Psychic King: *Looking desperately at the readers* OK! I KNOW it's been a
long time since my last update, but I have a valid excuse- I mean reason!
First there was Valentines Day weekend... I had a few things to do, a few
friends to hang out with and a few tests to study for. The tests were
really killer, by the way. My mother is a Professor at the Univesity I
attend and everyone in her department knows who I am... SADLY, on of the
classes I HAVE to take this semester is being taught by her boss and he
knows who I am... *Sigh* I feel like I REALLY need to perform in this
class, because I'd make her look bad... *shaking head* never go to the
university that your mother teaches at, and if you can't avoid it, don't
take a class taught by her boss... Anyway, the OTHER test actually was I
my MAJOR. My major is important to me and I REALLY want to impress my
professor in that class so I can get good recommendations when I go to Grad
school. *wishful thinking* That was finished and done with by Wednesday,
but somehow, to top off the rest of my horrid week (neither of the tests I
felt fairly represented my actual KNOWLEDGE and COMREHENSION of the
materials, I HATE tests like that...) my internet connection has been down
since Wednesday night. It really sucks and I am VERY unhappy, but that's
the way it is. Anyway, Because of that, this chapter is actually REALLY
long, though, because I just kept adding to it because I couldn't post
anything... *sigh* Anyway, I'm not in the mood to make this preface really
long, so I'm just gonna cut right to the story... Sorry about the long
wait, I hope this chapter makes it worth the wait, though! Please forgive
me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Embrace of Solitude
Chapter 13
Sakura walked along side Uzu and Shikamaru quietly. It was obvious that Uzu was more interested in getting to know the lazy Shikamaru than his supposed cousin anyway. Not that she really minded suddenly there was a lot to think about. Naruto was the fox demon, a nice guy, he was her uncle, and he was in bed with Sasuke half-naked... Somehow that last one refused to leave her mind. But it had been innocent, right? After all, Naruto was passed out when he got back last night, so Sasuke must have crawled into bed with him and Sasuke would NEVER want to... be that close to Naruto, right? So Naruto must have been cold or maybe Sasuke was worried about... Sasuke? Worried...? Why would he worry about Naruto enough to climb into bed with him? Sasuke, who avoided physical contact... They were friends, sure; Sakura wasn't blind. And Sasuke smiled a lot more when Naruto was around, worried when Naruto wasn't around, and ignored almost everything else, but that was just because they were teammates, right? After all, Sasuke was nice to her, too, right? RIGHT?
She thought back over the times that Sasuke's taken care of her, helped her... And Naruto. Mostly Naruto, come to think of it. In fact, he rarely helped her unless Naruto was involved. Even the time he saved her on that mission that seemed to have started this whole mess; he only protected her AFTER he protected Naruto...
Sakura shook her head, mentally rebuking herself. She was being paranoid. Of COURSE Sasuke didn't like Naruto THAT way. That would just be weird. She glanced at Shikamaru and Uzu who were still deep in conversation. If Uzu and Tenmar were to be believed then Naruto was their father, anyway. That meant that he was interested in girls, because he'd been married to Aunt Illia. Of course if that was true that also meant that Naruto was her uncle. Which was more unappealing, Naruto as an uncle or Sasuke gay? She rebuked herself again. She would rather have a million Uncle Naruto's than loose Sasuke to the blonde idiot. She LOVED Sasuke. He was her world; it wasn't possible that he could fall in love with anyone else, right? Especially with someone as annoying, stupid, aggravating and dense as Naruto. Of course, ever since he moved in with Sasuke, Naruto'd been acting a lot more mature. He even stopped bothering her as often, like he'd lost interest or something...
Eyes widening in surprise, Sakura suddenly stopped walking, staring at Uzu and Shikamaru as they turned to look at her questioningly. "I-I just remembered that I have something I have to do before I go home... I'm gonna take care-I have to go check on something, bye!"
Uzu raised an eyebrow at Shikamaru who shrugged and rolled his eyes. "Don't ask me. In my opinion woman are completely irrational."
Uzu grinned. "Glad to hear it."
As Sakura ran her mind kept jumping to things... The way Sasuke hated her touch, the way Naruto suddenly lost interest in her, the way they stared at each other. WHY had she not noticed it before? Why had she allowed them to get so close? Surely there was something she could have done to stop it from happening, some way to wedge herself between them.
Panting she arrived at the house. It looked like Tenmar and Ganten were heading out somewhere, if she could just avoid being seen... She really didn't want to have to explain herself if she was wrong. That might push them closer together. She jumped up on the long fence that surrounded the Uuchiha mansion, staying upon it until the two men passed her. Staying in the trees Sakura jumped slowly and silently to the tree standing outside the room Naruto and Sasuke had been in. She made sure she was higher than the window, looking down into the room, heart pounding.
A slight smile lit across her face, Sakura sighed in relief. Naruto and Sasuke were both still in the room, but they were both fully dressed. Naruto was sprawled out on the bed, lying on his stomach and facing Sasuke, who was seated in a chair, arms crossed; an angry, annoyed expression on his face. She couldn't quite hear what they were saying, but she could see Sasuke's lips form the word 'Dobe' once or twice. As expected, Naruto's body stiffened; jumping up the blonde formed his hands into fists advancing towards the dark haired boy.
Placing a relieved hand over her pounding heart, Sakura breathed another sigh of relief. Of course there was nothing going on between Sasuke and Naruto, why had she allowed her imagination to run so wild? They were friends, rivals... There wasn't anything else there. She glanced down and almost lost her balance in surprise. Mina stood directly beneath her. The red headed girl seemed to be crying; she was holding her head between her hands, both hands clenched around fist-fulls of hair.
"No..." The tormented looking girl moaned, swaying from side to side. "No... I can't do it. I don't want to listen to you!" Last words coming out in a scream, Mina's body shook as she fell to the ground, sobbing.
Sakura sent a terrified glance through the window again, sure that the boys would have been alerted by Mina's screams. Sure enough, Sasuke, who was now leaning over Naruto in what Sakura guessed was mean to be an intimidation stance, glanced sharply outside. Sakura prayed that he would not look up, that Naruto would not look up...
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Naruto gulped as Sasuke walked up to him, eyes dark. They had been talking for the past hour about things, in particular what the hell was going on between them. Naruto, trying desperately to be mature about everything, spent a large amount of time trying to convince Sasuke that they should try to avoid the physical contact that had become a regular occurrence the last day or two. Sasuke smirked and said something about Naruto not having enough self control to stop it anyway, why not go with the flow?
So when Sasuke smirked at him Naruto found himself replying something flippant about not caring if they never did it again. Sasuke's smirk had grown and he called Naruto a liar and a dobe, and then there he was, leaning temptingly over the boy, hands placed on the bed on either side of Naruto's body, and his face was getting closer. Naruto cursed his treacherous body as it started responding to Sasuke's closeness, Sasuke's desire.
Naruto gulped again as Sasuke's face was slowly lowering towards his own. He felt his hands start to rise, to grab Sasuke, to hurry the process. Half of him was dying in anticipation and the other half was screaming at him to remember his principles and push the dark haired boy away. The anticipating part of his psyche was JUST about to tell his sensible side where to shove it when he heard Mina's screams.
Sasuke sighed, leaning further over Naruto to glance out the window. He was JUST about to prove just how badly the blonde wanted him, too. Mina was huddled under the tree; it looked like she was crying. "There's something wrong with her."
Naruto wiggled his body up, leaning his head backwards until he could see upside down out the window. Naruto nodded, bringing his head back up to look at Sasuke. The corner of his eyes caught on a glimpse of pink hair. "Sakura?"
Sasuke looked at him skeptically. "What?"
Naruto pushed Sasuke away. "I'm gonna go check on her."
"Oi! Dobe." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand before he could completely escape, drawing the blonde into a quick, vicious kiss. "We WILL continue this latter."
Naruto nodded, a slight blush covering his face. He glanced quickly out the window where he thought he had glimpsed Sakura, but there was no sign of the girl. Shaking his head he grinned quickly at Sasuke and dashed down the stairs. Maybe it was wrong of him, but he was king of excited that he was going to get to act like a REAL father to Mina for a change.
Sasuke sighed, fighting back the jealous feelings that were welling up inside him. Naruto was her father; of COURSE he was going to go help her if she needed him. It wasn't like Naruto was hiding any romantic feelings for the girl. Recently he hadn't even been paying attention to Sakura. Not that Sasuke was surprised. Sakura was obviously a bad match for the blonde. That didn't explain the immense feeling of relief that Sasuke felt about it. He realized, as he glanced out the window to see Naruto looking lost as Mina turned her head towards him, that he was feeling more than just lust or hormones. He smiled slightly as Naruto's face went from lost to desperate and Mina buried her tear streaked face in his orange sweater. Obviously the idiot didn't know how to deal with girls.
Sasuke sat back, keeping his eyes on the blonde as he desperately tried to find out what was wrong with his daughter. Ever time he asked her a question she just seemed to get more and more distraught until finally it appeared that he gave up on finding out what was wrong and was attempting to cheer the girl up. He really was useless, wasn't he? But when he smiled the girl's tears faded away and Sasuke felt his chest tighten. Naruto said something low to the girl and she laughed, wiping the tears from her face and giving Naruto a quick shy hug before running off somewhere.
The blonde's smile got even bigger, threatening to engulf his whole face as he glanced up to see Sasuke looking at him from the window. He held his hand up in a victory signal, still beaming from ear to ear.
Sasuke moved quickly away from the window, his first intention being to go down and grab the idiot blonde and... what? Sasuke sat down on the bed, forcing himself to stop and think about what he was doing. He didn't like the fact that he was a sudden slave to his desires. What was this warm feeling running through his body? Hormones, right? It was just a part of being a teenager. When he got older these feeling, this strange reaction to Naruto would disappear, right?
Glancing back out the window, Sasuke felt a sudden rush of fear. Naruto was gone. Where was that moron? Without thinking, Sasuke was on his feet in an instant pulling the door open. He frowned; the door was unusually heavy-
Naruto, hand still clenching the door, tumbled into the room, landing on Sasuke. "Oi! What're you trying to do, Sasuke-bastard? I thought you were going to tear my arm off! What's the hurry?" The blonde's irritation faded away as he was suddenly wrapped in Sasuke's embrace. He tilted his head questioningly. "Sasuke? Is something wrong?"
As suddenly as Sasuke had grabbed hold of Naruto he pushed him away. "Dobe! I thought you'd disappeared again." He stood over the blonde with an angry glare, but it was no use. He couldn't remain angry at him. He sighed, sitting down heavily on the bed.
Naruto wiggled his way closer to Sasuke, until he was sitting at his feet, a teasing grin on his face. "You were worried about me!" He accused, poking at the dark haired boy's stomach.
Sasuke glared at the blonde. "Why would I worry about someone as stupid as you?" He asked, as much to himself as Naruto. He grabbed the blonde's head, pulling his face closer. "Why do I care if you go away? Why do I forget everything when you smile? Why do I always want to touch you, hold you, feel your warmth?"
Naruto sat in quiet surprise for a moment. He expected Sasuke's anger at these feelings, expected Sasuke to act rough, to hide his feelings under either anger or cruelty, but this... Sasuke's gentle grasp on Naruto's face, his soft whisper as he earnestly searched Naruto's face for the answers. Naruto felt a soft, mature smile crossing his face as he leaned closer to the confused boy. Sasuke must have been more shook up than he realized by last night's adventures. "That's obvious." Naruto responded quietly to Sasuke's confused face. Leaning in, he took the initiative and kissed the dark haired boy softly. He smiled genuinely as he pulled away. "You're in love with me."
For a moment that seemed so right, it fit so well... Sasuke found himself nodding quietly, leaning in for another kiss... And then his brain caught up with the rest of his body, and he was pushing Naruto onto the floor. "Dobe! What kind of idiot would love someone as stupid as you?"
Naruto was grinning boyishly again, "You really shouldn't call yourself an idiot, Sasuke-bastard. Not that I blame you for falling for me, though. I mean..." Naruto pulled his shirt off, running his hands seductively over his own chest. "I'm pretty hot, after all." He glanced at Sasuke, teasing glint in his eyes. "I guess you're OK, too. Not that you can really tell with all those layers of shirts you wear."
Knowing a challenge when he heard one, Sasuke immediately stripped his shirt off, realizing only afterwards that he was doing exactly what Naruto wanted. But Naruto was already advancing, pushing Sasuke down on his bed, tan hands running over Sasuke's pale chest. With a growl Sasuke grabbed Naruto and flipped him underneath. "Don't think I'd let you be in control." He grabbed his discarded shirt using it to tie Naruto's hands together. "You can stay like that for now." Lowering his head, Sasuke pressed his mouth against Naruto's, allowing his hand to caress slowly over the blonde's tan chest.
Sasuke slowly moved his head away, biting softly on Naruto's ear. "Sasuke..." Naruto moaned quietly, wiggling his body under Sasuke's weight. He stopped suddenly as Sasuke hand ran slowly down, past his belt line. Even though the dark haired boy's hands were above Naruto's pants, it was still a very intense action, a sort of heat ran through Naruto's body. Sasuke's hands moved in a random, almost aimless fashion- until they found their target. "Sasuke!"
The dark haired boy glanced up, smirk on his face as one of his hands lightly played with the bulge in Naruto's pants. "What? It feels good, doesn't it?" He imitated, throwing Naruto's words from earlier that morning back in the blonde's face.
Of course this morning Sasuke had been complaining about Naruto biting his shoulder (there was still a small visible mark, Naruto noticed with a small amount of pleasure). This was something completely different... Naruto wasn't sure he was ready for their relationship to become this intense. Of course, Sasuke was a special case, even though he was only twelve playing was something he hadn't done since the day his brother destroyed his clan. To him it probably only felt natural to move quickly past the making out stage... A small gasp escaped Naruto's lips as Sasuke's caresses became a little more firm, then moved away completely.
Sasuke sat up, untying Naruto's hands. He smirked as Naruto's face went from disappointment quickly to relief then to confusion. "You didn't really think I was going to go any further, did you, dobe?"
Naruto shrugged, a lost feeling welling up inside him. Sasuke sure was a sadistic little bastard, wasn't he?
Sasuke's smirk widened, in fact, Naruto could almost swear it was a real smile... Almost. "I just wanted to see your face. I wanted to see what it would look like when you were... really enjoying things."
"You shouldn't tease an adu-" Naruto stopped himself. He had been about to tell that brat not to tease adults, but that wasn't right. Although he felt himself to be in many ways (in MOST ways) still a child, he remembered vividly, especially in times like these, what it felt like to be with someone, to be joined emotionally and physically. And it wasn't only that, he had enough trouble controlling his desire while they were so close without Sasuke trying to... He sighed in frustration, then put a pout on his face. "I mean, you shouldn't tease a person like that. It's not nice!" He said, whining. "Anyway, I'm only twelve, I'm way too young to be taken advantage of by someone like you! Pervert!" As a crowing feature to his innocent act Naruto stuck his tong out at the dark haired boy, crossing his arms and turning away.
"Nice try." Sasuke replied, forcing Naruto's face to turn back towards him. Bringing Naruto's face as close to his own as he could without actually touching he whispered, "You're four children too late for me to swallow your innocent act." Gently bringing their lips together he broke away just long enough to add, "I liked that look, though. I want to see a lot more of it in the future, now that you're mine."
In a moment of complete confusion, Naruto could think of nothing to reply to Sasuke's bold ownership statement. Instead he leaned in, allowing Sasuke to kiss him once more. One day he was going to have to tell Sasuke how he felt and teach Sasuke how love was a partnership, but for now... He closed his eyes slowly, just barely missing a flash of pink hair dash by his window.
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Sakura ran as fast and as far as her body could handle, keeping high above Konoha, on the roofs and trees of the village, she wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone or anything right now. Tears flowed from her eyes, all she could see, constantly flashing through her mind was Sasuke pushing Naruto down, Sasuke tying Naruto's hands together, SASUKE kissing and licking the other boy's body. This had to be Naruto's fault. Sasuke wouldn't do something like that, Naruto HAD to have seduced him, forced him somehow...
But even as she thought it, she knew it couldn't be true. Naruto wasn't clever enough or patient enough to MAKE Sasuke like him, no... Sasuke had to have been doing those things on his own. But WHY? If it hadn't been for the look in Sasuke's face she could have believed that it was just a game, that it hadn't meant anything, but he was ENJOYING it... Not only that, he was enjoying Naruto enjoying it. She knew the right thing to do would be to step aside, to allow them their happiness, but she'd wanted Sasuke so long, THOUGHT about only Sasuke for so long... All she could think was, HOW could Naruto do this to her? It was entirely his fault, she was sure. If Naruto didn't exist than Sasuke would have loved her. If Naruto hadn't been born Sasuke would have been all hers.
In that moment she hated Naruto with a deeper passion that she had EVER loved Sasuke. It was Naruto's fault. And Naruto was going to pay...
In the shadows a dark presence smiled, a voice rose from the shadow, making a tsk noise. "Sakura-chan... jealousy does NOT become a lady."
Sakura turned at the sound of the voice, first surprise then recognition and disgust crossing her features. "What the hell do YOU want?"
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan..." The voice replied softly, as the figure moved closer. "I'm afraid I have to take you to my master now. He's been so hungry, you see. Those Ninja the other night weren't enough, he needs something that will really hurt Naruto-sama. You're small and insignificant, but..."
Sakura's eyes widened in fear as the figure approached her, she opened her mouth, but no sound would come out. WHY had she traveled so far away from the town? She struggled to move, but it was as if she was captured, unable to move at all. It reminded her of Shikamaru's shadow technique, except as she could not move the figure was getting closer. Tears poured from her eyes, she HAD to warn Sasuke and Naruto... But then there was darkness.
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Kakashi sighed as he placed his masterpiece in front of his lover. Iruka's mind was a million miles away as he leafed through a large pile of paper work. "Iruka, love... Would you PLEASE put that away?" He touched the brunette's face, causing him to look up and smile.
"Sure. I'm sorry Kakashi, with my first lesson training those four in basics tonight and lessons at school getting further into the semester... I guess I don't have a lot of time." While he talked Iruka was quickly stuffing the papers into his bag. "You know, you'd think at a Ninja school there wouldn't be so much paper work."
Kakashi smiled through his mask at his lover. "As long as I get at least SOME of your attention it's fine."
Iruka grinned, a slight blush covering his face. "Well, you have my undivided attention at night."
Kakashi's visible eyebrow rose to the point it disappeared into his hair line. "Is that so? I could have sworn the last few nights we actually had alone..." He paused as if concentrating, "Now it's been a long time, granted, but I could have SWORN that the last time that happened, ages ago, by the way, I stayed up until an ungodly hour waiting for you to finish with your school work. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but you fell strait asleep afterwards, didn't you?"
Iruka blushed again, he knew Kakashi was only teasing but he felt extremely guilty about how little time he managed to spend with his lover. "I..." He looked down, forlorn expression across his face. To top off everything, he KNEW Kakashi didn't really want him spending time with Tenmar, which was JUST what the Hokage had ordered him to do.
Kakashi's heart softened as Iruka started looking particularly depressed. "I'm sorry." He once again caressed Iruka's face. "I know it's hard on you, too. I'd wait forever for YOU."
Iruka grinned suddenly, an idea popping quickly into his head. "You know, it's only... 5:45 and I don't have to be there until 7... If we eat fast, we could probably..." He didn't even need to finish his statement, Kakashi's mask was down and he was inhaling the beautiful dinner he had prepared like... Well, like Naruto with ramen. Iruka blushed, but quickly followed his lover's example. Only ten minuets later they were rising from the table and shutting their bed room door behind themselves.
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Tenmar paced slowly outside the house he knew Iruka lived in with Kakashi. He had been walking the city, watching for some signs of Kentaar or his followers. This was his new job, because he knew Kentaar better than anyone else, save his father, the Hokage had asked him and his siblings to help safe guard the village. It killed him to think that four of Naruto-sama's precious Konoha residents had already been caught and used by the evil man. There were probably more missing, too.
Kentaar was a patient bastard and completely capable of playing with his prey. If what Sasuke said was true, than Kentaar had promised to attack someone close to Naruto next, as well. Tenmar couldn't HELP but worrying about Iruka. He knew it was probably unlikely; Kentaar would more likely go after an easier prey first, a child or someone unfortunate enough to stray from the village boundaries alone...
Tenmar glanced anxiously at the sky. It was getting late; it had to almost be seven, right? Maybe he should knock. It wasn't a lie to say he was in the area, just because he had decided to patrol around this area as it got closer to seven did NOT make it any less true. Breathing in quickly, Tenmar steeled his resolve and knocked on the front door, feeling slightly silly as he did so. Why was it that he could kill a hundred men without even the slightest hesitation, but he couldn't even knock on Iruka's front door without feeling a slight rush of terror?
"Hai, hai..." Kakashi's voice called as he yanked the door open. He hoped whoever it was had a good reason for disturbing him, he was about to join Iruka for his 'quick' bath. Iruka wouldn't appreciate it at first, but Kakashi was sure it would only take a little 'persuasion' to make his lover accept it. It was for that reason that Kakashi opened the door wearing only a pair of pants and the skin tight upper body/face covering shirt he always wore under the rest of his ninja gear.
Tenmar found himself blushing slightly. It wasn't that obvious with all the clothing Kakashi usually wore, but the man before him was actually rather... attractive. For a brief moment he toyed with the idea of pulling Kakashi's mask down to see the man's full face, but then he shook his head, bringing himself back to reality. He put a sheepish grin on his face, "I was walking in the area, so... I thought I'd stop by to see if Iruka was ready to head over to Sasuke's house for our training."
Kakashi sighed, a mixture of amusement and annoyance flowing through him. Part of his wanted to kill the younger man for interrupting his 'Iruka time' and the other half of him was amused by the way the Tenmar's eyes had traveled down his body and the bright blush covering his face. Humor won out and Kakashi stepped aside, "Come on in, kid. Iruka's in the bath right now. I'll just go tell him you're here-"
Kakashi's words were cut off as Tenmar desperately grabbed at his hand to stop him. "That's OK! I can wait for him to finish up."
Kakashi grinned underneath his mask, raising his visible eyebrow. "What? It's not like it'd be the first time I've seen him naked, you know. We ARE living togeth-"
Once again Tenmar cut Kakashi off, waving his hands wildly. "I don't want to hear about it!" He said with urgency in his voice. He sighed, slouching his shoulders as Kakashi began to laugh. "Sorry. I know for some unknown reason Iruka and you are together, (not that I get what he sees in you...). However, I have NO interest in hearing about it." He could see Kakashi still ginning through the cloth mask and blushed an even deeper red.
"You seem like a nice enough guy, kid, so I'm going to make this quite clear for you; as long as Iruka wants me I'm not going anywhere. Got it?" He crossed his arms, still grinning. He couldn't help it, much like Naruto, there was an air about Tenmar that made Kakashi just feel good, relaxed, happy... Not enough to let the brat steal his Iruka away, but enough to kind of enjoy his company.
Tenmar was saved from having to respond by Iruka appearing in the doorway. "Am I interrupting something or are you done with the pissing contest?" He had a sweet smile on his face, but both men could tell he was at least somewhat irked.
"Iruka-san! Good afternoon!" Tenmar was immediately on his feet. "I-I was just in the area and wanted to walk with you to Sasuke's house!"
Shaking his head, Iruka grabbed his bag, still full of papers, kissed Kakashi lightly on the cheek and walked quickly from the house, Tenmar following closely behind. "Can I carry that bag for you, Iruka-san?"
"It's not that heavy."
Kakashi smiled as they faded into the distance. He DID trust Iruka. Unconditionally, in fact. But that did NOT mean that he was eager to let some young good looking guy fawn all over him. He frowned as he realized that his secret plan to steal more Iruka time had been ruined. Well, it was about time he went to check on his students anyway, right? He'd start with Sakura, so he didn't look like he was just checking up on Iruka.
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Naruto grinned as he sank into the bath. After a LONG struggle Naruto had finally managed to convince Sasuke to let him alone so he could bathe. It was going to be a problem if they couldn't keep their hands off each other long enough to DO anything in the day. He knew this was just how early relationships went and he should enjoy it while it lasted... It would only be a matter of time before Sasuke's interest in the physical aspects of the relationship tampered off a bit. If Naruto did things right he would never COMPLETELY loose interest, but when it happened they would have to resort to talking.... Now THAT sounded painful. No matter how much Naruto cared for Sasuke and no matter how much more talkative he had become towards the blonde in the recent days, this was STILL Sasuke they were talking about.
Thinking of painful... There was going to be a major problem when they actually DID decide to go the next step. Sasuke had control issues and Naruto was having trouble imagining what sex would be like with someone like that. Especially because when he got REALLY excited he wasn't sure if he could stop himself from being the one to...
Shaking his head, Naruto emerged himself in the bath water. It was WAY too early to worry about this kind of crap. They would figure it out when they got to it. That was at least three or four years away, right? Three or four years... It was going to be a LONG three years, best thing to do was just not think about it, right?
Naruto popped his head back over the water and suddenly felt a strong pair of hands grabbing his back. "Sasuke! What the hell're you doing? I thought you were going to take a bath AFTER me!"
"Sasuke?" A teasing voice replied. Naruto spun around to find himself staring strait into a pair of mischievous blue eyes. "Geeze Daddy, someone randomly grabs you in the bath and you automatically assume its Sasuke-kun? Sounds like you guys are getting pretty intense, eh?" Uzu nudged his father playfully as he sunk into the bath next to him.
Naruto grinned at his second eldest, "What about you? You've been out with Shikamaru all day now. Just coming home for dinner?"
Uzu grinned back, "Well, I'm at least an adult, that's more than can be said for you, Daddy."
"More than can be said for Shikamaru, too."
Uzu mock glared at his father, hitting the water so that it sprayed Naruto face and head.
"Little punk!" Naruto hollered, grabbing Uzu by the hair and dragging him under the water. "Respect your father!"
Uzu grabbed Naruto's hand and carefully flipped him over, reversing their situations. "Respect your elders!"
"SHUT UP!" Ganten demanded, suddenly whacking Uzu on the back of the head. "And let Daddy come up for breath."
"Where'd YOU come from?" Uzu demanded releasing his father as his younger brother also sunk down into the bath.
"I just got back. You two were making enough noise to wake the dead and Sasuke was starting to grumble what he was going to do to both of you if you ruined his bath." Ganten gave both his older brother and father a contemptuous look. "You should both act more your age, you don't see Mina or Sasuke wrestling in the bath or spraying water everywhere, do you?"
Naruto and Uzu exchanged a meaningful look, then both simultaneously leaning back as if they were relaxing. Suddenly both sprang up from the water, grabbing Ganten's head, the two thrust him underneath the water. "Hee hee, this'll teach him not to talk back to his father."
Uzu nodded, "Had enough, little brother?" He asked as they let the white haired boy come up for breath.
"Teme..." Ganten glared at the two, crossing his arms. "I refuse to resort to such childish acts of-" His words were cut short as Uzu, laughing like a maniac, sent a large spray of water into Ganten's face. "Oh, now you're asking for it!"
Ten minutes later Sasuke, who had been sitting as patiently as he could outside, finally felt the need to stick his head into the room as he heard yet ANOTHER crashing noise. "Alright, what's going on in... here?" He looked around. His bathroom was... ruined. Water was everywhere. Not just one the floor but the walls, curtains and ceiling were all dripping. The soap was broken and pieces of it were scattered sporadically around the room. The curtain on one of the windows was torn half way off. All of the towels were soaking wet and lying in a heap on the floor. In the center of the room stood a naked Uzu, under his right arm was a naked Ganten and under his left arm was a very naked Naruto.
"Sasuke!" Naruto squeaked out, quickly pushing himself out from underneath Uzu's arm. "We were just..."
Sasuke stormed up to the blonde boy, eyes dark and grabbed him by the arm, dragging him towards the door. He turned and spared a glare for Uzu and Ganten, who were both biting their lips in order to avoid bursting out laughing. "Don't leave until this room is at least somewhat presentable. We can talk about replacing the curtains and anything else that may have been broken when you're done." With that said he half dragged half carried Naruto out of the room.
Uzu and Ganten glanced at each other, waiting until the sound of Sasuke's footsteps faded away to bust out laughing.
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"Ah, my head..." Sakura moaned as her eyes slowly opened. "Where am I?"
"Welcome to my world, little one." Sakura's head spun to stare in terror at a large dark moving mass of shadows. In the center stood a tall man, face hidden by darkness. "Don't worry..." The voice growled. Sakura screamed in pain as one of the shadows dashed up and clamped its teeth down on her hand. The pain increased as the wolf moved, forcing her to walk closer to the tall shadow man. "We aren't going to kill you yet... We want to play with you first."
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Psychic King: *glancing anxiously over shoulder then back at readers* Well, did you like it? *glancing BACK over shoulders again*
Naruto: wow! You're back! It's been so long! What happened to you? I thought maybe Sakura killed you or something...
Psychic King: *holding hand over Naruto's mouth* Shush! She'll hear you...
Naruto: *lowering voice* So, where have you been, hiding out from Sakura- chan, eh?
Psychic King: *whispering* I couldn't get online... It was terrible. I've never felt so lost in my whole life...
Naruto: *nodding sympathetically* Yeah, you're a interne junkie, too...
Psychic King: *nodding* If it hadn't been for two things I probably would have gone completely insane.
Naruto: *getting interested* what where they?
Psychic King: ... Well, first off I just got a whole lot of new shonen ai and yaoi manga... *blushing*
Naruto: Pervert.
Psychic King: *sill blushing* Tee hee, just because I can't write it does NOT mean that I don't love it.....
Naruto: *shaking head* what was the other thing?
Psychic King: *brightening* My dear sweet friend has been giving me copies of a cool new anime! Well, new for me at least... *sigh* One Piece.... Luffy-sama is SO COOL.... *sigh*
Sakura: *suddenly latching on to Psychic King* You won't escape again... Not THIS time... *pulls out a whip* Now we have a few things to talk about, don't you think? *cracks the whip, cackling evilly*
Psychic King: reaching to Naruto* Please... Help me.... (Oh, and I promise I'll update REAL soon this time, promise!!!! Now that the internet is back I'm so happy!)
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Embrace of Solitude
Chapter 13
Sakura walked along side Uzu and Shikamaru quietly. It was obvious that Uzu was more interested in getting to know the lazy Shikamaru than his supposed cousin anyway. Not that she really minded suddenly there was a lot to think about. Naruto was the fox demon, a nice guy, he was her uncle, and he was in bed with Sasuke half-naked... Somehow that last one refused to leave her mind. But it had been innocent, right? After all, Naruto was passed out when he got back last night, so Sasuke must have crawled into bed with him and Sasuke would NEVER want to... be that close to Naruto, right? So Naruto must have been cold or maybe Sasuke was worried about... Sasuke? Worried...? Why would he worry about Naruto enough to climb into bed with him? Sasuke, who avoided physical contact... They were friends, sure; Sakura wasn't blind. And Sasuke smiled a lot more when Naruto was around, worried when Naruto wasn't around, and ignored almost everything else, but that was just because they were teammates, right? After all, Sasuke was nice to her, too, right? RIGHT?
She thought back over the times that Sasuke's taken care of her, helped her... And Naruto. Mostly Naruto, come to think of it. In fact, he rarely helped her unless Naruto was involved. Even the time he saved her on that mission that seemed to have started this whole mess; he only protected her AFTER he protected Naruto...
Sakura shook her head, mentally rebuking herself. She was being paranoid. Of COURSE Sasuke didn't like Naruto THAT way. That would just be weird. She glanced at Shikamaru and Uzu who were still deep in conversation. If Uzu and Tenmar were to be believed then Naruto was their father, anyway. That meant that he was interested in girls, because he'd been married to Aunt Illia. Of course if that was true that also meant that Naruto was her uncle. Which was more unappealing, Naruto as an uncle or Sasuke gay? She rebuked herself again. She would rather have a million Uncle Naruto's than loose Sasuke to the blonde idiot. She LOVED Sasuke. He was her world; it wasn't possible that he could fall in love with anyone else, right? Especially with someone as annoying, stupid, aggravating and dense as Naruto. Of course, ever since he moved in with Sasuke, Naruto'd been acting a lot more mature. He even stopped bothering her as often, like he'd lost interest or something...
Eyes widening in surprise, Sakura suddenly stopped walking, staring at Uzu and Shikamaru as they turned to look at her questioningly. "I-I just remembered that I have something I have to do before I go home... I'm gonna take care-I have to go check on something, bye!"
Uzu raised an eyebrow at Shikamaru who shrugged and rolled his eyes. "Don't ask me. In my opinion woman are completely irrational."
Uzu grinned. "Glad to hear it."
As Sakura ran her mind kept jumping to things... The way Sasuke hated her touch, the way Naruto suddenly lost interest in her, the way they stared at each other. WHY had she not noticed it before? Why had she allowed them to get so close? Surely there was something she could have done to stop it from happening, some way to wedge herself between them.
Panting she arrived at the house. It looked like Tenmar and Ganten were heading out somewhere, if she could just avoid being seen... She really didn't want to have to explain herself if she was wrong. That might push them closer together. She jumped up on the long fence that surrounded the Uuchiha mansion, staying upon it until the two men passed her. Staying in the trees Sakura jumped slowly and silently to the tree standing outside the room Naruto and Sasuke had been in. She made sure she was higher than the window, looking down into the room, heart pounding.
A slight smile lit across her face, Sakura sighed in relief. Naruto and Sasuke were both still in the room, but they were both fully dressed. Naruto was sprawled out on the bed, lying on his stomach and facing Sasuke, who was seated in a chair, arms crossed; an angry, annoyed expression on his face. She couldn't quite hear what they were saying, but she could see Sasuke's lips form the word 'Dobe' once or twice. As expected, Naruto's body stiffened; jumping up the blonde formed his hands into fists advancing towards the dark haired boy.
Placing a relieved hand over her pounding heart, Sakura breathed another sigh of relief. Of course there was nothing going on between Sasuke and Naruto, why had she allowed her imagination to run so wild? They were friends, rivals... There wasn't anything else there. She glanced down and almost lost her balance in surprise. Mina stood directly beneath her. The red headed girl seemed to be crying; she was holding her head between her hands, both hands clenched around fist-fulls of hair.
"No..." The tormented looking girl moaned, swaying from side to side. "No... I can't do it. I don't want to listen to you!" Last words coming out in a scream, Mina's body shook as she fell to the ground, sobbing.
Sakura sent a terrified glance through the window again, sure that the boys would have been alerted by Mina's screams. Sure enough, Sasuke, who was now leaning over Naruto in what Sakura guessed was mean to be an intimidation stance, glanced sharply outside. Sakura prayed that he would not look up, that Naruto would not look up...
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Naruto gulped as Sasuke walked up to him, eyes dark. They had been talking for the past hour about things, in particular what the hell was going on between them. Naruto, trying desperately to be mature about everything, spent a large amount of time trying to convince Sasuke that they should try to avoid the physical contact that had become a regular occurrence the last day or two. Sasuke smirked and said something about Naruto not having enough self control to stop it anyway, why not go with the flow?
So when Sasuke smirked at him Naruto found himself replying something flippant about not caring if they never did it again. Sasuke's smirk had grown and he called Naruto a liar and a dobe, and then there he was, leaning temptingly over the boy, hands placed on the bed on either side of Naruto's body, and his face was getting closer. Naruto cursed his treacherous body as it started responding to Sasuke's closeness, Sasuke's desire.
Naruto gulped again as Sasuke's face was slowly lowering towards his own. He felt his hands start to rise, to grab Sasuke, to hurry the process. Half of him was dying in anticipation and the other half was screaming at him to remember his principles and push the dark haired boy away. The anticipating part of his psyche was JUST about to tell his sensible side where to shove it when he heard Mina's screams.
Sasuke sighed, leaning further over Naruto to glance out the window. He was JUST about to prove just how badly the blonde wanted him, too. Mina was huddled under the tree; it looked like she was crying. "There's something wrong with her."
Naruto wiggled his body up, leaning his head backwards until he could see upside down out the window. Naruto nodded, bringing his head back up to look at Sasuke. The corner of his eyes caught on a glimpse of pink hair. "Sakura?"
Sasuke looked at him skeptically. "What?"
Naruto pushed Sasuke away. "I'm gonna go check on her."
"Oi! Dobe." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand before he could completely escape, drawing the blonde into a quick, vicious kiss. "We WILL continue this latter."
Naruto nodded, a slight blush covering his face. He glanced quickly out the window where he thought he had glimpsed Sakura, but there was no sign of the girl. Shaking his head he grinned quickly at Sasuke and dashed down the stairs. Maybe it was wrong of him, but he was king of excited that he was going to get to act like a REAL father to Mina for a change.
Sasuke sighed, fighting back the jealous feelings that were welling up inside him. Naruto was her father; of COURSE he was going to go help her if she needed him. It wasn't like Naruto was hiding any romantic feelings for the girl. Recently he hadn't even been paying attention to Sakura. Not that Sasuke was surprised. Sakura was obviously a bad match for the blonde. That didn't explain the immense feeling of relief that Sasuke felt about it. He realized, as he glanced out the window to see Naruto looking lost as Mina turned her head towards him, that he was feeling more than just lust or hormones. He smiled slightly as Naruto's face went from lost to desperate and Mina buried her tear streaked face in his orange sweater. Obviously the idiot didn't know how to deal with girls.
Sasuke sat back, keeping his eyes on the blonde as he desperately tried to find out what was wrong with his daughter. Ever time he asked her a question she just seemed to get more and more distraught until finally it appeared that he gave up on finding out what was wrong and was attempting to cheer the girl up. He really was useless, wasn't he? But when he smiled the girl's tears faded away and Sasuke felt his chest tighten. Naruto said something low to the girl and she laughed, wiping the tears from her face and giving Naruto a quick shy hug before running off somewhere.
The blonde's smile got even bigger, threatening to engulf his whole face as he glanced up to see Sasuke looking at him from the window. He held his hand up in a victory signal, still beaming from ear to ear.
Sasuke moved quickly away from the window, his first intention being to go down and grab the idiot blonde and... what? Sasuke sat down on the bed, forcing himself to stop and think about what he was doing. He didn't like the fact that he was a sudden slave to his desires. What was this warm feeling running through his body? Hormones, right? It was just a part of being a teenager. When he got older these feeling, this strange reaction to Naruto would disappear, right?
Glancing back out the window, Sasuke felt a sudden rush of fear. Naruto was gone. Where was that moron? Without thinking, Sasuke was on his feet in an instant pulling the door open. He frowned; the door was unusually heavy-
Naruto, hand still clenching the door, tumbled into the room, landing on Sasuke. "Oi! What're you trying to do, Sasuke-bastard? I thought you were going to tear my arm off! What's the hurry?" The blonde's irritation faded away as he was suddenly wrapped in Sasuke's embrace. He tilted his head questioningly. "Sasuke? Is something wrong?"
As suddenly as Sasuke had grabbed hold of Naruto he pushed him away. "Dobe! I thought you'd disappeared again." He stood over the blonde with an angry glare, but it was no use. He couldn't remain angry at him. He sighed, sitting down heavily on the bed.
Naruto wiggled his way closer to Sasuke, until he was sitting at his feet, a teasing grin on his face. "You were worried about me!" He accused, poking at the dark haired boy's stomach.
Sasuke glared at the blonde. "Why would I worry about someone as stupid as you?" He asked, as much to himself as Naruto. He grabbed the blonde's head, pulling his face closer. "Why do I care if you go away? Why do I forget everything when you smile? Why do I always want to touch you, hold you, feel your warmth?"
Naruto sat in quiet surprise for a moment. He expected Sasuke's anger at these feelings, expected Sasuke to act rough, to hide his feelings under either anger or cruelty, but this... Sasuke's gentle grasp on Naruto's face, his soft whisper as he earnestly searched Naruto's face for the answers. Naruto felt a soft, mature smile crossing his face as he leaned closer to the confused boy. Sasuke must have been more shook up than he realized by last night's adventures. "That's obvious." Naruto responded quietly to Sasuke's confused face. Leaning in, he took the initiative and kissed the dark haired boy softly. He smiled genuinely as he pulled away. "You're in love with me."
For a moment that seemed so right, it fit so well... Sasuke found himself nodding quietly, leaning in for another kiss... And then his brain caught up with the rest of his body, and he was pushing Naruto onto the floor. "Dobe! What kind of idiot would love someone as stupid as you?"
Naruto was grinning boyishly again, "You really shouldn't call yourself an idiot, Sasuke-bastard. Not that I blame you for falling for me, though. I mean..." Naruto pulled his shirt off, running his hands seductively over his own chest. "I'm pretty hot, after all." He glanced at Sasuke, teasing glint in his eyes. "I guess you're OK, too. Not that you can really tell with all those layers of shirts you wear."
Knowing a challenge when he heard one, Sasuke immediately stripped his shirt off, realizing only afterwards that he was doing exactly what Naruto wanted. But Naruto was already advancing, pushing Sasuke down on his bed, tan hands running over Sasuke's pale chest. With a growl Sasuke grabbed Naruto and flipped him underneath. "Don't think I'd let you be in control." He grabbed his discarded shirt using it to tie Naruto's hands together. "You can stay like that for now." Lowering his head, Sasuke pressed his mouth against Naruto's, allowing his hand to caress slowly over the blonde's tan chest.
Sasuke slowly moved his head away, biting softly on Naruto's ear. "Sasuke..." Naruto moaned quietly, wiggling his body under Sasuke's weight. He stopped suddenly as Sasuke hand ran slowly down, past his belt line. Even though the dark haired boy's hands were above Naruto's pants, it was still a very intense action, a sort of heat ran through Naruto's body. Sasuke's hands moved in a random, almost aimless fashion- until they found their target. "Sasuke!"
The dark haired boy glanced up, smirk on his face as one of his hands lightly played with the bulge in Naruto's pants. "What? It feels good, doesn't it?" He imitated, throwing Naruto's words from earlier that morning back in the blonde's face.
Of course this morning Sasuke had been complaining about Naruto biting his shoulder (there was still a small visible mark, Naruto noticed with a small amount of pleasure). This was something completely different... Naruto wasn't sure he was ready for their relationship to become this intense. Of course, Sasuke was a special case, even though he was only twelve playing was something he hadn't done since the day his brother destroyed his clan. To him it probably only felt natural to move quickly past the making out stage... A small gasp escaped Naruto's lips as Sasuke's caresses became a little more firm, then moved away completely.
Sasuke sat up, untying Naruto's hands. He smirked as Naruto's face went from disappointment quickly to relief then to confusion. "You didn't really think I was going to go any further, did you, dobe?"
Naruto shrugged, a lost feeling welling up inside him. Sasuke sure was a sadistic little bastard, wasn't he?
Sasuke's smirk widened, in fact, Naruto could almost swear it was a real smile... Almost. "I just wanted to see your face. I wanted to see what it would look like when you were... really enjoying things."
"You shouldn't tease an adu-" Naruto stopped himself. He had been about to tell that brat not to tease adults, but that wasn't right. Although he felt himself to be in many ways (in MOST ways) still a child, he remembered vividly, especially in times like these, what it felt like to be with someone, to be joined emotionally and physically. And it wasn't only that, he had enough trouble controlling his desire while they were so close without Sasuke trying to... He sighed in frustration, then put a pout on his face. "I mean, you shouldn't tease a person like that. It's not nice!" He said, whining. "Anyway, I'm only twelve, I'm way too young to be taken advantage of by someone like you! Pervert!" As a crowing feature to his innocent act Naruto stuck his tong out at the dark haired boy, crossing his arms and turning away.
"Nice try." Sasuke replied, forcing Naruto's face to turn back towards him. Bringing Naruto's face as close to his own as he could without actually touching he whispered, "You're four children too late for me to swallow your innocent act." Gently bringing their lips together he broke away just long enough to add, "I liked that look, though. I want to see a lot more of it in the future, now that you're mine."
In a moment of complete confusion, Naruto could think of nothing to reply to Sasuke's bold ownership statement. Instead he leaned in, allowing Sasuke to kiss him once more. One day he was going to have to tell Sasuke how he felt and teach Sasuke how love was a partnership, but for now... He closed his eyes slowly, just barely missing a flash of pink hair dash by his window.
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Sakura ran as fast and as far as her body could handle, keeping high above Konoha, on the roofs and trees of the village, she wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone or anything right now. Tears flowed from her eyes, all she could see, constantly flashing through her mind was Sasuke pushing Naruto down, Sasuke tying Naruto's hands together, SASUKE kissing and licking the other boy's body. This had to be Naruto's fault. Sasuke wouldn't do something like that, Naruto HAD to have seduced him, forced him somehow...
But even as she thought it, she knew it couldn't be true. Naruto wasn't clever enough or patient enough to MAKE Sasuke like him, no... Sasuke had to have been doing those things on his own. But WHY? If it hadn't been for the look in Sasuke's face she could have believed that it was just a game, that it hadn't meant anything, but he was ENJOYING it... Not only that, he was enjoying Naruto enjoying it. She knew the right thing to do would be to step aside, to allow them their happiness, but she'd wanted Sasuke so long, THOUGHT about only Sasuke for so long... All she could think was, HOW could Naruto do this to her? It was entirely his fault, she was sure. If Naruto didn't exist than Sasuke would have loved her. If Naruto hadn't been born Sasuke would have been all hers.
In that moment she hated Naruto with a deeper passion that she had EVER loved Sasuke. It was Naruto's fault. And Naruto was going to pay...
In the shadows a dark presence smiled, a voice rose from the shadow, making a tsk noise. "Sakura-chan... jealousy does NOT become a lady."
Sakura turned at the sound of the voice, first surprise then recognition and disgust crossing her features. "What the hell do YOU want?"
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan..." The voice replied softly, as the figure moved closer. "I'm afraid I have to take you to my master now. He's been so hungry, you see. Those Ninja the other night weren't enough, he needs something that will really hurt Naruto-sama. You're small and insignificant, but..."
Sakura's eyes widened in fear as the figure approached her, she opened her mouth, but no sound would come out. WHY had she traveled so far away from the town? She struggled to move, but it was as if she was captured, unable to move at all. It reminded her of Shikamaru's shadow technique, except as she could not move the figure was getting closer. Tears poured from her eyes, she HAD to warn Sasuke and Naruto... But then there was darkness.
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Kakashi sighed as he placed his masterpiece in front of his lover. Iruka's mind was a million miles away as he leafed through a large pile of paper work. "Iruka, love... Would you PLEASE put that away?" He touched the brunette's face, causing him to look up and smile.
"Sure. I'm sorry Kakashi, with my first lesson training those four in basics tonight and lessons at school getting further into the semester... I guess I don't have a lot of time." While he talked Iruka was quickly stuffing the papers into his bag. "You know, you'd think at a Ninja school there wouldn't be so much paper work."
Kakashi smiled through his mask at his lover. "As long as I get at least SOME of your attention it's fine."
Iruka grinned, a slight blush covering his face. "Well, you have my undivided attention at night."
Kakashi's visible eyebrow rose to the point it disappeared into his hair line. "Is that so? I could have sworn the last few nights we actually had alone..." He paused as if concentrating, "Now it's been a long time, granted, but I could have SWORN that the last time that happened, ages ago, by the way, I stayed up until an ungodly hour waiting for you to finish with your school work. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but you fell strait asleep afterwards, didn't you?"
Iruka blushed again, he knew Kakashi was only teasing but he felt extremely guilty about how little time he managed to spend with his lover. "I..." He looked down, forlorn expression across his face. To top off everything, he KNEW Kakashi didn't really want him spending time with Tenmar, which was JUST what the Hokage had ordered him to do.
Kakashi's heart softened as Iruka started looking particularly depressed. "I'm sorry." He once again caressed Iruka's face. "I know it's hard on you, too. I'd wait forever for YOU."
Iruka grinned suddenly, an idea popping quickly into his head. "You know, it's only... 5:45 and I don't have to be there until 7... If we eat fast, we could probably..." He didn't even need to finish his statement, Kakashi's mask was down and he was inhaling the beautiful dinner he had prepared like... Well, like Naruto with ramen. Iruka blushed, but quickly followed his lover's example. Only ten minuets later they were rising from the table and shutting their bed room door behind themselves.
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Tenmar paced slowly outside the house he knew Iruka lived in with Kakashi. He had been walking the city, watching for some signs of Kentaar or his followers. This was his new job, because he knew Kentaar better than anyone else, save his father, the Hokage had asked him and his siblings to help safe guard the village. It killed him to think that four of Naruto-sama's precious Konoha residents had already been caught and used by the evil man. There were probably more missing, too.
Kentaar was a patient bastard and completely capable of playing with his prey. If what Sasuke said was true, than Kentaar had promised to attack someone close to Naruto next, as well. Tenmar couldn't HELP but worrying about Iruka. He knew it was probably unlikely; Kentaar would more likely go after an easier prey first, a child or someone unfortunate enough to stray from the village boundaries alone...
Tenmar glanced anxiously at the sky. It was getting late; it had to almost be seven, right? Maybe he should knock. It wasn't a lie to say he was in the area, just because he had decided to patrol around this area as it got closer to seven did NOT make it any less true. Breathing in quickly, Tenmar steeled his resolve and knocked on the front door, feeling slightly silly as he did so. Why was it that he could kill a hundred men without even the slightest hesitation, but he couldn't even knock on Iruka's front door without feeling a slight rush of terror?
"Hai, hai..." Kakashi's voice called as he yanked the door open. He hoped whoever it was had a good reason for disturbing him, he was about to join Iruka for his 'quick' bath. Iruka wouldn't appreciate it at first, but Kakashi was sure it would only take a little 'persuasion' to make his lover accept it. It was for that reason that Kakashi opened the door wearing only a pair of pants and the skin tight upper body/face covering shirt he always wore under the rest of his ninja gear.
Tenmar found himself blushing slightly. It wasn't that obvious with all the clothing Kakashi usually wore, but the man before him was actually rather... attractive. For a brief moment he toyed with the idea of pulling Kakashi's mask down to see the man's full face, but then he shook his head, bringing himself back to reality. He put a sheepish grin on his face, "I was walking in the area, so... I thought I'd stop by to see if Iruka was ready to head over to Sasuke's house for our training."
Kakashi sighed, a mixture of amusement and annoyance flowing through him. Part of his wanted to kill the younger man for interrupting his 'Iruka time' and the other half of him was amused by the way the Tenmar's eyes had traveled down his body and the bright blush covering his face. Humor won out and Kakashi stepped aside, "Come on in, kid. Iruka's in the bath right now. I'll just go tell him you're here-"
Kakashi's words were cut off as Tenmar desperately grabbed at his hand to stop him. "That's OK! I can wait for him to finish up."
Kakashi grinned underneath his mask, raising his visible eyebrow. "What? It's not like it'd be the first time I've seen him naked, you know. We ARE living togeth-"
Once again Tenmar cut Kakashi off, waving his hands wildly. "I don't want to hear about it!" He said with urgency in his voice. He sighed, slouching his shoulders as Kakashi began to laugh. "Sorry. I know for some unknown reason Iruka and you are together, (not that I get what he sees in you...). However, I have NO interest in hearing about it." He could see Kakashi still ginning through the cloth mask and blushed an even deeper red.
"You seem like a nice enough guy, kid, so I'm going to make this quite clear for you; as long as Iruka wants me I'm not going anywhere. Got it?" He crossed his arms, still grinning. He couldn't help it, much like Naruto, there was an air about Tenmar that made Kakashi just feel good, relaxed, happy... Not enough to let the brat steal his Iruka away, but enough to kind of enjoy his company.
Tenmar was saved from having to respond by Iruka appearing in the doorway. "Am I interrupting something or are you done with the pissing contest?" He had a sweet smile on his face, but both men could tell he was at least somewhat irked.
"Iruka-san! Good afternoon!" Tenmar was immediately on his feet. "I-I was just in the area and wanted to walk with you to Sasuke's house!"
Shaking his head, Iruka grabbed his bag, still full of papers, kissed Kakashi lightly on the cheek and walked quickly from the house, Tenmar following closely behind. "Can I carry that bag for you, Iruka-san?"
"It's not that heavy."
Kakashi smiled as they faded into the distance. He DID trust Iruka. Unconditionally, in fact. But that did NOT mean that he was eager to let some young good looking guy fawn all over him. He frowned as he realized that his secret plan to steal more Iruka time had been ruined. Well, it was about time he went to check on his students anyway, right? He'd start with Sakura, so he didn't look like he was just checking up on Iruka.
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Naruto grinned as he sank into the bath. After a LONG struggle Naruto had finally managed to convince Sasuke to let him alone so he could bathe. It was going to be a problem if they couldn't keep their hands off each other long enough to DO anything in the day. He knew this was just how early relationships went and he should enjoy it while it lasted... It would only be a matter of time before Sasuke's interest in the physical aspects of the relationship tampered off a bit. If Naruto did things right he would never COMPLETELY loose interest, but when it happened they would have to resort to talking.... Now THAT sounded painful. No matter how much Naruto cared for Sasuke and no matter how much more talkative he had become towards the blonde in the recent days, this was STILL Sasuke they were talking about.
Thinking of painful... There was going to be a major problem when they actually DID decide to go the next step. Sasuke had control issues and Naruto was having trouble imagining what sex would be like with someone like that. Especially because when he got REALLY excited he wasn't sure if he could stop himself from being the one to...
Shaking his head, Naruto emerged himself in the bath water. It was WAY too early to worry about this kind of crap. They would figure it out when they got to it. That was at least three or four years away, right? Three or four years... It was going to be a LONG three years, best thing to do was just not think about it, right?
Naruto popped his head back over the water and suddenly felt a strong pair of hands grabbing his back. "Sasuke! What the hell're you doing? I thought you were going to take a bath AFTER me!"
"Sasuke?" A teasing voice replied. Naruto spun around to find himself staring strait into a pair of mischievous blue eyes. "Geeze Daddy, someone randomly grabs you in the bath and you automatically assume its Sasuke-kun? Sounds like you guys are getting pretty intense, eh?" Uzu nudged his father playfully as he sunk into the bath next to him.
Naruto grinned at his second eldest, "What about you? You've been out with Shikamaru all day now. Just coming home for dinner?"
Uzu grinned back, "Well, I'm at least an adult, that's more than can be said for you, Daddy."
"More than can be said for Shikamaru, too."
Uzu mock glared at his father, hitting the water so that it sprayed Naruto face and head.
"Little punk!" Naruto hollered, grabbing Uzu by the hair and dragging him under the water. "Respect your father!"
Uzu grabbed Naruto's hand and carefully flipped him over, reversing their situations. "Respect your elders!"
"SHUT UP!" Ganten demanded, suddenly whacking Uzu on the back of the head. "And let Daddy come up for breath."
"Where'd YOU come from?" Uzu demanded releasing his father as his younger brother also sunk down into the bath.
"I just got back. You two were making enough noise to wake the dead and Sasuke was starting to grumble what he was going to do to both of you if you ruined his bath." Ganten gave both his older brother and father a contemptuous look. "You should both act more your age, you don't see Mina or Sasuke wrestling in the bath or spraying water everywhere, do you?"
Naruto and Uzu exchanged a meaningful look, then both simultaneously leaning back as if they were relaxing. Suddenly both sprang up from the water, grabbing Ganten's head, the two thrust him underneath the water. "Hee hee, this'll teach him not to talk back to his father."
Uzu nodded, "Had enough, little brother?" He asked as they let the white haired boy come up for breath.
"Teme..." Ganten glared at the two, crossing his arms. "I refuse to resort to such childish acts of-" His words were cut short as Uzu, laughing like a maniac, sent a large spray of water into Ganten's face. "Oh, now you're asking for it!"
Ten minutes later Sasuke, who had been sitting as patiently as he could outside, finally felt the need to stick his head into the room as he heard yet ANOTHER crashing noise. "Alright, what's going on in... here?" He looked around. His bathroom was... ruined. Water was everywhere. Not just one the floor but the walls, curtains and ceiling were all dripping. The soap was broken and pieces of it were scattered sporadically around the room. The curtain on one of the windows was torn half way off. All of the towels were soaking wet and lying in a heap on the floor. In the center of the room stood a naked Uzu, under his right arm was a naked Ganten and under his left arm was a very naked Naruto.
"Sasuke!" Naruto squeaked out, quickly pushing himself out from underneath Uzu's arm. "We were just..."
Sasuke stormed up to the blonde boy, eyes dark and grabbed him by the arm, dragging him towards the door. He turned and spared a glare for Uzu and Ganten, who were both biting their lips in order to avoid bursting out laughing. "Don't leave until this room is at least somewhat presentable. We can talk about replacing the curtains and anything else that may have been broken when you're done." With that said he half dragged half carried Naruto out of the room.
Uzu and Ganten glanced at each other, waiting until the sound of Sasuke's footsteps faded away to bust out laughing.
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"Ah, my head..." Sakura moaned as her eyes slowly opened. "Where am I?"
"Welcome to my world, little one." Sakura's head spun to stare in terror at a large dark moving mass of shadows. In the center stood a tall man, face hidden by darkness. "Don't worry..." The voice growled. Sakura screamed in pain as one of the shadows dashed up and clamped its teeth down on her hand. The pain increased as the wolf moved, forcing her to walk closer to the tall shadow man. "We aren't going to kill you yet... We want to play with you first."
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Psychic King: *glancing anxiously over shoulder then back at readers* Well, did you like it? *glancing BACK over shoulders again*
Naruto: wow! You're back! It's been so long! What happened to you? I thought maybe Sakura killed you or something...
Psychic King: *holding hand over Naruto's mouth* Shush! She'll hear you...
Naruto: *lowering voice* So, where have you been, hiding out from Sakura- chan, eh?
Psychic King: *whispering* I couldn't get online... It was terrible. I've never felt so lost in my whole life...
Naruto: *nodding sympathetically* Yeah, you're a interne junkie, too...
Psychic King: *nodding* If it hadn't been for two things I probably would have gone completely insane.
Naruto: *getting interested* what where they?
Psychic King: ... Well, first off I just got a whole lot of new shonen ai and yaoi manga... *blushing*
Naruto: Pervert.
Psychic King: *sill blushing* Tee hee, just because I can't write it does NOT mean that I don't love it.....
Naruto: *shaking head* what was the other thing?
Psychic King: *brightening* My dear sweet friend has been giving me copies of a cool new anime! Well, new for me at least... *sigh* One Piece.... Luffy-sama is SO COOL.... *sigh*
Sakura: *suddenly latching on to Psychic King* You won't escape again... Not THIS time... *pulls out a whip* Now we have a few things to talk about, don't you think? *cracks the whip, cackling evilly*
Psychic King: reaching to Naruto* Please... Help me.... (Oh, and I promise I'll update REAL soon this time, promise!!!! Now that the internet is back I'm so happy!)