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A Sexy Jutsu By Mukumuku
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Naruto isn't mine to pimp out. He is Kishimoto-sensei's. If you want a "round," it's ten dollars and hour.
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Natsume's hair was cascading over her shoulders. She leaned over to poke Gaara on the nose. "What are you doing here? I've been looking all over for you," Natsume had a tinge of sadness in her voice. The bottle of wine he ordered, his surprise, was spoiled and the night was wasted.
Gaara felt himself sweating even though it was a cold night and the sun was gone.
He looked at Naruto, he looked miserable. He dressed up his alias and for what?
Nothing.
"I ran all night but things just kept getting in my way," Gaara closed his eyes in return and gave an awkward smile. "I missed you, I wanted to see you tonight."
Natsume beamed like he had just won a life supply of ramen, "really?" Usually he would be slapping himself for acting girlie, but with Gaara it had his benefits.
Gaara got off the ground and dusted himself off. Natsume's face was red with blush. Gaara closed his eyes trying to imagine a grinning blushing Naruto kicking his feet back and forth on a pier.
It was at that time that Naruto decided to become Natsume.
Gaara leaned forward, sliding his fingers through his short hair. Natsume, with Naruto's broad smile, pressed her body against Gaara's body. She dangled the bottle, tempting Gaara to kiss her. "You ordered a bottle of wine?" She winked suggestively, "who needs a crowd? Spectators are noisy gossips."
Gaara bent forward to whisper in Natsume's ear, "I love you."
Natsume's lips met Gaara's for a split second.
Before it all was suddenly interrupted.
"Gaara! Gaara! Sasuke's drunk!" Sasuke was indeed drunk, however he was sleeping and seemed at peace. Sakura looked disheveled and Lee looked a bit agitated. Temari was standing casually beside the two, however she wasn't too impressed with the outcomes of the night's events.
She blinked. Natsume and Gaara, together.
She slapped her forehead. 'I just interrupted their together time.'
The bodies of the lovers parted and stood in attention, like soldiers side by side.
"I'm sorry, Gaara. Neji is sleeping at Kankuro's house but there's still not enough room for Sasuke." She noticed the romantic mood of the two tragic lovers had now once again, spoiled. "In addition he still needs to be looked after." Temari didn't even have to ask, but she did anyway. "Can you."
"Yes," Natsume tucked the bottle under her arm again.
Gaara groaned.
Tonight was not his night.
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Sasuke was sleeping in Gaara's spare room. Gaara on the floor of his living room. In Gaara's bed Naruto out of his jutsu slept soundly.
'What's wrong with this picture,' Gaara thought. He sneezed, rubbing his nose he cursed himself for not closing the window. Half of his belongings were now cold and sand covered.
If Gaara had his way. Gaara's fist clenched, if Gaara had his way Sasuke would be sleeping outside in the dirt and he and Naruto would be making love in his bedroom.
Gaara was tucked under a single throw blanket, a couch pillow tucked under his head.
"To love and not be loved is cruel isn't it?"
The stucco white ceiling didn't answer.
Gaara frowned. "You don't talk much."
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Naruto's head was swirling.
"Where am I?" Spewed from his mouth but he knew exactly where he was.
Naruto stood in a fancy hall. The walls were wallpapered blood red with thin white stripes.
Odd decorations lined up against the walls.
No matter where he was or how the room was redone, it was the same place.
At the end of it as usual, was the nine tails fox demon.
How many times had he walked down his halls.
Now all his dreams lead down to this hall.
Each hall different every now and then, but the same.
Before in his dreams, he sat at the other end of the hall and sitting in his dreams for hours or until he woke up. Always trying to avoid the crafty nine tails fox.
But now pressed against the bars was a child.
A blonde child, as if it was HIS child.
If felt like meeting a bastard child of his that he never created.
He felt like running up to the bars and grab the would-be child.
But in the depth of his eyes, the child bore the evil intent of the nine tails fox.
Naruto approached the child cautiously. His footsteps clapped against the ground and the nine tails fox demon bobbed his head to the sound.
Like it was music.
Naruto stopped in front of cage, the bars were thicker and closer together. It was different from when the nine tails fox demon was in his original form. He stood a safe distance away from the bars and waited in for the first words.
The nine tails fox smirked, feeling smug at getting Naruto to come over.
"What's the matter Naruto." The child slapped his hand against his head, "Ah. Natsume. How long have you been denying yourself the right to exist."
"What are you talking about?" Naruto snapped. His eyes were shooting daggers at the fox-boy. "What sick game are you playing?"
The boy paced against the bars, side to side, "you wanted to talk to me, Naruto?"
Naruto took a step back, "what are you saying? You created this world!"
The fox-boy started to bang his head against the bars. Naruto held his spot with great difficulty. He looked away but the sound of the impact of metal against a skull sent shivers down his spine.
"Those stupid. Stupid villagers." The boy withdrew his head, blood trickling down his cherub face. "Don't you agree with me? They're really ignorant--" He nudged forth, motioning with his hand for Naruto to agree. "--Aren't they?"
"Sh-Shut up." Naruto turned against the wall, throwing his body and limbs driven by anger and hatred. He went on for a long time, drowning out his thoughts and feelings.
Blood was drawn from his fists as he withdrew them. Tears trickled down his cheek.
He sobbed, "shut up!"
He turned his back and fell backwards. His spine hit the wall and he slid down to a sitting position. He sat there staring at the other wall. On it was a frame with a picture. It was of Gaara and Natsume. Natsume's arms wrapped around the nine tails fox demon in a boy form.
It was like a happy, family photo.
Too good to be true, Naruto examined further.
The frame was falling apart.
"Why are you still here?" He asked finally, eyes breaking from the picture.
The boy clapped and raised his hands into the air to show off his new body image, "I tried a human form. How do I look, Naruto?" Naruto looked at the boy with hatred, the boy looked back with a hurt expression. "You know. I'm a person too."
"You're a demon." Naruto spat.
The boy took a step away from the bars and nodded. "I stand corrected." They looked at each other for a long while. "How long since we last met like this?"
"I don't know." Naruto covered his face with his hand, "it all happened so fast."
"I remember." The small child sat of the floor and Naruto did the same, both facing each other.
"I wanted to forget all of that--" Naruto looked at his boys eyes, "but you won't let me. Won't you?"
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Naruto's Memory #5869089
"Sasuke!"
".."
"Sasuke!"
"......."
"Sasuke!" Sakura bit her lip in frustration, they were Jounen and he was still. Sasuke had barely changed. "Sasuke!"
Sasuke turned around, hands clasped behind his back. "What is it, Sakura?"
Naruto watched at the two of them, jealous. Sakura was talking about getting ramen for lunch, "I always see you hanging out there, Sasuke." Sakura beamed, Sasuke's heart would surely be hers, and inner Sakura noted. 'Around that Naruto too!'
Naruto's stomach growled, he was thinking about the same thing. "Ramen. That sounds good."
"You're not allowed to come," was the automatic response direct to Naruto.
"Gaaahhh!!" Naruto fell over defeated. He really wanted ramen today. But Sakura would kill him if he ruined her Sasuke time. Sakura walked away dragging Sasuke behind her. Sasuke looked back at Naruto, smug with his victory over Naruto. Naruto burned, his inner fire was unquenched. "I'm going to be Hokage, then I'll show that Sasuke."
He made a fist and punched the ground.
/memory end
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"You sure will, Naruto!" The nine tails fox demon kicked his legs in front of him bored. "So. How's the Hokage thing going? You Hokage yet?"
"Shut up!" Naruto growled.
But the young boy only laughed. "And Sasuke became Hokage too, didn't he? When's the part you fall in love with him."
Naruto blushed. He hid his cheeks. "Not yet."
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Naruto's Memory #6003790
"Sasuke, Congratulations." Naruto couldn't believe it. They had chosen Sasuke over him. They chose Sasuke as a Hokage.
He walked, inhuman. His own body was no longer in his control. His limbs were flowing unnaturally, moving too gracefully. Before anyone could move or blink, it was like magic or sorcery. He grabbed Sasuke's throat. A low growl tapped from the nine tail fox deep within his soul and the source of his sadness was audible, Naruto's grip tightened: he was going to kill Sasuke.
"Sasuke! What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Sasuke didn't fight back, a shame or sadness in his eyes. "...."
Naruto wanted to shake him, make him scream, cry.
He hated Sasuke.
Naruto's face was too close to Sasuke's face. "At least answer me? You stole my one reason to live!" Sasuke closed his eyes, ignoring Naruto's words. He grabbed Naruto's wrist, holding it, loosening the grip. "I should kill you!" Naruto cried, "I want to kill you."
"Hokage!" The villages scrambled to get their beloved Hokage to his feet. "Hokage!" They withdrew their weapon, full of hatred and ready to kill Naruto.
"That Naruto. There was always something wrong with him," whispered a housewife.
"Stupid Naruto! Sasuke beat him up!" Yelled a Sasuke supporter.
"Naruto? What the hell do you think you're doing? Sasuke is your friend." Sakura was hurt most of all. Naruto was being watched by all of Leaf Village. She was torn between the man she loved and the man who loved her.
Judgment.
He swore under his breath. "I know."
Sasuke could not say a word, but he wanted to talk to Naruto. To tell him, "I." Naruto walked away from the festivities, silently.
No one stopped him from leaving, nor did they turn away.
They just stood and watched with cold eyes.
/memory end
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Naruto looked at the nine tails fox. He was sleeping. Bored to death perhaps.
'Sakura probably thought it was just Naruto being pissed about not becoming Hokage. Acting like a little kid,' Naruto thought, looking at his palms.
'At that time I only saw Sasuke as an obstacle in my path. I hated his guts, and the fact that he became my friend made it hurt more. At that time I was so involved in my goal that I didn't notice Sasuke at all. I want to be Hokage.
'Was that what made Sasuke fall in love with me.' Naruto smiled at the warm memory. 'He's got a weird way of showing you his feelings. Like the way little boys want to get your attention by pulling your hair.
"I guess I'm the same way."
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Naruto's Memory #6004987
"Sasuke." Sakura examined Sasuke's face, much to his dismay. He slipped away to his desk where he brooded and signed forms. She almost gave up, but a girl had to relentless to catch Sasuke.
"You look pale. I'm worried. You're not eating much."
/memory end
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'At that time I wasn't eating either. But nobody noticed. Sakura was really into Sasuke. She did see it. But.'
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Naruto's Memory #6005007
Sakura and Naruto had been walking home together ever since they had become Jounen. The sun was setting in the distance, illuminating Leaf village with a tangerine orange glow.
Naruto hid his unhappiness. He didn't want to sadden Sakura anymore or anyone else. Selfishness or not.
He had to be a man. Be a man, he repeated in his head.
He looked at the sun wistfully, like it was the most beautiful thing in the world.
Sakura put Naruto in a headlock, "SAKURA?!"
"C'mon! That was too easy, you could have lost your life if I was a hired killer," Sakura joked, poking and prodding at Naruto's face.
[Only friends] appeared next to Sakura's name in his mind.
[Not Hokage material] appeared under his name, next to hers. He slouched over with Sakura still on his back, depressed.
Sakura felt guilty for putting Naruto in this mood, she jumped off Naruto's back and slapped his spine back to life. "Naruto, cheer up! I'm sure. You can become a Senin. Our village could really use one."
Naruto stood with new vigor, "Sakura, thank you." He sighed, Sakura was right. No use sulking, "I'm fine. I'll become a great, perverted Senin!"
Sakura and Naruto burst in guffaw, laughing until they both doubled over and their sides hurt.
Neither knew why they were laughing. They both just needed to release all the mixed feeling and wasted emotions they gathered during the years.
They continued on their way when they an AD caught Naruto's eye. It was Sasuke's image. He was an idol in their village.
Someone had put it up to show their gratitude to Sasuke, it was embarrassingly common. But the village had improved greatly under his command.
Sakura snorted. "That idiot. He's working too hard. He's getting sick."
"Huh?" Naruto looked at his friend who had stopped walking.
Sakura bore the face of a bitter, scorned lover.
/memory end
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'I was studying to become a Senin. I learned more things than Sasuke ever did.. I felt like I had to still fight even though I was not Hokage. There were still many things I wanted to protect.' Naruto paused.
He looked at the nine tails fox on the cold floor. He was sleeping like a baby in his human child form.
'What would I ever do if I had become Hokage?' Naruto question the past self who strove for something he hardly didn't understand. 'I wanted to exist, but being Hokage would not erase my problems. After Sasuke had destroyed my dream, I probably wouldn't have been a good Hokage.' He rubbed his eyes.
His anger almost killed Sasuke.
'Hokage was able to walk around. But he never got any better.
'I began to notice.
'Sasuke passing by my house ever so often. He rotated ever so often, so not to get caught. He'd always look up when he thought I wasn't looking.
'I was.'
Naruto looked up at the high part opposite of the one with Naruto, Gaara and the nine tailed fox.
'One day, it was raining. I was coming home from training I saw Sasuke on my porch. Half-dead.
'When I saw Sasuke lying on the ground, I was just going to walk past him. Like he didn't exist. I didn't want him to exist at this point.'
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Naruto's Memory #6006798
Naruto was half tempted to kick Sasuke out of the way but his eyes.
"Naruto. I'm sorry. I never meant it to be like this," Sasuke gagged on a cough. His eyes were half lidded and it looked he had snapped.
Naruto kneeled at Sasuke's side, "Sasuke. You're not going to die, you idiot."
"I wanted you to notice me." Sasuke confessed.
Naruto gulped his anger down.
"How could I not notice you?"
/memory end
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Naruto's Memory #6007325
Sakura beamed as Naruto gobbled down her gift of Ramen.
It was the least she could do. Naruto was a hero. He had saved Sasuke from death and was nursing him back to health.
Though it annoyed her that Sasuke was still at his house, too sick and high with fever to be moved.
"Even thought I'm against it," she lifted up a stack of paper and dropped it on Naruto's desk. She folded her arms together. "I was going to take Sasuke his paperwork to him, but something came up." She smiled awkwardly, Lee had come back from a mission and they were going to celebrate his survival. "Um, Naruto."
Naruto looked at the pile, Sasuke was at his home so it didn't really bother him much. "I'll run it for you."
Sakura wiped the sweat off her forehead and clasped her hands together. "Thank you, I really appreciate it."
/memory end
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Naruto's Memory #6007330
"Naruto." Sasuke had been sleeping until he heard Naruto cooking a meal.
He winced, Naruto? Cooking?
Naruto came in with a tray and set it on the table. "Sa-suke.?" Naruto sat in a wooden chair pulled up beside the bed. He picked up a piece of the store bought sushi with his chopsticks.
"I thought you were cooking," Sasuke looked at the sushi held to his lips, "Naruto?"
"Sasuke, can you move your body?"
"It's hard."
"Then don't complain," with indifferent eyes he moved it close to Sasuke's lips. "Ahhh."
The piece of sushi rolled off mountains in the sheets to the floor.
Naruto looked up at Sasuke who had pinned him down. "Sasuke..."
"Naruto." He looked deep within Naruto's eyes, he was stunned. Sasuke gulped, "I think. I love you."
A vein appeared on Naruto's forehead. "Idiot! That was a good piece of expensive sushi!"
"GAAAHHHH!!!!" Sasuke was tackled by Naruto and disappeared under the sheets. 'It was a change,' Sasuke thought through his struggling, 'but at least I get to see Naruto.'
/memory end
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"And that's when it started, didn't it." Asked the nine tails fox, face pressed onto the bars.
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Authors note:
Cruel aren't I?
Actually I read a review and almost lost the will to write..
That extra I left because I just didn't want to leave for a week with out some "closure".
But after reading that review it got extended to two weeks. Err..
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Athravan, heh heh. I feels bad for the GxNxS fans.
doragon Yeah. That was G x N X S filler thingy. Sorry.
He was dead! I never knew! Gah... Too late to change.
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Sorry. I can't say much.
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Next Chapter
Love is not strong enough.
Justice in a corrupt court.
Murder.
A road built on dead bodies.
A twisted Eve of sorts awakens.
Abandoning one's face. The reflection of himself left at the gate before the passage to paradise.
Death.
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A Sexy Jutsu By Mukumuku
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Naruto isn't mine to pimp out. He is Kishimoto-sensei's. If you want a "round," it's ten dollars and hour.
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Natsume's hair was cascading over her shoulders. She leaned over to poke Gaara on the nose. "What are you doing here? I've been looking all over for you," Natsume had a tinge of sadness in her voice. The bottle of wine he ordered, his surprise, was spoiled and the night was wasted.
Gaara felt himself sweating even though it was a cold night and the sun was gone.
He looked at Naruto, he looked miserable. He dressed up his alias and for what?
Nothing.
"I ran all night but things just kept getting in my way," Gaara closed his eyes in return and gave an awkward smile. "I missed you, I wanted to see you tonight."
Natsume beamed like he had just won a life supply of ramen, "really?" Usually he would be slapping himself for acting girlie, but with Gaara it had his benefits.
Gaara got off the ground and dusted himself off. Natsume's face was red with blush. Gaara closed his eyes trying to imagine a grinning blushing Naruto kicking his feet back and forth on a pier.
It was at that time that Naruto decided to become Natsume.
Gaara leaned forward, sliding his fingers through his short hair. Natsume, with Naruto's broad smile, pressed her body against Gaara's body. She dangled the bottle, tempting Gaara to kiss her. "You ordered a bottle of wine?" She winked suggestively, "who needs a crowd? Spectators are noisy gossips."
Gaara bent forward to whisper in Natsume's ear, "I love you."
Natsume's lips met Gaara's for a split second.
Before it all was suddenly interrupted.
"Gaara! Gaara! Sasuke's drunk!" Sasuke was indeed drunk, however he was sleeping and seemed at peace. Sakura looked disheveled and Lee looked a bit agitated. Temari was standing casually beside the two, however she wasn't too impressed with the outcomes of the night's events.
She blinked. Natsume and Gaara, together.
She slapped her forehead. 'I just interrupted their together time.'
The bodies of the lovers parted and stood in attention, like soldiers side by side.
"I'm sorry, Gaara. Neji is sleeping at Kankuro's house but there's still not enough room for Sasuke." She noticed the romantic mood of the two tragic lovers had now once again, spoiled. "In addition he still needs to be looked after." Temari didn't even have to ask, but she did anyway. "Can you."
"Yes," Natsume tucked the bottle under her arm again.
Gaara groaned.
Tonight was not his night.
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Sasuke was sleeping in Gaara's spare room. Gaara on the floor of his living room. In Gaara's bed Naruto out of his jutsu slept soundly.
'What's wrong with this picture,' Gaara thought. He sneezed, rubbing his nose he cursed himself for not closing the window. Half of his belongings were now cold and sand covered.
If Gaara had his way. Gaara's fist clenched, if Gaara had his way Sasuke would be sleeping outside in the dirt and he and Naruto would be making love in his bedroom.
Gaara was tucked under a single throw blanket, a couch pillow tucked under his head.
"To love and not be loved is cruel isn't it?"
The stucco white ceiling didn't answer.
Gaara frowned. "You don't talk much."
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Naruto's head was swirling.
"Where am I?" Spewed from his mouth but he knew exactly where he was.
Naruto stood in a fancy hall. The walls were wallpapered blood red with thin white stripes.
Odd decorations lined up against the walls.
No matter where he was or how the room was redone, it was the same place.
At the end of it as usual, was the nine tails fox demon.
How many times had he walked down his halls.
Now all his dreams lead down to this hall.
Each hall different every now and then, but the same.
Before in his dreams, he sat at the other end of the hall and sitting in his dreams for hours or until he woke up. Always trying to avoid the crafty nine tails fox.
But now pressed against the bars was a child.
A blonde child, as if it was HIS child.
If felt like meeting a bastard child of his that he never created.
He felt like running up to the bars and grab the would-be child.
But in the depth of his eyes, the child bore the evil intent of the nine tails fox.
Naruto approached the child cautiously. His footsteps clapped against the ground and the nine tails fox demon bobbed his head to the sound.
Like it was music.
Naruto stopped in front of cage, the bars were thicker and closer together. It was different from when the nine tails fox demon was in his original form. He stood a safe distance away from the bars and waited in for the first words.
The nine tails fox smirked, feeling smug at getting Naruto to come over.
"What's the matter Naruto." The child slapped his hand against his head, "Ah. Natsume. How long have you been denying yourself the right to exist."
"What are you talking about?" Naruto snapped. His eyes were shooting daggers at the fox-boy. "What sick game are you playing?"
The boy paced against the bars, side to side, "you wanted to talk to me, Naruto?"
Naruto took a step back, "what are you saying? You created this world!"
The fox-boy started to bang his head against the bars. Naruto held his spot with great difficulty. He looked away but the sound of the impact of metal against a skull sent shivers down his spine.
"Those stupid. Stupid villagers." The boy withdrew his head, blood trickling down his cherub face. "Don't you agree with me? They're really ignorant--" He nudged forth, motioning with his hand for Naruto to agree. "--Aren't they?"
"Sh-Shut up." Naruto turned against the wall, throwing his body and limbs driven by anger and hatred. He went on for a long time, drowning out his thoughts and feelings.
Blood was drawn from his fists as he withdrew them. Tears trickled down his cheek.
He sobbed, "shut up!"
He turned his back and fell backwards. His spine hit the wall and he slid down to a sitting position. He sat there staring at the other wall. On it was a frame with a picture. It was of Gaara and Natsume. Natsume's arms wrapped around the nine tails fox demon in a boy form.
It was like a happy, family photo.
Too good to be true, Naruto examined further.
The frame was falling apart.
"Why are you still here?" He asked finally, eyes breaking from the picture.
The boy clapped and raised his hands into the air to show off his new body image, "I tried a human form. How do I look, Naruto?" Naruto looked at the boy with hatred, the boy looked back with a hurt expression. "You know. I'm a person too."
"You're a demon." Naruto spat.
The boy took a step away from the bars and nodded. "I stand corrected." They looked at each other for a long while. "How long since we last met like this?"
"I don't know." Naruto covered his face with his hand, "it all happened so fast."
"I remember." The small child sat of the floor and Naruto did the same, both facing each other.
"I wanted to forget all of that--" Naruto looked at his boys eyes, "but you won't let me. Won't you?"
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Naruto's Memory #5869089
"Sasuke!"
".."
"Sasuke!"
"......."
"Sasuke!" Sakura bit her lip in frustration, they were Jounen and he was still. Sasuke had barely changed. "Sasuke!"
Sasuke turned around, hands clasped behind his back. "What is it, Sakura?"
Naruto watched at the two of them, jealous. Sakura was talking about getting ramen for lunch, "I always see you hanging out there, Sasuke." Sakura beamed, Sasuke's heart would surely be hers, and inner Sakura noted. 'Around that Naruto too!'
Naruto's stomach growled, he was thinking about the same thing. "Ramen. That sounds good."
"You're not allowed to come," was the automatic response direct to Naruto.
"Gaaahhh!!" Naruto fell over defeated. He really wanted ramen today. But Sakura would kill him if he ruined her Sasuke time. Sakura walked away dragging Sasuke behind her. Sasuke looked back at Naruto, smug with his victory over Naruto. Naruto burned, his inner fire was unquenched. "I'm going to be Hokage, then I'll show that Sasuke."
He made a fist and punched the ground.
/memory end
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"You sure will, Naruto!" The nine tails fox demon kicked his legs in front of him bored. "So. How's the Hokage thing going? You Hokage yet?"
"Shut up!" Naruto growled.
But the young boy only laughed. "And Sasuke became Hokage too, didn't he? When's the part you fall in love with him."
Naruto blushed. He hid his cheeks. "Not yet."
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Naruto's Memory #6003790
"Sasuke, Congratulations." Naruto couldn't believe it. They had chosen Sasuke over him. They chose Sasuke as a Hokage.
He walked, inhuman. His own body was no longer in his control. His limbs were flowing unnaturally, moving too gracefully. Before anyone could move or blink, it was like magic or sorcery. He grabbed Sasuke's throat. A low growl tapped from the nine tail fox deep within his soul and the source of his sadness was audible, Naruto's grip tightened: he was going to kill Sasuke.
"Sasuke! What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Sasuke didn't fight back, a shame or sadness in his eyes. "...."
Naruto wanted to shake him, make him scream, cry.
He hated Sasuke.
Naruto's face was too close to Sasuke's face. "At least answer me? You stole my one reason to live!" Sasuke closed his eyes, ignoring Naruto's words. He grabbed Naruto's wrist, holding it, loosening the grip. "I should kill you!" Naruto cried, "I want to kill you."
"Hokage!" The villages scrambled to get their beloved Hokage to his feet. "Hokage!" They withdrew their weapon, full of hatred and ready to kill Naruto.
"That Naruto. There was always something wrong with him," whispered a housewife.
"Stupid Naruto! Sasuke beat him up!" Yelled a Sasuke supporter.
"Naruto? What the hell do you think you're doing? Sasuke is your friend." Sakura was hurt most of all. Naruto was being watched by all of Leaf Village. She was torn between the man she loved and the man who loved her.
Judgment.
He swore under his breath. "I know."
Sasuke could not say a word, but he wanted to talk to Naruto. To tell him, "I." Naruto walked away from the festivities, silently.
No one stopped him from leaving, nor did they turn away.
They just stood and watched with cold eyes.
/memory end
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Naruto looked at the nine tails fox. He was sleeping. Bored to death perhaps.
'Sakura probably thought it was just Naruto being pissed about not becoming Hokage. Acting like a little kid,' Naruto thought, looking at his palms.
'At that time I only saw Sasuke as an obstacle in my path. I hated his guts, and the fact that he became my friend made it hurt more. At that time I was so involved in my goal that I didn't notice Sasuke at all. I want to be Hokage.
'Was that what made Sasuke fall in love with me.' Naruto smiled at the warm memory. 'He's got a weird way of showing you his feelings. Like the way little boys want to get your attention by pulling your hair.
"I guess I'm the same way."
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Naruto's Memory #6004987
"Sasuke." Sakura examined Sasuke's face, much to his dismay. He slipped away to his desk where he brooded and signed forms. She almost gave up, but a girl had to relentless to catch Sasuke.
"You look pale. I'm worried. You're not eating much."
/memory end
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'At that time I wasn't eating either. But nobody noticed. Sakura was really into Sasuke. She did see it. But.'
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Naruto's Memory #6005007
Sakura and Naruto had been walking home together ever since they had become Jounen. The sun was setting in the distance, illuminating Leaf village with a tangerine orange glow.
Naruto hid his unhappiness. He didn't want to sadden Sakura anymore or anyone else. Selfishness or not.
He had to be a man. Be a man, he repeated in his head.
He looked at the sun wistfully, like it was the most beautiful thing in the world.
Sakura put Naruto in a headlock, "SAKURA?!"
"C'mon! That was too easy, you could have lost your life if I was a hired killer," Sakura joked, poking and prodding at Naruto's face.
[Only friends] appeared next to Sakura's name in his mind.
[Not Hokage material] appeared under his name, next to hers. He slouched over with Sakura still on his back, depressed.
Sakura felt guilty for putting Naruto in this mood, she jumped off Naruto's back and slapped his spine back to life. "Naruto, cheer up! I'm sure. You can become a Senin. Our village could really use one."
Naruto stood with new vigor, "Sakura, thank you." He sighed, Sakura was right. No use sulking, "I'm fine. I'll become a great, perverted Senin!"
Sakura and Naruto burst in guffaw, laughing until they both doubled over and their sides hurt.
Neither knew why they were laughing. They both just needed to release all the mixed feeling and wasted emotions they gathered during the years.
They continued on their way when they an AD caught Naruto's eye. It was Sasuke's image. He was an idol in their village.
Someone had put it up to show their gratitude to Sasuke, it was embarrassingly common. But the village had improved greatly under his command.
Sakura snorted. "That idiot. He's working too hard. He's getting sick."
"Huh?" Naruto looked at his friend who had stopped walking.
Sakura bore the face of a bitter, scorned lover.
/memory end
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'I was studying to become a Senin. I learned more things than Sasuke ever did.. I felt like I had to still fight even though I was not Hokage. There were still many things I wanted to protect.' Naruto paused.
He looked at the nine tails fox on the cold floor. He was sleeping like a baby in his human child form.
'What would I ever do if I had become Hokage?' Naruto question the past self who strove for something he hardly didn't understand. 'I wanted to exist, but being Hokage would not erase my problems. After Sasuke had destroyed my dream, I probably wouldn't have been a good Hokage.' He rubbed his eyes.
His anger almost killed Sasuke.
'Hokage was able to walk around. But he never got any better.
'I began to notice.
'Sasuke passing by my house ever so often. He rotated ever so often, so not to get caught. He'd always look up when he thought I wasn't looking.
'I was.'
Naruto looked up at the high part opposite of the one with Naruto, Gaara and the nine tailed fox.
'One day, it was raining. I was coming home from training I saw Sasuke on my porch. Half-dead.
'When I saw Sasuke lying on the ground, I was just going to walk past him. Like he didn't exist. I didn't want him to exist at this point.'
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Naruto's Memory #6006798
Naruto was half tempted to kick Sasuke out of the way but his eyes.
"Naruto. I'm sorry. I never meant it to be like this," Sasuke gagged on a cough. His eyes were half lidded and it looked he had snapped.
Naruto kneeled at Sasuke's side, "Sasuke. You're not going to die, you idiot."
"I wanted you to notice me." Sasuke confessed.
Naruto gulped his anger down.
"How could I not notice you?"
/memory end
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Naruto's Memory #6007325
Sakura beamed as Naruto gobbled down her gift of Ramen.
It was the least she could do. Naruto was a hero. He had saved Sasuke from death and was nursing him back to health.
Though it annoyed her that Sasuke was still at his house, too sick and high with fever to be moved.
"Even thought I'm against it," she lifted up a stack of paper and dropped it on Naruto's desk. She folded her arms together. "I was going to take Sasuke his paperwork to him, but something came up." She smiled awkwardly, Lee had come back from a mission and they were going to celebrate his survival. "Um, Naruto."
Naruto looked at the pile, Sasuke was at his home so it didn't really bother him much. "I'll run it for you."
Sakura wiped the sweat off her forehead and clasped her hands together. "Thank you, I really appreciate it."
/memory end
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Naruto's Memory #6007330
"Naruto." Sasuke had been sleeping until he heard Naruto cooking a meal.
He winced, Naruto? Cooking?
Naruto came in with a tray and set it on the table. "Sa-suke.?" Naruto sat in a wooden chair pulled up beside the bed. He picked up a piece of the store bought sushi with his chopsticks.
"I thought you were cooking," Sasuke looked at the sushi held to his lips, "Naruto?"
"Sasuke, can you move your body?"
"It's hard."
"Then don't complain," with indifferent eyes he moved it close to Sasuke's lips. "Ahhh."
The piece of sushi rolled off mountains in the sheets to the floor.
Naruto looked up at Sasuke who had pinned him down. "Sasuke..."
"Naruto." He looked deep within Naruto's eyes, he was stunned. Sasuke gulped, "I think. I love you."
A vein appeared on Naruto's forehead. "Idiot! That was a good piece of expensive sushi!"
"GAAAHHHH!!!!" Sasuke was tackled by Naruto and disappeared under the sheets. 'It was a change,' Sasuke thought through his struggling, 'but at least I get to see Naruto.'
/memory end
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"And that's when it started, didn't it." Asked the nine tails fox, face pressed onto the bars.
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Authors note:
Cruel aren't I?
Actually I read a review and almost lost the will to write..
That extra I left because I just didn't want to leave for a week with out some "closure".
But after reading that review it got extended to two weeks. Err..
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Replies to Reviews Section thingy. Can't remember what I called it before
Panatlantic, I changed it. Though I will continue the extra. Hey. I'm bored.
Zam Angelina. Yes!
WuffieLuver, thank you.
Cheyrl-chan, heh heh. I need more Irukaka. More extras?
Sun, um. yes.
Athravan, heh heh. I feels bad for the GxNxS fans.
doragon Yeah. That was G x N X S filler thingy. Sorry.
He was dead! I never knew! Gah... Too late to change.
Shadow of Arashi. We really need a KakaInru Extra.
Inuchan, I don't know that I want.
no one u know, DO I KNOW YOU?!?
Nemi, soon my pet, soon.
Dan Inverse, heh heh sorry.
Atomstar, I thought of all the wild couples and I thought yeah. [Shifts uncomfortably]
m-i, is Hirame your real signed name? Kawaii!
Inuchan, updating. Sorry! Sorry!
Tsukasa, sorry! Sorry! Extra!
Vampire Goddess Jekyll, we really need a KakaIru now.
Soltian, how about ShikaTemari?
Annachan, it was like. last minute. I'm a hentai.
Chikachy, edit!!!!! Hurry. Gwah.
Sorry. I can't say much.
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Next Chapter
Love is not strong enough.
Justice in a corrupt court.
Murder.
A road built on dead bodies.
A twisted Eve of sorts awakens.
Abandoning one's face. The reflection of himself left at the gate before the passage to paradise.
Death.
[Sentences pasted together into a preview]
[Review. Oh by the way. I have room for improvement but am acceptable by government standards.]