Second chapter finished! I am proud of this one! More twists reveal themselves! Mwuahhahaha I am teh evil!

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"Sasuke-teme" That annoying voice again. Sasuke scowled and turned sharply, determined this time to punch the owner. Once again the faceless man stood in front of him. Sasuke reached a tentative hand out to trace the whisker scars on the cheeks.

"Naruto?" He whispered questioningly to the man in front of him.

"Sasuke…please…" the man whispered in reply as he leaned forward with his shadowed face and laid a soft kiss on Sasuke's lips.

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There was an uncomfortable silence that covered the serene night sky. Sasuke stared emotionlessly out at that sky. From the corner of his eye, he could see Sakura fidgeting with the hem of her shirt. Picking at imaginary loose strings. He tensed as he heard the thin rice paper door slide open and then closed. As bare feet gently padded towards them, he steeled himself for the murderous chakra, that he knew would soon fill the air.

"Sasuke-kun," the soft familiar, yet strange voice speaking in an almost commanding tone- with none of the despise and hatred Sasuke had heard so often.- rang out breaking the silence. "Please Sasuke-kun, you are upsetting my wife." Sasuke shifted, turning slowly to face the man, he hated most. He growled a deep guttural, animalistic growl, his hand slowly snaking towards his kunai pouch.

Itachi stood before him, his eyes red with the swirling sharigan. His clothes blood splattered. Sasuke craned his neck, violently, trying to see past his brother. Lips pulling back into a snarl as he saw the broken bodies of his parents crumpled on the floor.

"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura's voice broke the younger Uchiha from his tormented daydream. He let out a shuddering breath, closing his eyes. He knew it would take all his energy and strength not to attack Itachi, when he opened his eyes. He felt Sakura's reassuring touch warming his arm. He smiled, turning the corners of his lips slightly.

"Sorry, Itachi." Those words were perhaps the hardest things he would ever say in his life. Sorry Itachi. Apologizing to the man, who killed their clan for his own selfish needs. Apologize to the man, who caused him to be alone for so many years. Apologize to the man- But that was all a dream anyway right? A figment of his imagination. His clan was still alive.- who had told him to run away and cling to life.

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He scowled as his feet propelled him forward, rain beating down on him. He refused to shiver, despite his body being racked with cold. He refused to bring his arms up to wrap around his chest. He was Uchiha Sasuke and Uchiha Sasuke didn't show any weakness. Even if that weakness was being cold from the damned rain. Instead, he shoved his hands deeper into his pockets and hunched his shoulders even more. It was late night and the night rain did not seem to have any intention of letting up. Sasuke mumbled some incoherent curses at the rain and himself, but kept walking. He really had no intention of going anywhere specific. But he knew where his feet were leading.

He stopped several feet away from the monument. A man stood in front of the cold obsidian stone, long fingers slowly tracing a name. Despite the rain, despite the darkness, Sasuke did not need his sharigan to know who the man was. He didn't need his sharigan to know whose name he was tracing. Uzamaki Naruto. The name tasted bitter on his tongue, as if he had bitten into a sour candy that was too sweet.

"I let you live then on a whim. I will now kill you on a whim."

"I had no right to love him." the voice filled with sorrowful regret and longing brought Sasuke back to reality. His eyes unblinking stared at the back of the silver haired man. He didn't say a word, just waiting for the broken man to continue.

"I told myself not another person. Do not get close to anyone ever again. If no one is close to you, it will not hurt when they die." his laughter was dry and bitter as he slowly sank to his knees, hand sliding down the cold stone. "But he was different than all the rest. He wanted to get close to me. He wanted to know the real me. He didn't see me as the white fang's son, he didn't see me as a prodigy. He saw me as me." The jounin lifted his face skyward, letting the rain soak his face. Sasuke's eyebrows raised as he saw his former sensei's hite-ate was up, revealing the sharigan eye. So it seems some things do not change?

I shouldn't have loved him. I should have pushed him away. He was young and naïve and to make it worse, my student. I should have…have…I am glad I did though. Those were the best years of my life. Waking up next to him in the morning. Stomach filled with the cold dread of wondering if he would come home alive from his mission. The skips in my heart as I saw him don his Hokage hat, handed down to him from his father." He stood, shoulders hunched and head bowed as he turned to the Uchiha.

"I hated you." Sasuke's eyebrows raised questioningly as Kakashi raised his head, eyes meeting eyes.

"I hated you because Naruto loved you. And I was afraid if you loved him, he would leave me. But sometimes I wonder…if he would still be alive, if you had loved him instead of me."

Naruto had gone all the way to the valley of the end, just to bring him back. He had almost died fighting him. Was that love? Three years later, He had came to the hidden village of Sound with Sakura and two men, he hadn't recognized, ready to bring him back again. Was that love? Did the Naruto, he remembered love him? What about this Naruto? Was his love different from the other Naruto? What was love?

Sasuke shook his head, water flying from his hair and mixing in with the still falling rain.

"Sensei, let us go away from here and get some ramen." He didn't know why he invited the man for ramen. He didn't really like that stuff and he didn't really feel like consoling a blubbering jounin. But somewhere deep inside of him, he wanted to know more about this Naruto and he wanted to know more about this life. Kakashi looked quietly at Sasuke for a moment before nodding and stepping away from the monument.

"I have not ate at that place since Naruto's death." Kakashi noted a little bemusedly. "I have been afraid to. But yes…I think it would be nice." Sasuke smirked and then turned his back towards the scarecrow.

"Well come on then." A final crack of thunder caused both men to jerk their heads up towards the sky as its tears of hydrogen began to wane. Both smiled as the sun began to peek through the clouds.

"Naruto…" both whispered to themselves.

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Sasuke slurped up the last of his noodles and turned to stare at his companion with a frown. Kakashi had been for the most part just picking at his meal. He would every now and then, put down his chopstick and bury his face in his hands. Sasuke scowled. He knew about that stupid rule of never showing emotions. But this was ridiculous! He was seriously beginning to desire to drown Kakashi in his ramen broth.

"Kakashi…"Sasuke whispered as the copy nin once again buried his face in his hands. "Maybe getting ramen was a bad idea…" Kakashi raised his head, staring into his bowl.

"Eventually I would have to come back this place. And I knew it was going to be hard." Kakashi sighed and picked up his chopsticks once more. "I need to do this." Sasuke nodded, bringing his own bowl up to his lips to sip at the broth. He closed his eyes letting the warm liquid course through his veins, soothing him.

Sasuke touched his lips with shaking fingers and stared into the shadowed face. He felt his breathing becoming irregular. What was this feeling in the pit of his stomach? This hardening ball of fear, want and desire? He wanted to crush his lips against the shadowed man in front of him. Yet at the same time, he was afraid. As if he was walking into the unknown.

"Teme, please." Naruto's voice held a pleading edge to it and the blonde reached out to brush hair from Sasuke's face. Sasuke flinched at the touch, but did not move away. What was this feeling?

Sasuke jerked as he felt the broth dribble down his chin and on to his clothes. Setting down the bowl, he picked up a napkin to dab at his shirt.

"Sensei, you said earlier that Naruto loved me. But how can that be true? We were rivals, always at each others throats." Kakashi stared at the younger man incredulously.

"You two grew up as the best of friends! When your clan took him in, you two became inseparable. I think it was only natural that he developed feelings for you. But when you didn't return them, when you rejected him, it nearly broke him." Sasuke lowered his head, letting his hair hide his widening eyes. "I must kill my best friend!"

"I am sorry, Kakashi-sensei. But I do not remember that. What I remember is Naruto being dead last. I remember me being the only surviving Uchiha. I remember hating Naruto and my brother. I remember nothing of this life." Kakashi's face fell.

"So it is as Tsunade said. The world you had lived in, while you were in a coma has become your reality." Sasuke nodded, face still hidden by his hair.

"Some things seem to be the same. I don't know what I think of this world. On the one hand I am so happy to have my family back. Yet, in that world, killing Itachi and reviving my clan was my ultimate goal. Now that I do not have to do that. I feel…I feel as if I have nothing to live for." Kakashi clamped a hand on Sasuke's shoulder.

"I felt the same way, when I lost Naruto. I felt as if my world had ended. He had been my saving grace and I had failed to protect him. I wondered many times if I was even worthy of living." Sasuke turned his head towards Kakashi, eyes full of pain.

"Sensei…I want to know about yours and Naruto relationship. I want to know about Naruto. I want to have a reason to live in this world!" He practically shouted, grasping at the jounin's vest and twisting the material in his hands. Kakashi raised his one visible eye heavenward and sighed.

"It will be a long story."

"I have time." Kakashi nodded and stood, leaving his money on the counter. Sasuke did the same. Motioning his head for Sasuke to follow, Kakashi slipped under the curtain and began to walk down the puddle infested street, hands shoved into his pocket. Sasuke did the same mimicking the casual demeanor of the silver haired sharigan user.

Neither one of them said a word as they splashed through puddle after puddle. Sasuke was waiting for Kakashi to gather himself. Knowing better than to push him. Suddenly Kakashi raised a hand, motioning for Sasuke to stop. He did, staring confusedly at the man. Kakashi said nothing, but just pointed ahead of them.

A few feet ahead a procession was slowly making their way towards them. On their foreheads rested the caged bird seal. There was five…no wait seven branch house members all surrounding two figures. As the procession neared them, Sasuke noted with astonishment who the two figures were.

"Sasuke-sama, it is good to see you are awake." Her calm confident tone was far different from her quivering and meek nature he had been so used to. She stared him directly in the eye, before bowing in respect. His eyes danced over her body, dressed in a formal kimono of blues and greens. She straightened herself and smiled politely.

"I hope this means that we will soon be moving forward with the plans of reunited the Uchiha clan to the Hyuugas. A child born of the union between a Uchiha and a Hyuuga will no doubt be a strong and powerful ninja. With the abilities of both byakugen and sharigan, I am confident they would prove to be elite ninjas worthy of being called a Konoha shin obi." Sasuke could only stare at Hinata dumbly wondering what she was talking about. Beside her, Neji stood with his shoulders hunched and eyes downcasted. His cheek sporting a fresh bruise and older fading bruises littered his neck and arms. Sasuke raised a questioning eyebrow to Kakashi, only to be ignored.

Hinata bowed once more before falling back into place within the processional.

"I look forward to our union." Sasuke's eyes widened at her last comment, staring at her back as she walked away. Union...what the hell?

"I see you have even forgotten about your pending marriage to Hinata-sama." Kakashi commented a smirk evident in his voice. Sasuke scowled.

"I remember nothing of this life or even of this world." He began striding forward once more, anger in his movements. "Now tell me about Naruto." Kakashi sighed and began moving himself. Once again silence fell between the two men as the walked. This time, however Sasuke was growing impatient. He needed to find out about Naruto. Perhaps that was key to finding out why he was plagued with such strange dreams. And he needed something to take his mind off of what had just transpired. Engaged? And to Hinata no less?

"You are awake?" A voice rang out, tinged with hurt and anger. "It would figure that your parents would not tell me. They never did approve of our relationship." Sasuke cringed and turned towards the voice, not wanting to face its owner.

The speaker stood arms crossed over chest and scowl on face.

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Naruto's fingers traced Sasuke's jaw line sending shivers down the Uchiha's back. He arched his back and hissed in pleasure. Naruto made a purring noise as he lowed his head towards Sasuke's face once more. Sasuke strained to see Naruto's face, but it was still shrouded in shadows. Naruto laid another soft kiss on Sasuke's lips, soon turning it to a crushing one. Tongue slipped past the soft barrier and began exploring the cavern inside. Sasuke moaned as Naruto's hand slipped inside his shirt, finding his nipple and tracing patterns around it. Easing himself forward, Naruto gently pushed Sasuke down, Mouth still crushed against his and tongue still inside, the Kyuubi semi straddled the Uchiha. One knee between the raven haired man's legs, one resting outside his left thigh. Sasuke arched up again as Naruto's finger left his nipple and traced a light line down his torso, skimming along the waistband of his pants. He felt that lump in his stomach turning to fire and he deepened their kiss even more.

"Please."

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Next chapter will contain lemons and memories and twists oh my!