Hi readers, here's a new chapter again I couldn't finish it in one day (so I'm sorry to let you all wait after my last shocking chapter :p), but I finished it now XD
Have fun reading!!
Lots of love, Tearsbehindthemask

I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! (After all this time I still don't... It's getting boring isn't it XD)

It was raining outside. Raindrops created an annoying sound on windows and roofs and the wind that blew made the trees shiver.
Naruto was staring into the distance. Sasuke wasn't here in bed with him. The whole night, Naruto had been alone. For him, this was torture.
It was only five 'o clock in the morning, still too early to visit Sasuke...
Naruto sighed. He almost forgot how silent the mornings could be...
There was a crack of thunder and Naruto's house was lighted for a few seconds by a flash of lightning.
Naruto shivered. Was Sasuke still sleeping? What would he be doing now?
Another crack of thunder.
Why was he acting so stupid? Naruto was angry at himself. Couldn't he even spend one night without Sasuke?
The answer was obvious.
No.

Sasuke walked through the rain. Thunder and lightning were in the sky but Sasuke just ignored it. He wasn't afraid of it anyway...
There were only a few things that Sasuke was afraid of.
One of those fears, he was going to face now.
Sasuke's footsteps led him to his parents' house again.
For Naruto. He had to this for Naruto, but he also had to do this without Naruto.
Sasuke's heart was beating like it wanted to escape from his chest but Sasuke wouldn't go back. He had to step over this! He was a man dammit!
There was the house again. There was the lock again. There was the key again.
The door opened easier than last time. Sasuke stepped into the house.
One step. Two steps. Three steps.
The terrifying feeling that haunted his nightmares came back again. Sasuke felt weak and could only evade falling by leaning against the wall.
"What's wrong with me..."
Sasuke felt like he was going to faint, but he forced himself to keep conciousness.
It was all in the past.
Sasuke staggered through the hall to go to that room.
This wasn't real anymore.
Taking a deep breath, Sasuke stepped into the room.
No matter how scared he was, this wasn't a dangerous place anymore.
Memories returned again.
That was the past.
Everything happened again.
Sasuke sank down on the floor.
He couldn't be afraid anymore.
He did this all for Naruto.
For his love...
There was no fear.
Not anymore.
"Why did they have to die..."
Sasuke's body began to shake, a tear fell on the ground.
"...Why?..."
There was only sadness in Sasuke's heart. Somehow, he had put the fear away, locked it up. Hopefully, the key to that prison would never be found.
"I... I..." Sasuke bit on his lip. "I miss you." he whispered with a smothered voice, looking at the place were his parents died. "I miss you so much..."
"And they're probably missing you too."
Sasuke looked up.
"Naruto?" he whispered with a smothered voice.
Naruto had a sad smile and kneeled besides Sasuke.
For a while, they just stared at each other.
Then, Naruto embraced Sasuke.
"I missed you too, Sasuke... Only if it was one night..."

The rain was still falling outside but the thunderstorm had stopped.
Naruto and Sasuke were sitting in a classroom at school.
"Why did we have to come here today? This is so troublesome..."
Shikamaru was sitting a few rows in front of Naruto and Sasuke, but they could still hear his grumbling.
With reason this time, cause all people of Naruto and Sasuke's old class were called to gather in their old classroom to have a lesson about special shinobi techniques. On their day off!
Sasuke and Naruto were sitting in the farthest corner of the classroom, they hadn't said a word since they left that house.
"Hey, Sasuke..."
"What?"
Naruto looked hestitating at Sasuke who was staring out of the window.
"Why did you want to go to your old home so badly?"
Sasuke sighed.
"Eh... I mean..." Naruto whispered, "It's all right of course, there's nothing wrong with it, but... Why now?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto.
"There's no special reason."
"Oh... Okay..."
Naruto felt sad. Didn't Sasuke trust him? Of course there was a reason for Sasuke to go to his parents' house, so why didn't he tell him?

"That was it for today, you can go now. Have a nice day!"
Everybody gathered their stuff and started to talk.
"I thought that lesson would never end..." Ino sighed.
"I'm hungry." Chouji laughed and looked at Shikamaru. "Want to get some food?"
Shikamaru jawned and nodded.
"Yeah, fine. It's not like I have something else to do anyway."
"Naruto?"
"Hmrmm..."
"Naruto!"
Sasuke pulled Naruto's sleeve and Naruto opened his eyes.
"Is it over?"
"Yeah, it's time to go home." Sasuke sighed. "I'm not going home with you today. I've got some things to do."
"You're going to leave me again?!" Naruto looked at Sasuke with big eyes. "Why?"
Sasuke noticed that Sakura watched them from her seat in the classroom.
"I got to do something."
Sasuke made an attempt to walk away but Naruto grabbed his hand under the table.
"Don't you love me anymore?" he whispered.
"I do." Sasuke said, looking around. "But I've got to go now. I'll come to your house tonight."
"Okay..." Naruto let go of Sasuke's hand and watched him walk away.
When Sasuke had left the classroom, Naruto stood up. He should go home now...
"Naruto?"
Naruto looked around and saw Iruka-sensei.
"Oh... Hi, Iruka-sensei."
"Is something wrong Naruto?" Iruka asked worried. "You look so sad."
Naruto produced a little smile.
"I'm fine..."
Iruka looked at Naruto, he knew that it was not all right. He also knew that there was one thing that could always cheer Naruto up.
"Let's go." Iruka said smiling.
"What? Were?" Naruto asked confused.
"To get some ramen of course." Iruka said smiling. "My treat."
Naruto's smile turned bigger and he hugged Iruka.
"Thanks Iruka-sensei!" he said grateful.

Sasuke walked through the house again. He wasn't really afraid of the place anymore.
Somewhere in his chest, there still was an aching place, but he didn't want to think about that.
There was a lot of dust in this house, Sasuke noticed irritated when he touched a table. Now he had to clean this whole place... Really a lot of work if you checked the size of this house...
But, this was all for his plan. If he worked hard now, maybe the place could be liveable very soon.
Sighing, Sasuke went to work.

What's wrong with Sasuke?
Naruto was pacing up and down and sighed after every few steps.
Sasuke was really acting weird. Everything had to do with that house of course, even Naruto could see that, but why was Sasuke acting so distant?
Naruto suddenly stopped walking.
Was it his own fault? Did he do something stupid again? Did he say something wrong?
He shook his head in denial.
This wasn't what he should think. Sasuke would come to his home tonight and then... He would explain everything.
Yeah, Sasuke would probably tell him everything tonight...
Naruto sat down on the windowsill and looked at the rain.
When would that rain finally stop?
Okay, Naruto was thinking of useless things again. Which was good, in some way. At least he wasn't worrying about Sasuke anymore.
Well... Not as much as a few minutes ago...

Sasuke wiped the sweat of his forehead.
"Thanks for helping me guys." he said smiling at the three guys that were helping him.
"No problem, Sasuke." Lee said, while he lifted a chair with one hand. "This moving thing works really good as a training."
"You're going to treat us tomorrow right?" Chouji said with a hungry smile.
"Sure." Sasuke said smiling. "I will make a great dinner tomorrow."
Shikamaru stared at Sasuke.
"Can you cook?" he asked perplexed.
"Yeah, I can cook."
Sasuke took one of the last boxes that were still standing in his old house.
"When you help me move this last things, I may even make a dessert tomorrow."
Chouji and Lee immediately took some stuff and together with Sasuke they went off to the other house.
Shikamaru stared at the last box on the floor.
Sasuke was acting weird... Asking people to help him move his stuff all of a sudden... Promising to make dinner for people... Yes... Sasuke was defenitely acting weird...

"Thanks for helping guys." Sasuke said when Lee, Chouji and Shikamaru were ready to go.
"No problem." Lee said, thumb up. "This was a good training."
"I'm looking forward to dinner tomorrow." Chouji said, eating crisps.
"Yeah. It's fine. Though it was really troublesome actually..."
Sasuke smiled, it was rare to see him smile, but not tonight. Everything went well, and he was finally ready to go to Naruto.
"I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Definitely." Chouji said.
Then, the three boys disappeared in the night.
Sasuke sighed. He had to take care of some last things, and then he should go to Naruto. At last.

Naruto was lying on the floor staring at his clock.
It was eight 'o clock now...
"Sasuke, where are you?" Naruto sighed.
There was a knock on the door.
Naruto immediately ran towards the door.
"Sasuke!"
Naruto hugged Sasuke immediately.
"Hey blonde."
Sasuke kissed Naruto and smiled.
"Where were you the whole day?" Naruto asked, his arms still around Sasuke's waist.
"Just taking care of some things."
"What things?"
Sasuke silenced Naruto by kissing him passionately.
"I've got something to ask you." Sasuke then said.
"What?" Naruto asked curiously.
"I will tell you, but first you're coming with me."
Naruto looked at Sasuke, a bit suspicious.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Can't tell you yet." Sasuke said with a mysterious smile. "Close your eyes."
After raising his eyebrows, Naruto closed his eyes.
"Don't be scared." Sasuke said when he blindfolded Naruto. "I will ask you my question if we're there."
"Where?" Naruto asked nervous.
Sasuke didn't answer, he lifted Naruto and took him outside.

"We're here."
Sasuke put Naruto back on the ground and Naruto took of the blindfold.
"But... This is... This is your old house!"
Sasuke nodded and opened the door with his key.
Naruto stared inside, it was all dark.
"What are we doing here?"
Sasuke smiled.
"Just wait a second."
Sasuke formed seals with his hands and little sparks of fire jumped out of his mouth.
Naruto stared at the place in front of him, totally astonished.
"Sa... Sasuke...?"
The house was entirely lighted by candles. Big vases filled with red roses were standing on the tables.
"Naruto?"
Naruto looked at Sasuke, still surprised.
Sasuke took something out of his pocket and presented it to Naruto.
"Will you come and live with me?"
In Sasuke's hands was a silver key, much newer than his own key.
Naruto blinked a few times.
"I... I..."
He looked in Sasuke's eyes.
"Yes... I want to live together with you..."
Naruto took the key and looked at it.
There was an inscription in the silver.
"For my blonde"
Naruto felt tears in the corners of his eyes.
"I love you!" he said, and he embraced Sasuke.
"I love you too..."
Sasuke was so happy... Everything turned out well...
"Let's go inside." Sasuke said after a while. "I've got another surprise for you."
Naruto looked at Sasuke and wondered what the surprise was.
Sasuke covered Naruto's eyes with his hands and took him in the house. Slowly, he leaded Naruto into another room.
"You can look now." Sasuke said, and he removed his hands.
Naruto was amazed. He and Sasuke were standing in a huge bedroom, a kingsize bed was in front of them. The bed was surrounded with candles and rosepaddles were on the floor.
"I thought that it was time for a bigger bed." Sasuke said smiling.
Naruto kissed Sasuke.
"You're the best." he said with a loving smile.
"Thanks."
They were both silent for a while.
"But... Why did you do all of this?" Naruto asked.
"For you." Sasuke said simply. "I did it for you."
Naruto kissed Sasuke, full of gratitude.
After that, Sasuke just smiled.
"So, shall we test that new bed then blonde?"
Naruto blushed a bit.
"I thought that you would never ask."