aren't in any sleeves kekeke, or any shirt for that matter kekekeke!" Siideru's shoulder bounced up and down slowly and her face deformed with every second that passed. But with a bit of a reminder from Sasuke about her place in life with the heaviest book existed slammed into her face, he shut her right up.
"OK! I'm done! Please tell me what happened!" Siideru jumped into the bed next to Sasuke and looked like a happy elf on steroids, and with that Miadelh peeked inside the room and whispered anxiously "Is it story time?"
The two teens on the bed made themselves comfortable and straightened themselves as they nodded to the brunette, who came screaming happily at them and threw herself onto the bed, followed by Sakura.
"All right, before I begin I want to make something clear!" The fearful prince announced to his nodding pity peasants. "I will not tolerate giggling, snorting, demonic sounds or ANY sounds for that matter. There will be no interference and when I finish my story you will get the FUCK out of my house! Is that clear?" Sasuke's intense glaring went straight into their souls and broke the three little girls so all that they could do was continue nodding as they acted like their mouth was a zipper and they were closing them and throwing away the keys.
"All right, if that is clear...I begin to tell you guys what happened after Naruto was taken..."
"There I was, alone against probably three hundred of them, all of them focused on only one task...to kill me. I managed to take a few of them with a chandelier, and at one point they caught me and began cutting my arms." He paused dramatically and pointed to a large cut on his left arm.
"Even if some of them played really unfairly, I did not fear one second for my life, because I only had to get away from there as fast as I could, not fight them all. But still, I managed to defeat almost all of them in a single hit when I -" Just as he was about to tell of his miraculous escape Siideru interrupted him. "YEAH, yeah, I don´t care, just tell us what happened when you caught up to Naruto!" Sasuke almost sobbed out loud because she didn´t want to hear about how he´d risked his life so bravely, his face muscles clenching as he tried to respond in a manly way to such a heartbreaking rejection. "Yes, you are right, that´s more important!" he had to resist the urge to stop the tears from streaming down his face and as a result his eyeballs were bulging dangerously much from his face, all veins in them visible, as well as random muscles began to twitch in anger.
Sasuke sighed deeply and looked in three pairs of hopeful eyes seeking answers, a soft smile played on his lips as he thought to himself that they were truly stupid to think that they could fix anything by this. And thus he took deep breath as he continued with his story.

The raven haired boy nearly collapsed of exhaustion in front of a tall building that looked like was under constructions.

With Sasuke´s cunning and brilliant mind he had managed to track Naruto´s kidnappers all the way here.

"And all I need to do now is rescue my damsel in distress..." He heaved out, smirking with confident.

He snuck behind some dead bushes near the entrance and began to scan his surroundings and forming a plan. On each floor he saw movements, expecting no less from headquarters of a yakuza leader. Three men were guarding the entrance.
He picked up a rock and thought he could try to confuse them with a sound, and threw it as far away from him as he could. Luckily the guards took the bait, leaving the exit unprotected.

"Now is my chance!"

Sasuke almost sprinted, but as soon as he was about to stand up, one of them shouted "Steve, check over there as well, I think the sound might have been a distraction!"

"OH SHIT!" he thought as he sank himself deeper into the bushes.
Sasuke cursed when the three men gathered again in front of the entrance. "Wha´in bloody´ ell was dat?" A bald and really huge man said.

"I don´t give a shit!" a really thin clumsy looking fellow retorted, his focus seemed to only be on his hand which was covered with bandages. Wait what? And then it hit Sasuke. Those where the three men that attacked Naruto. Realising that, Sasuke suddenly felt furious and would burst with anger any minute now.

"Do you think what that blond fella said wuz true?" Steve continued and turned his gaze to the other men standing behind him, shrugging.

"I dunno...but I think we made a huge mistake taking him..." Bob said and stared sceptically at them.

After a long silence, Peter finally broke it. "I know! We should rescu-AGH!" the man suddenly choked because Sasuke had sneaked behind him and was now holding around his head in a tight grip, fire burning in his eyes.

"Either you tell me where Naruto is, or I will snap his little throat into two pieces!" Sasuke snarled, making the other two men nearly piss in their pants.

"Woah hold it, hold it! You are his friend right?" Bob said holding his hands up, trying to calm the furious Uchiha.

"What gave me away?" Sasuke chuckled venomously as his grip tightened around Peter´s neck who was trying to speak, clearly failing.

"Listen kid, we want to help you. Peter was just about to say that we should save your little friend!" Bob continued, as Steve had fainted when Sasuke had sent him his ultimate death glare.
"Then continue ..." Sasuke demanded while still holding Peter´s neck in a tight grip.

"Well kid, the thing is, we kinda liked the blond fella, I mean, he understands us! But don´t think we´ll just run with you to save him cuz we like'im, that would make our boss angry. VERY ANGRY!"

Steve gulped, just thinking about how unforgiving his boss could be. "I hate boss, he´s such an asshole ..." Peter looked angrily at him, scolding him with his eyes like the boss was standing right next to them and could hear them.

"That kid has given our little group much trouble and boss won´t like it if he just suddenly disappeared."

Sasuke thought that their group wasn´t little at all.

"So, I was thinking we should make a little deal with you." Peter smirked and Sasuke lifted his eyebrow triumphantly, if that is even possible. "If it´s money you wan´t I have more than enough."

Peter just laughed a wheezy laughter because Sasuke was still holding his neck, and his Adam´s apple was squeezed a bit too much. "Oh no, we ain´t got no use for money at this point ... not when the boss has got us in his pocket and helping you would probably get us all killed. So I have a better idea. You have to help us to kill boss. You don´t have to do it yourself, just be our ´bodyguard´ so to speak, to get to him, he´s well guarded. You up for it?"

Sasuke just stared blankly into the distance, not fully comprehending what he had just heard. It made sense that they were asking him, after all he had shown to be capable of taking out a large number of guys, but was he really so bold that he would help a bunch of mobsters go against their own boss? This was definitely something that people would find about, that the son of Uchiha of the Uchiha corporation was involved with something as scandalous as this...(The total opposite of Naruto, apparently.) and possibly even more gangsters would go after him and Naruto if they were a big threat. For one second he worried about his image that he had to uphold, his Uchiha pride was getting in the way of his decision. But when he thought of Naruto, he immediately knew what his answer was.

"I´ll do whatever it takes."he said and sighed a little. Getting Naruto back wasn´t going to be as easy as he had thought.