Kaira-chan: *Cracks knuckles* Alright!!
Dark Kaira: **Sees gleam in Kaira-chan's eyes* ... My...ra... WHAT HAVE YOU ALL DONE!!
Kaira-chan: no more notebook! And all the time in the world today!! Prepare for a long chapter ((Hopefully))
Dark Kaira: You couldn't be satisfied with the 2 page, 1026 word chapter, COULD'VE you . ((Not counting authoress notes))
Naruto: Do I get to kill Sasuke now??
Kaira-chan: You shall see!! Now get on with the disclaimer!! **MWAHAHHA*
Naruto: O_O;; **is slightly scared** ... Kaira-chan doesn't own me or Sasuke or anyone else who decides to turn up this chapter...
((And please don't kill me for how horribly OOC Sasuke is in this chapter..))
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Okay. Sasuke admitted he was wrong. Apparently some people could be stealthy in a war zone like this.
He decided to not turn around, nor to try to get out of Naruto's hold. Afterall, if he so much as breathed the wrong way, Naruto could easily slice his throat.
Before he wouldn't think that Naruto would actually, that this was some sort of bluff, but that was before he found the kunai. And he wasn't going to try and guess right now if Naruto was a masochist, and sadist, or just a fluffy kitten killer.
"Naruto -" Sasuke started, trying to keep his voice soothing and calm.
"Don't start with me. Don't you know proper manners? Don't you know when someone tells you to not go somewhere, you shouldn't?" Naruto hissed.
"I'm sorry, Naruto," Sasuke said, still trying to keep his voice soothing, but it was getting kind of hard, since Naruto was pushing the sharpened kunai closer to his throat.
"Sorry didn't stop you from coming in here and snooping around, did it?" Naruto snapped.
Sasuke decided to stay silent at the comment. No matter what he said, he'd probably just dig himself deeper.
He was surprised when Naruto's kunai left his throat without and persuasion. He turned around, to see Naruto's eyes downcast and clouded.
"Why were you in here?" Naruto ask, his voice having changed greatly, now quieter, sadder.
Sasuke stayed quiet. What could he say? That Kakashi was worried about him, so he was on a mission to find out what was wrong with Naruto? That he had read his diary, and snooped around in everything Naruto called personal?
"Answer me, Sasuke," Naruto said, then threw some old containers and dishes off of his table and sat on it.
"I was bringing in the dishes and..." Sasuke started, but ended there too. He couldn't think up an excuse to why he was digging through Naruto's drawers .
"The dishes are still by the kitchen door Sasuke. Don't lie to me."
Well, now what could Sasuke say.
"What's with these kunai?" Sasuke asked, picking up one from the drawer. Yeah, great answer....
Naruto blinked. "Well, I - erm. They were from a mission. I haven't gotten around to cleaning them yet," Naruto said.
Sasuke cocked an eyebrow. "You haven't been on a mission for about three weeks now. And none of us have been on a mission that involved getting our kunai's bloody for about four months now."
Naruto looked at his feet, which were dangling from the table. "It isn't any less thought out then your lie was," he said.
Sasuke nodded. "So why don't you tell me the truth?"
"I asked you first. Why don't you tell me the truth?"
Sasuke wasn't much one for truth telling, especially when it came to caring about someone. But, looking around the house, he decided neither was Naruto.
"Kakashi was worried about you, so I came here to see what was wrong. And then I saw the dried blood in you diary-"
"Journal," Naruto interrupted.
Sasuke looked at him blankly.
"It's a journal, not a diary," he explained. Sasuke blinked.
"Uh .. Okay..."
"So, I suppose you know then?" Naruto asked, looking up into Sasuke's face.
"Know what?" Sasuke asked. " That you found that book when you were five? That you're somewhat jealous of me? That keeping a dia - journal is a very bad idea for a ninja?"
"You know what I mean," Naruto said, his eyes getting and angry glint. "You know that that damned fox is sealed within me!" Naruto snapped.
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Kaira-chan: There!!! Since I'm getting so many complaints on the length of this fic, I'm ending it now!! It's discontinued!! Hahaha!!! How do you like that??
Dark Kaira: I'm sure they don't....
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Sasuke tried hard not to jump backwards. "Erm.... did I mention I just skimmed through most of it?" Sasuke added.
Naruto blinked, then laughed. "And did I mention I'm just fooling around with you? Hahah... you really think that I'm the fox? Hahah... that's good. I didn't know you were so gullible. Hahahaha....." He trailed off, then looked at Sasuke, who stared back at him. Naruto sighed.
"Don't tell anyone, okay?" He asked. "I mean, the adult villagers all know and all, but none of the people our age know."
Sasuke nodded in agreement. "I won't tell a soul. Now, you going to explain to me about the kunai?"
Naruto glared at him. "I think I've told you enough."
Sasuke shrugged. "I never asked for that bit of information."
Naruto stood up on the table. "Well then, that's better for you isn't it?" he snapped. He turned on his heel, with full intention of leaving, but the old rickity table gave out under his feet, and it, with him on it, came crashing on to the ground.
Sasuke darted forward, only the instint to save the moron making him move. He missed slightly, though, and ended up only catching Naruto's sleeve, which tore right off of the rest of his jacket.
Sasuke blinked, and then stared at the orange jacket arm in his hand. Then he looked at Naruto, who was currently nursing his aching behind. Naruto looked at Sasuke, and saw that arm in his hand.
"HEY!!! YOU OWE ME A NEW JACKET NOW!! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO THINK THAT YOU CAN JUST SNOOP THROUGH ALL OF MY STUFF AND THEN RIP MY FAVORITE JACKET??!!" Naruto yelled loudly and angrily.
Sasuke stared at Naruto. Not because of him being angry and all, but because of the arm that was now revealed.
Naruto's yells dimmed down to a silence as he followed Sasuke's gaze. "Uh... there's this rabid cat, that lives in the dumpster just behind my house, and when I went there, it attacked me, and I wasn't wearing my jacket and then it attacked me, and ..." Naruto trailed off when he saw Sasuke wasn't listening to him.
"Sasuke..." Naruto started.
Sasuke blinked. "AHA!! I was right!! You are a masochist!"
Naruto looked at him strangely. "Are you on something today?" He asked.
Sasuke looked at him blankly. "What?"
"Like Prozzak or something? You're acting really weird..."
Sasuke ignored the comment, and grabbed Naruto's wrist, pulling him up.
"Uh... Sasuke?" Naruto started, and pouted when he realized that Sasuke wasn't paying attention to him yet again.
Sasuke looked at the scars and fresh wounds. "These are pretty deep... but not deep enough to make all the blood I found in the sink... take off you jacket."
Naruto looked at him blankly. "Do what now?"
"Take it off before I rip it more," Sasuke commanded. Naruto grumbled, and, not wanting to see his beloved bright jacket get more ripped, he stripped it of.
Sasuke stared. All along the base of his neck, disappearing under his muscle shirt, and on his other arm were scars and wounds of all sorts.
"Don't tell anyone, please Sasuke?" Naruto pleaded. When Sasuke didn't answer, his eyes widened slightly. "Please?"
Sasuke sighed. "Naruto... this isn't like the fox. I'm going to have to tell Kakashi," he said finally.
Naruto jumped away from him. "Don't tell Kakashi, or Sakura-chan, or anyone PLEASE Sasuke?"
"I can't agree to that Naruto. I have to tell someone. Who know's what could happen if I didn't? You need help."
"I don't need help! I've been fine by myself! Just let me do my own thing!" Naruto shouted.
Sasuke didn't reply. "You tell anyone and I swear I'll show the whole town the picture of you in my night cap," Naruto threatened.
Sasuke hesitated. "I don't care," Sasuke said. "I've got to tell someone, before you do something stupid and kill yourself."
"I won't kill myself!"
"I'm sure Naruto. I'm going now, show the picture if you want, because I will tell Kakashi."
"Wait!" Naruto called out. When Sasuke stopped, he continued. "Why do you care so much anyways?"
Sasuke looked at him for a moment. Then he shrugged, "I don't know. Not yet anyway." Then he walked out of Naruto's house.
Naruto watched him disappear down the road, then collapsed on his bed.
"Dammit Sasuke, you stupid - ... what's the matter with you?" But, he made no move to get the picture out, and show it to the rest of the village.
Sasuke walked along the road, hands in pockets. How was he going to tell Kakashi? Maybe Sakura would be easier to tell? It was weird, just a few minutes ago, he was dead set on telling Kakashi, but now he had no idea how to go about doing it...
He was half tempted to go back to Naruto's and tell him that he wasn't going to tell, when Kakashi appeared walking out of a bookstore, a new book in hand. Sasuke breifly wondered what book it was, but then decided it was probably best if he didn't know.
"Ahh, Sasuke. Did you find anything?" Kakashi asked, catching site of Sasuke.
"More then I wanted too," Sasuke sighed.
Kakashi looked at him questionably, urging him to continue. "You never told me Naruto was the fox," Sasuke said, slightly confused. That was not what he wanted to say.
Kakashi's one eye blinked. "So you found out, huh? I would've told you except it's banned to tell the children...." Kakashi explained.
Sasuke nodded. "But we're his teammates, we should know this sort of stuff."
Kakashi nodded. "I know but..." he shrugged. "So did you find out what's the matter with Naruto?"
This was his chance. He could say it now or never...
"The reason that he's not coming is something you said to him, I think..." Kakashi looked shocked, yet Sasuke continued. "And Kakashi... he..." he trailed off.
Kakashi looked at him. "What is it Sasuke?" It was really weird, he had never seen Sasuke uncertain before...
"Yeah? What is it?"
Sasuke took in a breath. "He's been..." he didn't want to say it anymore. Why didn't he want to say it. It was best for Naruto if he just told Kakashi, and then Naruto could get help...
"Sasuke... is something the matter?" Kakashi asked.
"No... nothings the matter." Sasuke said. Kakashi nodded.
"Then I better go see him and apologize to him."
Sasuke stood in the middle of the near empty street, while Kakashi walked towards Naruto's house. After a few moments, he spun on his heel. "Wait!" He shouted, and Kakashi halted. Sasuke ran up to him.
"Naruto... he's cutting himself. Really deep too. I think he needs help..." Sasuke said. Now that it was out, he felt like he had just taken some great weight off of his shoulders, but he also felt strangely guilty.
Kakashi nodded. "I'll talk to him about that too."
Kakashi started walking away again, but then Sasuke ran up to him again. "Don't tell anyone else, okay?" Sasuke asked.
Kakashi smiled, the only sign of that however was his one uncovered eye. "I won't if I can take care of it myself, okay?"
Sasuke nodded, and this time didn't move when Kakashi walked away from him.
Naruto had asked him why he cared so much?
It was simple really. Both of them shared a unique bond. Both were parentless, and both had suffered stereotypes, no matter how different. Everyone expected Sasuke to succeed, and become great, while he wanted nothing more then to become strong enough to avenge his family. Everyone expected Naruto to fail horribly, to crash and burn, while all he wanted was to get them to acknowledge him, to be great. Both were all alone. Both suffered more pain then anyone else knew. They were friends. It was simple, really. But both were to blind to see it.
~OWARI~
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Kaira-chan: Yep it's done. And I don't care if you tell me to continue it!! I'm not going too!!! I can't right now anyways! Too many fics.
Dark Kaira: I hope you all tolerated the length of this chapter. About 5 pages long, and 1907 words long...
Naruto: not counting the middle thingy where she said she was discontinuing it ^_^;;
Kaira-chan: ^-^;; I hope that was an acceptable ending.....
Dark Kaira: And don't think you can get away with not reviewing .
Kaira-chan; I do this ending chapter thingy for my chaptered fics, called "Review Replies, Dedications, Inspirations and Thanks." .... ^-^;;; it'll be up eventually...
Naruto: Until then, REVIEW!!!
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the Ghost of Jonouchi:
Yay ^-^ Forgotten's out. Heheh ^_^;; I take it you no like cliffies?? Anyways, I'm glad you liked it!
Firedragon97:
That he did... **Starts singing Don't you put it in your mouth song** *Coughs* yeah... I sing that all the time to annoy my friends... Naw, I'm pretty sure it just got darker ^-^;; Mmm... Dark Angsty fics with humor **Drools** too bad I can't see the dark angstynessness... **Is my own worse critic**
kkoganei:
Sorry??
Red Rose:
Heheh ^_^ now you see!! Wow O_o... that rhymed..
Dameus:
No!!! No Naruto Plushie voodoo dolls!! O_o.. You burned Sasuke?? Cool? I hope this chapter was long enough??
monkfish:
How about if I end here?? O_o... please don't explode... or implode for that matter...
Sawdust monster:
heheh ^-^;; yeah, sorry about the shortnessnessness...
Sayuki:
Hmm... I guess he didn't think that Naruto would have poisonous blood in his sink? ^-^ Now you know the story of the bloodied kunai. Sorry for trying your patience...
Pinky-cat:
Nope, I never said it was sasunaru =P That's my OTHER chaptered Naruto fic... with a name O_o... **Has a het chaptered Naruto fic called "Unnamed"** ^-^;;
Chibi0Dragon:
Yes ^_^ I am a vile person =P ^-^ I'm glad you think so. Well, this one isn't so short... I hope its up to your length standards, I mean it is nearly 2000 words long... ((Admittably I've written longer...))
Kami Beverly:
heheh ^-^ now more then just blood ^-^;;
Bishihuggler:
O_O.... *Looks at kunai fearfully* Uh.. Well... you don't have to worry about it from this fic anymore??
Iceheart19:
*Blinks* ...don't kill me... Nope, Sasuke doesn't ask about the picture, because he has the strongest feeling that Naruto hasn't seen it yet, and yeah....
Drowning Weakness:
Yay ^_^ I'm glad you thought so!!
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Wow ^-^ You're a good guesser =P
chaosknight:
Yay ^-^ Me update, you know!
Nikkler:
**Watches you run** Well, my other fic is up now ^_^ It's not that good though ((in my eyes)) hope I updated soon enough ^_^
carrot stix:
Yay ^-^ updated soon enough?
Foxgrl:
Yes!! Bask in my evilnessnessness. Hope I didn't make you wait too long... don't hurt me O_O...
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That he is...
Eikou:
Actually, there's a lot of fics ((that I've seen)) that say the Fourth is Naruto's father, so I decided for Sasuke-confuzziling reasons that that's how it was ((At least for this fic)). Cookies??... *Nibbles*
Naruto: RAMEN!!!! *Dives and stuffs face*
Sadistic Demon:
Lol ^_^ now you know!
Evafreak:
Yep. And Sasuke helps as best he can ^-^ ... I'm sorry for the cliffy T^T don't hate me for it!! Lol, sorry to say, no Sasunaru or Narusasu... I hope the ending wasn't too fluffy or anything...
Anime Freak/Kichigai Ojousan:
Um... because I'm evil and sadistic? Uh... because... O-o that's just the luck of the draw? I hope I updated soon, since I updated on the same day as your review ^_^;;