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Chapter XXVIII

The Anbu Pair

Hogwarts was stirring. All through the castle lights were coming on and students were rubbing sleep from their eyes. There was some complaining but it was mostly drowned out from the noises heard all over the building. Somewhere in the building someone was crying. It was no light crying. It was screams of despair, a deep pain that could reach even the most coldhearted of people.

Neville was one of the first to jump out of bed. How could he sleep at such a time? For all he knew some of his best friends could be dead right now. Harry had refused to let him go with them and even now he was regretting it. But when he heard the screaming his stomach dropped.

'One of them stayed here.' His mind rushed as he sprang from the boys' dormitory. When he ran into the common room he immediately ran for the portrait ignoring the protests from Professor McGonagall.

Ginny joined his side. He sent her a questioning look. She looked back and frowned.

"I'm just as worried as you are." She snapped. Her eyes were shadowed from lack of sleep and she looked worn. He looked at her with respect as he answered.

"Let's just hope they're ok." He smiled.

"But…." Ginny stopped running. Neville followed in suite. They listened silently to the screaming. "Who is that?" She breathed.

He didn't answer.

"Let's go." He muttered before following the screaming.


What Neville and Ginny saw was enough to make both of them wince. The room was in ruins. The walls were broken down; the floor was cracked and all over there were shards of what used to be the Mirror of Erised. The stench of blood clung to the air and was also splattered across the floor.

Amongst the shards kneeled Naruto clutching desperately to an unconscious Sasuke. It took them a while to register whose blood it was but they both gasped as the saw Sasuke's wound. Tears were streaked across his face. He was screaming uncontrollably and his eyes were wide with shock. He didn't even notice the two students enter.

Ginny hesitated before walking forward and placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Na…..Naruto?"

"……."

The screaming stopped.

Ginny looked at Neville with a loss. He had stopped. Naruto wasn't moving and was barely breathing. It came out in short desperate gasps. His eyes were open but they weren't seeing.

"Neville….?" Ginny whispered. "What's he…" She trailed of, leaving the sentence incomplete.

"I….I think he's fighting." Neville mumbled cautiously. Ginny frowned.

"Fighting? Fighting who?" She snapped. The boy moved his head up and looked her square in the eye.

"…..H…Himself." He stuttered helplessly.

Ginny stared at them both dumbfounded.

"B…but that's." She replied incredulously.

"But look at his eyes Ginny!" Neville persisted. "They're different colours!" And it was true, one of Naruto's eyes was the pale blue but the other was blood red.

He was fighting. With the one person he can never win to. But can also never lose to.


"Why am I here again?" Naruto murmured, looking around the familiar chamber. However there was a difference. The gate was open and the seal was gone.

"Why do you think kit?" The blond turned, expecting to see the fox however he came to face someone else, someone identical to him.

"Kyuubi?"

"Got that right." The red eyes grinned at him.

"But you're not meant to be here! You're meant to help Sasuke!" He screamed. Kyuubi waved it off.

"And why me?" He answered stubbornly.

Naruto looked downwards guiltily. "Because I can't….Its all my fault."

"Oh?" Kyuubi smiled slightly. "How's that?"

"I hurt him." Naruto whispered.

"Kami you're stupid." The fox demon growled. Naruto looked at him incredulously. "I hurt him because of that stupid Leglimency. You didn't do a thing. Anyway Uchiha needs you more than anyone right now." Kyuubi moved forward and pressed his claws forcefully onto Naruto's shoulders.

Naruto flinched but held his ground. He glared back at the other suspiciously.

"Why are you helping me Kyuubi?" He challenged. Kyuubi grinned.

"I have my reasons." He laughed, releasing his grip on Naruto.

"Thanks." Naruto smiled.

He was preparing to leave when Kyuubi uttered more words.

"Plus Uchiha is a really good kisser, can't have him die just yet." He winked and licked his lips at Naruto whose jaw dropped to the floor.

"You should really try him some time."



Naruto's eyes focused as he looked around himself. He was lying on the floor and next to him he heard someone breathing. He turned his heard weakly to the side.

"Sa…Sasuke." He rasped before sitting up and returning his partner to his lap. "Sasuke wake up." He pleaded brushing the man's fringe from his face.

Naruto let out a sigh of relief when Sasuke stirred. He leaned forward and whispered his name once more.

"Sasuke." This time the response was obvious. Sasuke's eyes fluttered open and focused on Naruto.

The first thing Sasuke noticed when he opened his eyes was the searing pain in his head and sides. The second thing was that there was something wet on his face.

'Tears' He thought 'but whose' The third thing he noticed was that there was someone leaning close to him. So close that he was breathing their air.

'Naruto' His mind processed slowly. 'Naruto's tears.'

Another thing registered in his mind. That there was a crowd around them, and not a small crowed. But a crowd of what could be thousands of students. But Sasuke's thoughts were elsewhere.

Sasuke reached up and weakly placed his hand on Naruto's wet cheek.

"You're eyes are blue again." He smiled with relief.

"Sasuke." Naruto whispered

"I never told you did I? Is that why you're crying?" He forced out quietly.

"Shh don't talk Sasuke." Naruto hushed calmly, his voice still quiet.

"It's my fault because I didn't tell you." He rasped.

"Tell me what?" Sasuke wiped his thumb lightly across Naruto's eyelashes, stopping the tears.

'He's so beautiful' He thought as he trailed his pale fingers down Naruto's face.

"I love you Naruto." He said as clearly as he could. He smiled a true smile as Naruto's eyes widened in shock. Blue eyes welled up once again at the words Naruto had just heard. Without caring he began to cry shamelessly like a child.

"I'm sorry it took me so long." Sasuke continued.

Gradually Sasuke's eyelids grew heavy. He slowly closed his eyes. A feeling of relief and peace swept over him.

'I finally told him' He thought gladly. These were his last thoughts before sleep claimed him….Permanent sleep.


The Ministry was quiet. Nothing moved. It was the kind of silence that rested on you like a heavy weight. It made you weary. At first glance you would never know that anything was wrong with the Department of Mysteries however when walking to the courtrooms the damage was obvious.

"Why is it so quiet?" Harry breathed.

"He's waiting." Sasori replied emotionlessly. Harry sent them a questioning look.

Both Sasori and Deidara were propped up against the wall. They were unable to move thanks to Hidan's cunning plan. Sasori was holding Deidara's hand. Deidara had his head resting on Sasori's shoulder and seemed to be completely relaxed but in his other hand Deidara was clutching a clay bird.

'He feels vulnerable' Hidan thought but for once kept to himself.

"Well he's biding his time. That's the smartest thing to do right now. His servants are all either dead or useless." Deidara explained to Harry. When he said useless his gestured briefly to himself and his colleagues.

"You aren't useless." Harry offered to them. He was surprised to see a small smile form on the blond's lips.

"To him, we are now." Deidara said quietly as if almost to himself. Hidan grinned and leaned closer to Deidara. His face only inches from the others

"Come to think of it Dei-chan…" Deidara winced at the horrible nickname. "You've never failed any big assignments have you," Hidan's sadistic smirk changed into shock when he felt his face being shoved backwards.

"A little too close Hidan." Sasori growled threateningly at him. After a moment Hidan regained his confidence.

"Jealousy is an ugly thing redhead." He snickered.

"As if I'd feel threatened by you." Sasori returned stonily.

"You'd be surprised." Hidan grinned back,

"Well at least we never failed missions, unlike you. How many was it then?" Sasori shot back, obviously insulted by them.

"You sure you're above jealousy redhead?"

Harry sighed at the display. Everything about these three turned around love and sex….well of course this was normal for humans but they were ninja's for God's sake. How could they be talking about things like that at such a critical time?

Harry opened his mouth to say something but stopped when he saw the three tense.

A grin spread across Hidan's face.

"Here he comes." He stated. And when Harry turned around he felt his insides shatter.

In front of him stood You Know Who, The Dark Lord…………Voldemort.

"You traitorous fools." The snake man seethed through his teeth. Taking a step forward, brandishing his wand.

The smirk remained on Hidan's face.

"Why thank you."


Naruto only became aware of the people around him when someone pushed him out of the way. It was Madame Pomfrey. She was bustling around frantically treating Sasuke.

"Can you help him?" Naruto asked desperately. His stomach dropped when Pomfrey sent him a serious look however after a moment it morphed into a smile.

"You bet I can." The woman pulled out her wand and in a flash all that was left of the wound was a scar.

"The attack missed all the vital organs." Madame Pomfrey muttered before facing Naruto again. "He was really lucky."

Naruto smiled softly "Yeah…so was I."


Sasuke's eyes opened slowly, disturbed by the voices. He looked around to find himself still in the same room. And still in the same comfortable position of Naruto's lap. He looked up at his partner stoically.

"Couldn't you have moved me dobe?" He asked curtly, surprised when his insult was only answered by a smile.

"At least you're healthy enough to insult me," He said happily.

"Tch." Was Sasuke's only answer. When the Uchiha made to move he was surprised when he found no pain hit him. He looked down to where his wound should have been and was surprised to find only a scar.

Inside Sasuke smiled. 'Magic is really something else' He thought. He stood up and looked down at Naruto who was smiling at him. He returned the expression.

"Shall we go?" Naruto smiled back at him but something was missing. Sasuke paused to examine his partner.

"What's wrong Naruto?"

"Do you remember?" Naruto asked quietly, a blush coming across his face. Sasuke blinked in confusion.

"Remember what?" He asked. Naruto looked at him in outrage.

"What you just said to me! Dammit Sasuke I can't believe you forgot!" He snapped but there was no real anger, just a little sadness and disappointment.

There was sadness for a moment as Sasuke stopped to think. What had he said? Then suddenly it came back to him.

"Never mind it doesn't matter really." Naruto snapped as he got up and turned to leave. Naruto had barely taken a step before Sasuke began to speak.

""I love you Naruto."" Sasuke spoke clearly. Naruto stopped mid step and spun around.

"What?" He whispered. Sasuke took his hand in his own and dared a step closer.

""I'm sorry it took so long."" Sasuke finished and smiled at the blonde. Naruto's eyes were round as saucers and his mouth was hanging ever so slightly open.

"You…..You remembered." He whispered, reaching out to his partner's face. Sasuke shrugged his shoulders.

"I suppose I did." He answered.

Now such a situation would probably require more to be said. Sasuke probably would have chosen to say more if it weren't for Naruto's reaction. Before Sasuke knew what was happening, Naruto jumped onto him and crashed their lips together.

Sasuke managed to support the blonde for a few moments before gravity took hold and they both fell to the floor. Their lips were still pressed together, when Naruto paused for air Sasuke took the moment to roll over and claim dominance over the blonde. He pressed an open-mouthed kiss onto the others lips before entering with his tongue.

He ran his tongue around Naruto's mouth causing the other to moan. Somewhere in his mind he vaguely noticed voices and the tears on Naruto's cheeks. But he dismissed the first. He was completely taken by what was happening, what he had dreamt of for so long.

It was only several minutes later that they drew apart, gasping for air. Naruto was breathing heavily only a few centimeters from his face. The blondes flushed lips formed a small smile.

"He was right." He mumbled. Sasuke blinked.

"What." Naruto shook his head reassuringly and pressed his lips to Sasuke's one more time.

"I love you too Teme."

They both froze when they finally noticed what those (not so) irrelevant voices in the background were. Now I say not so irrelevant because these voices were in fact the whole of Hogwarts.

And the whole of Hogwarts had just witnessed the spectacle. Whistles and shouts were coming from everywhere and both Naruto and Sasuke felt themselves blush uncontrollably.

It was Dean and Seamus who fought themselves to the front and grinned at them.

"You horn balls." They grinned mischievously

Naruto jumped to his feet and ran over to them.

"What's with that? If anyone's a hornball its you perverts watching!" He yelled jumping at them.

"Hey, hey we're happy for you" They explained. "It was about time anyway," Dean added with a wink.

As if on que both Sasuke and Naruto flushed again. Sasuke was first to get over the embarrassment. He walked over to them and grabbed Naruto by the arm.

"Dobe we better go." He muttered. Naruto grinned and nodded. As the two of them turned away Seamus spoke again.

"Wait…What about You Know Who?" There was suddenly a deep silence. The two ninja sighed. It was no secret what was going on.

But after a moment Naruto grinned and did the victory sign.

"Going down of course."


Oki there might be one more chapter. Its 2 in the morning so I had to cut it. Im a busy person :P So it looks like were heading for 30 in total. Well 30s cool its a good number :D

ANYWAY this chappie was for my tapping budding!!! DaChibiMonster007 xDD Happy birthday and sorry I couldn't put any lemon because 1. I don't have the guts to do it yet and 2. I cant see Sasuke and Naruto having sex infront of the whole school it leads to faar to many nosebleeds and other problems.

I hope you like it Malvi =3

Chika 3

Ps you guys review, un xD