A/N: Anyone out there? -echo-echo- stares out into empty audience, lights glare back harshly...Please fans come back to meeeeeee... WOW. I feel like scum right now (you're all probably saying "Yep, you should too."). I AM SOOOOOOOO SORRRYYYY! And i know that won't make you guys feel any better. Senoir year of high school just has been getting to me and my school-time-procrastination is in full bloom (and my god-damn half-sister moved in with us and she is such a LAZY BITCH and she keeps using my computer W/O ASKING!). Anywho, sorry about the wait. I know this chapter is a bit short but i think i just need to get back intot he swing of things and update my other stories (you guys thought a gave up on all of them, didn't you? Well i didn't. I will update them all :)
Disclaimer: the same shit i say in every chap of every one of my stories. (I really wish i owned Naruto so that i could put Sasu and NAru together for real instead of all these fantasies.-sigh-)
Chap.4
"Shit. I SWEAR TO GOD NARUTO, YOU BETTER GET AWAY FROM THERE! I'M NOT JOKING!" Sasuke stood screaming in barley a whisper at the blonde who wasn't paying him the slightest bit of attention.
"I know what I'm doing Sasuke. Man, why do you treat me like such a child. What could possibly happen?" With a nonchalant wave of the hand, Naruto continued walking despite the other prince's words. The boy wasn't worried; he knew exactly what he was doing.
Sasuke remained frozen in his spot, watching as Naruto walked up to a not so safe sleeping lump. It looked like a breathing hillside; green and brown heaving up and down with slow breaths. Horned spikes ran down the hill's back; down what appeared to be a long tree root. But Sasuke knew better. This was no ordinary, sleeping, spiked hill. The smoke coming out of the mound's face told the brunet it wasn't. Naruto walked up to the rather reptilian head, leaning over it to see if it was really sleeping. The blond turned back to the ebony haired boy, who was trying to remain as silent and undetectable as a chameleon, and gave him a thumbs-up, grinning stupidly as he did it.
"He's asleep," Naruto whispered, "I told you it wou…." The blonde was interrupted by a small –eep- that escaped from Sasuke's mouth, his charcoal eyes wide in fear. "What?" Naruto looked back only to come face to face with a large yellow eye.
'shit.'
The 'not-so-dangerous' dragon lifted its head, never moving its eyes away from the two figures before it. The smaller blonde creature stared up in wonderment while the dark-haired one looked ready to pull out his sword at any second.
"Awwww! He's so cute," exclaimed the blonde while turning to look back at the brunet, "Can I keep him? Pleeeeaaasssee?"
"FUCK NO!" Sasuke ran forward and grabbed Naruto's hand, pulling him away as fast as possible from the gigantic lizard.
"Oww. Sasuke, you're hurting me! Let go. What are you doing!" Ignoring the blonde's protests, Sasuke kept running, the beast hot on their tracks. The Uchiha could feel the pounding steps of the dragon shaking the ground beneath him and that made him run all the more frantically, regardless if the struggling boy behind him wouldn't listen to reason.
'God. WHY didn't I listen to Gaara? He told me not to follow the idiot. But noooooo, I had to go after him.' The two princes dodged past a rock formation, and kept running through the thickening forest. Ever since the Naruto-getting-lost incident several days before, Sasuke felt more protective over the blonde. Day after day, Naruto found new and more imaginative ways to nearly get them all killed, all of which Sasuke felt the need to chase after the blonde to make sure he didn't get hurt. One such time almost ended with Sasuke losing all his precious hair and one time Gaara got bitten by an irritable Eastern Venus-fly trap that Naruto thought made a lovely bouquet. A scar now graced the red-head's pale hand, for which Gaara still hadn't fully forgiven the blonde. Oddly, though, Naruto always came out without the slightest scratch while the other two travelers became more badly bruised and beaten with every encounter.
Dodging past another land formation, Sasuke threw himself and Naruto into a cave that was hidden from view. Sasuke pushed the blonde against the cave wall, pressing close to him and covering his mouth with his hand, effectively silencing Naruto.
"Don't speak or we'll be found for sure." Sasuke hissed, looking out for any sign of the dragon.
A while ago, Sasuke wouldn't have dreamed of ever putting his life on the line for a person he had only just met. He tried to convince himself that his attentiveness toward the blonde was merely protecting his investment (aka. 'I sure as hell better get paid for this!'), but the little nagging in his brain told him that it wasn't. Could he possibly have feelings for Naruto?
The thundering steps continued past the unseen hideout, retreating back to the woods to whence they came. A took only a few more seconds for Naruto to fully appreciate the position he was it. Him, wall, Sasuke, him, no one else, him, cave, Sasuke….. A blush took no time to make its way to the blonde's face, his thin scar marks standing out against his now crimson skin. Once he was sure that the beast was gone, Naruto pushed Sasuke off him. The brunet placed him with a steely glare, one which Naruto was sure had nothing to do with being pushed away.
"Don't EVER do that again!" Sasuke burst out. "How many times do I have to save you from some self-imposed danger? You keep doing it! And Gaara and I always pull you out just in time." Naruto stared unmovingly at the brunet. "I'm sick of having to worry about you. Worrying whether you'll go and get lost or eaten. It's not fair! You never listen to me, even though it's for your best interest. I can't take it." The redness from Sasuke's face subsided a bit as his outburst ended. Blue eyes appeared glossy with the force of unshed tears due to the weight of the Uchiha's words. The two boys stared at each other for a few seconds; the tension was palpable.
"I..I'm sorry.." The smaller boy rushed forward, wrapping his arms around Sasuke, "I'm SO sooorrryy!" Naruto buried his head into Sasuke's chest, wailing as he did. "I didn't realize that you were being hurt b..because of me. You and Gaara have both looked after me,…worried about me." It was Sasuke's turn to be surprised. His obsidian eyes were wide but then slowly looked down as he placed a forgiving hand on Naruto's back.
"Forgive me. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that. You can't help it if you're dumb…." A quick pinch in the side from the blonde caused the brunet to flinch.
"I am not 'dumb'! I knew exactly what I was doing. Besides, everyone knows that the West Country's royal family has a pact with the creatures in this forest. None of them would hurt me. Did you actually think I'd walk up some random dragon?"
Naruto looked up at the boy who he was currently being embraced by but the look in Sasuke's eyes was enough to tell him that the taller boy didn't know the aforementioned information.
"Y..you …can't be hurt by these creatures?" The Uchiha was trembling now; the feeling that was emerging was ready to explode. "That little bit of knowledge would have been nice A WEEK AGO!" Naruto escaped from Sasuke's grasp when an evil smirk formed on the brunet's lips. A chase around the cave ensued as the Uchiha tried to throttle the other prince.
"Waaaaa! Stay away from me! I'm sorry! It must have slipped my mind." Naruto dodged a well thrown rock as he scrambled about.
"IT SLIPPED YOUR MIND!" Sasuke cut the boy off, cornering the blonde against a wall, both arms on either side of the smaller boy's head. Naruto's chest heaved from his marathon around the cavern, blue eyes wide in fear of what the brunet might do next. A deep whisper in his ear sent shivers up Naruto's spin.
"Do you what I'm going to do to you…." The Uchiha moved even closer, "..my little lamb?" Breath caught in the smaller boy's throat.
"Ahhheemmm…," A throaty voice cleared, "...I do hope I'm not interrupting anything important." Gaara, a certain forgotten red-head, stood at the cave entrance, eyebrow quirked in suspicion.
"Gaara! Help me! Sasuke's going to kill meeeeee!" Pale green eyes stared into pleading blue ones.
Sasuke chuckled in his mind, 'Kill? Rape is more like it….REWIND! ….. D…did I just think that! It's Naruto for Christ's sake! He could make up his mind let alone make food. Sure he is pretty good looking…cute….adorable…fuckab….DAMN MIND-TOURETTE'S!'
Gaara continued to stare at the scene before him. Sasuke was chuckling to himself (maybe he finally snapped?) with a rather evil smirk plastered to his face while the still pinned Naruto was blushing like mad, trying to convey to the red-head that the situation was not what it looked like and that he too thought that Sasuke had snapped. The poor little servant couldn't help but to think at that moment that he was traveling with a bunch of idiots.
Kami Please Save Me!
A/N: How was it? Please review...i hope...no thrown veggies. Nothing too mean about my not updating for a couple months cause i'd hate to think that my fans hated me now.
