Note: I am actually curious how many of you are desperately waiting for the lemon? Cuz I went 38 chapters without.

Chapter 38 "The fake"

"Where am I?" Sasuke questioned as he looked around him. It was dark, but at the same time there was enough light to see. Sasuke's eyes widened slightly as he remembered what had happened. His expression saddened a little, remembering he died.

"Who knew I would die this kind of dead. I always pictured myself losing it and going crazy at everybody. Then my team would have killed me in order to protect Konoha, ironic how things turned out." Sasuke stopped walking as his eyes caught a campfire, a certain somebody sitting near it. He froze.

"Lady Mito?!" He said, his eyes sparkling from joy as he sprinted towards the fire. "Lady Mito!" Sasuke said his hand reaching for the women sitting near the fire. He grabbed her shoulder in order to turn her around and look at her face. Suddenly the "vision" faded away, leaving a woman with pitch black hair and eyes behind. She was young, probably around her 30s. Sasuke stiffened as disappointment took over. He took a couple of steps back and shook his head.

"I'm sorry, you weren't the person I had expected you to be." The woman stood up by Sasuke's words. She turned around, holding her hand as she had her eyes fixated on the ground. The fire behind her became brighter and lightened the sight, showing the similarities between the two.

"Wait … You are ... Mi-" Sasuke got cut off when the woman wrapped her arms around Sasuke and embraced him in a hug.

"Sasuke .. Yes, I am your mother." The women tightened her grip. Sasuke was speechless as he looked at the fire.

"So … I am in hell, heaven, or purgatory?" Sasuke asked rather calm. His mother did not answer him when she broke the hug. She wiped the tears away that had escaped her eyes.

"I have been waiting here, I always wanted to meet you," she said.

"Yeah … I think I wanted to meet you too," Sasuke said as he sat around the fire. He felt confused. His entire life, he never really cared about his real mother. Lady Mito was always a mother to him, but now seeing his real mother next to him, mixed up his thoughts. He realized he did want to meet his mother, talk to her, and see if they resembled anything. He looked at her from the corner of his eye. She smiled kindly which warmed up Sasuke's heart.

"It seems you got my appearance from top to bottom, even my eyes. It almost looks like my treats dominated that of Fugaku." She chuckled a little, "Even my hair use to stick up in the back, I let it grow so it wouldn't stick up."

"Really?! You think letting my hair grow would cause it to not stick up from the back anymore!" Sasuke said, his eyes almost shaping stars. Mikoto laughed as she nodded.

"It worked for me y'know," She said, letting her hand go through her hair. A small silence fell. Mikoto closed her eyes, as she finally spoke.

" Sasuke-kun, I am sorry. For not being there, for letting you miss out on a good life, a mother-"

"You can stop," Sasuke said, causing Mikoto to look sad.

"A lot has happened, and not all were very good. When I heard from Mito about what really happened. I went to Konoha to become a shinobi, but the true reason for me joining Konoha was that I wanted to see my real family. I discovered Itachi was my brother, and I couldn't wait telling him, but I got captured, and that is when I met dad. Mito tried to warn me, but I was too stubborn to listen. He had tortured me and said if I ever came close to this family he would kill everything that has to do with me. He then left me in the woods to die, but there is where I actually met aniki." Sasuke smiled, calling Itachi his brother was something he always wanted to do.

"He treated my wounds and wanted to bring me to the hospital … I ran away. I was quite shy. He never really remembers that day. Anyway, I decided that I wanted to become a shinobi, and show dad how wrong he was for abandoning me. I had turned my back towards Mito and Tsunade when I become Orochimaru's student. He used me and kidnapped me in the end. But I got saved and brought back to Konoha. There is when the real hell broke out. People looked down on me, wanted me dead. They said I was a traitor. I shut everybody out because I did not want to get close to anybody. I was afraid that either I would hurt them, or they would hurt me. I became a jackass that hated everything and the only moment I truly felt alive was when I killed a bunch of people. I became feared by the village and from there out I have been called a demon, monster everything hateful." Sasuke sighed.

"But I am a dead person now. All that happened has happened. You couldn't help dying. I actually had a pretty good run besides the bad things. Lady Mito was an amazing woman and she really loved me as her own child. She was like a mother. So I never missed out on one. Tsunade-nee was like my sister. We used to play and talk a lot, but things took a dark turn, but it ended up back to good when Mito had passed away. Team Minato has saved me from Orochimaru, I became the discipline of the fourth Hokage and I have a good bond with my team mates. They are sort of friends of me."

A small smile appeared on Sasuke's face as he thought about Naruto. "I even have a sort of … Special friend. His name is Uzumaki Naruto. He is Minato-sensei's son. He was the one who slammed my walls down. I used to hate him, but a lot has happened between us and I realized that … He actually is the light in my darkness, the wind to my fire. He made me feel alive, and happy." Sasuke remained silence for a little while.

"Anyway, I had been keeping up my studies and trained a lot. I am quite well known of my chakra control and funjutsu. I am pretty good fighter if I say so myself, I mastered the Sharingan on my own too. I had overall a good life, and you are the one who granted me this life. So I am thankful to you. Of course … I do regret a few things though," Sasuke said.

Mikoto's eyes were filled with tears as she smiled. "You truly are my mature man. I am happy hearing this." Mikoto hugged Sasuke again, stroking his hair as Sasuke closed his eyes

"Yeah…" Sasuke sighed.

"I know you regret not having told Itachi about you being his otouto, or Naruto about how you feel. I am happy Kushina's dream packed out in some kind of way. When she was pregnant of Naruto she insisted on me having a second child, so both our children would end up with one another. I had hidden my pregnancy, but somehow I got the feeling she actually knew about you in my belly. Also I am happy Minato took you in as his student. I was friends with both of them. I should have known their son was just like them, at least so he sounds." Mikoto looked at Sasuke.

"Normally I would deny my feelings towards that idiot, but I am dead…" Sasuke said, resting his head on Mikoto's lap. "I wanted to tell aniki, once the heads of the clans would pass away or retired. I wanted to play it safe," Sasuke said.

"I am so happy, so happy you are my son. I wish I was there to see you become this great shinobi." She stroked Sasuke's hair as she smiled down at him. "There is something I want to tell you, something I thinl you need to know. The way I died … I did not die during labour. It had nothing to do with your birth." Sasuke's eyes widened, looking at Mikoto.

"I was killed, left to bleed to death … Fugaku had followed me, and somehow he discovered my pregnancy. He had stabbed me, making it look like an incident. Right after that the labour started. As I mother … I could not bear the idea of you dying with me, I used the remaining strength to cut my stomach open and to take you out of there. I had you in my arms for a couple of seconds before I died. I was happy hearing your strong cries and somehow I knew you would survive."

"They told Itachi you died from an animal or something. Mito told me you died from labour. I never would have thought Fugaku would do that to his wife. Well, he is dead anyway. He died in a mouth of a huge dog. I offered him help, but he would not take it. I later killed that one with one hit!" Sasuke said showing his fist causing his mother to laugh.

"I always wanted to teach you how to give a good punch. I was jonin, and you know what. I used to defeat Fugaku every time we spared all of those main branch people. It was funny seeing them afraid of me. I was the weak girl. It felt good having my fist filled with their blood!" Sasuke laughed, his mother really did resemble him. "Now tell me about this Naruto." Sasuke's cheeks turned red as he got up, hearing his mother's words.

"I can't tell you! It is embarrassing!" Sasuke said, suddenly a light appeared around Sasuke, causing him to look at his hands in awe.

"It seems it wasn't your time after all." Mikoto smiled at him.

"So it seems … Mom, I am happy I met you." Sasuke hugged him mom.

"Don't forget to do the things you regretted," Mikoto whispered, giving his son a kiss on his forehead before he disappeared.

Sasuke's eyes shot open as he suddenly got up.

"What happened?!" Sasuke asked, looking around him seeing Sakura kneeling next to Sasuke. Her eyes were filled with tears as she hugged Sasuke.

"Thanks God you woke up!" Sakura said. Sasuke looked around him. He was back alive, did he raised form the death.

"Naruto has defeated Pain! I don't know what happened, but he somehow convinced the leader to give back the lives he had taken. Everybody he had killed is fine now! Hokage-sama, Obito, Kakashi, Tsunade-sama. Everybody! All thanks to Naruto!" Sakura shouted, as she let go.

"Where is he? Naruto.." Sasuke asked as he got up from the ground.

"On the east side!" She said. Sasuke quickly ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He almost tripped, but managed to keep his balance. In the distance he saw a crowd around the blond, who was leaning against Kakashi and Obito, both looked weakened, but they were alive. A yellow like light around Naruto disappeared around him. Their eyes met, causing Naruto's entire facial expression to change. His eyes sparkled slightly, happy that the raven was alive, but at the same time he held his serious expression. Naruto let go of the two people, who both looked worried. He took slow steps, pushing a few people aside, until nobody was between them anymore.

" Naruto…" Sasuke's eyes filled themselves with tears, looking at the two blue eyes of the blond. Naruto suddenly punches Sasuke in the guts, causing the raven to moan in pain and fall forwards; But Naruto grabbed his face with both hands and kissed him full on the mouth before they both fell through their knees. Tears escaped Sasuke's eyes, but Naruto wiped them away with his hands. He broke the kiss. Sasuke wrapped his arms around the blond, hiding his crying face in the blonde's chest. Naruto stroked Sasuke's hair as he pressed him closer to him.

"Sasuke …" He said, feeling Sasuke's body tremble against his.

"I was so scared ….Sensei … Kakashi, Tsunade-nee, and Obito … They were all dead. They were all killed .. I .. I.." Sasuke's voice broke as Naruto hugged Sasuke even tighter.

"I am here; they are all fine now… They are doing all fine." They remind like this for a while, until Sasuke stopped trembling.

"Sasuke.." He grabbed Sasuke's chin gentle and looked him in the eye. "Sasuke," he repeated as he gathered his courage. "I love you, I really love you. There are just no words that can explain how I feel about you … Oh well.. There probably are some, but I am an idiot and you know that. I just..Really.. Really Love you. Even after you had sealed all ways out of toad world," Naruto said. Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hands; he looked at them as he started talking.

"I am sorry, for not having believed in your strength. I think I am the idiot now, but Naruto…" Sasuke paused as he looked up, meeting his eyes again. Sasuke's black eyes looked serious at him, even though they were red from all the crying. "When I died out there, I couldn't feel anything but regret, regret for not having told you what you meant to me. You are my sun, Naruto … I love you too." Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the back of his head and pushed his face so their lips touched again. Naruto's face turned completely red as he felt Sasuke's lips pushing roughly against his. The crowd around them started clapping, a few even cheered loudly. Sasuke broke the kiss a small smirk on his face as he saw Naruto completely numb. The blonde's fingered reached for his lips that were wet from Sasuke's tongue. Suddenly he started coughing blood and fell right in Sasuke's arms, who screamed panicked.

"I need to go to the hospital," Naruto said.

"Right, right!" Sasuke said as he helped Naruto up.

"Hokage-sama. Yamato has built a few houses with his remaining chakra for the sick, injured and elderly people, for the rest we have enough tents and blankets."

"Get some extra blankets, it will be cold tonight," Minato said, "I will contact the allies for-" Minato could not finish his sentence as Naruto pushed Minato back in a sitting position.

"No dad, you are going to rest. I have already contacted Gaara with the request to reinforce us. He said he would come himself right away. We hung festival lights to lighten the village, and the Uchihas are lightening up a lot of camp fires to heat the people up. A few people have joined to cook some soup to feed everybody." Minato smiled as he looked at his son.

"Who helped you?" He asked directly, causing Naruto to scratch the back of his head.

"Of course I shouldn't have even bothered asking," Minato said, smiling towards Sasuke who gave a somehow pitiful smile before, looking away.

"Naruto, could I get a second with Sasuke?" Minato asked, as Naruto nodded, but remained standing. Then it hit him, causing his eyes to look slightly confused. He looked at Sasuke and then at his father.

"Dad please, I just got with him, don't embarrass me, please!" Naruto whispered.

"I promise," Minato said with a small smile. Naruto looked doubtful as he took his leave. Sasuke remained standing a meter away from Minato.

"Sasuke…" Minato said, reaching his arm to Sasuke. The raven walked towards him, and took his arm as he sat next to Minato. "I am sorry, for everything I said to you. It was not my place to interfere with you two youngsters," Minato said.

"No … I kind of understand. Your reaction and all, I can't blame you. You are a good father, and you want what is best for your son. You are also an amazing teacher, and you want what is best for your students," Sasuke said, causing Minato to chuckle.

"I still have to get used to this idea."

"I know. I am sorry for crushing your office."

"Well, it doesn't matter; the Hokage building had collapsed anyway. I am sorry for the horrible things I have said. I am happy my common sense has kicked in. I would actually be very happy if you became part of my family, you already feel like family to me," Minato said causing Sasuke to laugh as he then leaned his head on the Hokage's shoulder.

"Sensei … I am happy you are alive, and made me your discipline," Sasuke whispered.

"I am happy too," Minato said.

"What did you say, I did not say thing," Sasuke said. Minato wanted to ruffle Sasuke's hair with his other hand, only to realize he had only one arm. He let his head hang.

"I have to get used to this one arm thing," Minato muttered.

"Alright so what incident happened? What did you say dad? And why did you crush his office Sasuke?" Naruto questioned suddenly standing behind the two.

"By the way, the entire sealing you up and sending you to that toad word, yeah .. That was his idea. I had nothing to do with it," Minato said, pointing at Sasuke.

"What?! N-"

"If you play along, I will pay your rent for the upcoming two months," Minato whispered. Sasuke remained silence and looked at Naruto.

"Totally my idea, yes everything was my idea…. Wait my apartment had collapsed, I don't have to pay rent!" Sasuke shouted, looking at Minato. "It was sensei's idea; he had even forbidden my feelings for you because of some lousy reasons!" Sasuke said.

"No, now he will take away the 'best dad in the world' mock from me!" Minato said.

"Our house has collapsed, that stupid mock I made in academy is already gone," Naruto said.

"Really? In that case, yeah it was me. I am sorry though. Will you make me another mock?" Minato asked.

"If that stupid mock meant so much to you…" Naruto scratched his neck maybe it was time to tell his dad he had bought the mock, instead of making it himself. "May I take him back now?" Naruto asked as Minato nodded. Naruto pulled Sasuke up and walked around the destroyed village.

"It will take a very long time to build all this again, let's do our best to help in the morning," Sasuke said as he stopped walking and turned his head to look at Naruto, who has stopped walking. He looked at Sasuke with his dreamy eyes again. Sasuke smiled at him before shaking his head.

"Usuratonkachi," He muttered.

"I-I got .. Something.." Naruto said getting something out of his pocket. It was Naruto's headband which fell off Sasuke's head the moment he had died. It was completely destroyed. The metal was completely broken.

"I'm sorry, It got caught in the fight…" Naruto said.

"No … I ruined your headband." Sasuke said, as he looked at the headband.

"I will give you something else! This time something better than a used headband,"

"No … I really liked the headband, even in this state. I still love it because it comes from you." Sasuke said.

"Are you sure … It is kind of lame," Naruto muttered.

"Not to me," Sasuke said, placing his hand on Naruto's cheek. The blond had to look down in order to meet the raven's eyes. Sasuke stood on his toes as he placed a small kiss on the blonde's lips. Naruto wrapped an arm around Sasuke's waist and pushed their lips back together. The truth was that Naruto was already addicted to Sasuke's lips. They felt soft, and it caused his entire body to feel warm. His hand made a way down Sasuke's lower back, slowly sliding over the raven's upper leg and from there on it were only a small way to the next phase, and that was touching his butt. The thought of it occupied his mind, a little too much, since his face turned red again and a moment of hesitation hit him. Was he going to fast? Maybe the raven gets offended. His hand remains on Sasuke's upper leg.

Sasuke broke the kiss, and gave Naruto a glare.

"W-what?!" Naruto asked as Sasuke shook his head grabbing Naruto's hand and placing it on the final destination Naruto had wanted the entire time. "You make my life easier," Naruto said with a smile.

"I know, that's why I am here," Sasuke said, grabbing Naruto's collar as he wanted to pull their lips back together, but it was like a flash appeared between them and the next thing the raven knew was a familiar black haired Shinobi in front of him. That had corned him between a collapsed building and his body.

"Madara?" Sasuke asked, leaning his head to the left as he saw Naruto, trapped in a suspicious embrace by Obito.

"Hey I heard you died, how was purgatory? Did you met anybody I know and died but I did not care enough about to notice they were gone? " Madara said, blocking Sasuke's few of the two others.

"Yes, your manners!" Sasuke hissed trying to push Madara away from him, only to get both his hands grabbed by one, but it he just jumped over Madara, but Madara pulled him back, making him jump backwards and back to its old spot.

"How was your weekend?" He asked, obviously he was giving Obito time for something.

"Done!" Obito said, causing Madara to let go of Sasuke.

"I never cared about your weekend," Madara said already taking his leave.

"What the hell what that!" Sasuke shouted, looking at Obito, who gave Sasuke a small smile. Sasuke directly calmed down as he wasn't familiar with this facial expression from Obito.

"I had to tell him something important, nothing to worry about," Obito said letting his hand ran through Sasuke's hair. "I have to go." Obito disappeared, causing Sasuke to frown.

"What did he say?" Sasuke asked.

"A lot of dangerous things he would do to me if you shed one tear because of me in just a few sentences. Did you know that Obito had a very advanced vocabulary? " Naruto asked, taking off his jacket as he wrapped it around Sasuke before wrapping his arm around him.

"Why would he do that. It makes no sense," Sasuke muttered.

"Because he cares about you-"

"No, no I know that much. He knows I can still take you with one hand on my back. If I lose my temper you better expect a punch," Sasuk said with a smile.

"All you Uchiha's are tempered maniacs," Naruto laughed, placing a small kiss on Sasuke's cheek.

"Is that Itachi? " Sasuke asked as he stopped walking.

"Yeah, his hair is short…." Naruto said, seeing the back of Itachi's hair sticking a little up, but not as bad as Izuna and Sasuke have. Itachi looked up, waving at the two. He was helping out spreading blankets.

"His dad died like all the heads of the clans. Crushed under a building, Fugaku died in a mouth of a summoned dog. It must be hard," Sasuke said. Itachi gave the blankets to one of his kinsman and walked towards the two

"Congratulation," Itachi said, looking at Naruto with a friendly smile on his a face, as if nothing was wrong.

"He doesn't look troubled…" Naruto whispered to Sasuke. "Thank you, but really mastering the kyuubi chakra wasn't that hard once you face a Rinnengan user-"

"I meant your relationship with the beautiful man next to you," Itachi said. "You should watch out, Uchihas can get really dangerous once their feelings are hurt, really … All of them," Itachi said. Naruto got the message of the death treat, but he let it slide by.

"I got the message, nothing to fear," Naruto said, looking at Sasuke who looked slightly confused. Sasuke looked at Naruto and then back towards Itachi.

"Umm, Itachi-san? Are you aware of the amounts of dead in the clan?" Sasuke asked. Itachi nodded.

"It is not looking that bad for us, we lost only a couple of people. We are still searching for their bodies."

"Well, I am deeply sorry for your lost. They meant a lot to your clan,"

"Well every body's life is precious, but it is part of life," Itachi said, causing Sasuke to narrow his eyes.

"We are talking about your dead dad who got eaten by a dog, right?" Sasuke asked.

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted.

"No, my dad is perfectly alive … He is standing there," Itachi said, pointing at the couple of man that were talking to each other, who Sasuke recognized as the other people from the head of the clan Sasuke's eyes widened in shock.

"No, no that can't be. Why is he alive!" Sasuke shouted, a little too loud.

"Sasuke you can't ask people why their fathers are alive!" Naruto said.

"No, you got the believe me. They died, the building collapsed, Fugaku got eaten by one of the summoned animals. They can't be alive!"

"Nagato did bring-"

"No only the people the pains killed, they were not killed by any of the pains!"

"You might want to keep it down, just a little-"

"Don't tell me what to do!" Sasuke shouted towards Itachi as he pulled himself away from Naruto and even pushed Itachi aside. He walked towards Fugaku, pulling him from his shoulder. "How come you are alive! You died! " Sasuke shouted.

"Get your hand immediately off me-"

"Owh, so you even talk like him now. I SHOW YOU!"Sasuke hissed ready to punch Fugaku in the face, but he got stopped by Naruto who grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him back.

"My apologies, he has been affected by this incident. Something mental, very bad…" Naruto said.

"What?! You are calling me mental now?!" Sasuke shouted, only to be lifted up and thrown over Naruto's shoulder.

"Calm down will ya! You are making a scene, and above all it was Fugaku. You might have just imagined it."

"No, I haven't I would have known that! Let me go!" Sasuke hissed, as Naruto put him down.

"Is he alright?" Itachi asked.

"He will be, sorry about him almost hitting your dad … Again," Naruto said.

"You got to belie-"

"Let's just head to bed, shall we … We will see you in the morning Itachi-san." Naruto gave him a quick goodbye as he pulled Sasuke with him.

"What was that about?!" Naruto hissed.

"I am telling you the truth!" Sasuke shouted.

"Does he look like a zombie to you?" Naruto asked.

"Are you seeing me as a fool now?" Sasuke asked.

"Of course not! Listen you had a very rough day. You need some sleep."

"No I don't need sleep … I do, but not when it comes to this matter!"

"Oh don't make a fuss out of one small mistake," Naruto said.

"It is not a mistake!"

"Sure, let's go…" Naruto said pushing Sasuke inside one of the tents. "We will talk about it in the morning."

"No, no maybe he is planning something tonight!"

"He wouldn't, don't worry," Naruto muttered, laying down next to Sasuke. Sasuke got up, leaning on one arm.

"His chakra then, can you check it?" Sasuke asked.

"I did the moment you started making a fuss over it," Naruto sighed.

"I was not making a fuss, and you probably did not check right. Check again," Sasuke said.

"It won't change. It is like double checking your chakra nature; it stays the same no matter what."

"Please, do it for me." Sasuke said, not getting a direct reaction out of Naruto. "I will give you a special treat if you do neh?" Sasuke whispered in Naruto's ear as he placed himself on top of Naruto, giving a small kiss right below Naruto's ear. Naruto bit his bottom lip as he leaned on his hands.

"If I check, one more time … You really would?" Naruto asked.

"If you check," Sasuke whispered. "Is this really working, or are manga's lying to me?" Sasuke asked, causing Naruto to chuckle.

"No, they are right. This is a great way to get everything out of your lover," Naruto said.

"Will you do it?" Sasuke asked, as Naruto nodded.

"Leave the treat for when the houses are standing again,"Naruto muttered as he closed his eyes. After a couple of minutes he opened them again.

"Like I said, there is nothing wrong with Fugaku's chakra. Maybe he somehow survived, just like the others… Maybe some kind of eye technique," Naruto said lying down. Sasuke hissed frustrated and went to lie down next to Naruto, using Naruto's chest as a pillow.

"I don't believe this…"

"Sometimes you should face you are wrong." Naruto opened one eye, looking at Sasuke.

"I am not!" Sasuke hissed.

"Whatever you say sweetie, just sleep it out for now…" Naruto muttered stroking Sasuke's back with his arm until the raven had fallen asleep. He had spent a couple of minutes watching the raven before falling asleep himself.

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