Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me, just this fiction. It is enough.
Naruto/Sasuke Kakshi/Iruka
Yaoi
Rated: R
By: Sunstrike
One tiny little note: I want to make this into a doujinshi but don't really have the ability, would anyone like a go? Just email me if you do. Enjoy (
Oh yeah! And for everyone who wants to know where all the Naru/Sasu is, wait for it; you won't be disappointed, I promise, you just have to let the evilness of the entire situation simmer.
Chapter Six Absorbing The Demon
But, much to Naruto's growing anxiety, as the season wore on, little, niggling things began to occur. Differences in his body that he was, ultimately, finding hard to ignore. It wasn't that he couldn't deal with these problems, they were draining, but not quite lethal; it was just irritating to try and sort through them all in order to get things like dire missions done. He was dealing with it so far by telling himself that it would make him stronger to just suck it up.
As he was sitting at his vantage point on the border of the territory, he decided to list off the problems, to try and look them up later, and see if they were normal or not.
His temperature kept rising, making him look like a heat vent unless he covered up, or kept his chakra contained around him in a semi-sauna like situation. Which managed to destroy any comfort he had in the cool weather that had arrived. Although, he reasoned, it did mean that he wouldn't have to worry about finding anything warmer then the new clothes he had gotten earlier. He also noted that it tended to get worse when he was around anyone he was attracted to. Luckily he had been able to move back a few paces when he saw someone pause in a conversation and ask if the heat was on.
The being sick around food of any kind hadn't left, reducing him to living off of vitamin supplements and water, which weren't very appetizing. Of course, losing the food once he ate it was much worse. Whenever anyone asked him to go out and eat he always managed for about half an hour and then found an excuse to leave, which is when he quietly became sick. He really hoped that no one noticed how thin he was becoming. He would have to stick pads into his clothing before long to maintain the illusion. This was the true reason he hadn't told anyone about these feelings, not even Iruka. Naruto could just imagine how someone would react to his condition, and it wouldn't be blamed on the true cause, but the mental one. Spending his days in a straight jacket just didn't appeal at all to him for some bizarre reason.
And of course, last but not least, his sexual desire was slowly driving him insane. He avoided coming in contact with anyone male or female all together, if he could help it, even though he knew that he would have to talk to somebody eventually. The other reason for staying away wasn't just his own reaction but anyone who he happened to speak to became aware of uncomfortable feelings as well. At least, that's what he assumed from the red blushes and stunted conversations.
It was just so frustrating to be having a conversation on the outside when thinking very bizarre and upsetting things in his head, usually having to do with nudity, and alarmingly, whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Which was ridiculous, since he couldn't eat it even if he wanted to.
Unfortunately, he just couldn't avoid Iruka who, being still sore over Naruto's announcement at dinner, had made it his goal in life to embarrass the plagued boy by shouting out guesses at the top of his lungs, usually across busy streets or over giggling primary students in the play yard. Naruto decided to lie even if he did get it right; just to save himself from jumping off the nose of one of the giant sculptures overlooking the town in embarrassment. Either that, or actually tell the impertinent teacher who he liked so he'd get off his back. The guy would never just leave him alone. Naruto began to treasure the time that he could go out with his team and just leave all the tiring questions behind.
He hadn't been sleeping lately and that was bothering him too. Some people get grumpy with lack of sleep, Gaara for a huge example, but Naruto just got hyper until he eventually collapsed. He had stayed up for an entire week once, just to see if he could. The hokage hadn't been amused to find his entire room filled with painted kanji and graffiti when he woke up, Kakashi wanted to know where all his clothes had gone, Iruka found himself drowning in plushies bought with his credit card, Sasuke was covered from head to foot in chocolate, and Sakura had a large target painted on her face. The end result almost got him kicked out of the village for disorderly conduct, not to mention the beating he received. He had promised, on pain of being killed, that he would never do that again.
Now that he had broken that old promise he wasn't sure what he was going to do, and hoped that it didn't mean that something destructive was on the way. He couldn't really take responsibility for doing something that seemed so funny at the time. He still had the pictures. More importantly, he needed to get some sleep or he'd be useless when he finally managed to collapse. It had taken him three days to recover the last time.
He shook his head and tried to concentrate, he was zoning again, and he really had to make sure that he did his job of protecting the border correctly so he could get paid. He planned on taking another trip once he had enough money, it was obvious to him that if the situation got any worse that he couldn't stay in the village for much longer, and saying he was going off again gave him an excuse and a little running time. That is, if all of this were truly the fox-demon and not his own head.
Truthfully, Naruto wasn't really sure all these symptoms, besides the being sick when eating, actually weren't real growing pains, which is why he never discussed the feelings with the others. He knew that some of this was normal, but the not quite dreams with Nine Tails had made him so paranoid that he was starting to lose the difference between fantasy and reality. He had to focus all his abilities to make every day as normal as it had been before. This was really hard when he started to see flashes of red hair and eyes in every reflection he came across. He was sure soft red stripes were beginning to form through his normal blond hair, and just yesterday Sakura had asked if he was wearing coloured contact lenses because his eyes seemed slightly darker and more purple then blue.
That had really set his teeth on edge, never mind that Sakura had grown into a very nicely abundant female and had gotten right up close and personal when she had said it. She didn't seem to be affected at all by the strange heat and sexiness, which was disconcerting, unless she was piling all that thoughts on her inner self, which would make sense. He had always envied the way that she could detach herself and just shove every evil little thought to some back part of her mind. Although Ino spoke of it in awe and horror as being one of the most terrible beings she had ever had the misfortune of meeting spirit to spirit, and that was after going out and performing many tasks that asked for her to go into some minds that were incredibly dingy.
At least Sakura had been happy to Naruto all fixed up and back, if a little exuberantly so. This had all happened two days ago when he had been sitting casually at their usual meeting place at the bridge. Then out of nowhere he heard a squeal and something impacted with his waist. Once he had gotten his lost air back and had shakily climbed down from the perch he had nearly lost, he saw that it was a very attractive older Sakura who didn't mind hugging and kissing the cheek of an obviously embarrassed young man. She had also managed to comment on how cute his blush showed through his tan, and lots of other uncomfortable things that had made his cheeks burn even more. He really wished the question of his sexuality would sort itself out in his head, being attracted to everything was really annoying. He was sure that normal teenage hormones didn't venture into these odd grey bits between black and white, and he envied the comfort.
Much to his relief he found out later on that Sakura was seeing quite a lot of Ino these days and neither was showing much interest in the opposite sex at all. Surprising, but not unwelcome to Naruto, and, crept the nasty little thought, it also meant that his greatest rivals to Sasuke were so tied up with each other that they didn't have time for obsessions. The thought made Naruto chuckle in small triumph.
"Naruto!"
He almost fell off of his branch as the static yell echoed through his earpiece. Clinging onto the recently vacated bough with one hand, leaves falling about him, he gingerly reached up with the other and removed the offending piece of equipment from his damaged ear cavity. He poked a pinky finger inside to see if he was bleeding. Naruto hoped the damage wasn't permanent; Sakura should have joined the Sound-nin with those octaves. He couldn't really blame her though; he hadn't been paying attention, again. Still hanging he switched hands and placed the receiver a little closer to his undamaged ear.
"Sorry, Sakura, what's the matter?"
"I said that there were two people headed your way and that Kakashi- sama said to lead them to the hokage as quickly as possible. Oh, and that after you finished with that, he wants to speak with you," Naruto gulped, "in private."
Oh shit.
Explanations were going to have to come forth, shit was seriously going to hit the fan, and Naruto didn't know what the hell kind of excuse he was going to use. Kakashi, being the ultimate copycat, was a keen observer of people and their habits, playing poker with him was a nightmare. Naruto cursed himself for being foolish enough to think that he was getting away with all of these little problems that he was trying to sweep under the carpet. What could he possibly tell his teacher that would get past his teacher's very adept abilities? On a side thought, Naruto realized that Kakashi was terribly inept only when it came to Iruka's feelings, or was he? Maybe Naruto would be able to distract him with questions about which way Kakashi's door swung. Embarrassing, but not as much as trying to explain why Naruto had been so distracted lately.
His thoughts were moving so fast that he managed all of this before the two men managed to make their way to him. Naruto quickly let go of the branch he was clinging to and landed straight in front of them. The huge grin on his face hid his panic at what he was going to have to do later. In his distraction, amazingly, his training was not lost and he identified that they were water-nin from Hidden Mist, and they looked absolutely shot. Naruto wondered what was wrong.
"Hiya! We've been expecting you, if you'll just follow me. I'll take you directly to your destination." The other two nodded and trailed after him at a brisk jog.
Fortunately, the path that was taken by outsiders into the village was unquestionably the long way around, twisting and turning so they wouldn't be able to find their way back, should they ever get past the normal border patrol. Since these days Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi guarded the boundary, it was far neigh impossible for anyone to really get out, never mind getting in.
In fact, Kakashi had received many complaints from the hokage at the sheer amount of traps and illusions that he and his students had placed all along the border. Kakashi just laughed these protests off, and said they were good training for rusty, old, and laid back ninja, who wanted a cushy ride through life, and then placed worse traps over top of the ones already laid. Even Sasuke had to admit that it made those lazy afternoons just fly by to see people running in and out of the pathways as if immanent death followed them.
This also gave Naruto ample time to think of a justification, as he not only led the people the long way around but also about various traps that would be replaced in different locations five minuets after he and his companions had bypassed them.
He couldn't just out right say that he couldn't sleep, had a temperature of one hundred standard, and had the most sexual being in the entire world trying to seduce his body out from under him, not to mention just as much actual sexual energy as an animal in heat. Although that would be the easiest, and, truthfully, the most amusing, way out of the whole situation, it would also put him out of commission as everyone tried to figure out a way to dispose of the problem, maybe even deciding to get rid of him permanently.
That was what really kept Naruto up at night. The simple fact that if it were a toss up between Nine Tails coming back and getting rid of the problem lastingly, well the odds weren't really in his favour. No, Naruto was seriously going to have to figure out what to do by himself. Which brought him back to the problem at hand. How the hell was he going to get out of telling Kakashi all of this?
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Naruto made it to the large building that the reference offices were held about two hours after he had first made contact with the outsiders. As they made their way down the wooden hallway Naruto's panic again was replaced by a kind of curiosity over why such people were coming to visit at this time in the year. He could see them out of the corner of his eye and was startled at how grim they looked. Must be a big problem for them to come so far into another territory and demand audience with another hokage.
Actually, now that he had time to think about it, he was seeing a lot of water-nin go back and forth through the passes these days, and less and less of Leaf's own jounin. Something must seriously be up for them to not only be making the long journey but also to report, and take half the population of experienced fighters. In fact, Naruto was willing to be that this didn't happen on a whim.
Then he realized just how desperate a situation was that it would actually require two villages to solve the problem. The only reasoning behind this that Naruto could fathom would be that someone on the level of Itachi had gone rogue. The boy shuddered internally. The way my luck is going, Naruto thought ironically to himself, it's probably Itachi the bastard himself. Which would be just wonderful considering current problems. Even more reason to keep everything to himself.
Speaking of problems, two hours and he still couldn't think of a plausible reason as to his odd behaviour, just a few ways to slide out of the whole conversation.
All these thoughts were surprised out of his head, though, as he opened the sliding door to find deep green eyes staring straight into his own. He felt two bumps into his back, which barely managed to bring him back from his shock. Naruto decided that his heart would be absolutely steel by the time he was eighty, because all of these surprises were working the hell out of it.
He walked the rest of the way into the room but couldn't really say anything to the person walking out. He quickly told the hokage what Kakashi had said about delivering the two people and left as quickly as possible without being rude.
Gaara was waiting for him outside anyway.
Speak of the devil.
One tiny little note: I want to make this into a doujinshi but don't really have the ability, would anyone like a go? Just email me if you do. Enjoy (
Oh yeah! And for everyone who wants to know where all the Naru/Sasu is, wait for it; you won't be disappointed, I promise, you just have to let the evilness of the entire situation simmer.
Chapter Six Absorbing The Demon
But, much to Naruto's growing anxiety, as the season wore on, little, niggling things began to occur. Differences in his body that he was, ultimately, finding hard to ignore. It wasn't that he couldn't deal with these problems, they were draining, but not quite lethal; it was just irritating to try and sort through them all in order to get things like dire missions done. He was dealing with it so far by telling himself that it would make him stronger to just suck it up.
As he was sitting at his vantage point on the border of the territory, he decided to list off the problems, to try and look them up later, and see if they were normal or not.
His temperature kept rising, making him look like a heat vent unless he covered up, or kept his chakra contained around him in a semi-sauna like situation. Which managed to destroy any comfort he had in the cool weather that had arrived. Although, he reasoned, it did mean that he wouldn't have to worry about finding anything warmer then the new clothes he had gotten earlier. He also noted that it tended to get worse when he was around anyone he was attracted to. Luckily he had been able to move back a few paces when he saw someone pause in a conversation and ask if the heat was on.
The being sick around food of any kind hadn't left, reducing him to living off of vitamin supplements and water, which weren't very appetizing. Of course, losing the food once he ate it was much worse. Whenever anyone asked him to go out and eat he always managed for about half an hour and then found an excuse to leave, which is when he quietly became sick. He really hoped that no one noticed how thin he was becoming. He would have to stick pads into his clothing before long to maintain the illusion. This was the true reason he hadn't told anyone about these feelings, not even Iruka. Naruto could just imagine how someone would react to his condition, and it wouldn't be blamed on the true cause, but the mental one. Spending his days in a straight jacket just didn't appeal at all to him for some bizarre reason.
And of course, last but not least, his sexual desire was slowly driving him insane. He avoided coming in contact with anyone male or female all together, if he could help it, even though he knew that he would have to talk to somebody eventually. The other reason for staying away wasn't just his own reaction but anyone who he happened to speak to became aware of uncomfortable feelings as well. At least, that's what he assumed from the red blushes and stunted conversations.
It was just so frustrating to be having a conversation on the outside when thinking very bizarre and upsetting things in his head, usually having to do with nudity, and alarmingly, whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Which was ridiculous, since he couldn't eat it even if he wanted to.
Unfortunately, he just couldn't avoid Iruka who, being still sore over Naruto's announcement at dinner, had made it his goal in life to embarrass the plagued boy by shouting out guesses at the top of his lungs, usually across busy streets or over giggling primary students in the play yard. Naruto decided to lie even if he did get it right; just to save himself from jumping off the nose of one of the giant sculptures overlooking the town in embarrassment. Either that, or actually tell the impertinent teacher who he liked so he'd get off his back. The guy would never just leave him alone. Naruto began to treasure the time that he could go out with his team and just leave all the tiring questions behind.
He hadn't been sleeping lately and that was bothering him too. Some people get grumpy with lack of sleep, Gaara for a huge example, but Naruto just got hyper until he eventually collapsed. He had stayed up for an entire week once, just to see if he could. The hokage hadn't been amused to find his entire room filled with painted kanji and graffiti when he woke up, Kakashi wanted to know where all his clothes had gone, Iruka found himself drowning in plushies bought with his credit card, Sasuke was covered from head to foot in chocolate, and Sakura had a large target painted on her face. The end result almost got him kicked out of the village for disorderly conduct, not to mention the beating he received. He had promised, on pain of being killed, that he would never do that again.
Now that he had broken that old promise he wasn't sure what he was going to do, and hoped that it didn't mean that something destructive was on the way. He couldn't really take responsibility for doing something that seemed so funny at the time. He still had the pictures. More importantly, he needed to get some sleep or he'd be useless when he finally managed to collapse. It had taken him three days to recover the last time.
He shook his head and tried to concentrate, he was zoning again, and he really had to make sure that he did his job of protecting the border correctly so he could get paid. He planned on taking another trip once he had enough money, it was obvious to him that if the situation got any worse that he couldn't stay in the village for much longer, and saying he was going off again gave him an excuse and a little running time. That is, if all of this were truly the fox-demon and not his own head.
Truthfully, Naruto wasn't really sure all these symptoms, besides the being sick when eating, actually weren't real growing pains, which is why he never discussed the feelings with the others. He knew that some of this was normal, but the not quite dreams with Nine Tails had made him so paranoid that he was starting to lose the difference between fantasy and reality. He had to focus all his abilities to make every day as normal as it had been before. This was really hard when he started to see flashes of red hair and eyes in every reflection he came across. He was sure soft red stripes were beginning to form through his normal blond hair, and just yesterday Sakura had asked if he was wearing coloured contact lenses because his eyes seemed slightly darker and more purple then blue.
That had really set his teeth on edge, never mind that Sakura had grown into a very nicely abundant female and had gotten right up close and personal when she had said it. She didn't seem to be affected at all by the strange heat and sexiness, which was disconcerting, unless she was piling all that thoughts on her inner self, which would make sense. He had always envied the way that she could detach herself and just shove every evil little thought to some back part of her mind. Although Ino spoke of it in awe and horror as being one of the most terrible beings she had ever had the misfortune of meeting spirit to spirit, and that was after going out and performing many tasks that asked for her to go into some minds that were incredibly dingy.
At least Sakura had been happy to Naruto all fixed up and back, if a little exuberantly so. This had all happened two days ago when he had been sitting casually at their usual meeting place at the bridge. Then out of nowhere he heard a squeal and something impacted with his waist. Once he had gotten his lost air back and had shakily climbed down from the perch he had nearly lost, he saw that it was a very attractive older Sakura who didn't mind hugging and kissing the cheek of an obviously embarrassed young man. She had also managed to comment on how cute his blush showed through his tan, and lots of other uncomfortable things that had made his cheeks burn even more. He really wished the question of his sexuality would sort itself out in his head, being attracted to everything was really annoying. He was sure that normal teenage hormones didn't venture into these odd grey bits between black and white, and he envied the comfort.
Much to his relief he found out later on that Sakura was seeing quite a lot of Ino these days and neither was showing much interest in the opposite sex at all. Surprising, but not unwelcome to Naruto, and, crept the nasty little thought, it also meant that his greatest rivals to Sasuke were so tied up with each other that they didn't have time for obsessions. The thought made Naruto chuckle in small triumph.
"Naruto!"
He almost fell off of his branch as the static yell echoed through his earpiece. Clinging onto the recently vacated bough with one hand, leaves falling about him, he gingerly reached up with the other and removed the offending piece of equipment from his damaged ear cavity. He poked a pinky finger inside to see if he was bleeding. Naruto hoped the damage wasn't permanent; Sakura should have joined the Sound-nin with those octaves. He couldn't really blame her though; he hadn't been paying attention, again. Still hanging he switched hands and placed the receiver a little closer to his undamaged ear.
"Sorry, Sakura, what's the matter?"
"I said that there were two people headed your way and that Kakashi- sama said to lead them to the hokage as quickly as possible. Oh, and that after you finished with that, he wants to speak with you," Naruto gulped, "in private."
Oh shit.
Explanations were going to have to come forth, shit was seriously going to hit the fan, and Naruto didn't know what the hell kind of excuse he was going to use. Kakashi, being the ultimate copycat, was a keen observer of people and their habits, playing poker with him was a nightmare. Naruto cursed himself for being foolish enough to think that he was getting away with all of these little problems that he was trying to sweep under the carpet. What could he possibly tell his teacher that would get past his teacher's very adept abilities? On a side thought, Naruto realized that Kakashi was terribly inept only when it came to Iruka's feelings, or was he? Maybe Naruto would be able to distract him with questions about which way Kakashi's door swung. Embarrassing, but not as much as trying to explain why Naruto had been so distracted lately.
His thoughts were moving so fast that he managed all of this before the two men managed to make their way to him. Naruto quickly let go of the branch he was clinging to and landed straight in front of them. The huge grin on his face hid his panic at what he was going to have to do later. In his distraction, amazingly, his training was not lost and he identified that they were water-nin from Hidden Mist, and they looked absolutely shot. Naruto wondered what was wrong.
"Hiya! We've been expecting you, if you'll just follow me. I'll take you directly to your destination." The other two nodded and trailed after him at a brisk jog.
Fortunately, the path that was taken by outsiders into the village was unquestionably the long way around, twisting and turning so they wouldn't be able to find their way back, should they ever get past the normal border patrol. Since these days Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi guarded the boundary, it was far neigh impossible for anyone to really get out, never mind getting in.
In fact, Kakashi had received many complaints from the hokage at the sheer amount of traps and illusions that he and his students had placed all along the border. Kakashi just laughed these protests off, and said they were good training for rusty, old, and laid back ninja, who wanted a cushy ride through life, and then placed worse traps over top of the ones already laid. Even Sasuke had to admit that it made those lazy afternoons just fly by to see people running in and out of the pathways as if immanent death followed them.
This also gave Naruto ample time to think of a justification, as he not only led the people the long way around but also about various traps that would be replaced in different locations five minuets after he and his companions had bypassed them.
He couldn't just out right say that he couldn't sleep, had a temperature of one hundred standard, and had the most sexual being in the entire world trying to seduce his body out from under him, not to mention just as much actual sexual energy as an animal in heat. Although that would be the easiest, and, truthfully, the most amusing, way out of the whole situation, it would also put him out of commission as everyone tried to figure out a way to dispose of the problem, maybe even deciding to get rid of him permanently.
That was what really kept Naruto up at night. The simple fact that if it were a toss up between Nine Tails coming back and getting rid of the problem lastingly, well the odds weren't really in his favour. No, Naruto was seriously going to have to figure out what to do by himself. Which brought him back to the problem at hand. How the hell was he going to get out of telling Kakashi all of this?
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Naruto made it to the large building that the reference offices were held about two hours after he had first made contact with the outsiders. As they made their way down the wooden hallway Naruto's panic again was replaced by a kind of curiosity over why such people were coming to visit at this time in the year. He could see them out of the corner of his eye and was startled at how grim they looked. Must be a big problem for them to come so far into another territory and demand audience with another hokage.
Actually, now that he had time to think about it, he was seeing a lot of water-nin go back and forth through the passes these days, and less and less of Leaf's own jounin. Something must seriously be up for them to not only be making the long journey but also to report, and take half the population of experienced fighters. In fact, Naruto was willing to be that this didn't happen on a whim.
Then he realized just how desperate a situation was that it would actually require two villages to solve the problem. The only reasoning behind this that Naruto could fathom would be that someone on the level of Itachi had gone rogue. The boy shuddered internally. The way my luck is going, Naruto thought ironically to himself, it's probably Itachi the bastard himself. Which would be just wonderful considering current problems. Even more reason to keep everything to himself.
Speaking of problems, two hours and he still couldn't think of a plausible reason as to his odd behaviour, just a few ways to slide out of the whole conversation.
All these thoughts were surprised out of his head, though, as he opened the sliding door to find deep green eyes staring straight into his own. He felt two bumps into his back, which barely managed to bring him back from his shock. Naruto decided that his heart would be absolutely steel by the time he was eighty, because all of these surprises were working the hell out of it.
He walked the rest of the way into the room but couldn't really say anything to the person walking out. He quickly told the hokage what Kakashi had said about delivering the two people and left as quickly as possible without being rude.
Gaara was waiting for him outside anyway.
Speak of the devil.
