Hi Darlings,

So I think I ranted plenty on Gateway 😅 but yeah I mentioned there that this was going to be a heavy chapter, so remember when I asked if you wanted the soap opera drama and you all said yes, and I said whoops I don't know if I have it in me? Well...I obviously found it (also I grew up watching Mexican telenovelas...so this could have been way worse...I think...) but this is all to say...you asked for DRaMAaa so don't come at me?

Also, what is this? Over 100 kudos and reviews ❤ I can't even ⊂(・ω・*⊂) thank you darlings!

Warning: The topic of self-harm is breached and crossed in this chapter, read at your own discretion. I will include brief summary of this chapter on the next one for anyone who wishes to skip on this one.

Rating: M (Explicit): yeah...sorry...rating here for a whole other reason that's not spice...

Disclaimer 1: They are not mine ok? Any characters portrayed in this fic (except for Miki) belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I just use my writing powers to right his wrongs...mainly the fact that he never made Sasuke and Naru Canon.


The Help

Chapter 6: Unraveling

Sasuke was up before his alarm, and he hummed contentedly as his arms pulled Naruto closer and the blonde easily allowed himself to be dragged closer to the raven.

He couldn't remember the last time he'd woken up so relaxed, he wished he could stay in, just cuddle Naruto, and then when Miki got up she could climb onto bed with them. He wondered how Itachi was doing…they were nearing the six-month mark. He'd promise himself he wouldn't worry until after they hit eight months.

When agents went undercover there was no contact while the operation was active, but with everything going on sometimes he worried for his brother. He worried for Miki...he wished there was a way he could just know he was ok. He burrowed his head on the back of Naruto's neck, smelling the blonde's green tea cucumber shampoo.

The blonde stirred "Sas'ke?" He murmured sleepily "It's ok sweetheart, you can sleep a little more"

The blonde turned, and sleepy blue eyes opened and settled on him "what's on your mind?" he asked his voice a little raspy from sleep.

"I was thinking about Itachi," He said softly, Naruto leaned over and kissed his lips softly "If something had gone wrong, they would have called you right?" He asked, Sasuke nodded.

"Miki's so special Sasuke, you've said she's your brother's everything, he'd never leave her behind if he could help it" The raven closed his eyes and nodded as he pulled the blonde close "Thank you, I think I just needed to hear that" Sakura had been so angry Miki had to stay with them she'd never even bothered to realize that Sasuke worried for Itachi, worried for Miki.

But his brother wouldn't have done it if he didn't think it was necessary…he knew that too.

Then on top of it, all the endless fights with the pinkette had him spiraling. Naruto had centered him, he always knew what to say. Sasuke looked around Naruto's room, he couldn't wait…even though Sakura had been out of the house Naruto would not sleep in the Master, he said it felt wrong, so they slept in Naruto's.

The raven wanted to have a space of their own…a space that felt theirs where Naruto would feel comfortable "My lawyer is stopping by to drop the divorce papers by today" the sleep finally fully left the blonde's eyes "I'm going to ask her to stop by to go over them, see if she'll sign"

Naruto bit his bottom lip "You think she'll sign?" he just wanted her to sign, he wanted her out of Sasuke's life she'd taken enough from him already…but he also understood Sasuke needed to fight for what was his, and if that meant the divorce would take longer then so be it.

He'd been jealous when Ino stopped by…and his emotions had gotten the best of him, but he knew why they needed to be careful, he didn't want to give Sakura ammunition against the raven.

"I don't think she'll want to after she sees it…but I don't want to wait anymore" Sasuke said as he pulled the blonde close "You'll stay right? After" The blonde blushed as he nodded his head.

"And after Miki leaves?" Sasuke asked softly, he knew it was crazy…but he didn't think he could work backwards, Naruto was already living with him…how could he just let him move out, let him fall right through his fingers...his hand gripped the blonde's waist as he leaned his head forward, landing his forehead on Naruto's.

"Everyone will think we're crazy" the blonde muttered softly

"Does it matter what everyone else thinks?" Sasuke asked.

"No…no it doesn't" Naruto replied leaning into the raven's touch, then a familiar notification popped on his phone and his eyes opened wide " Fuck" he was jumping out of the bed, almost tripping on his tangled legs. Sasuke chuckled lightly as Naruto turned back "Shhh you!" The blonde threw the blanket on top of the raven just as the door to his room opened "Naru?"

"Hey doll, you're up early" The little girl lifted her arms and the blonde picked her up "I had a bad dream"

"You want me to lay down with you for a little?" He asked her softly as he walked her out of the room and back to hers.


Sakura was in denial, Ino had to be wrong Sasuke in love? Another week had passed since Ino had gone to their house, Sakura had been waiting for the raven to message her, call her angrily, to do something.

She didn't know what to do, if she brought it up it would be like admitting she'd been behind Ino propositioning him…Sasuke clearly thought that was the case from the recording she'd heard…So it was better to ignore it right?

But if he was so sure why not call her, why not scream at her, or message her? Because he's too busy spending time with his new lover, you don't matter anymore the little voice in her head said mockingly. She threw a pillow at the wall angrily.

No, no, no! She refused to believe it, it couldn't be that. Fuck her head was killing her. She'd drank a little too much and crossing the alcohol with the Xanax she'd taken was giving her the worst splitting headache. She bit her nail and then frowned at it when she realized she'd chipped it. She'd just gotten them done.

She looked down when her phone buzzed and sat up on Ino's couch as she saw the incoming message from Sasuke.

You think you could stop by the studio today?

Yes! I'm so happy to hear from you

I'm so sorry, about our last fight, really Sas

Sasuke rolled his eyes on his end, she'd been yo-yo-ing between apologizing and saying she wouldn't apologize because he pushed her too far.

What time do you think you'll be able to stop by?

I can be there in about an hour

She took a shower, and did her makeup, having to put on a little extra concealer on before she curled her hair. She ended up changing her dress three times, Ino had to have been wrong…if she could get Sasuke to have sex with her today that would mean there was still a chance, she just needed to remind Sasuke what she had to offer.

She drove over and went in through the side entrance heading straight for the studio, she hesitated for a second and bypassed knocking, just opening the door and stepping inside. She closed the door behind her and her eyes fell on the raven flipping through a stack of papers.

"Sasuke, I was so happy you texted" She smiled at the raven

"Thank you for coming," He said setting the stack of papers down and she bit her lower lip at the formal tone the raven was using with her "I was hoping we could—" The pink-haired girl instantly assumed Sasuke was going to say he wanted to talk and almost jumped in excitement.

"Yes, I'd love to talk, maybe we should eat out first, gosh when was the last time we went on a date?"

"Sakura"

"We might not make breakfast anymore but we could have brunch—"

" Sakura " Sasuke repeated a second time finally getting her attention "The divorce papers are here, I wanted to go through them" He finished and the smile slipped off her lips.

"What?" She gripped her dress as she walked up to the raven's desk "You're really ambushing me like this?"

"This isn't an ambush, you already knew I'd contacted our lawyers, you had to have known at some point papers would come through"

"Maybe add it to the text next time" she spit out angrily.

"You would have refused to come, and I didn't feel like sending Juugo to chase you all over the city so you can tell him I should be man enough to bring them myself" he retorted as he pushed the stack of papers to Sakura's side "Take a seat Sakura"

She thought about turning away but knew the raven would just follow behind her. So she walked over and plopped down on the chair across the desk "Fine"

The raven flipped through a couple of pages as he began speaking "There is a lot of legal jargon here, but I imagine that what truly matters is the division of assets" he flipped through the pages and Sakura's eyes widened "70/30 Sasuke? You gotta be fucking kidding me, where do you get off?!" She asked as she stood and began pacing the studio "Divorce is fifty-fifty Sasuke!"

It was Sasuke's turn to scoff "Fifty-Fifty? Everything you have I gave you Sakura"

"And when you married me we agreed to share everything, you don't get to back out on that now, so if we go our separate ways we'll do it fifty-fifty or I'm not signing"

Sasuke stood walking up to Sakura and looking her in the eye "We also agreed to be faithful to one another, to love and to cherish"

She laughed " You're bringing that up?! After what you said? After telling me that you wanted to fuck someone else, shit Sasuke you're so nonchalant about all of this I'm convinced you already have a sidepiece, and I'm not leaving my share here for her to take!" She finished as she grabbed the papers and threw them at the raven.

"You broke that promise first Sakura! First, you cheated, then you sent Ino my way so you could say I was the one cheating" Whatever she was about to say died on her lips

"I would never—"

"Shut up, don't fucking lie to me," Sasuke said, losing his temper at last and grabbing the manila folder that was on his desk and scattering the pictures across his desk. It had taken so much restraint not to bring up Sakura's extracurricular activities while he waited for the lawyers to work on the papers. Now he finally got to litter those pictures on the table, to finally let Sakura know that he knew.

Pictures of Kakashi groping the pink-haired girl, kissing her, going into hotels, there was even a picture where the two idiots forgot to close the blinds, there was no denying what was happening in the room.

Sakura's eyes widened "Sasuke–I—God" The tears began sliding down her face as her eyes kept trailing the pictures.

"Say it again Sakura," Sasuke said lowly his eyes dark "Tell me how I'm the bad guy, tell me how I did you dirty, go ahead keep asking me to give you more "

"Baby–"

"Don't. Don't call me baby Sakura"

"I made a mistake–but I stopped"

"You are such a fucking liar! Those pictures are dated Sakura the PI told me you saw him like two days ago!"

Her hands were shaking now "Please, listen, I–that meant nothing"

"Fuck Sakura, if you were willing to risk our marriage for something that meant nothing why are you still arguing with me?"

"I was lonely, I wanted to feel wanted!"

"I was lonely too!" Sasuke replied angrily "I was lonely too, and someone else noticed, someone that really cares"

"Why are you so cruel, you set me up, you knew and you didn't say anything so you could set me up," she said between sobs. She was panicking, she had no control, nothing else to try and hold the raven to her…

"You were the one manipulating me Sakura," he said as he ran his hand through his hair, "I think I hate you, I want you out of my life, please sign and leave, because this is me trying to stay civil"

"No! I don't want us to be over, I won't sign" She said her panic growing the more the raven shot her down.

"Don't test me Sakura, I'll take you to court " He was ready to be done with Sakura, to get Miki away from her. He was ready to give Naruto a proper place, itching for it, he didn't want to hide him, he didn't want to only have the night and early morning, sneaking in moments here and there during the day, he wanted it all.

"Please don't, Sasuke, I can't, I can't live without you" she could hold him to her, that was her last option, if she couldn't have him she…she refused to let someone else have him.

"You mean you don't want to live without my money" Sasuke spat

"No! It's not just about your money, I–I know it might not have looked like it but I was beyond myself, I've been beyond myself these last months. You didn't care that I was so angry I stopped talking to you, and you won't talk to me either" She fell to the floor in defeat in a feat of tears "Maybe you can breathe without me, but I can't, I can't do it without you so please, even if you slept with someone else, we will put all that behind us, please, please don't say you want to leave me, please don't leave me"

"And you keep trying to manipulate the situation" he muttered "It's over Sakura" he pulled the extra copy of divorce papers he knew he'd need and placed it back on the desk as the pink-haired girl stared at the floor, her hands shaking.

"There won't be any alimony, your new lover should be able to take care of you, take the thirty percent Sakura, and sign the papers"

She stood shakily from the floor lifting her eyes to the raven, Sasuke had made a fool out of her, he knew about Kakashi all along, and he was plotting behind her back to take it all away from her "l'll do it Sasuke, I'll kill myself"

"Sakura can we just stop with the theatrics—where are you going?" He asked as she turned on her heel and was out the door.

She'd show him not to fuck around with her, she'd guilt him into it, and she'd take everything from him.


Naruto had been in the kitchen organizing and putting away the dishes he'd left washing the day prior when the French doors opened and Sakura walked in slamming the door, she was crying, it wasn't pretty crying either, it was one of those cries where you gasped a little, she was choking on her feelings. Her shaky eyes settled on one of the knives on the dishwashing rack.

Before the blonde could move she'd reached over for the knife and the door had opened a second time, Sasuke walked in, and Sakura turned back to him and placed the knife horizontally over her wrist "Take it back" She said still in a fit of tears, her hand shaking.

"Mrs. Uchiha!" Naruto exclaimed moving forward a bit, Sasuke's onyx eyes fell on him and he shook his head.

"Say that you only love me, say that you'll try, that you'll stop talking about divorce"

"Put the knife down," Sasuke said in a low voice, maybe he should be feeling guilty, maybe he should be mortified, but he was only feeling anger, Sakura didn't need him, and she wouldn't die for him. Why couldn't she just let him go?

"Say it!" She pressed the knife harder against her wrist "and while you're at it why don't you tell me who it is you're fucking so your little whore and I can exchange some words!"

Naruto's eyes shot to the floor, this was because of him? Sakura wasn't suicidal, she wasn't depressed–what was happening?

"Sasuke I love you" She whispered

"If I say it I'd be lying," The raven said, taking a step forward, Sakura took another step back.

"Then lie to me" She whispered

"No" He wouldn't, he'd meant it, he was done. Maybe Sakura was having a mental breakdown, or maybe it was all an act. Worst of it all is he didn't know, and he'd never know because all Sakura did was lie and manipulate.

"Carry it in your fucking conscience then" She pressed the knife down and slid through her wrist "Damnt it Sakura!" the raven stepped forward grabbing her waist and pulling her back but Naruto was the one who managed to grasp her hand trying to pry the knife away, he ended up grabbing the sharp side and despite the pain that shot through his hand he pulled it off Sakura's hand.

"Give it back, fucking give it back, I'll do it" She struggled in Sasuke's arms, but the raven's eyes fell on Naruto's hand, steadily dripping blood, and didn't even think about it as he let go of Sakura grabbing a clean kitchen towel from the counter basket and taking the knife from the blonde's hand looking at the deep gash "Oh love, why did you do that?" He asked as he wrapped the rag around his hand.

Sakura had fallen to the floor and her red-rimmed eyes went from the blood that was steadily flowing out of her wrist to the raven before they settled on the blonde "You gotta be fucking with me" she muttered "It's you " She launched herself at the blonde but Sasuke turned around just in time to catch her "How could you come into my house and do this! You're the one fucking my husband aren't you? you ruined my marriage!"

Naruto's eyes shot to the floor as they filled with tears, his hand applying more pressure to the cut on his hand "I-I…" he didn't know what to say.

"I want you to leave! Leave my house and leave my husband!" She hollered as Sasuke caught her in his arms and kept her from reaching the blonde.

"He didn't do anything, stop, God, just stop!" The raven lifted the hysteric girl on his shoulder and threw the knife on the sink "Naruto call 911" he said as he walked the girl over to the living area, setting her down on a couch, she kept trying to fight him trying to get back to the kitchen.

"Stay put, you're making it worse," The raven said one of his hands wrapping around the rag, putting pressure on the wound and the other holding her other wrist down as he kneeled in front of her trying to keep her in place "Like you fucking care! you all but dropped me on the floor so you could look after your whore!"

"Sakura"

"The fucking nanny Sasuke, a man to top it off, no wonder you weren't satisfied, I wasn't even what you wanted"


Naruto dialed with shaky hands, looking down at the small puddles of blood, both Sakura's and his—what the fuck had just happened?

He could still hear Sakura screaming from the living room and wanted to run in there, to make sure she wouldn't do anything to Sasuke, but he somehow managed to stay on the line and give the operator their information. He could hear her screaming his name, asking him to stop being a coward and face her. If he went in the living room she'd only get more riled up, he needed to repeat that to himself like a mantra for what felt like forever before the sirens rang and he was opening the door telling the paramedics they weren't there for him, and walking them to the living area.

"You're going to come with me right? You have to" she looked at the raven as they walked her out on the gurney. Someone else from the team of paramedics walked over to the blonde after noticing the kitchen rag completely damp with blood "Can I take a look at that?" He asked and Naruto looked down remembering he'd gotten cut as he extended his injured hand towards the man.

"I can disinfect this but you'll need to go to a hospital or urgent care to get stitches it's pretty deep"

"Let him bleed out, he's a fucking homewrecker!" the pink-haired girl screamed as they pushed her gurney through the entrance door, the blonde flinched.

"That's enough! Can you please get her in the ambulance?" Sasuke asked

"Don't you dare let me ride by myself Sasuke, I'll just do it all over again, you saw I wasn't kidding!"

"Will you be riding with her?" one of the paramedics asked "No, I'll meet her at the hospital" He said, the man nodded "We'll take her to Mercy"

Sasuke turned in time to see the man treating Naruto finish bandaging his hand "Will you be ok here? Should the operator have sent a unit in?" the man asked.

The blonde shook his head "No—no need, I'm ok" the man hesitated a bit before he walked out following after his co-workers.

Almost right away he could hear the engines to the cars turning and the blonde finally realized he'd been shaking, a small sob left his lips as the tears broke free and Sasuke was there in seconds pulling him into a hug "I'm so sorry, Naruto— fuck, I never thought she'd do something like this— I—you're hurt" The raven muttered as he hugged the blonde tightly.

"Sasuke is this…is this my fault? did she–did she just try to— fuck "

The raven cupped the blondes face "No baby boy–look at me" The blonde lifted his teary eyes to Sasuke's deep ones "she knew what she was doing, she cut the wrong way, Sakura's not stupid, she wants to make me feel guilty, she wants you to feel guilty"

He nudged the blonde to look up at him his thumb wiping away at his tears "It isn't your fault. You hear me doll face? This is not your fault " Naruto nodded his head softly. He took a couple more breaths.

He knew…he knew it wasn't his fault, if he was trying to look at this rationally Sakura could call him a homewrecker all she wanted but she had started cheating on Sasuke first, she was manipulative, had a terrible temper and was in complete denial about her relationship with Sasuke being over. She was crazy...crazy, desperate, and…she was evil…she had to be if she'd done what she did to tie Sasuke down. Then his mind wandered away from the fact that Sakura had just hurt herself, or that he was hurt, what if Miki had been home?

"Sasuke…I–I'm sorry I know she just…and the ambulance just took her but, she can't come back" He scrunched his eyes closed "I mean obviously if you wanted to…but if she comes back Miki can't stay here—"

The raven closed his eyes for a second of course Naruto was putting Miki first "You don't have to feel like a bad person for saying it sweetheart, I know what you mean" He took a step back and carefully grabbed Naruto's hand inspecting the bandage "how's your hand?" The blonde could barely register the ache "I think he stopped the bleeding, the bandage is on tight"

"I'm going to go upstairs and pack a bag for both you and Miki, then I'll take you to an urgent care to get this taken care of" he grazed Naruto's hand softly as he brought it up to his lips to place a feather-light kiss on it.

"Then?" Naruto asked

Sasuke leaned over to kiss the blonde's temple "Then we'll drive over to my parents and stay there while I finish sorting things out with Sakura, but I can't have her near you or Miki and after today I'm not sure you'd be the most comfortable here" he said as his eyes fell on the blood on the floor from when he'd dragged Sakura over to the sitting area.

"You want me to come to your parents? Sasuke I don't think I should—"

"I know it's selfish, it's insane really, but you're the only thing keeping me grounded right now–-everything is spinning out of control and I know that was some heavy shit that just happened" He stopped, he really was being selfish "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that it's your choice baby boy, I can drop you off somewhere you feel safe, or you can come with, but I want you to do what's best for you, what you want to do"

What he wanted to do, somewhere he felt safe? Sasuke had literally stepped between Sakura and him and dragged the hysteric girl away…he didn't want to sleep elsewhere tonight, he didn't want to be away…he wanted to feel Sasuke's warmth and listen to his heartbeat.

He reached out with his good hand grabbing Sasuke's, he was trembling too, ever so slightly but he was and Naruto squeezing as he raised his blue eyes to the ravens "Let me help you pack the bags"

Sasuke let out a breath he didn't know he was holding as he pulled the blonde into an almost painful hug.


Ok..so now that, we got that bit over with...I can assure you nothing crazier will happen (my heart could not take it and it's still healing over the fact that poor Naru got hurt T.T)

Decided to edit and post this today because I foresee myself as a zombie for the next two days, might get away with getting caught up on comments tomorrow if the bars on my phone allow ;)

Until next time my darlings,

Chio~