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Chapter 28: A new pet for Akira
23rd of October
He was making some sandwiches, but he had trouble making them with one hand. He sighed. Naruto came to stand behind him, and used his hand to hold down the sandwich so that Sasuke could cut it.
"Just pretend you have two arms." Naruto stuck out his tongue.
"I have two arms." Sasuke slowly pulled his arm out of the sling around his shoulder, and laid his hand on top of Naruto's. "You see, I could still do this without your help."
"That's cheating."
"How is this cheating?"
"You can't use it, it is supposed to rest."
"It is, it is!" Akira was pulling at Sasuke's pants. "Oba-chan will get mad!"
"You should listen to your son." Naruto walked away from Sasuke to the living room. "I got a mission with my team later on."
"Tou-chan?" Akira looked up to Sasuke a bit shyly.
"What is it?" Sasuke noticed he wanted something.
"You want to help me with practice later?" He looked up hopefully, balancing on the balls of his feet shyly.
"Of course."
"Thank you, tou-chan," Akira smiled, hugged his leg, and ran into the garden.
"You got nothing else to do anyway. You need to rest," Naruto grinned.
"True." Sasuke stood in the door opening, looking down to Naruto.
Naruto looked around to Sasuke with a confused look on his face. He agreed? "How come you agree with me?"
"I think..." Sasuke hesitated. "On the day of the Kyuubi festival, I think Akira actually awakened his Sharingan."
"Really? Are you sure?" Naruto shook his head. "Of course you are sure." He walked up to Sasuke.
"I haven't seen it, but the way he..."
Naruto smiled. "You're happy, aren't you?"
Sasuke looked down to Naruto. "I am." He waited a moment. "Is that wrong of me?" he asked softly.
"Of course not, I'm happy too." Naruto took a step closer to Sasuke. "Isn't it what you wanted?"
"That's why... Isn't it wrong for a father to hope something like that?"
"But I know you wouldn't have minded if he hadn't."
"That's what I kept telling myself; what I told him."
"Don't worry about it Sasuke. I swear, sometimes you are over thinking things too much." Sasuke huffed. Naruto smiled and hugged him, laying his head against his chest and shoulder.
After a moment Naruto leaned back and looked up to Sasuke. "Just make sure you have fun today, and don't give the boy a trauma." Sasuke frowned and Naruto smirked, knowing full well Sasuke would take things easy. "Give me a kiss, so I can go to my team," he demanded from Sasuke, already standing on his toes, waiting for Sasuke to close the last few centimetres.
Sasuke couldn't deny Naruto a kiss, so he did, making it a longer one than Naruto had anticipated, and laid his hand on Naruto's behind. After a while Naruto pulled back, blushing ever so slightly -making Sasuke happy when he saw that- and left the house.
"Bye." He waved.
Sasuke stayed staring at the empty spot where Naruto had disappeared from the room for a moment longer. He liked to make Naruto blush, and it wasn't hard at all.
Still smiling he turned around to walk outside, and sat down on the porch. Akira had already collected his practice materials, and was waiting for Sasuke while looking at the koi in the pond on a safe distance. Sasuke had actually made a line in the ground, because Akira had the tendency to slowly shuffle closer to the pond while watching the many fish, even though Sasuke had told him not to get to close; he still couldn't help but unconsciously ignore his father's rule. So Sasuke had made the line in the ground after Akira had made another dive into the water.
Sasuke watched how Akira was hunching and staring at a particular big orange koi fish. He was whispering to it. "Are you having a good day, Ken? Tou-chan and I are going to practice with the shuuriken together. He said he would help me," he whispered excitedly. "I really like it when he helps me. I'm going to be as strong as he is." The fish came up, looking like it was taking air, opening and closing its mouth. Akira looked up to the porch and saw Sasuke sitting there, watching him. "You gonna watch us, Ken?" he asked quickly, looking back to the koi fish. "But be careful." He stood up and ran to Sasuke.
"You ready?" he asked with a high voice.
Sasuke smiled. "I am. Show me what you can do."
Akira was gone before Sasuke could blink, showing his father that he was able to hit the round target a few times, and could at least make his other shuuriken land very close to the tree now, not getting further out of range than a meter or two.
After half an hour Sasuke stood up and hunched down behind Akira. Akira stopped in the middle of a swing to throw the shuuriken, to turn around and look up to Sasuke.
"Go on," Sasuke encouraged him. So Akira turned back and continued throwing.
After two throws Sasuke reached forward and slowly grasped Akira's throwing arm. Akira looked over his shoulder, surprised.
"Move your arm a bit more like this." Sasuke adjusted his arm a little bit. Akira nodded and tried again. After a couple of throws he got the hang of it, and indeed his aim was improving.
"Tou-chan?" Akira asked, throwing another pointed object at the poor wooden target.
"Hn?"
"Am I learning faster than Naruto already?"
Sasuke stared at Akira's black hair for a moment, before realizing he was referring to their conversation when he had started throwing shuuriken for the first time. Sasuke had told Naruto Akira would be better than him, learning faster.
"You certainly do."
Akira stopped and turned around. He handed Sasuke the shuuriken he had been holding. Sasuke took it, looking a bit surprised at his son.
"You throw?" he asked, looking expectantly.
Sasuke smiled and stood up. He threw the practice shuuriken Akira handed to him for a while.
"Do you remember what happened on Naruto's birthday? At the festival?" Sasuke suddenly asked, and Akira stiffened, almost letting the next shuuriken drop. He nodded, looking down at the shuuriken in his hand.
"When we were in the big building, and the fake Naruto and ninja's were throwing shuuriken at us...?" Sasuke waited for Akira to look up, and hand him the next shuuriken. "You dodged those."
Akira carefully smiled. "I did," he said shyly.
"I'm really proud of you that you were able to do that." Akira's eyes widened so fast, Sasuke had to do a double take at his son. He smiled and continued. "Do you remember how you did that?"
"I'm not sure." Akira handed Sasuke the last shuuriken.
When he looked at the target again, he saw the pattern his father had been throwing the shuuriken in. "What's that?" he pointed to the three comma-like shapes.
Sasuke hunched down again, and looked into Akira's eyes. "You remember when we talked about the Sharingan and what it could do?"
Akira tilted his head. "I do?" he asked.
Sasuke's eyes became red with three black tomoe, connected by a thin black circle. Akira gasped. "The comma's."
He'd seen Sasuke's Sharingan before, when Sasuke had been really angry at him for falling in the pond for the umpteenth time and then had come walking into the house with muddy clothes. However, seeing as Sasuke had been angry at him, be hadn't actually been paying a lot of attention to the shape inside the red eyes.
"Tomoe," Sasuke told him. "They are called tomoe."
"Tomoe," Akira tried the word.
"I think you have the Sharingan too," Sasuke slowly told his son.
Akira just stared at him. "You think so? How?" Suddenly he was wondering if it hurt to get red eyes like that. Wouldn't he have noticed?
"Don't worry," Sasuke told him when he saw Akira's expression change into something close to worry. "It doesn't hurt, and I'll teach you how to use it."
"You will?"
"Of course. It's a clan thing," he said mysteriously, though he wasn't aware that he did so.
Before he knew what was going on, Akira was hugging him. Sasuke smiled and folded his good arm around Akira's small form.
-x-
They were walking on some dirt road leading to a small village just outside Konoha. Team 9, with their sensei in front, calmly walked on, talking.
"And what does she want us to do then?" Eri asked, holding the straps of the backpack she carried on her back in her hands.
"Deliver whatever is inside that backpack you're carrying, of course," Kenji said, his head held high and eyes closed.
Eri hit his shoulder. "Of course I know that, but what's inside?"
"P-perhaps she doesn't want us to know?" Ryomaru asked.
"Or sensei just likes to 'surprise' us again, trying to be mysterious about it," Eri said, looking up to Naruto, who was walking in front of them. His tail started swirling around at the accusation, but he didn't reply. "Sensei~"
"Yes, Eri-chan?"
Eri huffed, crossing her arms and puffing her cheeks.
Kenji looked at her and smiled. "Just ignore him, and don't act surprised when he tells us what's inside. Eventually he will no longer think that it's funny to surprise us."
Eri looked back to Kenji. "You sure have been thinking about that."
"My stupid brother has the same tendency."
Eri laughed softly. "But your brother is nice."
Kenji became red, ever so slightly. "No he isn't," he worked himself up.
"I have a feeling every child says he hates his older brother or sister, but in reality-"
"No," Ryomaru suddenly said, and both Kenji and Eri looked at him. Naruto's ears turned in his direction as well, as he was silently listening to everything that was being said. "My sisters are a bother too." He crossed his arms and nodded.
"But you fall into the same category as Kenji does," Eri said.
"Perhaps children without older brothers or sisters all think it's so great to have an older sibling?" Kenji interjected.
"But-"
"You fall into that category, so you can't say anything about it," Kenji hit Eri with her own words.
"Damn. Sensei? What do you think about that?" Eri asked.
"I'm sorry, but I fall into the same category as you do. I don't have any siblings," Naruto said without turning around.
"Oh."
"So we will not be able to solve this," Kenji said, hoping to close this conversational topic with it.
"It's funny that both you and Ryomaru-kun are the youngest in the family, and both Naruto-sensei and I have no siblings."
"But Ryomaru has how many sisters? I got one brother, and he's bad enough as he is."
"I got four older sisters," Ryomaru softly informed them.
"I don't think I've actually ever met them?" Eri said.
"Be thankful." Ryomaru looked up to Eri. "W-well, you probably wouldn't think they're so bad."
"Why would you say that? Because I'm a girl," she asked smiling.
"P-partly, but you seem to get along w-with everyone." Ryomaru fumbled with the hem of his shirt.
"Oh, but I don't."
"It sure seems like it," Kenji said and then quickly turned his head away.
"Well, I didn't used to be like this." Eri shrugged.
"Why?" Ryomaru asked, unable to imagine Eri not being nice (the way Kenji and she acted around each other didn't count in his opinion).
Eri became red. "I was a bully back at the Academy."
Ryomaru's mouth fell open, and Kenji stared at her as well.
"Really?" Kenji asked with disbelief.
Naruto turned around to, walking backwards. "I didn't see that one coming."
Eri kept blushing. "I-I was just... I was always alone, with mom and oba-chan away on missions. I wanted to have friends."
"Bullying is not a good way to get friends," Kenji told her.
"I know now!"
Suddenly Ryomaru stopped walking. "No."
The others stopped as well and looked around to him.
"What is it, Ryomaru-kun?"
"No, that time-" Ryomaru pointed to Eri. "Y-you were..." He looked a bit shocked.
Suddenly Eri's face fell too. "No, you're..." she pointed to Ryomaru as well.
"That big scary girl that pushed me into the water!" / "You're that small boy with shoulder length green hair!" they said at the same time.
"Ryomaru had shoulder length hair?" Kenji snorted.
"That's not the point," Naruto told him.
"I never thought..." Eri walked up to Ryomaru and looked up to him, as tall as he was for his age. "You were so small back then."
"And you were really big and scary." Ryomaru looked away. "I had nightmares about that incident, you know."
Eri put her hand in front of her mouth in embarrassment. "I'm so sorry, Ryomaru-kun." She hugged him, and Ryomaru turned bright red.
"E-Eri-chan?"
"Is it my fault you don't like water?"
Ryomaru couldn't answer. He wasn't afraid of water, he could swim and all, but he wasn't fond of it. He rather stayed away on a safe distance.
"I'm so sorry!" she said again.
Naruto started laughing softly. "And you two never realized?" He looked down to the two. "Eri-chan, you better let go of Ryomaru, before he passes out," he said on a side note.
Eri let go of Ryomaru.
"How could you not have recognised each other?" Kenji asked. "How many people have green hair?"
"Eri-chan is just not the same anymore," Ryomaru muttered. "She's much nicer."
"He was so small. Look how tall he is now! He was the tallest of our class, remember?"
"I noticed," Kenji said, looking up to Ryomaru.
"And we were 6 or something."
Ryomaru nodded.
"Ah, well." Kenji shrugged and started walking again. The rest followed his example.
"I stopped bullying other children when I was 10!" Eri told him, hoping that would help 'clarify' her name.
"That was when you came into our class," Kenji said pensively.
"It was." Eri said, looking down. "My mom had scolded me so badly, and had been able to arrange a class transfer with a lot of difficulty. It was my only chance, she said, to ever become a ninja if I still wanted to."
"Wow, seriously, you must have been a real mean girl back then." Kenji smirked.
"Didn't they have a n-nickname for you?" Ryomaru asked. Eri froze.
"No, no, they hadn't," she said a little too quickly, walking on faster; even past Naruto.
"So they had," Kenji concluded.
"It was something with scary..." Ryomaru mumbled, thinking.
"Scary Eri?" Naruto asked, laughing.
"No, it wasn't!" Eri said, turning red. She was still walking up front.
"You mean, you were Sceri? I've heard of you." Kenji grinned.
"Yes, that was it!" Ryomaru said.
"Sceri? What does that mean?" Naruto asked.
"It's a mix between scary and Eri." Kenji clarified.
"Aha."
"Mo~," Eri muttered. "Please can we talk about something else?"
"Sure, Sceri," Kenji said. Eri gave him a dark look.
-x-
Their client turned out to be the local hair dresser of the small village. She had requested for some new scissors and combs. So she had ordered those from Konoha. A perfect D-rank mission.
When Eri had opened the backpack, to hand the contents to the woman, her face fell in disappointment. All Naruto could do was laugh.
"I told you that it becomes worse when you act interested," Kenji told Eri.
"But I-" Eri didn't finish her sentence, handing the objects to the woman in front of her. "Here you go," she muttered.
"Thank you, little girl."
As disappointed as she was, Eri wasn't even bothered by the 'little'. Together they went away, back to Konoha.
"You know how sensei likes to make fun of us," Kenji told her again. Eri shrugged. "You're quite dumb, Sceri." This got him the intended reaction he wanted.
"Don't call me Sceri, and I'm not dumb, baka!" Eri tried to hit Kenji, but he side sepped.
Kenji smirked, and almost walked into Naruto when he suddenly stopped in front of him. Just able to evade his sensei, he stepped away. "Why did you stop?" he asked irritated.
Naruto was sniffing the air. "This is a good place."
Eri sighed. "We already had a break. Can't you wait a bit longer for your next ramen-"
"I'm not hungry." Naruto turned around, facing his team. Eri 's eyebrows rose.
After a while Naruto was still looking down at them, without having said a word.
"Naruto-sensei?" Ryomaru asked, seeing his other teammates getting agitated by his lack of explanation.
Naruto smirked. "Nah, never mind." He turned away again. He loved fooling his team.
"Sensei~," three whining voices called after him.
"I swear I hate foxes," Kenji muttered.
"As you very well know, I'm not a fox. Don't believe anything Akira tells you." Naruto walked back to them. Kenji just stared at him.
"Kenji-kun..." Naruto cooed, earning him a glare when he said the added 'kun' to the name of the boy. "You have to loosen up a little."
"You have a reason for stopping us, do you?" Ryomaru asked softly.
"I do." Hopeful faces and a frowning one looked back at him. Eri hit Kenji on the arm, signing him to stop frowning.
"What? Something new?" Eri asked Naruto excited.
"What new?" Naruto asked confused.
"You gonna teach us something new?" Eri asked impatiently.
"Um, sure, if you would like that." Eri jumped up, Kenji stared at her, not believing she had bought that, and Ryomaru fiddled with his fingers. "I was thinking-" Naruto started, getting the attention back. "Let's play a game."
"A game," Kenji repeated monotonously.
"A game?" Eri asked hopeful, smiling.
"A game," Naruto repeated.
"What g-game?" Ryomaru asked.
"I'm the bad guy."
"What?"
"You have to catch me." Naruto smiled, his tail swishing.
He got three stares as answer.
"You're kidding, right?" Kenji asked, crossing his arms.
"Nope."
Suddenly Eri shrieked, making Ryomaru jump. "I get it, I get it!" she yelled.
"Eri! We are right next to you!" Kenji told her off, rubbing his left ear.
"Get what?" Ryomaru asked confused.
"A foxhunt!"
Naruto's face fell and his tail fell down too.
"F-foxhunt?"
"Yes, Ryomaru-kun, can't you see? Foxes are really hard to catch, and sensei is too! And he's very sneaky, and fast, and he has a tail, and ears, and he-"
"Thank you Eri-chan," Naruto tried to silence her.
"I bet he actually really has a fox for a mother. He's been lying to us ever since-"
"E-Eri-chan?" Ryomaru stuttered, turning red, afraid of what she was doing.
"She's right," Kenji suddenly joined Eri, and Ryomaru's mouth fell open. Naruto looked stunned too.
"You see," Eri said. "And after we catch you-"
"-we will have to take the fur," Kenji finished.
"That's what you do when you catch a fox," Eri said.
Naruto's mouth was by now hanging open too. "Wha-?" He looked at his two students, not believing what they were saying.
"I always wanted a tie, a red one." Kenji said seriously.
Naruto was speechless. They were kidding right? But Kenji... Kenji never made a joke! They were telling the truth? They weren't kidding him?
"Hahaa!" Eri suddenly laughed and pointed to Naruto. "Got you!" Kenji smirked.
"Huh?" Naruto looked from the one to the other. "You were-" Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"That's payback!" Eri yelled, smiling. Naruto flattened his ears on his head. "The look on your face!"
It took fifteen minutes before Eri could stop laughing. Naruto pouted, turned around and started walking away.
"Sensei? You can't take a joke? You're joking all the time."
"Not all the time, Eri-chan."
"A lot then."
"Often," Naruto offered.
"Okay, often."
"I g-guess we're not going to play the game anymore?" Ryomaru asked, still not believing Eri and Kenji had fooled him too. They had worked together to get back at Naruto. He was a bit stunned.
Naruto suddenly stopped once more, this time startling all his students.
"I know something better." He mumbled something, and Eri could swear she heard him say something with 'no foxhunt'.
"You're serious this time?" Kenji asked.
"Of course I am. Can't you tell?" Naruto pointed to himself. Kenji gave him the look, Naruto ignored it.
"This is a perfect opportunity to improve your sneaking-skills."
"Sneaking-skills," Eri said, sweat dropping. Sometimes Naruto and ninja terms didn't go together. "That's not what you call-"
"Let's go. There are some chuunin coming closer, and I would like to scare the daylight out of them."
"Perfect job for Sceri, isn't- itai." Kenji rubbed his shoulder where Eri had hit him, frowning at him.
"Stop calling me Sceri."
"But it's a cool name. It would scare everyone."
Eri didn't know what to say, and instead followed Naruto and Ryomaru into the bushes.
Sitting on a branch, Naruto told them exactly how to sense another chakra, to lower their own, and his plan to scare the poor approaching Konoha chuunin.
"You know them, don't you?" Kenji asked suspiciously. The answer was a foxy grin. "He does."
They crouched down, and Naruto was proud of them. They really were talented in this area. He didn't need to convince them to do this or anything, because they were eager to do this too.
The two unknowingly Konoha chuunin, dressed in ninja clothing, came closer.
"I swear this is getting out of hand."
"Don't whine, I already know!"
"But honestly, she has been sending us for the third time this week already! The third!"
"I know, I know. You already told me twenty times now."
"But aren't you-"
They could see the two getting closer now. They were walking down the small dirt road, carrying something. Kenji narrowed his eyes to see better. One of the two had his hita-ate tied around his head like a bandana. He had brown hair hanging around his face. The other had black spiky hair and a bandage around his face, across his nose.
Wait a second... Aren't those two-?
Naruto was about to give the signal for them to jump up to the two chuunin, who spend most of their time guarding the main gate of Konoha, when he stopped. His ears perked up and he looked around.
"What is it, sensei?" Eri whispered from beside him; they all sat on the same branch.
"What's that annoying sound?" He kept looking around.
Koketsu and Izumo were passing them, down on the dirt road, still not knowing who where so close to them.
"What sound?"
"It almost sounds like..."
Naruto turned around to the sound, only to get something black thrown in his face. It felt like a leather towel. He almost fell out of the tree, only saved by Ryomaru.
"Bleh, what-?" He tried to get it off.
"Could it be-?" Eri said as she studied the leather towel, leaning closer.
"No-"
"It's-"
"Kou-chan!" Ryomaru said happily, petting the bat as it made happy sounds, hugging Naruto (read sucking his chakra).
Kenji rolled his eyes.
"You're back!" Eri tried petting the small black bat too, while Naruto tried to get Kou off his face.
"He really m-missed you," Ryomaru stated, looking at the bat clinging to Naruto's face, while Naruto pulled at the small bat's body.
"Let... go..." Naruto mumbled. "You can sit... on my shoulder." He pulled at the bat again.
Kou's eyes shone evilly and he (accidentally) let go, mowing his tiny claws in the direction of Naruto's shoulder.
"Sasuke's going to be so happy to see you," Naruto said sarcastically.
-x-
Naruto stepped on the porch where Sasuke and Akira were sitting. Sasuke was showing Akira how to clean and take care of the shuuriken, with his cast right arm holding the shuuriken while the left made the movements.
"Carefully!" he told Akira.
"I am!"
"But it's sharp."
"Tou-chan, I know!"
"Haha, Sasuke take it easy; you think Akira-kun wants to cut himself?"
"Naruto! How was your mission?" Akira asked happily.
"I actually met an old acquaintance."
Sasuke gave him a look that said he probably didn't want to know; afraid for the stories that might follow.
Naruto grinned and turned around. "Kou-chan!"
The bat on his back crawled up his left shoulder, so Naruto turned back. Kou peered over his shoulder, immediately his glimmering eyes stared at Sasuke.
"Not that fu-"
"Ooh! Can I pet him?" Akira shouted enthusiastically.
Naruto hunched down so Akira could reach up to the bat, carefully scratching his small head with one finger.
"Hello Kou-chan, I'm Uchiha Akira!" The bat closed its eyes as he was scratched under his chin, unable to stare at the small boy similar to Sasuke, both in name and looks.
"I think he likes you."
"Why are you here, Kou-chan? On vacation? Shouldn't you be asleep?" Akira asked.
"I met Kou-chan just before I met you. He likes my chakra, and I guess he's hungry."
"Chakra? You can eat that?"
"No, but Kou-chan can."
Akira looked up questioningly, letting his finger glide away from the bat. "It's different than with tou-chan's hawk."
"It is."
Sasuke had summoned a hawk a few weeks ago, showing Akira. Akira had been very excited. However, when Naruto had turned home, the hawk had flown away, and Akira had been disappointed. Naruto had told him that most animals didn't like him.
Naruto stood up again. "Oh Sasuke, don't pull such a face." Naruto walked over to him, and leant over him so he could give Sasuke a kiss, but Sasuke pushed him away as the tiny black eyes kept staring at him.
"I will not kiss you with that thing around." He stood up and walked away.
"But bats aren't snakes." Akira was very confused.
Naruto turned to Akira. "Eh?"
"Tou-chan doesn't like snakes. Doesn't he like bats either?"
"Ha, he doesn't really think badly of Kou-chan, bu-"
"I do!" Sasuke's voice sounded from the living room.
"But he is a bit jealous of Kou-chan." Naruto smirked when he he heard Sasuke growl.
"Jealous?" Akira asked.
"Because we are so close all day. Sasuke wants to be close to me too."
"Oh."
"Not any longer!"
Naruto laughed. "We'll see. I have a suspicion you'll miss me and want me back really soon."
"Hmpf."
"Because you can't live without me."
Sasuke definitely couldn't deny that.
"So. I feel like eating carrots. I guess I'll have to cook anyway. You want to help?" Naruto asked Akira.
"Yeah! Does Kou-chan need anything else than chakra?" Akira immediately started questioning Naruto about his small friend.
They were sitting in the living room and Sasuke was almost sleeping, but refused to go to bed with Kou still on Naruto. He'd slept with that stupid animal for a week now; Sasuke had had enough of it.
"You better get rid of it!" he fumed.
Naruto looked up to Sasuke away from his card play with Akira.
"Ah, I was wondering when you would finally say that?" Naruto held out his hand with cards to Akira. "The third one."
Akira took the third card from the right and laid it on the table. Then he looked up from Sasuke to Naruto. "Get rid of what?"
"Hm, Sasuke is just thinking out loud." Naruto pointed to Akira, mentioning it was his turn.
Sasuke grumbled softly.
After a while Naruto laid his cards on the table as he'd won another game. "It's bedtime."
Akira yawned and nodded. He began collecting all the cards.
"You better get rid of it," Sasuke repeated and disappeared upstairs.
Naruto watched Sasuke walk away, and then helped Akira collecting the cards.
"Ne, Akira-kun?"
Akira looked up to Naruto. "I was wondering. Perhaps Kou-chan would like to sleep with you for a night?" He glanced down to the bat, which looked up innocently as it hung to the front of his shirt, dangling on one claw, looking up curiously.
"Really? Kou-chan would want that?" Akira looked down to the small bat, and put his finger on its head.
"Come on, Kou-chan. You like Akira-kun, don't you?" Naruto carefully grabbed the bat and tried to pull it away from his shirt, but it kept holding its tiny fingers onto the fabric, quickly grabbing it with both hands.
"You will not be woken up by my screams of pain," Naruto told the bat. In the past week his arms had been hurting quite a bit, especially at night. Akira had even become used to it, and could now sleep through Naruto's cries of pain.
"Kou-chan," Naruto said sternly. Kou still didn't let go.
"Please Kou-chan. It will be like a sleepover," Akira smiled, still holding his arm out.
Kou looked from Naruto to Akira, and back. Naruto quickly pulled the bat as he was distracted, and it was loose. "Ha."
Kou struggled against the moving away from the delicious chakra. He gave a sad sounding squeak.
Naruto placed the bat on Akira's shoulder, and Akira petted it. "Hello," he smiled gently. "Please stay tonight? Plea~se?" Apparently Kou couldn't resist that and decided to stay, but he turned his back to Naruto in protest nonetheless.
"Thanks Kou-chan."
"You want to see my book with all kinds of animals?" Akira started talking to the bat, and it slowly turned around while Akira walked up the stairs to his room.
"And don't suck his chakra!" Naruto told the bat. He smiled when he heard a slight sound similar to a sigh. He started walking after the boy to his own shared bedroom. When he opened the door to the bedroom, he noticed Sasuke was sulking in bed, and had already put the lights out. Naruto grinned.
Quickly Naruto undressed up to his boxers, and crawled into the bed, hugging Sasuke. "I know it was hard for you. A whole week."
"Hm."
"A whole week without me to play with."
Naruto started kissing Sasuke, moving his hand lower, and laid it at the inside of Sasuke's thigh, rubbing over his boxers.
Sasuke gave an uncontrolled spasm, and couldn't help it, but he really liked it. "Hmm," he moaned. He had missed Naruto touch him like this. For over a week!
"So you give in?" Naruto moved his hand closer to Sasuke's groin.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled.
"I know, you just don't like extra eyes when we… play," Naruto purred into his ear and started licking it. Naruto moved his hand over Sasuke's groin.
Suddenly Sasuke turned around to his other side, and pressed Naruto against his chest. "I admit, I can't take it any longer. I need you."
Naruto smirked. "I knew it."
They kissed each other, and soft moans could be heard in the room every now and then.
Naruto moved his hand over Sasuke's torso as much as he could, while Sasuke laid his broken arm under Naruto's head, out of the way, and grasped Naruto's hair with the other.
Naruto moaned into the long kiss Sasuke gave him, and teased Sasuke by trailing his fingers along the band of his boxers. Sasuke arched his back at the soft, teasing touch. So he pulled his leg up over Naruto's leg.
Naruto's purr hitched for a moment before he folded his arm around Sasuke's lower back, pressing the two closer to each other. Sasuke moaned at the friction below.
He couldn't take it anymore, and had to ask, he didn't think he could stall things any longer. "What about-?"
"Already sleeping." Naruto kissed Sasuke's cheek. "So you don't have to hold back any longer." Naruto moaned as Sasuke moved his hands over the base of his tail. He started purring.
Sasuke pushed Naruto onto his back, and pulled his leg over Naruto so he was straddling him. He started kissing Naruto's chest, making Naruto moan. His right arm rested beside Naruto, the other arm supported him, resting his elbow on the other side of Naruto while playing with Naruto's hair and ear. Naruto's only hand was resting on the waistband of Sasuke's dark blue boxers.
Sasuke knew what Naruto liked him to do to him, and Sasuke wanted to show him how much he liked his blond. To let him know that he couldn't let that bat near their bed again. The kisses went lower and lower, over the seal and to his boxers. He put his fingers around the band and let them glide to the back, to unbutton his tail. At that Naruto moaned again and bucked his hips up.
Gently Sasuke lowered the boxers with both hands, clumsily holding the piece of cloth with his injured arm, and proceeded his path of kisses further down to the growing erection; where he stayed for a short time.
"Sas," Naruto moaned, needing this as much as he did. "I want to touch you." He was unable to touch him like he wanted to.
Sasuke moved his head up and leant over Naruto again, kissing his mouth and cheeks. Naruto started pulling Sasuke's boxers down as best as he could, and Sasuke helped him as best as he could; after some awkward movements they finally succeeded.
The same hand that had helped Naruto, went to his legs and slowly moved up on the inside of his legs till it reached his thigh.
Naruto moaned, interrupting his continues purring, as he felt Sasuke prepare him; his hand lying on Sasuke's backside.
"I thought you really needed me?" Naruto whined after a while. That was all Sasuke needed to hear.
He laid both hands onto Naruto's hips and pushed forward. He moaned. Naruto tightened his grip as Sasuke came closer to him; inside him. Sasuke started moving, and both were making sounds of pleasure.
Sasuke began moving his hips faster, and looked down onto Naruto's flushed face. He felt rather warm himself as warmth was coming from inside of him.
"Ah, 'ruto," Sasuke moaned, his hands still resting on Naruto's hips as he looked down to the blond.
Naruto was moving his hand over Sasuke's waist while Sasuke moved.
"Hmm," Naruto replied, and bucked his hips as Sasuke had just hit the right place.
Sasuke fastened his pace, and saw how Naruto's head fell back onto the pillow from pleasure; he was close. So was he.
"Sasu- aargh!" Naruto's moan became a scream. Sasuke was startled by it, stopping his movements in shock.
"No, don't stop. Aah!" Naruto told him, his purring stopped.
Sasuke couldn't move, but Naruto gripped his waist tighter, indicating him to move again. So Sasuke slowly did.
"What's wrong?" he asked worriedly, panting.
"Nothi- aah. No! Keep moving." Naruto's ears lay flat on his head.
"Nothing? You call that nothing? You're screaming in pain?" However, Sasuke did what he was told, while growing more concerned as well. He moaned. "I'm not- not hurting you?"
"No-ah, no," Naruto closed his eyes, and turned his head to the side as he groaned from both pleasure and pain. His fingernails dug deeper into Sasuke's side, and his tail couldn't stop sweeping around.
Then Sasuke realized what was going on, but Naruto kept wiggling under him from pain, which did pleasant things to him, making him lose his thoughts for a moment.
"Hnn, your arm," he finally managed to say between gasps.
"Aargh, yeah." Naruto grinded his teeth, and pulled his head back again. "Don't s-stop," he almost begged as Sasuke felt him cramp up his muscles.
Sasuke was torn; he was having a good time, but he was worried as well, which made this a whole new kind of experience. Clearly the same was going on in Naruto's mind.
"Sasuke~," Naruto moaned as he gripped his growing arm. "Y-you're making me… so happy."
Sasuke couldn't help it, he was so close now, Naruto's voice, his squirming, the muscles pulling together… he was lost. He reached his high.
"Aah," he sighed happily, and almost stopped moving once more.
Naruto grinded his teeth again before he gave a yell from pain. Sasuke could actually see the bone growing, muscles painfully slowly wrapping around it, tissue forming.
Naruto took in a sharp breath, and Sasuke began moving again, even though he hadn't completely recovered yet. His right hand moved away from Naruto's hip to his erection.
Naruto moaned, and Sasuke knew he was close as well, even thought things seemed to go in waves right now; pain, pleasure, pain again… pleasure.
The raven bent forward and started kissing Naruto on the lips, his cheek and chin, wherever he could touch, trying to help Naruto decide he was feeling the pleasure more intensely than the pain.
Naruto's breath hitched, and he cramped up again, but not from pain this time. Finally Sasuke could let himself fall beside Naruto as they both panted.
"That was… weird," he said.
"Wasn't it?" Naruto tried to grin. "But it was so much better to," he took in a deep breath, "to handle the pain this way."
"Really," Sasuke smirked.
"Thanks for… not stopping." Naruto closed his eyes, and Sasuke laid his hand on his flushed whiskered cheek.
"Glad to help you." Naruto was off to sleep and Sasuke smiled. That had been really scary and very exciting at the same time. He kissed Naruto's cheek and laid his head down, ready to sleep as well, though he didn't think he was as tired as Naruto; his heart was still beating rapidly.
Akira was sitting on the porch. It was early in the morning. His father and Naruto were still in bed, but he wasn't alone. Moving his legs back and forth, hanging over the edge of the wooden deck, he moved his head to his shoulder.
"You see, Kou-chan. That bird is a robin. It comes by a lot. I called him Robin, because he is a robin." Kou actually rolled his eyes. "I think he really likes that big chestnut tree."
Akira pointed to some more things in the garden, more birds, telling all the fishes' names. Standing behind the line and pointing them out and eventually went back to the porch, sitting silently watching.
Kou looked up to the small boy, and tilted its head when it saw Akira's thoughtful expression.
"Did you know tou-chan has this eyes that can turn red?" he asked the bat suddenly, looking down. Black eyes stared back. "It's called the Sharingan. It's a clan technique." He smiled proudly, puffing his chest. "I'm an Uchiha too!"
Kou blinked its shiny eyes.
Akira slumped down again. "Tou-chan thinks I have it too." His legs stopped moving. "But I couldn't show him yesterday," he said sadly. "He said it was alright though."
Kou had no idea what the boy was getting at. Was he sad to disappoint his father? Kou understood a lot about humans, more than most animals, but not enough.
"I wonder what kaa-chan would have said." Akira fingered his black shirt with the Uchiha fan on the back. "I hope she would have smiled."
Akira looked down to the bat as it lowered itself to the front of his shirt. "Do you have parents? Did you like them?" Kou blinked once more.
"Really?" Kou had no idea what the boy thought he'd just said (in fact he hadn't said anything). "You must have a lot of family somewhere. I only got tou-chan left." Akira petted the bat. "But I have friends, Hikaru-kun, Akane-chan and Naruto is fun too!" He smiled. "I love tou-chan!"
Kou pulled up his nose at the mention of Sasuke.
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A/N: Haha, Eri and Kenji got their revenge ^^
