M-4-M: So, here we are again with another chapter of Tenuous Hold. n.n I'm very happy you guys continue to review this story, it definitely keeps my spirits up... and keeps me writing this. Please stay after to review and read my notes. n.n So, that out of the way, now for distributing butterfingers and cotton candy to those who reviewed! WOOT. -distributes the goodies-

Warnings: Shonen-ai, Shoujo-ai, suggested self-mutilation, angst, depression, strange little italicised phrases.

Disclaimer: I own Naruto! HOLY MOLY! REALLY?

oh... yeah, that's a disclaimer... meaning I don't own it... If I did it'd be totally different... with unbearable long waits for updates. n.nU

Enjoy.

Tenuous Hold

Chapter Two: Part Two

Siege Continues

Crashing rain and black skies, covering everything with gray atmosphere.

Shock.

That was the only thing registering in Naruto's mind.

Sasuke stood, leaning over a crouched, stiff Naruto, licking and lapping at a bite on his neck.

Naruto had thought that Saske would deny what happened...

But strangely...sadly... excitingly... here he was again...

Binding activities given carelessly have power to break... power to destroy what bonds were formed.

Sasuke pressed his mouth against Naruto's ear, hot moisture intimately caressing and driving him crazy. He slowly nibbled and licked long kisses on the outer ridge, making his way down to his neck and jaw, sending hot shivers down Naruto's back, making him arch wantingly as Sasuke nipped the sensitive skin.

Naruto threw himself into Sasuke's lap.

He wasn't so stiff now anymore... well, one part of his anatomy was getting there.

He was pliant and willing in Sasuke's arms...

All actions hormone and lonely driven.

The pale boy's hands went to the golden boy's scalp, his side and chest to massage... greeting the rapid breathing with pleasure. He thrust his knee to Naruto's groin, making him gasp and almost moan.

Sasuke couldn't withhold and clung to Naruto, sucking on his neck, laving with his tongue, the other leg swung up to Naruto waist.

They were all just living in moments of sensation. And pretended moments of fake postulation...

For one moment don't worry about society, allow wicked inspiration to decree your actions...

All just living for those feelings that left them knowing they were alive, until they crashed, and left nothing but a greedy blackness that swallowed up whatever was offered.

And the depression that hit when you were alone... for spans of hours just sit on the bed of the lonely house, wondering when it will be over, all to the beat of the saddening music.

Perhaps the once hyper boy should've fought what was happening. Perhaps, maybe when he still had some of himself to hold onto as a raft in the void.

But all that he had left was an empty meaning of what he had been.

.o.

Naruto smiled sardonically as Sasuke let a low, primal growl escape his throat and grabbed at the boy with needy hands.

Sasuke wanted Naruto. Wanted him to be himself, wanted to help fix what was broken, wanted to have Naruto, wanted to stop the growing ache, wanted- wanted...

Sasuke smiled sadly as they rested in each other's arms... a rest from the world... from their growing fears and the weights in their hearts...

Emotions and actions reversed in the tipsy earth...

The two struggling people moaned, writhed, ached for touches given...

.o.o.S.o.o.

Sakura stood in front of the flower shop... not knowing quite what to do...

Her emotions seemed dull... almost nonexistent. And this was the contrariness that had her going to the once-time best friend... now something different

.o.

Ino looked outside... at the lost look on her used-to-be best friend's face, unnaturally concerned... She had not been concerned since they were children and it was startling at the length of timeIno had gone without caring if Sakura was hurting so much, now time making up for its absence.

She left the empty shop and brought Sakura back in, driven by a long-forgotten sense of duty.

.o.

Sakura looked almost blindly at her best friend. Yes, her best friend now.

Somehow, with both their actions, they had declared the gap filled.

And then she slumped to the floor with her arms in front of her, a kunai and shiruken in her hands. Crying as Ino slipped down to meet her best friend, knowing that Sakura needed someone to hold her, someone to shield her from everything.

Sakura wasn't quite sure what was going on in the world without her. Something had happened in the universe and when she got home, found kunai and shiruken called to her hands, like a Siren calls men... pointless death.

She was scared, wanting to be numb... it all just seemed without reason... And then she found herself at the flower shop where she knew Ino would be working... it had come so close to releasing emotions and the chains of her team's confidentiality just like Naruto had... in a desperatley more drastic way.

Somewhere on the road of life, sometimes things just deteriorate.

Sakura kissed Ino, wanting everything to end.

Ino kissed Sakura, wanting everything to stop.

.o.

Sakura ran out the door, ran back to her house, and lay listlessly on her bed, wondering.

Life sucks up the tears... leaving nothing for our comfort.

.o.o.S.o.o.

Sasuke and Naruto lay on the floor inside Naruto's room. Naruto asleep and Sasuke watching... Just watching, trying to fight against the abnormalities life dealt him.. trying to find some reason in the fog enveloping him.

He looked out at the still-gray sky and wondered when the sun would return...

Never.

.o.

End of Chapter Two: Part Two

Siege Continues

M-4-M: Meh. Okay, so Ilied... no umbrella. -.-U But I REALLY thought there would be one... and then it all just spiralled out of what I had intended. bleh.

So yeah, this has gotten more serious and dark, which is what I intended in the first place. n.n It actually started out pretty mild I think... not half as angsty as I wanted, which should jar against the reality of what is really going on. You all learn what's really happening in Team 7's lives as the story progresses... and other people's too.

Notes: As Kakashi has stated before, look underneath the underneath... which means you should be very interested in why I have the chapter titles I do... and what they could possibly mean. o.O The things in italics (in this chapter) and the stuff that sounds like it's in an objective p.o.v. you should pay attention to... it adds to angst and some of the seemingly surface comments such as Ino wanting it to stop as opposed to Sakura wanting it to end... you should think about... like Sakura's scratches from chapter two... Where did she get them from? Why is Sakura thinking about the changed relationship?

Ne, I won't blame you guys if you're all confused and "WTF!" about my deep-spiritual/underneath the underneath babbling... I probably wouldn't understand this myself if I hadn't written it...(although ithappens all too often).

Anywho... I don't know when we will get to Naruto with an umbrella... but we will. n.n... eventually.

YO! PRIZES:

First person to review this chapter gets sasuxnaru... from somewhre you haven't read yet. n.n (in this story... I dunno... you might get a preview of a story I'll be working on...)

Tenth reviewer prize is still open! Which is... a clip of whatever chapter I'm working on most recently.

O- Review! You get Cupcakes and brownies! n..n